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Shed fire causes $20K in damage in Wabaunsee County
WABAUNSEE COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) - A shed fire caused $20,000 in damage in Wabaunsee County. Wabaunsee County Fire District 5 said they responded to a call about a fire at 7:21 p.m. on Thursday, July 4 in the 16000 block of Bronc Rider Rd. in Eskridge, Kan. The fire officials...
With more rain in forecast, Flood Watch issued for Topeka and vicinity
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - With more rain in the forecast, the National Weather Service office in Topeka has issued a Flood Watch for much of northeast and east-central Kansas. The Flood Watch is scheduled to be in effect from 5 p.m. Tuesday through Wednesday morning in Shawnee, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Lyon, Morris, Osage, Wabaunsee, Jackson, Jefferson, Pottawatomie and Riley counties.
Deer smashes through car windshield and lands on driver's lap in Kansas crash
A Topeka, Kansas, woman and her baby avoided serious injury in a recent highway accident where a deer came crashing through their car windshield. Billie Fox was driving -- with her infant son in the back seat -- through Wabaunsee County on Interstate 70 in the early evening of June 21 when she spotted a deer on the opposite side of the highway. But the deer then entered Fox's side of the road before she had enough time to react and avoid a collision.
‘Pretty much a miracle’: Topeka mom, son survive deer flying through windshield
TOPEKA (KSNT) – A local mother says things could have ended much worse after she hit a deer on I-70 with her infant son in the backseat. Topekan Billie Fox was traveling home from Council Grove in the early evening of Friday, June 21. She was driving through Wabaunsee County when she noticed a deer […]
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