A proposal to repurpose Pottawatomie County’s Old Jail was heard during Monday’s County Commission meeting. This came via Dru Clarke, who provided both long and short-term initiatives for the project, the former including the conversion of the building into a Welcome Center.  Clarke said such a facility would be able to distribute information about the [...]

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Officers responded to the report of an injury accident near the intersection of Fort Riley Blvd. and Westwood Rd. in Manhattan on January 26, 2018 at approximately 7:44 AM. When officers arrived on scene, they found a 2003 Chevy Silverado driven by Tyler Welfringer, 19, of Manhattan, had struck a 2003 Cadillac CTS driven by [...]

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It’s been 73 years since the Battle of the Bulge took place on the Western Front during World War II and area veterans who fought off the last major German offensive campaign are gathering Saturday in Manhattan. “I was a combat infantryman with Company B, 1st Infantry Division, and I joined the battle after it [...]

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The emergency radio system upgrade for Riley County first responders and police was approved and signed during Thursday’s county commission meeting. Commissioner Ron Wells made the motion to sign the approximately 10 million dollar radio upgrade. The base cost for covers 5 million of the agreement with the remaining being paid for over time. Chairman [...]

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Martin Luther King III was 10 when his iconic father, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. The oldest son of Martin and Coretta Scott King, he remembers traveling with his father and witnessing the fight for civil rights. It was a movement of non-violence. And even though [...]

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Police say the death of 22-year-old Matthew Snyder, the son of K-State associate head coach Sean Snyder and grandson of head football coach Bill Snyder, has been ruled a suicide. The Wichita Eagle reports that a Riley County Police Department report obtained through an open records request says Snyder died last week of asphyxiation at [...]

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A new trial is in the works for a Manhattan man accused of first-degree murder and child abuse. Riley County Senior Deputy Attorney Barry Disney told KMAN the trial for Andrew Gibson resulted in a hung jury Tuesday morning. That means the jury was unable to reach a verdict of guilty or not guilty and thus [...]

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Terrence Talley, 33, of Manhattan was arrested while at the Riley County Police Department on January 22, 2018 at approximately 5:05 PM. Talley was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant for failure to appear and a separate Riley County District Court warrant for aggravated escape from custody. Talley was issued a total bond [...]

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Officers filed a report for criminal damage to property in the 2100 block of Blaker Dr. in Manhattan on January 19, 2018 at approximately 4:20 PM. Officers listed Tammie McArthur, 58, of Salina, as the victim when she reported an unknown suspect damaged the door of her home. The total loss associated with this case [...]

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A Fort Riley soldier shot himself in his car Sunday shortly after contact was made with authorities, according to a media release from the Geary County Sherrif’s Office Monday morning. Dakota Blake Noah, 21, of Fort Riley, is the deceased. Authorities say family has been notified. In an email to KMAN, Fort Riley confirmed a [...]

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