An Eskridge man is set to be sentenced next month after accepting a plea agreement for two counts of child rape. According to a report from KVOE, Manuel Thomas Bailey, 24, will be sentenced on Jan. 14, 2025. He was initially accused of aggravated indecent liberties with a child back in July. He was later [...]
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The license of a former chiropractor has been revoked by the state of Kansas. The state of Kansas revoked the license of former Manhattan chiropractor Kenyon Erickson after he had been convicted of sexual battery in Riley County District Court earlier this year. Erickson reportedly touched a patient inappropriately during a session in Apr. 2022. [...]
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A 15-year-old female from Eskridge sustained serious injuries in a single-vehicle crash on Wednesday afternoon in Wabaunsee County. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported the crash occurred at approximately 3:40 p.m., about three miles west of Mission Valley High School. The driver, identified as Corbi M. Tenpenny, was westbound on Mission Valley Road when the 2005 [...]
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Gov. Laura Kelly announced on Wednesday that 14 Kansas rail projects will receive a total of $13 million through the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Rail Service Improvement Program. Among those rail projects receiving funding is the Abilene and Smokey Valley Railroad received $471,722 in Dickinson County. Seaboard Energy Hugoton Rail Expansion received the most funding [...]
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Manhattan city commissioners Tuesday approved more than $2 million in tax breaks to raze the downtown Commerce Bank building and build a new retail and residential space. Officials from Hutton Development requested a 10-year property tax abatement and a sales tax exemption on construction materials. They also asked the city government to pay for half [...]
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A Wamego nurse practitioner is suing the practice where she worked for discrimination and harassment after she said the company fired her for taking maternity leave. Sarah Pageler filed suit against Prairie Winds Family Care Dec. 6. In court documents, she says that her supervisor, Jennifer White-Slough, became irritable with Pageler after Pageler in March [...]
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A man was taken to a nearby hospital on Tuesday after crashing his car into a barrier. RCPD reported that 72-year-old David Livingston was transported to EMS for his injuries after he slammed his car into a barrier just prior to 11 a.m. on Tuesday at the corner of Anderson and Manhattan Avenues. Livingston’s status [...]
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Two local teenagers have been arrested for their role in a physical altercation that occurred on Tuesday evening. The incident occurred just after 6 p.m. at Opportunities Unlimited in the 400 block of Clydesdale Drive in Ogden when a 17-year-old male threw a metal chair at another resident. A 16-year-old male then stepped in the [...]
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Dennis Cook, the executive director of the Aggieville Business Association, said this is the fourth or fifth year in a row the organization has conducted the festivities at 12th and Moro streets. Aggieville traditionally drops an apple (because of Manattan’s nickname, the Little Apple) instead of a ball for the countdown to midnight. “This year the [...]
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James Kujath of James Gordon and Associates told Riley County Law Enforcement Agency Board members on Monday that RCPD was $130,000 under its 2023 budget. “That’s a good thing, as if they went over, they’d be violating state statute,” Kujath said. Kujath said personnel services increased by $2 million in 2023 because the department gave [...]
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