Riley County Police are investigating a pair of thefts reported this week at a few Manhattan retailers. According to Tuesday’s activity report, officers were called out to Menards Monday morning after store officials reported two known male suspects replaced UPC codes on security camera systems for a lesser price. The estimated total loss was around [...]

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The Board of Riley County Commissioners approved a request by County Clerk Rich Vargo to hire an architect to develop remodeling plans to expand office space for election staff. Vargo asked for the board to approve an architect to redesign the 4th floor of the Courthouse Plaza East (CPE) building to accommodate the extra needed [...]

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City officials say Ebert Construction is closing the 600 block of Poyntz Ave today and tomorrow, in order to install the string light poles that will flank the mid-block crosswalk. The street will reopen in time for Third Thursday festivities. The work was not able to be completed with the rest of the project due [...]

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Judge William Malcolm, the longtime magistrate judge for the 21st Judicial District, which encompasses Riley and Clay counties, died Sunday from injuries he sustained in a car wreck earlier this month. He was 74. In a statement Monday, Chief Judge Grant Bannister remembered Malcolm as a kind hearted human-being and valued colleague. “He was a [...]

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The Bayer family joined Manhattan city officials on Saturday for the Stonehaven Park dedication. Manhattan’s newest park is located on the Amherst Avenue extension, just west of the Miller Parkway and Amherst Avenue roundabout. The land was donated to the city by the Bayer family, a farming family that traces it’s roots to the early [...]

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Riley County Police arrested a 30-year-old Manhattan man over the weekend for allegedly violating terms of the Offender Registration Act. Raynell Bracey was apprehended Friday evening near the intersection of Anderson Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr, on the probable cause offense. According to the Kansas Department of Corrections, Bracey has past convictions of aggravated [...]

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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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