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Two local community members were honored at the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce’s 91st Annual Meeting and Banquet Friday night in the Manhattan Conference Center inside the Hilton Garden Inn. The chamber awarded Rod Harms as its 2015 C. Clyde Jones Volunteer of the Year and Jan Miller was honored as the 2015 Lud Fiser

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TOPEKA — A proposal to build a new veterinary laboratory at Kansas State University is one step closer to reality. The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved the university’s proposal for a Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, with an estimated cost of $43.2 million. The project still must be approved the Kansas Legislature. The

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Police arrested Robert Weixelman, 35, of Manhattan, on Thursday evening at approximately 10:00 p.m. on the offenses of violation of a protection order and stalking. This arrest stems from actions violating a court order which occurred on the afternoon prior to the arrest in the 600 block of Osage St. Bond was set at $10,000. An Ogden woman

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Topeka: On Thursday afternoon, Rep. Sydney Carlin (D-Manhattan) successfully offered an amendment to a bill on the House floor outlawing revenge porn. Revenge porn is the posting of nude or sexually explicit photos or videos of an ex-spouse or significant other online without their consent. “Within hours of a vengeful ex-partner uploading images of a

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More than 200 Soldiers with the 1st Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade are set to return soon from a nine-month deployment to Kuwait. While deployed, the brigade’s Soldiers were responsible for planning, oversight and resources for troops in five countries and 13 locations. The brigade supported Operation Inherent Resolve and provided sustainment support to U.S. Central

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The Riley County Police Department has plans for a proposed service building expansion, but what wasn’t planned was the cost estimate of such a project. The estimate brought forth to the Riley County Law Board Tuesday has a price tag of $775,000. “We were a little surprised about the price,” RCPD Director Brad Schoen told

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Riley County Police will soon be stepping up traffic safety efforts in area school zones. Beginning on February 29th and ending March 13th, officers will join Law Enforcement agencies across Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma in a traffic safety operation, working to reduce teen driver related fatalities and collisions. To try and alter this trend, law

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Lauren Hess, 25, of Manhattan was arrested while in the 600 block of Poyntz Ave. on February 17, 2016 at approximately 1:00 PM. This arrest came after police received reports of a vehicle that was not operating safely and had been involved in a collision with a curb. This tip led to the arrest which

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A Manhattan man was injured in a two vehicle accident on I-70 in Wabaunsee County Wednesday night.  Collin Wood, 22, was taken to Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan following the accident, reported at about 8:30 p.m.,  1.5 miles east of K-99. The Kansas Highway Patrol indicates Wood was westbound in a 2005 Dodge Ram 1500

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