Officials with the Manhattan Fire Department Risk Reduction Division were made aware of several videos on social media over the weekend showing a possible code violation at Royal Towers at 1700 North Manhattan Ave. The department says code inspectors visited the location Monday along with The Prime Company, the property management company for the complex. [...]
Winter officially arrives Wednesday and it appears Mother Nature is all but ready to celebrate the occasion. Accumulating snowfall is expected to arrive Wednesday night through Thursday across Kansas, creating potentially treacherous travel conditions ahead of the holiday weekend. The National Weather Service has already issued a Winter Storm Watch effective at midnight Thursday for [...]
A Manhattan woman was sentenced this week for her role in a February crash in southern Kansas that killed a 19-year-old man from Belle Plaine. 25-year-old Alexis Geisler pleaded guilty to one county of vehicular homicide, a Class A misdemeanor, earlier this month in Sumner County. She was subsequently sentenced Dec. 12 to one year [...]
How's that for a click bait title? Selective Insurance announced the results of a recent study that showed 97 percent of people who decorate for Christmas have at least one fire hazard. "I'm not trying to be Scrooge, but our research shows that most U.S. residents need to better understand and practice smart fire safety precautions [...]
More changes are coming to administrative leadership within the Riley County Police Department. During his department briefing to the Riley County Commission Thursday, interim RCPD Director Kurt Moldrup noted that current Administrative Captain Josh Kyle is retiring from RCPD at the end of the year. Captain Kyle has been with RCPD since 1991, when he [...]
(AP) Billie Moore, who coached America’s first women’s Olympic basketball team to a silver medal at the Montreal Games in 1976, has died at age 79. UCLA, where Moore won 296 games over 16 years including a national title in 1978, announced her death on Thursday. Born in Missouri, Moore’s family moved to Westmoreland then [...]
Kansas State University will be relocating its indoor track facility from Ahearn Fieldhouse, following unanimous approval this week by the Kansas Board of Regents. The university had previously been approved to renovate the track, now looking to see the facility relocated to the existing indoor football practice building located at the K-State Athletics Complex on [...]
This feels appropriate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5LlkvWexvA K-State is taking the Big 12 trophy won by the Wildcats Dec. 3 with the 31-28 OVERTIME win over TCU in the Big 12 Championship on a 19-stop tour of Kansas. "We can't thank our fans enough," head coach Chris Klieman said in a press release. "Our crowds were electric all [...]
There are families that like to be organized when it comes to the holidays. Dinner at a certain time, followed by gifts and church. Or flipped around. A guy on Twitter, however, shared his mother's Christmas itinerary and hoo boy. It is...intense. And almost entirely based off food. https://twitter.com/kmelkhat/status/1602321167939141637 I agree with Khalid, here. I [...]
A small fire was quickly extinguished at a Manhattan apartment complex Wednesday evening. The Manhattan Fire Department says firefighters were dispatched around 7:30 p.m. to 1832 Claflin Road. Crews found a small smoldering fire on a deck of the apartment complex, quickly gained access and extinguished it. Residents were able to exit without injury. The [...]
