The following summary of calls for service/reports filed by the Riley County Police Department is a portion of those received by police. Some names, addresses, and case details are withheld to follow local, state, and federal law as well as in an attempt to protect community members from being victimized further. Those arrested are presumed innocent [...]
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Riley County firefighters had their hands full Tuesday with as a grass fire burned nearly 800 acres according to Emergency Management Director Pat Collins. Collins says the cause of the fire is unknown but believed to have started on the Konza Prairie near I-70 in Geary County around 3 p.m. It eventually crossed into Riley [...]
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Official results for the Riley County commission District 3 seat will have to wait a couple of weeks due to unofficial results being too close to call. A difference of 10 votes was reported at the end of the election between Republican candidate John Matta and Democratic candidate Kathryn Focke, with Matta in the lead. [...]
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The House seat for District 67 was up for voting on Tuesday. Republican, Mike Dodson, defeated Cheryl Arthur, getting 54% of the votes. Dodson tells KMAN that he is grateful for the opportunity. “I’ve retired four times already and had all the blessings one could ask for and this is just another opportunity to serve [...]
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Update 4:45 p.m. Wamego High School will in fact switch to hybrid a hybrid learning mode as a result of rising numbers of students in quarantine. The hybrid model will be adopted for at least the next three weeks. Superintendent Tim Winter confirmed to KMAN late Tuesday afternoon the district’s decision after the high school [...]
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Junction City High School Principal Melissa Sharp has been suspended with pay following an incident last month involving a student wearing a hijab (a head covering worn in public by Muslim women). The board’s decision Monday was unanimous (7-0). Board President Rina Neal issued the following statement. “The board of education has thoroughly reviewed the [...]
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Construction is underway for Expedition Asia which broke ground in September and features new Malayan tiger, sloth bear and Amur leopard exhibits and ADA-compliant viewing areas. The roughly $4.3 million project, was approved by the Manhattan City Commission early in September and broke ground later the same month offering crucial updates to existing enclosures, some [...]
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A former Kansas lieutenant governor and K-State student-body president is hoping to succeed U.S. Senate candidate Roger Marshall as the latest Republican to represent the state’s 1st District in Congress. Tracey Mann, a United States House of Representatives candidate who currently lives in Salina, KS, says if elected, he will make agriculture and trade a [...]
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Barry Flinchbaugh, Farm policy expert and longtime K-State professor, died Monday morning in Topeka. Flinchbaugh joined the Kansas State University Agricultural Economics department in 1971 where he most recently served as a professor emeritus. During his time at K-State, Flinchbaugh received three Outstanding Teacher Awards as well as several other agricultural-industry honors and taught about [...]
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