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Registration is open now for Riley County’s Protective Home Program. The program provides temporary housing for children in need who are in Police Protective Custody (PPC), often in circumstances of abuse or neglect. Community Corrections Intensive Supervision Officer Sara Darnell says the program was created locally in 2017. There are currently 16 volunteer families in [...]

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St. Thomas More will be holding its Community Christmas Dinner in a drive thru format again this year. This year will mark the 10th year of the Community Christmas Dinner. Pastor Michael Ide says the event started when a volunteer wanted to help with a Thanksgiving dinner, but didn’t need any more volunteers . In [...]

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Manhattan’s T. Russell Reitz Animal Shelter is closed until further notice after an employee there recently tested positive for COVID-19. The employee tested positive Wednesday and the city is notifying close contacts. Anyone who visited the shelter Tuesday is advised to monitor for symptoms and consult the Riley County Health Department of a physician if [...]

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Policing in America & The RCPD I don’t know if I have ever seen the topic of police legitimacy remain front page news for as long as it has since May 2020. I’d like to share my perspective as a gauge of what we read and watch about other communities and what I have learned [...]

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Riley County identified 131 new COVID-19 cases and 110 additional recoveries in its latest weekly report Wednesday. That brings the active case count to 227 countywide, with a percent positive rate for new infections currently at 7.6 percent. The health department says so far, no cases of the new Omicron variant in Riley County, despite [...]

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The Manhattan City Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved the budget request for the Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce for 2022, totaling over $533,000 from the Economic Development Fund. Chamber officials presented the year end report which included highlights from its work with the Greater Manhattan Economic Partnership and Knowledge Based Economic Development. Chamber President Jason Smith noted its five key areas [...]

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Hospitals are seeing a rise in the number of COVID-19 inpatients being treated. Ascension Via Christi Hospital in Manhattan began Wednesday with 12 positive inpatients, five of whom were in the Intensive Care Unit. All five were said to be on ventilators. Hospital President and CEO Bob Copple tells KMAN that a sixth ventilated patient [...]

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An investigation is underway to determine why a contract employee, working at Junction City’s Water Treatment Plant, switched from a backup generator back to Evergy power after winds knocked out power to the facility on Dec. 15. City Manager Allen Dinkel said in a Tuesday news release that the full ramifications of that decision are [...]

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The Riley County Police Department has announced updates to an existing policy regarding educational requirements for promotions. Director Dennis Butler told Law Board members Monday that they are adapting an update on educational requirements for lieutenants looking to be promoted to captain. Butler says the requirements will not affect current captains and won’t harm their [...]

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Kansas State University says it has not received any information about sensitive data being leaked to hackers following last week’s ransomware attack on UKG, the external vendor for the KRONOS system used for some of K-State’s employees. A few sources had informed KMAN that all users hourly data from which they were paid, as well [...]

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