A Manhattan resident is dead following a Sunday crash on Interstate 35 in Missouri. Four people were inside a Kia Sorento at the time of the crash. Victor B. Imad, 31, of Manhattan, died in the crash, and the three other occupants, all from Minnesota, were seriously injured in the crash. The crash occurred around [...]
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A local man is in jail following his arrest on Monday afternoon for possession of a stimulant and failure to appear. Brian Flanary, 45 of Manhattan, was arrested on probable cause charges just after 1:30 pm in the 5300 block of Tuttle Creek Boulevard. Flanary is charged with two counts of failure to appear, one [...]
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The 10th annual Everybody Counts event is set to return later this summer. Organizer Deb Nuss said the event was formed ten years ago following a report delivered to the USD 383 Board of Education on homeless children in the school district. “At the time, there were about 250 children reporting as homeless in the [...]
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By Emma Loura/Manhattan Mercury The Riley County Fair is coming to town, bringing the lights and thrills of the carnival and saddling up for the rodeo. The fair runs July 25-29 in CiCo Park. The event will feature a carnival by WEEE Entertainment and the Kaw Valley Rodeo at Wells Arena. This year’s fair will [...]
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Story by Emma Loura / The Manhattan Mercury: Drivers heading into Riley from the east will need to start hitting the brakes a bit sooner. The Riley County commission on Monday approved a request to lower the speed limit on Kansas Avenue east of Riley from 45 mph to 30 mph and place a flashing [...]
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By Beth Day/Times of Pott County Pottawatomie County on Monday approved a $1,968,189.60 bid from Bridges Inc. to replace the deteriorating Louisville Rd. Bridge. The road has been closed to through traffic since May 2023. Tim Eisenbarth, public works director, told commissioners he had reviewed all the documents before making his recommendation. He also said [...]
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Penny Marie Webster, 59, was arrested in the 1100 block of Garden Way Sunday at 10 p.m. and is being held at the Riley County Jail on a bond of $125,000. Webster was booked on an another charge of distributing an unknown quantity of narcotics, in addition to the distribution causing death charge, and was [...]
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A fire broke out earlier this morning at Ackert Hall early on Monday on the campus of Kansas State University. Manhattan Fire Department crews responded to the structure fire and were able to extinguish it within ten minutes. Claflin Road was shut down for nearly an hour but ultimately reopened with new issues. The fire [...]
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The Manhattan Housing Authority announced on Friday that they had secured a $16.5 million low-income housing tax credit from the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation for the Sunflower Flats project. “We are incredibly grateful to the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation for their support and investment in our community,” said executive director Aaron Estabrook. “This LIHTC allocation [...]
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K-State is reporting that their online software is working this morning even with the on-going CrowdStrike software issues that are going on worldwide. In a campus-wide email, director of news and communication services Michelle Geering (Gear-ing) reported that university operations are running normal at this time and the university is only getting reports of computer [...]
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