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By Nathan Gaddie Riley County commissioners denied a request to extend a long-running contract that offsets recycling costs for glass, steel cans and plastic. For the first time since 2010, Riley County and Bison Ridge Recycling — formerly Howie’s Recycling — will operate without a contract. Previously, the county paid $15,000 annually from the general [...]

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Police are investigating an aggravated assault reported late Wednesday night in Manhattan, according to the Riley County Police Department. Officers filed a report at approximately 10:19 p.m. April 15th, 2026, in the 1200 block of Bertrand Street. A 21-year-old woman and a 20-year-old woman were listed as victims after it was reported a known 21-year-old [...]

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Police are investigating a reported burglary at an apartment in Manhattan, according to the Riley County Police Department. Officers filed a report at approximately 8:57 a.m. April 15th in the 700 block of Osage Street. Seymour Properties was listed as the victim after it was reported that two known male suspects, ages 25 and 24, [...]

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Extreme fire danger is expected across parts of north-central Kansas today, prompting a red flag warning from the National Weather Service in Topeka. Forecasters say conditions will be favorable for rapid fire growth, with afternoon high temperatures in the mid-80s, south winds between 15 and 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph, and relative [...]

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A local woman and the executive director of The Crisis Center, Inc. was recognized Tuesday by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center for her work to end sexual violence. Kathy Ray was selected as the recipient of the visionary voice award for the state of Kansas. The NSVRC offers the visionary voice awards, in conjunction [...]

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By Nathan Gaddie The annual Chester Peterson Jr. public lecture series offered Kansas State University students and faculty the chance to hear from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. Eric Cornell, a physics professor at the University of Colorado, discussed uncovering cosmic fossils within a lab setting. In his lecture, “Looking for Fossils of the Big Bang [...]

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Police arrested a 16-year-old boy Tuesday afternoon at Manhattan High School for charges including criminal damage to property and battery. Noah Dean Weber of Manhattan was arrested at 1:26 p.m. for criminal damage to property valued less than $1,000, criminal threat causing terror or disruption, disorderly conduct and battery. Officials released Weber from custody without [...]

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Authorities say a Dickinson County man charged with multiple counts of child sexual exploitation is in custody following extradition from Iowa. According to the Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office, 44-year-old Ellsworth Primmer, of Enterprise, was arrested April 2 in Des Moines on a warrant listing 45 counts of sexual exploitation of a child. Each of the [...]

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City commissioners on Tuesday responded to Riley County’s decision to indefinitely cut involvement in joint meetings between Manhattan, Riley County and Pottawatomie County commissions — a move Mayor Susan Adamchak said underscores the county’s “cold shoulder” to city input. “It has been an issue for the two years that I’ve been on the commission, that [...]

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Police are investigating a reported vehicle theft involving a motorcycle in Manhattan, according to the Riley County Police Department. Officers filed a report at approximately 8:14 a.m. April 14th in the 1500 block of Waterford Place. A 21-year-old man reported that an unknown suspect stole his red 2022 Honda Navi motorcycle. The estimated loss associated [...]

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