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A 15-year-old female from Eskridge sustained serious injuries in a single-vehicle crash on Wednesday afternoon in Wabaunsee County. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported the crash occurred at approximately 3:40 p.m., about three miles west of Mission Valley High School. The driver, identified as Corbi M. Tenpenny, was westbound on Mission Valley Road when the 2005 [...]

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Gov. Laura Kelly announced on Wednesday that 14 Kansas rail projects will receive a total of $13 million through the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Rail Service Improvement Program. Among those rail projects receiving funding is the Abilene and Smokey Valley Railroad received $471,722 in Dickinson County. Seaboard Energy Hugoton Rail Expansion received the most funding [...]

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Manhattan city commissioners Tuesday approved more than $2 million in tax breaks to raze the downtown Commerce Bank building and build a new retail and residential space. Officials from Hutton Development requested a 10-year property tax abatement and a sales tax exemption on construction materials. They also asked the city government to pay for half [...]

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A Wamego nurse practitioner is suing the practice where she worked for discrimination and harassment after she said the company fired her for taking maternity leave. Sarah Pageler filed suit against Prairie Winds Family Care Dec. 6. In court documents, she says that her supervisor, Jennifer White-Slough, became irritable with Pageler after Pageler in March [...]

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A man was taken to a nearby hospital on Tuesday after crashing his car into a barrier. RCPD reported that 72-year-old David Livingston was transported to EMS for his injuries after he slammed his car into a barrier just prior to 11 a.m. on Tuesday at the corner of Anderson and Manhattan Avenues. Livingston’s status [...]

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Two local teenagers have been arrested for their role in a physical altercation that occurred on Tuesday evening. The incident occurred just after 6 p.m. at Opportunities Unlimited in the 400 block of Clydesdale Drive in Ogden when a 17-year-old male threw a metal chair at another resident. A 16-year-old male then stepped in the [...]

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Dennis Cook, the executive director of the Aggieville Business Association, said this is the fourth or fifth year in a row the organization has conducted the festivities at 12th and Moro streets. Aggieville traditionally drops an apple (because of Manattan’s nickname, the Little Apple) instead of a ball for the countdown to midnight. “This year the [...]

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James Kujath of James Gordon and Associates told Riley County Law Enforcement Agency Board members on Monday that RCPD was $130,000 under its 2023 budget. “That’s a good thing, as if they went over, they’d be violating state statute,” Kujath said. Kujath said personnel services increased by $2 million in 2023 because the department gave [...]

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Riley County commissioners on Monday approved three new members to the body overseeing police. Gary Olds and county commissioners Greg McKinley and Kathryn Focke will serve on the Riley County Law Enforcement Agency Board beginning Jan. 1. McKinley will fill the spot reserved for a county commissioner, currently held by John Ford, whose term is [...]

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Geary County USD 475 and the Junction City Education Association announced on Tuesday that Westwood Elementary kindergarten teacher Stephanie Sowell and Fort Riley sixth grade language arts teacher Mary McConnell were the district’s nominees for the Kansas Master Teacher Award. Sowell was named the USD 475 Elementary Master Teacher Award nominee while McConnell claimed the [...]

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