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The fate of a proposed quarry expansion near Wheaton won’t be known until at least next week. Pottawatomie County commissioners voted 4-1 Monday to table action on a conditional use permit sought by Hamm Companies to expand current operations in Sherman Township. Commissioner Merl Page opposed. The decision came after staff requested additional time to [...]

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Authorities say a Manhattan man has been arrested on multiple counts of crimes against children, stemming from an October 2024 report. Twenty-four-year-old Kenneth Kelley turned himself in Monday on 13 counts of electronic solicitation of a child under 14, and 12 counts of promoting obscenity to minors. Kelley reportedly believed he was communicating with two girls [...]

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By Rose Gruenbacher Expert witnesses testified Friday and Monday in the trial of Clark Petersen, a chiropractor charged with rape and other sex crimes against his clients. Petersen, a Manhattan man, is now in the second week of his trial in Riley County District Court. He is charged with 64 counts of sex crimes, ranging [...]

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A Manhattan woman was arrested Friday morning on two Riley County District Court warrants for failure to appear. Police say 33-year-old Tiffany Ryals has past warrants stemming from charges including aggravated assault, three counts of battery on a law enforcement officer, interference with law enforcement, criminal trespass and possession of drug paraphernalia. An amended online criminal complaint shows [...]

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Riley County police are investigating two separate cases of check fraud reported Saturday in Manhattan. The first incident was reported by an 84-year-old man who told police someone stole a check, altered it and forged another, leading to losses of more than $8,400. A little more than an hour later, officers took a second report at [...]

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The Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office has arrested an Enterprise man on child exploitation charges. Following tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 38-year-old Ryan Roth was arrested Thursday on a warrant for aggravated internet trading in child pornography and sexual exploitation of a child. Authorities issued a search warrant at a home [...]

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By Rose Gruenbacher A Riley County Police Department detective said in court Thursday afternoon that the medical records of several alleged victims of former local chiropractor Clark Petersen could not be found. Detective Daniel Todd was part of the investigation into Petersen, and told the jury and Riley County District Court Judge Grant Bannister that [...]

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The Manhattan Board of Zoning Appeals on Wednesday advanced, on a 2-1 vote, a request from the Manhattan Mennonite Church to reduce the number of off-street parking spaces for a planned new church building at 821 Poyntz Avenue. City code requires places of assembly, such as churches, to have one parking space per five people [...]

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The Manhattan City Commission on Tuesday will consider a new vendor for its utility billing software as well as an incentive package for the Unger housing redevelopment project. City officials are planning to enter a master subscription agreement with SpryPoint Services, Inc. after current vendor Central Square withdrew support from their customer portal in 2021. [...]

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