Six K-State students have been awarded the nationally competitive Benjamin A. Gilman Scholarship for international study opportunities. The selected students are Hannah Macke a senior from Baileyville in agribusiness, Kadin Waterman, a sophomore from Fontana in park management and conservation, Thomas Worstell, a graduate student from Blue Springs, MO in architecture and Richard Charlton, a [...]

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Presidential debates have grabbed headlines in recent months, but one K-State professor says they don’t tend to swing elections as much as people thing they do. The June 27 debate between then-Democratic candidate President Joe Biden and Republican candidate Donald Trump was a catalyst in Biden’s decision to step aside and let Vice President Kamala [...]

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There were no injuries reported following a school bus crash in Riley County on Wednesday afternoon. The accident occurred just before 3:45 p.m. on US-77 about a half mile west of Crooked Creek Road when a 61-year-old Clyde man Scott Sheely driving a semi tractor rear ended a 2012 Buick Regal that had braked behind [...]

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The Carl R. Ice College of Engineering has received ABET accreditation for three of the college’s undergraduate programs. The programs to receive this accreditation are biomedical engineering, cybersecurity and environmental engineering after they met the requirements necessary for accreditation which include having the inaugural class of graduates finish each program. ABET accreditation assures that programs [...]

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A Manhattan woman who had been previously arrested for aggravated arson was arrested on Tuesday night. Mahboooba Babrakzai, 39, was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant just after 9:30 p.m. on failure to appear charges. The original charges stem from an aggravated arson arrest in Jul. 2022. Babrazkai was booked into Riley County [...]

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An Ogden man finds himself in hot water with law enforcement following his arrest Monday for aggravated domestic battery. Timothy Hill, 35, was arrested at 11 p.m. on Monday night in the 100 block of Tenth Street on probable cause charges of aggravated domestic battery, making a criminal threat and criminal restraint. Hill was booked [...]

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A Junction City man and former Fort Riley soldier who had been previously arrested and convicted for child sex crimes was arrested over the weekend for violating his probation. 23-year-old Jamichael Strahan was arrested around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon on a Riley County District Court warrant for probation violation stemming from a charge of [...]

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A man was transported to Via Christi after he was injured in a car v. motorcycle accident on Friday afternoon in Manhattan. The accident occurred just before 2:30 p.m. at the interesection of Research Park Court and N. Manhattan Avenue when Barbara Ench, 75, of Manhattan failed to yield the right of way to Thomas [...]

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Every two years, change comes to Fort Riley’s leadership posts during the summer. This year was no different. First, Maj. Gen. Monte Rone took over the commanding general position for the 1st Infantry Division from Maj. Gen. John Meyer. And then, Col. Gerald Nunziato became the post’s garrison commander, replacing Col. Michael Foote. To view [...]

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A Junction City man was injured in an accident on Thursday on US-77. The accident occurred just after 10 a.m. on Thursday when Jeremy Hammon of Junction City was traveling northbound on US 77 near milemarker 157 on his 2014 Harley Davidson motorcycle. Hammon was then reportedly hit by Larry Yarrow of Clay Center while [...]

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