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A Junction City woman was arrested following a traffic stop late Wednesday for a slew of drug possession charges. 39-year-old Angel Morgan was arrested just before 4 pm at the intersection of North 4th and Leavenworth Streets on probable cause charges. She is charged with one count of use or possession of drug paraphenelia with [...]

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The First Thousand Members Club will be hosting its first annual Harmony Fest in Junction City coming up in late August. The organization which was founded as a non-profit organization to connect Haitians together living in the Junction City area. Martine Chery-Hilaire is the event organizer and explained why she formed the organization with her [...]

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Two were injured after a semitruck overturned due to high winds in Wabaunsee County early Wednesday morning. The Kansas Highway Patrol were the first to respond to the accident. The crash was reported just after 3:15 am on eastbound I-70 about a mile east of Keene-Eskridge Road, which is about 12 miles west of Topeka. [...]

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A Manhattan man is in jail following his arrest at the Manhattan Municipal Courthouse. 59-year-old Jeffrey Tinnean was arrested on probable cause charges just before 9:30 am at the courthouse on one count of aggravated battery by recklessly causing bodily harm by trying to disfigure, harm or kill with a deadly weapon. He was also [...]

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THIS STORY IS CONTINUING TO BE UPDATED THROUGHOUT THE DAY Evergy customers woke up early Wednesday to find themselves without power as storms moved across the area. As of this morning at 8:30 am, over 15,000 customers remain without power in Northeast Kansas. Manhattan was hardly affected by these outages, with under 5 customers affected [...]

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Kansas senator Jerry Moran spoke at Kansas State University on Monday to tout his accomplishments at the federal level while also providing an update for government officials in Riley County. Moran touted over $50 million granted to K-State to help furnish improvements for the campus as well as other advances made such as money for [...]

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Over 70 million Americans are expected to travel 50 or more miles over the 4th of July holiday. This number is expected to be quite high for Kansans, as AAA Public Affairs manager Shawn Steward explained…. That number is higher than 2023, which saw an estimated 429,000 Kansans either take to the roads, sky or [...]

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Jobless rates are up all across the region according to data that was recently released by the Kansas Department of Labor (KDOL). The unemployment rate for Riley County is up half a percentage point from April at 3%. Geary County saw a jump of 0.6% from 3.7% in April to 4.3% in May. Pottawatomie and [...]

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Gov. Laura Kelly officially signed legislation that will cut taxes by $1.2 billion over the next three years. The bill, which passed with massive bipartisan majorities in the Kansas legislature earlier this week, provides several tax cuts for Kansans, particularly when it comes to income taxes. The top rate for taxpayers was lowered to 5.58% [...]

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The Kansas Board of Regents met on Thursday and unanimously voted to raise tuition and fees to an average of 3.9% for full-time public universities in the state requesting revenue enhancements from that source. K-State saw a 2.5% tuition increase for resident undergraduates, which is what was requested by the university. This increase in tuition [...]

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