Updated: Wednesday, 11:18 p.m. The Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 School Board decided to take no action concerning Manhattan High School football coach Joe Schartz Wednesday night inside the Robinson Education Center. The room was packed wall to wall with supporters of Schartz and the football program — a program that has received attention from the board after [...]

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A 1st Infantry Division soldier was found dead in his residence in Junction City on Saturday, according to a press release from Fort Riley Tuesday. Sgt. 1st Class Kevin Johnson, an artillery mechanic with Battery F, 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Inf. Div., was found unresponsive in his [...]

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Long time Riley County Commissioner Bob Newsome has died. A memorial service is set for Wednesday, December 27, at 1 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Manhattan. More information will be released soon. The post Long time Riley County Commis...

The Riley County Police director has a new contract. After a couple of executive sessions, Riley County Law Board member Barry Wilkerson made the motion regarding RCPD Director Brad Schoen’s contract, which was unanimously approved. The  step salary increase means an adjustment from Director Schoen’s current $142,474.22 to $147,318.34. In other action, new video visitation [...]

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The G. Thomas Jewelers, Manhattan Running Company Jingle Bell Rock has been found for the second and final time this year. It was found at Northeast Community Park on Knox Lane in Manhattan. Manhattan Broadcasting Company listeners Rhea, Casie, Dorrene and Rick brought the Jingle Bell Rock to the radio station early Monday afternoon and won [...]

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Riley County Police are investigating a number of sex-related crimes from this past weekend. RCPD Officers filed a report for aggravated kidnapping, rape, aggravated criminal sodomy and aggravated burglary on Friday in Ogden. Officers listed a 38 year old female as the victim and an unknown male as the suspect. Due to the nature of [...]

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Gun shots were fired in Aggieville Saturday night and the Riley County Police Department is asking the public for assistance. Officers filed a report for criminal discharge of a firearm and disorderly conduct in the 1100 block of Moro Street in Manhattan at 1:15 a.m. Sunday morning. The RCPD posted a video of an altercation [...]

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The president of Kansas State University told Congress that the country is unprepared to deal with its food supply that he says is threatened by both terrorism and natural plant and animal diseases, according to the Associated Press. Myers spoke to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. The committee held an agriculture security [...]

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A Clay Center man was sentenced Thursday to two years on supervised release for selling assets he had pledged as collateral on a federal loan. U.S. Attorney Tom Beall for the state of Kansas in Wichita adds Harold Mugler, 64, was ordered to pay $84,594  in restitution. Mugler pleaded guilty to one count of criminal [...]

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A Wamego man will serve nearly five years in prison in connection with a Wamego kidnapping this past May. David Rojas was sentenced Thursday in Pottawatomie County District Court to 59 months for kidnapping, and 12 months for criminal discharge of a firearm. The sentences will be served concurrently and Rojas was remanded to sere [...]

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