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Fire-department airpacks The Pottawatomie County Commission approved a bid for a lease-purchase agreement for fire-department airpacks during their meeting Monday. Pottawatomie County Financial Officer Heather Gladbach explains the agreement. The interest rate on the agreement is 1.95 percent, bringing the county’s yearly payment to about $62,500. This comes in under the $70,000 that was budgeted for the [...]

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K-State has began a nationwide search for a new Vice Provost for Graduate Education and dean of the Graduate School. This comes a few months after current Carol Shanklin, the current Dean of the Graduate School, announced she would be retiring after spending more than 10 years in her present position and over 30 years [...]

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TOPEKA — The offices of Kansas legislative leaders would see an 11% increase in their funding under a proposal that has cleared committee. Almost all of the new dollars would go to top Republicans. The House Appropriations Committee added the money Monday before approving the Republican-controlled Legislature’s proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins [...]

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OVERLAND PARK — A California man has been sentenced to three years in prison for washing the ink off $1 bills in a Kansas hotel room and reprinting them to look like $100 bills. The U.S. attorney’s office says 51-year-old John Sebestyen, of Mission Viejo, California, also was ordered Monday to pay nearly $20,000 in [...]

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OVERLAND PARK — A California man has been sentenced to three years in prison for washing the ink off $1 bills in a Kansas hotel room and reprinting them to look like $100 bills. The U.S. attorney’s office says 51-year-old John Sebestyen, of Mission Viejo, California, also was ordered Monday to pay nearly $20,000 in [...]

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TOPEKA — Kansas legislators are taking steps to allow college athletes to hire agents and sign endorsement deals. Many fear that if they don’t act, then out-of-state rivals will leave the state’s most storied university athletics programs in the dust by attracting the best recruits. A bill that would bar state universities from preventing their [...]

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TOPEKA — Kansas legislators are taking steps to allow college athletes to hire agents and sign endorsement deals. Many fear that if they don’t act, then out-of-state rivals will leave the state’s most storied university athletics programs in the dust by attracting the best recruits. A bill that would bar state universities from preventing their [...]

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Officers filed a report for criminal damage to property in the 1100 block of Vattier St. in Manhattan on March 9, 2020, at approximately 9:00 AM. Officers listed a 23-year-old female as the victim when it was reported an unknown person damaged the window on her 2016 Ford Fusion. The estimated total loss associated with [...]

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Larie Schoap stops by to talk about the Spirited 50 program.

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A Manhattan woman is jailed following a domestic dispute Monday at an east Manhattan home. Riley County Police have charged 21-year-old Arayah Perez with aggravated battery, criminal damage to property, aggravated child endangerment and criminal restraint. Police were called out to the Blue Valley mobile home park shortly before 5 p.m. Monday after the report [...]

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