A Manhattan man was arrested on Friday evening for sex crimes with a child. Forty six-year old Derrick Ray Bishop was arrested in the 2500 block of Farm Bureau Rd. shortly after 5:30 p.m. His charges include rape, indecent liberties with a child, and aggravated battery against. Bond was set at $100,000.  

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Riley County Police are investigating an aggravated kidnapping. A news release from RCPD indicates an emergent call for service came in Thursday night at approximately 11:30 PM regarding a woman who had been dragged by her vehicle after attempting to flee an attacker who was not known to her. Police responded to the 500 block of

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The standing president at Kansas State University is moving to the Pacific Northwest. Just after the noon hour on Friday, The Daily Evergreen, the student newspaper of Washington State University, reported from a Board of Regents meeting in Richland, Wash., that Kirk Schulz will be the new president at WSU. Schulz was one of the three finalists

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Officers with the Riley County Police Department arrested Zachariah Walters, 34, of Wichita, on a warrant for the offense of failure to appear (with an original offense of distribution of heroin or certain stimulants). He was given a bond of $50,000 after being arrested at the Riley County Police Department on Thursday at approximately 4:20

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A vehicle burglary investigation that took several months has resulted in an arrest. The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s office has told KMAN a St. George juvenile has been taken into custody in connection to approximately 17 reported vehicle burglaries. The burglaries occurred in  St. George and around the rural St. George area. Victims reported the thefts of

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A Junction City man facing 34 child pornography counts in Geary County has been assigned a public defender with a status hearing set for April seventh. As announced last week by KMAN, Dale Holvorson, 49, was arrested Thursday on 14 counts of distribution of child pornography and 20 counts of possession of child porn. The

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Paul Meyer, 19, of Manhattan was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on March 23, 2016 at approximately 11:50 AM. Meyer was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear with an original offense of aggravated assault. He was given a bond of $12,000.00 and at the time of this report was no

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Lacee Sell has been named the Executive Director of Teaching and Learning for Manhattan-Ogden USD 383. Sell currently serves as the Superintendent of USD 473 in Chapman, KS. She has served in that position since 2011. Prior to that, she was Superintendent of Schools for Clinton County School District in Plattsburg, MO. She has also served as an assistant

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Two women were injured in a Wednesday evening accident in Riley County.  Bonnie Turner, 53, of Joplin, Missouri and Bethany Thurston, 23, of Pittsburg, Kansas were both taken to Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan following the five p.m. accident on westbound I-70 near the Riley-Wabaunsee county line. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Turner was driving a

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