A Manhattan man pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges against him alleging sex crimes against children and offender registration violation. Phillip Andrew Dews, 32, entered not guilty pleas in Riley County District Court to one count of aggravated internet pornography trading of a child, four counts of aggravated sex offender registration violation and one [...]

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A judge convicted an Ogden man of first-degree murder and attempted murder after the man entered a plea deal Wednesday in Riley County District Court. Cordarius Devonte Maurice Gowdy, 24, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder and criminal discharge of a firearm that stemmed from an early morning shooting in [...]

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A 49-year-old man barricaded himself in his apartment Monday afternoon at the 400 block of Leavenworth Street while police attempted to arrest the man. A Riley County Police Department representative said the man is wanted for aggravated assault on a nearby worker from an incident earlier that day. Police were attempting to get the man [...]

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A Kansas House representative and Republican candidate for secretary of state said it wasn’t his fault that employees in his restaurants were not paid minimum wage or overtime pay. District 41 Rep. Pat Proctor is running for the Kansas secretary of state seat after incumbent Scott Schwab chose to leave the post in a failed [...]

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A jury in Riley County District Court convicted a Manhattan man of charges including murder and attempted murder stemming from an October 2023 shooting. Marc Anthony Oliver, 20, was found guilty of the murder of Tannon Ratcliffe, the attempted murder of Andrew Graves and Cade Perkins and criminal discharge of a firearm at a house [...]

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Friends of Marc Oliver and a Secret Service analyst on Thursday laid out the events leading up to an October 2023 shooting of which Oliver is accused. Oliver, 20, of Manhattan is on trial in Riley County District Court this week for shooting three people on Oct. 21, 2023, at 426 Bluemont Ave. Three men [...]

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After 236 days, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on Tuesday revealed that they detained eight people in Manhattan raids conducted in February. They did not provide identities of those people or other details. A Mercury reporter on Feb. 5 filed a Freedom of Information Act request with ICE for the total number of arrests [...]

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A Riley County police officer said he heard over 20 gunshots on the night of an Oct. 2023 house party shooting while he testified in a trial for the case on Tuesday in Riley County District Court. Officer Garrett Lloyd took the witness stand Tuesday morning and testified during the trial of Marc Anthony Oliver, [...]

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The trial of a Manhattan man facing several charges including murder and attempted murder began Monday with jury selection in Riley County District Court. Marc Anthony Oliver, 20, is charged with the 1st degree premeditated murder of Tannon Ratcliffe on Oct. 21, 2023. He’s also charged with the attempted 1st degree murder of Andrew Graves [...]

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A Marlatt Elementary School teacher was arrested on Saturday for charges of child endangerment and assault with a gun. The Grandview Plaza Police Department arrested Brianna Monique Little, 34, of Junction City on Saturday at 9:32 p.m. She faces charges in Geary County District Court of aggravated endangering a child, two counts of aggravated assault [...]

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