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Manhattan Mayor Wynn Butler was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of DUI after crashing his vehicle into a storefront. The incident happened around 8 p.m. at the Candlewood Liquor Store, in the Candlewood Shopping Center. Butler confirmed overnight to KMAN that his brakes failed, but also admitted to having had four beers earlier in the [...]

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City Commission discussed their options regarding the Lee Mill Village lots at Tuesday’s meeting. Manhattan purchased 35 lots in 2017 and have sat there since the developer flaked on the city and left infrastructure in place with no plan. Several duplexes are being proposed by Frontier Development Group to be built on the last 10 [...]

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Pottawatomie County officials provided an update Wednesday on the recovery effort in Westmoreland following last week’s tornado. Public Information Officer Becky Ryan spoke about the county’s new landfill and recycling policy for those in Westmoreland. Ryan says residents can take their recycling to other nearby counties if needed, such as Nemaha and Riley County. Ryan also [...]

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Manhattan’s Rue 21 clothing store is shuttering its doors. The Manhattan Mercury reports that the local store inside Manhattan Town Center is having a liquidation sale, following the company’s recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing. A closing date hasn’t been announced. According to Reuters, the teen fashion retailer is planning to close all of its 543 [...]

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Woodrow Wilson Elementary is celebrating a century of educating Manhattan students. The Manhattan Mercury reports that the school will host an open house Thursday evening commemorating 100 years of teaching and learning. The open house will include a public viewing of the school’s new gymnasium and storm shelter and will also include food trucks, old [...]

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A Manhattan woman is facing new charges of aggravated assault and criminal possesson of a weapon. The Riley County Police Department says 20-year-old Ladaisha Ransom was arrested at the jail Tuesday morning on the aformentioned charges. An online criminal complaint also alleges an attempted aggravated robbery charge, stemming from April 22. Ransom also was arrested [...]

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Two motorcyclists sustained injuries Tuesday evening after a crash on US-77 in Geary County. The Sheriff’s Office says Austin Davis, of Manhattan, was northbound on the highway near mile marker 157. While he was turning into a convenience store, his bike was struck by Tristan Baca, of Fort Riley. Both riders were transported to Stormont [...]

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Riley County Health Department and USD 383 are partnering together to kick off the ninth year of Camp Kindergarten. The program is designed to be a way to introduce young children to the kindergarten experience. “It is a kindergarten emersion program,” says Raising Riley Community Outreach Coordinator Chelsea Manwarren. “We are really working on getting [...]

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The Manhattan City Commission unanimously supported the first reading of an ordinance for a long-term downtown development plan. The Beyond Tomorrow Downtown Plan is a 25-year vision for policy and development in the downtown area, replacing the current plan adopted in 2000. It will serve as a guide for future housing, zoning and commercial activity [...]

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The National Weather Service has now confirmed that an EF-0 tornado impacted southern Riley County during Monday night’s severe weather event. Meteorologists were out surveying damage Tuesday in the Hunter’s Island area, south of Fort Riley Blvd. and noted the tornado was on the ground from about 7:39 p.m. to 7:44 p.m. Monday, with an [...]

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