The K-State Department of Agricultural Economics has surpassed its 2 million dollar fundraising goal for the Barry Flinchbaugh Chair in Agricultural Economics. This chair will help contribute to food and agricultural policy across the state and nation in honor of the late Flinchbaugh, who according to current department head Allen Featherstone, dreamed of endowing a chair to build [...]

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Fancy Creek Bridge has a new name, honoring a local Vietnam veteran who lost his life over 50 years ago during the war. The Riley Countian newspaper reports that a renaming ceremony for the bridge was held Nov. 20 at the VFW Hall in Randolph. It will be called the PFC Loren H. Larson Memorial [...]

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One person was hospitalized Saturday following a motor vehicle accident near Riley on US Highway 77. The Kansas Highway Patrol says a Jeep Wrangler had slowed for an accident scene in the easbound lane when a Chevy Equinox struck the rear of her vehicle shortly after 6:30 p.m. The driver of the Equinox, 26-year-old Elizabeth [...]

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The Riley County Seniors Center is bringing a special guest to the Christmas holiday lunch. Liz Nelson, seniors service center program director, tells KMAN the holiday lunch will take place on December 10, and following the lunch this year will be a guest speaker- Sally Newton. Nelson says Newton is a local scientist at Kansas [...]

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