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By Emma Loura eloura@themercury.com For 100 years, the radio towers behind Nichols Hall on the K-State campus have stood as a historical monument to the development of technology to bring information to the people of Kansas. The university on Friday held a ceremony honoring its long history of broadcasting, which including trailblazing the use of [...]

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Every two years, change comes to Fort Riley’s leadership posts during the summer. This year was no different. First, Maj. Gen. Monte Rone took over the commanding general position for the 1st Infantry Division from Maj. Gen. John Meyer. And then, Col. Gerald Nunziato became the post’s garrison commander, replacing Col. Michael Foote. To view [...]

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Manhattan city commissioners will approve the second reading of the 2025 budget and tax rate ordinance at their weekly meeting Tuesday evening. On Sept. 3, the commission narrowly approved the first reading of the budget, with the $299.6 million budget and 3.99-mill increase passing on a vote of 3-2. Commissioners John Matta and Peter Oppelt [...]

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National Merit Scholarship Corporation officials this week announced four Manhattan High School students and one Manhattan Virtual Academy student are among the approximately 16,000 semifinalists nationwide. Asa Amama represents the Manhattan Virtual Academy on the semifinalists lists, while George Durrett, Patrick Fu, Andrei Mazin and Rachel Wei represent Manhattan High. “These are great students and [...]

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K-State and the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility are celebrating five years of partnership. NBAF’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Foreign Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory has allowed K-State students to spend three weeks learning about high-containment laboratory safety through an online K-State course. Once that’s completed, students then spend eight weeks at K-State’s Biosecurity [...]

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A Junction City man was injured in an accident on Thursday on US-77. The accident occurred just after 10 a.m. on Thursday when Jeremy Hammon of Junction City was traveling northbound on US 77 near milemarker 157 on his 2014 Harley Davidson motorcycle. Hammon was then reportedly hit by Larry Yarrow of Clay Center while [...]

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36-year-old Richard Baia has been missing since July. Ashley Groves says her daughter is struggling with his absence. Listen here: Groves says Baia has made some bad life decisions and struggles with addiction. But adds, “Although we didn’t work out, he’s always been a good father to our daughter. The 9-year-old’s mom says, at first [...]

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40-year-old Daniel Francis Lee was arrested Wednesday at the Riley County Jail for battering a law enforcement officer at 4 p.m. inside the facility. Lee was arrested last month for battering four different correction officers who were on duty inside the jail. Lee was also arrested in september of 2023 for hitting a man with [...]

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A pickup truck hit what Wabaunsee County sheriff’s officials called a “wild, non-farm raised bull elk” on I-70 at mile marker 335, which is near the Paxico exit. No injuries to the pickup truck’s occupants were reported, according to a message on the Wabaunsee County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page that was posted at 1 a.m. [...]

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Riley County police are looking at phone evidence to investigate a report of an Aug. 30 attack. The woman, K-State student Kenna Hibbs, told police that someone attacked her in the early-morning hours while she was walking home from Aggieville, causing severe head injuries. RCPD public information officer Ashley Tokoi said that the Aug. 30 [...]

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