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Additional work to the exterior of the Riley County courthouse is needed. Recently, a contractor cleaned the exterior walls of the Court House, Carnegie Building and County Office Building.  During cleaning of the Courthouse, areas were found which will require more extensive repair or stone replacement. County commissioners toured the exterior of the building along with [...]

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Greater Manhattan Community Foundation President and CEO Vern Henricks has been honored by a declaration read today live on KMAN by Mayor Wynn Butler. Henricks has served in his role with the GMCF for eight years, a stretch that has seen the foundation increase its asset base three-fold. He will be installed as District Governor of [...]

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Fort Riley welcomed new senior staff to the 1st Infantry Division on Friday with a Victory with Honors ceremony. 1st Infantry Division Commanding General D.A. Sims welcomed Colonel Geoffrey Norman and Colonel Paul Krattiger to their new positions. Norman took over as the Deputy Commanding Officer of the Big Red One and Krattiger, who has [...]

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No injuries were reported after a suspect fired a gun early Sunday in the Aggieville area. According to Riley County Police, officers filed a report for aggravated assault, criminal discharge of a firearm and criminal damage to property near 12th and Bluemont Ave. Police say an unknown suspect pointed a gun at a 26-year-old male [...]

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Little Apple Pride held a picnic Saturday in Manhattan’s Blue Earth Plaza. The picnic is a change from the normal, larger pride festivities that would traditionally take place in April. Both the 2020 and 2021 April festivities had to be cancelled due to COVID-19. Kevin Stilley, Treasurer of the Flint Hills Human Rights Project and [...]

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A Lawrence woman in her late 20s is the latest to bring forward additional rape allegations in an ongoing sex abuse case against a former Manhattan restaurant owner. The woman, who was 19 and living in Riley County at the time of the alleged incident, accuses Bob Iacobellis of raping her at his restaurant in [...]

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USD 475 Geary County Schools students and staff will not be required to wear face masks during the upcoming school year. The district is encouraging those who have not been vaccinated to continue wearing a mask, per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines. Administrators are acknowledging that the policy could change as the CDC [...]

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The Riley County Police Department is expanding its fingerprinting services for general licensing applications effective July 1. Among the application types involved in this expansion are teaching, daycare, adoption, nursing and insurance. Fingerprinting services will be available Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the RCPD front lobby on a walk-in only basis. [...]

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A 12 person passenger bus, retired by the Flint Hills Area Transportation Agency, was officially donated to Morning Star CRO Friday. Morning Star Inc. CRO serves clients in substance abuse recovery or suffering from severe mental health matters. Elizabeth Stitt is the a driver and peer support specialist with Morning Star. She says having this [...]

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A Manhattan man is jailed in connection to sex crimes involving a child. Brewster Lee Jones is charged with three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under the age of 14. Riley County District Court records allege the alleged crimes occurred on three different occasions between November 2018 and December 2020. Jones is [...]

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