With National Donut Day falling on Friday, June 3rd, one Manhattan business expects to see sales drastically increase in celebration of the holiday. Varsity Donuts is celebrating their 10th National Donut Day since the store opened. For Friday only, the bakery will be giving away one free classic donut per customer. Varsity’s Manager Melisa Cross [...]
Construction at the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility has now completed. The estimated $1.25 billion project has been in the works for over a decade, with sitework starting in 2010 and construction officially commencing in 2013. Kansas was named as the location for the biosafety level-4 [BSL-4] laboratory in late 2008, which will replace [...]
A vehicle carrying four teenage girls from Junction City crashed Thursday during a high speed pursuit in Geary County. The Kansas Highway Patrol says a 2000 Pontiac Grand Am was westbound on Interstate 70 around 1 p.m. and attempted to exit at Milford Lake Road, west of Junction City. Because of the high rate of [...]
A Pottawatomie County woman and an infant child were seriously injured in a crash southwest of Wamego Thursday morning. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the crash happened shortly before 11 a.m. when an eastbound Toyota Avalon carrying three people, left the road and struck a tree, near Bluebird Road. The driver, identified as 28-year-old Tyra [...]
A trial has been scheduled in early 2023 for a Manhattan man charged with murdering his former girlfriend’s infant son. At a Tuesday status conference, Riley County Judge Kendra Lewison scheduled the trial for 22-year-old Gage Anderson to begin on Feb. 7th. Anderson is accused in the December 2020 death of 2-year-old Cyrus Gray. At [...]
A new principal has been named at College Hill Early Learning Center. Katie Hagenmaier is succeeding Stephanie Kabriel, who announced her resignation from the school earlier this spring. Hagenmaier is a current 1st grade teacher at Valley Heights USD 498 in Waterville. Prior to that she served as a 4th grade teacher for USD 475 [...]
The USA Special Olympic Games start next week, and the unified volleyball team from Manhattan earned a spot in this year’s games. Manhattan will compete against teams from all over the United States. Head coach Kim Schnee said it was very exciting to be selected for this year’s competition. The team is having a special [...]
Riley County Police say a motorcyclist was injured Tuesday after he lost control and was thrown from the bike. Authorities from RCPD, Manhattan Fire and Riley County EMS responded to the crash around 8:30 p.m. in the 1700 block of Vaughn Drive. RCPD says 42-year-old Jimmy Humbert was thrown forward off the motorcycle. He was [...]
More details have emerged in the case of a former Wamego Middle School science teacher arrested Sunday on suspicion of a sex crime involving an underage victim. Allen Sylvester, 51, of rural Wabaunsee County, was formally charged Wednesday with one count of unlawful sexual relations. According to Wabaunsee County Attorney Tim Liesmann, the victim was [...]
The deadline to file for the August primary came and went Wednesday with only a slight change to local races. In Pottawatomie County, Nathan Gotsch filed before the deadline for the 1st District commission seat and will be an independent in the November election. Gotsch also ran in 2018, but lost to Republican Dee McKee, [...]
