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MANHATTAN — The Riley County Police Department is reporting a slower than normal Fake Patty’s Day this year. RCPD Captain Richard Fink presented preliminary data from Saturday to Riley County commissioners Monday. Fink says the number of calls for service (the calls they respond to) was also down this year with 197 calls compared to [...]

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MANHATTAN — Riley County Police have released new details regarding an early Saturday morning shooting at the Blue Hills Shopping Center at 2300 Tuttle Creek Blvd. Police say an aggravated battery report was filed listing two 24-year-old Kansas City area men as victims from a shots fired call just before 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Both victims [...]

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MANHATTAN — Riley County Police have released new details regarding an early Saturday morning shooting at the Blue Hills Shopping Center at 2300 Tuttle Creek Blvd. Police say an aggravated battery report was filed listing two 24-year-old Kansas City area men as victims from a shots fired call just before 2:30 a.m. Saturday. Both victims [...]

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MANHATTAN — Pawnee Mental Health will be joining in on Mardi Gras celebrations taking place next week. Executive Director Robbin Cole says they’re celebrating Mardi Gras for Mental Health through a special pancake feed fundraiser to help support the organization.  It’s the first year for the event. The pancake feed will take place from 5 [...]

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MANHATTAN — Pawnee Mental Health will be joining in on Mardi Gras celebrations taking place next week. Executive Director Robbin Cole says they’re celebrating Mardi Gras for Mental Health through a special pancake feed fundraiser to help support the organization.  It’s the first year for the event. The pancake feed will take place from 5 [...]

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On Tuesday, the Riley County 4-H is meeting for a fun annual event that challenges area high school students to come up with innovative business ideas. The event is called 2019 Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge.  K-State Research and Extension 4-H Agent, John Jobe has been updating KMAN for a few months now on the progress of [...]

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Residents are being asked to avoid the area after shots were fired near Manhattan’s Blue Hills Shopping Center in the early morning hours of Saturday, March 2, according to an RCPD release. Authorities received the call to the 2300 block of Tuttle Creek Boulevard around 2:20 a.m.  Two people were flown to Stormont-Vail Hospital in [...]

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MANHATTAN — Severe Weather Awareness Week kicks off on Monday as the changing of the seasons draws closer. Among the activities, emergency management coordinators are busy educating the public. That includes a statewide tornado drill happening at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Riley County Emergency Management Coordinator Laurie Harrison says it’s a good reminder for everyone to [...]

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MANHATTAN — The USDA’s Kansas January 1 cattle inventory numbers were released on Friday, showing 6.35 million cattle and calves, an increase of 1 percent from the previous year. Here’s how those numbers are broken down. *All cows and heifers that had calved totaled 1.69 million head, up 2 percent from last year. *Beef cows [...]

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