A Riley County double murder case that had been filed with the U-S Supreme Court last September has been denied certiorari. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt anounced in September he had filed a 94 page petition with the national court regarding Kansas v. Luis Aguirre in the 2009 muders of Tanya and Juan Maldonado. For […]
A Manhattan woman was injured in a two vehicle accident on I-70 in Shawnee County Monday afternoon.  Katie Joe Jarvis, 26, was taken to Stormont Vail in Topeka following the accident, on I-70 eastbound, one mile east of Valencia road. The Kansas Highway Patrol reports Jarvis was driving a 2005 Nissan Sentra eastbound and after […]
Live music, speakers and art filled the Manhattan Town Center Monday for the 32nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. Along with speeches and music, there were also booths representing various non-profit organizations offer volunteer opportunities. Lynda Bachelor, one of the coordinators of the celebration and a soon-to-be-retired administrator at the Staley School of […]
The City of Leonardville has gone on a boil water advisory Sunday evening. The City water supply has experienced a loss of pressure in the water system due to a water main break. Leonardville City Clerk Deandra Anderson announced the advisory shortly ...
The rift between local government and Topeka grows. Riley County commissioners were unified in their disappointment following Gov. Sam Brownback’s State of the State address Tuesday night. Thursday morning, commissioner Robert Boyd — who’d met with Brownback to discuss local issues in recent months — led the charge. “He obviously doesn’t need, want, desire our […]
A 57-year-old Kansas Department of Corrections inmate serving time in a Geary County case has apparently been released from jail. Alex Mackey had been serving time on convictions including drug possession, theft, aggravated burglary,and aggravated robbery in four different counties from 1983-2002. The Geary County conviction was Mackey’s first reported conviction in 1983. Public comment […]
 Riley County police and emergency crews were on the scene Wednesday evening, after a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle. Officers found that a truck driven by 32-year-old Jessica Kohrs collided with 54-year-old Polly Gantenbein while she was in the roadway. Gantenbein sustained an injury to the head and was transported to Via Christi Hospital […]
Police arrested Cody Jones, 19, of Leonardville, Kansas on January 13, 2016 at approximately 12:15 PM on a warrant for the offenses of burglary, making false writing, and theft of property or services. He was given a bond of $5,000.00 and at the time of this report was confined at the Riley County Jail. No […]
The state may not have crowned any billionaires after Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing, but some residents of Northeast Kansas could still cash in. Three tickets worth $50,000.00 were sold in the region, with four more sold in other parts of the state. Two $1 million tickets were sold in the southwest and south-central portions of […]
The fourth and final USD 383 Superintendent has been named. Dr. Michael Simpson currently serves as the Superintendent of Schools for Guthrie Public Schools in Guthrie, Oklahoma and has been in that position since 2012. He has also served as an Assistant Superintendent of Schools for Ponca City Public Schools in Ponca City, Oklahoma (2008-2012). Prior […]
