KMAN Staff

Beginning December 26, and running through January 2, the Riley County Police Department  is participating in the “New Year’s Taking Down DUI” traffic enforcement campaign. This initiative, conducted in collaboration with law enforcement agencies across Kansas, including the Kansas Highway Patrol, aims to prevent impaired driving during one of the year’s most dangerous holiday periods. [...]

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Riley County police have arrested a Dodge City man for a failure to appear in court on allegations he was distributing meth. 31-year-old Donnithan Jones was arrested Monday on a District Court warrant after missing a court date on a charge of distribution of meth within 1000 feet of a school and distribution of a [...]

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At 7:40 a.m. on Wednesday, the Manhattan Fire Department responded to a structure fire at 1217 Wyndham Heights Drive. Fire crews arrived to find heavy fire and smoke coming from the back of a single-family home. Firefighters aggressively attacked the blaze, which reached a second alarm, and searched the house for occupants. Fortunately, no one [...]

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A Manhattan man spent the weekend in jail after being arrested Friday night on three counts of violating a protection order. 31-year-old Malcolm Theodore Wooten was arrested at RCPD headquarters around 5 p.m. for three counts of violating an extended abuse order. Wooten was still confined at the time of Sunday’s report on a total [...]

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The Riley County Police Department is looking for clues related to an aggravated burglary that occurred Sunday in the 200 block of Seventh Street in Ogden. RCPD officers filed the report around 4:20 p.m. and listed a 71-year-old man as the victim who said unknown suspects broke into his apartment to steal various items such [...]

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The Kansas Department of Labor recently announced that the jobless rate for Riley County is down slightly from last month. The unemployment rate in Riley County is down from 3.4 percent in October to 3.1 percent in November.  Over the last three months Kansas has averaged 2,100 jobs added per month. Seasonally adjusted job estimates [...]

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Here is a list of the top 10 most viewed article on our website in 2024. 1 – Manhattan chiropractor dies after tragic accident in Colorado 2 – Oliver Brown Elementary principal terminated 3 – Manhattan mayor to resign from city commission following DUI crash 4 – K-State football player injured in Wednesday morning accident [...]

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By Emma Loura The USD 383 school board on Wednesday tabled a request from leaders of the Manhattan Youth Football Association to play games on Manhattan High’s home field after superintendent Eric Reid said the district typically doesn’t allow outside entities to rent it because of maintenance concerns. School board members said they wanted to [...]

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A Wamego man who ran an LSD lab out of an abandoned missile silo is set to be released from prison on Sunday after President Joe Biden commuted his sentence. Biden announced earlier this month he was commuting the sentences of 1,500 Americans. One of them, Clyde Apperson, 69, was charged in 2000 for running [...]

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By Emma Loura USD 383’s superintendent says communication issues between the district’s special education department and families receiving services that surfaced recently are “not acceptable.” Eric Reid apologized at Wednesday’s Manhattan-Ogden school board meeting after four parents with kids in special ed on Dec. 4 voiced their concerns about poor accountability and communication, particularly as [...]

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