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Riley County Police made three drug related arrests Tuesday including a pair of arrests involving distribution within 1,000 feet of a school. According to RCPD, 47-year-old Joseph Hammond and 40-year-old Dawn Renee Cyphers, both of Junction City, were arrested Tuesday in the 400 block of Fremont Street in Manhattan. Hammond faces eight different charges including [...]

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History was made Monday as the Riley County Police Department promoted Erin Freidline to the position of Captain. Freidline, who joined RCPD in August 2000 as a patrol officer has risen through the ranks to become the department’s highest ranking female in its 45-year history. Through her career she’s worked in the civil process section [...]

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A Manhattan woman was honored during Monday’s Riley County Law Board meeting for her efforts to keep schools safe. USD 383 Communications & School Safety Director Michele Jones has partnered with Riley County Police, the Manhattan Fire Department and emergency response teams over the past few years to improve safety training. In 2015 the RCPD [...]

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Pottawatomie County Public Works Director Peter Clark gave an update to the county commission on Monday with two big topics addressed during the meeting. One of those was a recent bridge failure. The bridge will be closed for the next few months while they design and rebuild. The second topic discussed was over a local [...]

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MANHATTAN — The Riley County Police Department has a new director, Dennis Butler, the current chief of the Ottawa Police Department. Butler was unanimously approved as the fifth director of the RCPD during Monday’s Riley County Law Board meeting. Butler says he’s thrilled to be coming to Manhattan. Butler will succeed current director Brad Schoen [...]

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The Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce will be honoring former Mayor Linda Morse at a reception this afternoon. According to a Facebook event by the Chamber, the reception is a chance for their board and associates to recognize Morse for her service to the community. Morse was elected to a 4-year term in the Manhattan [...]

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Riley County Public Works will be putting the final touches on the Marlatt-Denison connection project at the end of the week. As a result, Marlatt will be closed from Denison to College Avenue to all traffic starting Friday, November 23rd. Vicky McCallum from public works said the work is expected to finish up by Sunday. [...]

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Jason Simonds, 45, of Manhattan was arrested while in the 4000 block of Kimball Ave. in Manhattan on November 18, 2018, at approximately 10:25 AM. Simonds was arrested on a Riley County District Court warrant for probation violation and offenses of use/possess paraphernalia and possession of opiates, opium, narcotic or certain stimulants. Simonds was issued [...]

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Green Apple Bikes, a local bike sharing program in Manhattan is putting the call out to round-up bikes during the holiday week. Volunteer Rod Harms tells KMAN that the organization is hoping to collect as many of the bikes this week for tuning up over the holiday break. Students from the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity [...]

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The Kevin Coffey Blood Drive was on Friday at St. Thomas More Church, collecting 252 pints of blood. This was the 9th drive held in Kevin’s memory, a 2009 Manhattan High School drive who died in a bus crash in 2010. Kevin’s friend from Temple University, Christine Boegemann, traveled from Philadelphia to attend the drive [...]

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