A Topeka woman has been arrested and charged following a Wednesday pursuit from Manhattan to I-70. Riley County Police say 25-year-old Kala Auchard was taken into custody after a rollover crash at mile marker 318, about five miles east of the Manhattan exit, following a brief pursuit from the area near Pillsbury Drive. She’s charged [...]

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No injuries were reported after a house fire in Leonardville Wednesday. Riley County Fire Chief Pat Collins says firefighters were called out to 216 South Urpelding shortly before noon, for a small fire in the home’s living room. Collins says it was started after the resident dropped a cigarette onto an oxygen tank. Firefighters were [...]

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Some local veterans have submitted open letters to the Riley County Commission demanding the meetings be streamed online. The letters were made public Wednesday by Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice. (They are attached below.) The group of active and retired veterans argue that due to the ongoing health crisis, activity conducted during the two [...]

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One of the larger retail operations in Manhattan will reopen Wednesday. Manhattan Town Center shifted its hours in mid-March only to shut down when stay-at-home orders went into place. Marketing Manager Jeff Sutton says reopening will happen with a cautious approach. “We’re taking a definitely good, phased approach which we’re currently working on,” he told [...]

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No new cases of coronavirus were presented in Riley County Monday as two more people were moved from active to recovered. In total, 23 of the 55 positive testing patients have now recovered. Perhaps the most significant statistic of the day Monday, was 43 test results coming back negative. The Riley County Health Department now [...]

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From the Little Apple to the Big Apple, a local doctor answered the call recently to help fill a need on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Steve Short left his practice at Inspire ENT & Pulmonology for two weeks in April to join a team of specialists at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn. [...]

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