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Attendees honored the dead and celebrated the living during a Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, event at K-State this weekend. The two-day event was hosted by the K-State Student Union Program Council, or UPC, and featured sugar skull decorating, kite decorating, face painting, live mariachi music, folkloric dancers and snacks. Attendees had [...]

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Two people were injured in an accident just before 6 p.m. Saturday in Wabaunsee County. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported 2016 Buick passenger vehicle driven by Carsyn Frieden, 20, Cheney, was westbound on I-70 just east of Spring Creek Road. The vehicle hydroplaned, left the roadway to the right and collided with a 2008 Chevy [...]

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Two Junction City residents were taken to a local hospital for minor injuries following a Sunday evening crash in Geary County. The accident occurred just after 6:30 p.m. on I-70 near milepost 306.7 when a 2019 Freightliner semitruck driven by a 37-year-old Sukhrob Dastanov of Mason, Ohio lost control of the truck due to the [...]

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By Emma Loura Workers in October broke ground on the Flint Hills Community Accelerator and Childcare Business Initiative, a facility to house and develop childcare businesses in Manhattan. Construction is underway at the planned site at the intersection of Kimball and College avenues. Executive director Lisa Isaacson, who also is the director of early childhood [...]

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The Kansas Court of Appeals on Friday affirmed a lower court’s sentencing for Robert Iacobellis, the former Manhattan diner owner convicted of child rape. Judge Kendra Lewison in February 2023 sentenced Iacobellis, then 64, to nearly 25 years in prison for two counts of rape of a child, an off-grid crime, as part of a [...]

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ByKathy Dzewaltowski Manhattan/Riley County Preservation Alliance Local favorite Vista Drive-In is celebrating 60 years in business in 2024. Located at 1911 Tuttle Creek Boulevard, the restaurant opened in the summer of 1964 and has continuously operated ever since, making it the oldest restaurant in Manhattan. The Vista restaurant chain was started by Charles Streeter and [...]

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The two candidates running for the District 51 seat in the Kansas House of Representatives have a lot of differences. Republican Megan Steele is a political newcomer with religiously inspired conservative views on the issues dominating headlines, while Democrat Linda Morse has experience as a Manhattan city commissioner and supports traditionally liberal causes like abortion [...]

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By Emma Loura/Manhattan Mercury Riley County was approaching 10,000 votes cast on Wednesday, six days out from the presidential election. Officials reported at Thursday’s county commission meeting that 9,519 people had voted in advance so far. This includes both in-person and mail-in ballots. At this point in 2020, 16,434 people had voted in advance in [...]

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Riley County announced on Friday that several departments will be updating its customer service hours for some departments beginning on Monday. The hours, which were temporarily put in place for the county back in July, will now be permanent going forward. The updated hours will be from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday [...]

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RCPD officers filed a report for aggravated battery, aggravated assault, domestic battery, criminal damage to property and theft in Manhattan on Friday morning. The report was filed just before 2:45 a.m. and lists a 21-year-old man as the victim when a 19-year-old woman hit him, destroyed property and then took property from the victim. Officers [...]

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