Update: 1:20 p.m. Friday The victim in Thursday’s construction accident at Rock Creek High School has been identified. Pottawatomie County Sheriff Shane Jager says 45-year-old Matthew Becker of rural Manhattan died as a result of a fall into a 12-foot trench during construction activities on the south side of the campus, near the new baseball [...]

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Nicholas Wallace, an assistant professor in the Kansas State University Division of Biology, has received a $454,466 grant for cancer research. The R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award comes from the National Cancer Institute of Health and is for Wallace’s study titled, “HPV Oncogenes Dysregulate Translesion Synthesis.” Wallace is studying the resistance of certain cervical cancers [...]

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Update 6/3/20 at 5 p.m. By Nick McNamara Junction City police Wednesday arrested an Alabama man for the murder of two Junction City men in May. 18-year-old Dontavion Wright of Talladega, Alabama, was arrested on a Geary County warrant for two charges of first-degree murder. He’s accused of shooting and killing 21-year-old Dillon Spencer and [...]

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A police pursuit involving a stolen vehicle began in Manhattan and ended with a rollover crash on Interstate 70. The Riley County Police Department says dispatchers were notified around 1 p.m. Wednesday of a theft in the Walmart parking lot. It was determined the suspect involved in the theft was driving a stolen vehicle. At [...]

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A Topeka woman has been arrested and charged following a Wednesday pursuit from Manhattan to I-70. Riley County Police say 25-year-old Kala Auchard was taken into custody after a rollover crash at mile marker 318, about five miles east of the Manhattan exit, following a brief pursuit from the area near Pillsbury Drive. She’s charged [...]

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A streetscape revamp in Aggieville will cost the City of Manhattan a maximum of $2.043 million. The Manhattan City Commission Tuesday unanimously approved the guaranteed maximum price with McCownGordon Construction, the construction manager at risk on the project. The commission previously approved the plans to redevelop street and subterranean infrastructure on 12th Street from Bluemont [...]

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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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