The director of the local Habitat for Humanity organization is frustrated by the city’s handling of a funding change that led to the pause of a home repair program. Habitat for Humanity of the Northern Flint Hills announced this week that it is pausing its Home Repair program in Manhattan. The home repair program helps [...]
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The Geary County USD 475 Board of Education agreed to terms with Dominique West to be the new assistant principal at Ware Elementary for the 2024-25 school year on Thursday. West will take over at Ware after teaching third grade at Washington Elementar...
Riley County Police arrested a Colorado man for making threats on Thursday. The arrest occurred just after 9:30 a.m. in the 600 block of South Delaware Avenue after a 42-year-old man reported 40-year-old David Lingle of Denver, Colorado for making multiple threats to him. Officers later arrested Lingle on the aforementioned charges. He was booked [...]
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A former Manhattan firefighter was killed while fighting a house fire in Wichita last week. Ty Voth, 27, was killed while battling a house fire in the 9800 block of S. Laura Street near Haysville, a suburb south of Wichita last Thursday. Voth, who spent the last five years as a firefighter in Wichita, began [...]
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Former Manhattan Mayor Wynn Butler received diversion this week in Manhattan Municipal Court for an incident in May in which he crashed drunk into a liquor store. Butler, with his attorney, Joshua Douglass, accepted the diversion agreement before Municipal Court Judge James Kepple on Tuesday morning. In the document, obtained through an open records request, [...]
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Kansas Congressman Tracey Mann thanked constituents following his easy victory in the Republican primary on Tuesday evening as he seeks a third term in the U.S. House in the strongly Republican 1st Congressional District. In a post to social media, Mann thanked the voters for supporting him and said his number one goal is to [...]
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A local man was arrested on Tuesday afternoon for violating his probation after he had been previously arrested for domestic battery. Police arrested 45-year-old Latorris Franklin of Manhattan at approximately 2:30 p.m. at the Riley County District Courthouse for violating his probation. Franklin had been previously arrested on charges of domestic battery and violating a [...]
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A man was arrested overnight after he shot a stolen firearm through a ceiling at an apartment complex in Manhattan. Officers filed the report in the 1700 block of Laramie Street just after 10:45 p.m. when a 26-year-old male came home to find a bullet hole in his ceiling, his countertop and dishwasher. When officers [...]
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The Manhattan Fire Department were dispatched late on Monday night to an apartment fire near the K-State campus. Crews responded to the 1200 block of Kearney Street just after 11 p.m. to find smoke and fire upon entering apartment 4. Crews then found a small stove fire and were able to extinguish it shortly there [...]
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Repairs are set to begin on Wednesday as crews from Ebert Construction will begin repairing and resurfacing Anderson from Seth Child/K-113 to Wreath Avenue. This full-depth replacement work is expected to last until late fall. There will be no detour and one-lane traffic will be maintained in both directions at all times. Drivers should expect [...]
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