The Geary County USD 475 Board of Education agreed to terms with Dominique West to be the new assistant principal at Ware Elementary for the 2024-25 school year on Thursday. West will take over at Ware after teaching third grade at Washington Elementar...
Riley County Police arrested a Colorado man for making threats on Thursday. The arrest occurred just after 9:30 a.m. in the 600 block of South Delaware Avenue after a 42-year-old man reported 40-year-old David Lingle of Denver, Colorado for making multiple threats to him. Officers later arrested Lingle on the aforementioned charges. He was booked [...]
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A former Manhattan firefighter was killed while fighting a house fire in Wichita last week. Ty Voth, 27, was killed while battling a house fire in the 9800 block of S. Laura Street near Haysville, a suburb south of Wichita last Thursday. Voth, who spent the last five years as a firefighter in Wichita, began [...]
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Former Manhattan Mayor Wynn Butler agreed to a diversion agreement with the City of Manhattan earlier this week in Manhattan Municipal Court following his arrest for DUI in May. Butler agreed to the diversion agreement before Municipal Court Judge James Kepple on Tuesday morning along with his attorney Joshua Douglass. In the agreement acquired through [...]
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Kansas Congressman Tracey Mann thanked constituents following his easy victory in the Republican primary on Tuesday evening as he seeks a third term in the U.S. House in the strongly Republican 1st Congressional District. In a post to social media, Mann thanked the voters for supporting him and said his number one goal is to [...]
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A local man was arrested on Tuesday afternoon for violating his probation after he had been previously arrested for domestic battery. Police arrested 45-year-old Latorris Franklin of Manhattan at approximately 2:30 p.m. at the Riley County District Courthouse for violating his probation. Franklin had been previously arrested on charges of domestic battery and violating a [...]
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A man was arrested overnight after he shot a stolen firearm through a ceiling at an apartment complex in Manhattan. Officers filed the report in the 1700 block of Laramie Street just after 10:45 p.m. when a 26-year-old male came home to find a bullet hole in his ceiling, his countertop and dishwasher. When officers [...]
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The Manhattan Fire Department were dispatched late on Monday night to an apartment fire near the K-State campus. Crews responded to the 1200 block of Kearney Street just after 11 p.m. to find smoke and fire upon entering apartment 4. Crews then found a small stove fire and were able to extinguish it shortly there [...]
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Repairs are set to begin on Wednesday as crews from Ebert Construction will begin repairing and resurfacing Anderson from Seth Child/K-113 to Wreath Avenue. This full-depth replacement work is expected to last until late fall. There will be no detour and one-lane traffic will be maintained in both directions at all times. Drivers should expect [...]
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Today is Primary Election Day as Kansans will held to the polls to nominate candidates for their party in the Nov. 5 election. Locally, Riley County only sees three major contested primary contests all on the Republican side of the ballot. In State House District 67, current Riley County Law Board member Kaleb James is [...]
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