Riley County Police are investigating a couple of weekend incidents involving weapons. On Saturday, officers filed an aggravated battery report in the 800 block of Colorado Street after a 43-year-old man reported that a man known to him cut him with a knife. Early Sunday morning, officers investigated an incident in the 1100 block of [...]

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Kansas State University President Richard Linton is back in Manhattan, having recently completed his seven-week cancer treatment. In a Monday statement, Linton said he packed up his remote office in Kansas City on Friday after completing chemotherapy and radiation treatments. He says he’s ready to start conducting much of his work from his campus residence as [...]

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The Manhattan Fire Department says smoke alarms prevented a cooking fire from becoming more serious Thursday evening. Officials say crews arrived to smoke in the third floor of the west Manhattan apartment building. When firefighters made entry into the apartment, they found a pan of burnt food on the stovetop with the burner still turned [...]

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The Kansas Department of Transportation will begin replacement of the Mill Creek bridge on U.S. 77 Monday. The structure is about eight miles south of Randolph. KDOT says initial work will consist of constructing a shoofly detour to carry traffic around the existing bridge. The shoofly is expected to be completed by early December, with [...]

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Northern Riley County residents now have better access to emergency medical services 24 hours a day, thanks to a new EMS station in Leonardville. Riley County officials cut the ribbon Saturday on the new station, a project some believed wasn’t  possible. Commissioner Greg McKinley and former Riley Mayor Tim Sharp had been pushing for a [...]

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Robert Ott, the long time Director of Public Works for the City of Manhattan, died Wednesday, following a five year battle with cancer. He was 50. Ott began his career with the City in 2005, serving as City Engineer until 2014, when he was promoted to Director of Public Works. His service to Manhattan included [...]

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RCPD officers filed a report for a past rape that occurred in Ogden on Thursday. The report lists a 15-year-old female as the victim and an unknown male as the suspect in the case. Due to the details of the crime, no further information is available at this time. RCPD encourages those with any information [...]

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RCPD filed a report over stolen lottery tickets at the local Kwik Shop in Manhattan on Thursday. The report says a known female suspect took a book of lottery tickets, activated them and then cashed them. The estimated loss is around $3,000. The post L...

The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office are investigating a fire of a stolen truck that was found in rural Manhattan on Thursday morning. Officers were called to the scene at the 5400 block of Blue River Road in rural Manhattan just after 4:10 am on Thursday morning to discover a Ford F150 truck on fire. A [...]

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A ribbon cutting and open house are planned this weekend for the new Emergency Medical Services Station in Leonardville. For years residents in northern Riley County have pushed for a facility, boiling over into a community meeting in early February 2022, where residents packed the Leonardville Community Building, sharing stories like this one about experiencing [...]

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