By Emma Loura Kansas State University will begin the first campus restoration projects on its Campus Master Plan in January. After the Kansas Board of Regents approved the plan in September, K-State is moving on to the design phase. “We’re beginning a number of projects from the Kansas Campus Restoration Act,” said Lisa Johnson, assistant [...]

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Riley County Police officers are investigating the death of an unidentified man Tuesday morning. The body was found in the area of Linear Trail, between Manhattan Avenue and 5th Street. RCPD asked the public in a social media post to avoid the area until further notice. An RCPD representative said the circumstances of the man’s [...]

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Forecasters continue to monitor a late-week weather system that could bring rain and snow to parts of northeast Kansas from Friday into Saturday, though the highest impacts are currently projected farther northeast. The greatest chances for accumulating snow remain from Iowa into Illinois, but northeast Kansas could still see rain transition to snow as colder [...]

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Riley County is launching a new online property information portal next week aimed at providing clearer data at no additional cost to the public. County staff selected the new platform Beacon, provided by Schneider Geospatial, to replace the current parcel search system. Officials said Monday that the new platform is more user-friendly, with expanded search [...]

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A Pottawatomie County woman was hospitalized following a crash on Interstate 70 in Topeka Monday afternoon. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 62-year-old Beverly Jones of Emmett was in a pickup when she left the onramp from SW Gage Blvd onto I-70 and failed to navigate the curve. Her truck veered off the roadway, striking a Lexus, driven [...]

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A local organization’s new supportive-housing program, which launched in the spring, is quickly growing. Be Able Community executive director Scott Voos told Riley County commissioners Monday the program now serves 15 men across three renovated properties, with a capacity to serve up to 24 residents. “Two weeks ago, we had our first graduate who was [...]

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By Lewis Marien FORT RILEY — Rob Riggle, a marine, actor and comedian who grew up in the Sunflower State, appeared Friday on Fort Riley to share stories about his 23-year stint with the United States Marine Corps and ongoing entertainment career. USO Kansas hosted the meet-and-greet event in Riley’s Community Center at 446 Seitz [...]

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U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, announced Monday he was seeking an exemption from the federal hiring freeze for necessary staff at the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan. Moran, a member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, recently hosted U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden in Manhattan to highlight the [...]

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Crime continued to decline in October, according to Riley County Police Department Director Brian Peete. During his monthly report to county commissioners on Thursday, Peete delivered a mostly positive crime update, reporting sharp declines in several categories. “As of Nov. 1, our Part One crimes were 20% below the five-year average compared to last year,” [...]

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Crime continued to decline in October, according to Riley County Police Department Director Brian Peete. During his monthly report to county commissioners on Thursday, Peete delivered a mostly positive crime update, reporting sharp declines in several categories. “As of Nov. 1, our Part One crimes were 20% below the five-year average compared to last year,” [...]

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