A Manhattan man was taken into custody by Riley County Police Monday afternoon on a bond forfeiture warrant. Donnie Hill, 42, was arrested at approximately 3:57 PM while in the 100 block of Courthouse Plaza in Manhattan. The original warrant was related to Possession of Marijuana with Intent to Distribute. Bond was listed as $7,500. […]
A Manhattan man charged with attempted first degree murder sat through the second day of his jury trial Tuesday morning in the Riley County District Courthouse room of Judge David Stutzman. Samuel Dartez, 31, allegedly stabbed a 27-year-old woman multiple times on Nov. 13, 2014, near the intersection of Juliette and Yuma streets. An earlier […]
In the last 24 hours, the Junction City Police Department has received information that two local businesses have been contacted by unknown persons, who advised they represented the City of Junction City and that the business had an outstanding balance on their water account. The unknown caller then attempted to get the victim businesses to […]
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A Wamego optometrist has died in a one vehicle roll-over crash in Cayman Brac. Dr. Mark Bettencourt, 54, had been visiting since Friday but was not found right away. His body was later found underneath the vehicle. The crash also killed Topeka construction company owner Douglas Carney, 50 and critically injured longtime Cayman Brac resident […]
When Riley County commissioners approved the budget in August, they knew it would leave plenty of people frustrated. One of the more frustrated voices came from the Riley County Council on Aging. Mary Jo Harbour, the chairwoman for the council, told commissioners their funding is $5,000 what it was in 2011 and that it’s been […]
Terrorism fears are heightened around the world–and now Riley County Police apparently will have a voice on an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force out of Kansas City, with the five members of the County’s Law Enforcement Agency Law Board giving their consensus to proceeding with adding a member to the group. The position is actually […]
The use of an aquifer is projected to decrease by roughly fifty-percent t in the next 100 years. A new study out of K-State finds that the over-tapping of the High Plain’s Aquifer’s groundwater beyond its recharge rate, peaked in 2006. The findings were published by Civil Engineering professor David Steward, along with Civil Engineering […]
