The Riley County Commission Monday gave consensus to put a mask recommendation into the county’s next local health order. Commissioners debated the language of the mask recommendation. With Manhattan’s mask ordinance, the commission didn’t want to mandate masks for residents living outside the city, nor have language that closely resembled that. Commissioner John Ford stated [...]

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Fort Riley today is conducting a required, annual Full-Scale exercise to test the installation’s electrical grid and backup power generation. During the exercise, short term, rolling power outages will occur. Housing areas may be affected for short time periods. In addition, Saddle Horn Road, between Trooper Drive and Steeplechase will be closed to accommodate today’s [...]

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More people are expected to vote by mail this year, due to concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. Requests for mail ballots is up significantly in both Riley and Pottawatomie counties ahead of the August primary and voter participation is also likely to be high, especially with the presidential election coming. Riley County Clerk Rich Vargo [...]

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Riley County currently is monitoring 153 active cases of COVID-19 with 195 people now listed as recovered. Pottawatomie County was monitoring six active cases Friday, with 83 listed recoveries. As of Friday, Ascension Via Christi was monitoring zero patients. One person who previously was on a ventilator has now tested negative and is now recovering [...]

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Kansas State University has signed a new pre-clinical research and option agreement to develop a vaccine candidate for COVID-19 prevention. The university announced Monday its reached an agreement with Tonix Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage bio-pharmaceutical company. Directing the research is Waithaka Mwangi, professor of diagnostic pathobiology in the K-State College of Veterinary Medicine. It’s based on [...]

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The following summary of calls for service/reports filed by the Riley County Police Department is a portion of those received by police.  Some names, addresses, and case details are withheld to follow local, state, and federal law as well as in an attempt to protect community members from being victimized further.  Those arrested are presumed innocent [...]

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Riley County Police arrested an Ogden man Friday evening on a warrant for numerous charges of sexual exploitation of a child. Online court records show 27-year-old Charles Eugene Connell III was booked into Riley County Jail on 10 total counts saying he possessed visual depictions of a child shown to be engaged in sexually explicit [...]

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Ascension Via Christi continues to pre-screen for all surgical or planned interventional procedures for the coronavirus. So far two patients have tested positive at Via Christi and had to have their procedures postponed. Manhattan Surgical Center has postponed one due to a positive test. Via Christi President and CEO Bob Copple explains how different aspects [...]

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Riley and Pottawatomie County COVID-19 case numbers Riley County has gained five new positive cases of COVID-19 and eight more recoveries since Thursday, bringing the total number of active cases to 141 and recoveries to 193. There are now zero COVID-19 positive patients at Ascension Via Christi Hospital, although one patient, who was previously on [...]

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