On Wednesday, the Kansas Board of Regents approved a 20-year lease agreement between K-State Salina and the media company Pure Imagination Labs. Pure Imagination intends to lease space inside the new Kansas Artificial Intelligence Research and Entertainment Studio, or K-AIRES building, on the Salina campus. The lease will begin when the building opens in September [...]

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A panel of general officers found an Army colonel guilty of sexually abusing three adolescents he knew during his court-martial Nov. 6 at the Fort Leavenworth Courtroom. Some of the earliest abuse occurred at Fort Riley. Col. Scott C. Nauman, 53, an infantry officer assigned to the Special Troops Battalion, Combined Arms Command, was sentenced [...]

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The Riley County Police Department made two drug-related arrests Wednesday in unrelated cases. In the first incident, officers arrested 32-year-old Theresa Cleveland of Manhattan around 12:06 p.m. Nov. 19 in the 100 block of Courthouse Plaza. Cleveland was taken into custody on a Saline County District Court warrant listing charges of possession of opiate, opium, [...]

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A Manhattan man was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon on a warrant stemming from an incident reported earlier this year. Riley County Police say officers originally filed a report on May 21 around 11:30 a.m. in the 7700 block of Stockdale Park Road for aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer and criminal threat. On [...]

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A Manhattan man was arrested Wednesday afternoon on a series of drug-related charges as well as a domestic battery count. Riley County Police say 24-year-old Donte Long was taken into custody around 4:10 p.m. Nov. 19 in the 900 block of North Seth Child Road. Long faces three counts of possession of marijuana; one count [...]

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The Riley County Police Department is investigating a theft reported Wednesday evening at Best Buy in Manhattan. Officers filed the report around 8:35 p.m. Nov. 19 in the 300 block of Tuttle Creek Boulevard. Store staff reported that an unknown male suspect and an unknown female suspect stole two Samsung tablets. The total loss is [...]

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Manhattan Regional Airport is working to give its main taxiway a facelift. The Manhattan City Commission on Tuesday unanimously authorized project plans and financing for Taxiway Alpha’s reconstruction project. That approval also included a professional services agreement with Olsson Inc. The total cost of the project is $1,213,800. Previously, Federal Aviation Administration grant funding was [...]

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A road maintenance project in the Northview area is taking longer than anticipated, but city officials say it should be wrapped up within the next two weeks. Walters Drive has been under reconstruction since June between Butterfield Road and Tuttle Creek Boulevard. The stretch near Eisenhower Middle School wrapped up around Labor Day, but the [...]

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