A jury in Riley County District Court on Thursday found a Topeka man guilty of two counts of rape. LaMarques Atez Channel, 42, was convicted of raping a woman he knows in October 2019 and December 2024. The court dismissed a third charge. Channel is sc...
Manhattan city commissioners on Tuesday will vote on a proposed continuation and expansion of the downtown business improvement district (BID) and continuation of the Aggieville BID. The Aggieville and Downtown BIDs were created in 1981 to provide a mechanism for the commercial areas to raise funds for their respective revitalization programs. Fees are collected from [...]
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A 20-year-old Fort Riley man was injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash early Friday morning on I-70. According to the RCPD, officers responded to the crash just after midnight near mile marker 318. Police identified the driver as Danny Moises Martinez, who was driving a 2010 Mercedes-Benz when the vehicle rolled over. Martinez was transported [...]
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By Nathan Gaddie Incumbent Riley County Commissioner John Ford announced he will not run for the position again, no matter what the outcome of the election is. Ford announced the news and spoke more about the election Tuesday on Within Reason with Mike Matson. Ford was elected in 2018 and has held the seat since. [...]
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By Nathan Gaddie Incumbent Riley County Commissioner John Ford announced he will not run for the position again, no matter what the outcome of the election is. Ford announced the news and spoke more about the election Tuesday on Within Reason with Mike Matson. Ford was elected in 2018 and has held the seat since. [...]
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Owners of the Little Batch Co. on Tuesday announced they are closing its doors. The mother-daughter duo of Phyllis and Hannah Pease opened the bakery in 2018. They also owned neighboring location Parkside Station, which closed in March. Hannah Pease said a combination of factors led them to close the business. To view the full [...]
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A working smoke alarm helped an occupant escape safely from an apartment fire Tuesday afternoon in Manhattan that caused an estimated $40,000 in damage. According to the Manhattan Fire Department, crews were dispatched just after 4 p.m. to the 900 block of Osage Street, where smoke and flames were coming from a detached garage that [...]
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A charter bus with K-State branding crashed Tuesday morning in Oklahoma City while carrying a group of seventh grade students from Lawrence. Oklahoma City Police said the crash happened near Southeast 44th and Interstate Highway 35. Emergency responders pulled the bus out of a hotel parking lot after a semi-truck driving north struck it. The [...]
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A Manhattan native and K-State grad who serves on the board that will pick the next university president says he expects that person to be in place by the start of the fall semester next year. Matt Crocker, a member of the Kansas Board of Regents, also says there’s no need for a turnaround artist, [...]
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A Fort Riley soldier will serve 40 years in prison after he exploited children to make child pornography by pretending to be a woman. The U.S. attorney’s office on Monday said Bebak Gurung, 22, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor by producing child pornography. The Federal Bureau of Investigation opened [...]
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