Manhattan Firefighters responded to a fire at Wendy’s restaurant on Anderson Avenue in west Manhattan shortly before 11:30 Thursday morning. KMAN is hoping to get more information.
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After a national search, Bryan Samuel has been selected as Kansas State University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, effective March 2018. Samuel is the director of the Office of Equity and Diversity at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, where he has been a leader in diversity and inclusion initiatives since 2009. In his new position at [...]
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The school board’s discussion and vote on the secondary mascot issue begins at the 1:06:17 mark. The Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 School Board voted 4-3 Wednesday night to create a physical wolf mascot character for Manhattan High School. The vote concludes a long-standing issue that had many in the community wanting the school district to drop [...]
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According to a news release from U.S. ATtorney Tom Beall’s office, a former city attorney of Manhattan was sentenced Tuesday to 210 months in federal prison on child pornography charges. Bill Raymond, 55, Andover, Kan., pleaded guilty to three counts of transporting child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. Raymond admitted that he emailed child [...]
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A Manhattan man will serve more than 12 years with the Kansas Department of Corrections in connection with a rape and indecent liberties cases. Derrick Bishop was sentenced in Riley County District court earlier this week to 147 months with lifetime post release. Following a nearly week long trial, Bishop was found guilty by a [...]
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A Grandview Plaza man has been sentenced to more than 13 years with the Kansas Department of Corrections for rape, aggravated battery, and aggravated assault. Luis Caicedo-Mosquera was sentenced Monday in Geary County Court to 165 months, with lifetime post release and life-time sex offender registration. Caicedo-Mosquera was arrested in August of 2016 after Junction [...]
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Riley County Police have announced early Wednesday morning they’ve concluded the investigation into a battery report involving members of the Manhattan High School football team this past October. The case will be submitted to the Riley county Attorney’s office for a determination on charges. In addition to the original battery offense, a supplemental report has [...]
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Riley County Police are advising area residents to avoid the 1500 block of Colorado Street in Manhattan while officers investigate what is believed to be a drive-by shooting. Officers were called to the area for a report of shots fired at approximately 3:30 this morning. A short time later, a home was identified as being [...]
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Retail sales in Manhattan have topped $1-billion already this year. “Truth be told, we’ve kind of plateaued at the $1.1-Billion, give or take,” said Vice President of the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce. “For a town of 57-ish-thousand that’s still phenomenal.” Unemployment in Manhattan is currently 2.0%, the lowest mark in the state. Unemployment in the [...]
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Riley County Police Officers responded to the report of an injury accident near the intersection of 10th and Leavenworth Street in Manhattan Monday at approximately 4:20 PM. When officers arrived on scene they found a Lexus RX300 driven by Lingyun Jiang, 26, of Manhattan had struck a Dodge Neon driven by Mark Caffrey, 53, of [...]
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