Authorities are investigating a Manhattan man for allegedly making threats to another individual. Riley County Police say 46-year-old Seth Summers was arrested and charged with criminal threat. Police say a 17-year-old reported that Sumners made threats to him in the 400 block of Tuttle Creek Blvd, shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday Sumners remains jailed on [...]

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The Manhattan City Commission officially reorganized Tuesday. Susan Adamchak, Karen McCulloh and Peter Oppelt were sworn in, following the November election. They join John Matta, who was sworn into a second consecutive two-year term and incumbent Wynn Butler who will serve as mayor in 2024. Keeping with the city’s tradition, Adamchak, the top vote recipient [...]

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State officials said Tuesday that the portal that allows anyone to search Kansas district court cases online is back up and running for the first time since it was temporarily incapacitated by an October 12 cyberattack. The Kansas Judicial Branch said the information within the system is temporarily out of date while courts in 102 [...]

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A Manhattan man was arrested over the weekend on a warrant for attempted first degree murder stemming from an October shooting at a house party. The Riley County Police Department says 18-year-old Marc Oliver is facing charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery, in addition to single counts of criminal discharge of a firearm and [...]

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No injuries were reported following a structure fire Monday afternoon east of the Kansas State University campus. The Manhattan Fire Department dispatched a crew of more than a dozen firefighters who arrived to smoke showing from the 2-story residence and made access to a kitchen fire in a basement apartment. One person was home at [...]

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Nearly two years after state and local officials announced a $650 million commercial-scale biomanufacturing plant was coming to Manhattan, the project has yet to see even a shovel move dirt at the northeast corner of Highway 24 and Excel Road. Scorpius Biomanufacturing, a subsidiary of Nighthawk Biosciences, announced the project in April 2022 at the [...]

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Former Manhattan City Commissioner Roger Maughmer died Friday at Ascension Via Christi Hospital, following complications from pneumonia. He was 78. Maughmer served six years on the city commission from 1989 to 1995, serving as mayor during the 1993 flood and was a longtime member of the Manhattan Optimist Club. A native of Cheyenne, Wyoming, Maughmer [...]

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All this week we are taking a look back at some of the top news events in the Manhattan area for 2023. Today we take a look back at the fourth quarter of the year from October through December with KMAN News Director Brandon Peoples…. The final quarter of the year brought about a lot [...]

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All this week we are taking a look back at some of the top news events in the Manhattan area for 2023. Today we take a look back at the third quarter of the year from July through September with KMAN News Director Brandon Peoples…. July opened with a bang in Wamego as the community [...]

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E-scooters will no longer be a mode of transportation in Manhattan in the new year. City officials announced this week that effective Sunday, the LINK/Superpedestrian e-scooters will no longer be available throughout the community or on the Kansas State University campus. The company that oversees those e-scooters, Superpedestrian, will cease operations after the new year, [...]

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