Riley County has gone three days without a new positive COVID-19 test as of Wednesday afternoon. Health and safety officials updated the public online Wednesday. 20 of a total of 55 positive COVID cases remain active and one Riley County resident remains hospitalized. Health Department Director Julie Gibbs says the re-opening process has started smoothly, [...]

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No injuries were reported after a house fire in Leonardville Wednesday. Riley County Fire Chief Pat Collins says firefighters were called out to 216 South Urpelding shortly before noon, for a small fire in the home’s living room. Collins says it was started after the resident dropped a cigarette onto an oxygen tank. Firefighters were [...]

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Manhattan will pick up an increased portion of outstanding infrastructure costs in a Lee Mill Village low-income senior living development. Facing $300,000 in increased development costs, the Manhattan Area Housing Partnership asked that the city split the difference with them and lower MAHP’s purchasing price for the 19 lots from $380,000 to $285,000 and raise [...]

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The Kansas State University Executive Reawakening Team has released its plan for reopening the K-State community. This plan, like the statewide reopening plan announced by Gov. Laura Kelly last week, comes in phases and requires that certain criteria be met before advancing to each stage. The first phase abides by Riley County’s “Restricted Activities” orders [...]

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Some local veterans have submitted open letters to the Riley County Commission demanding the meetings be streamed online. The letters were made public Wednesday by Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice. (They are attached below.) The group of active and retired veterans argue that due to the ongoing health crisis, activity conducted during the two [...]

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The Riley County Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance in the search for 13-year-old Ananie Lakierra Morris of Manhattan. Morris was last seen Tuesday at about 11 p.m. around the 900 block of Kearney St.. She is possibly wearing a yellow and gray hooded sweatshirt, a black and white checkered emoji backpack and tan [...]

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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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As businesses locally begin down the road to normalcy as laid out by local and state plans, Manhattan’s mayor Tuesday raised the idea of requiring masks in public in an effort to stem the spread of COVID-19 during the process. Though multiple commissioners expressed misgivings about how enforceable the law would be. Mayor Usha Reddi [...]

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