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A Manhattan man was arrested Wednesday on multiple charges stemming from separate investigations, according to the Riley County Police Department. Officers filed a report at approximately 9:57 a.m. April 29th in Manhattan for two counts of stalking. A 32-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman were listed as the victims, while a known 39-year-old man was [...]

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A Manhattan man was arrested Thursday afternoon at the Riley County Law Enforcement Center on multiple offender registration and perjury charges, according to authorities. Elijah James Smith, 29, of Manhattan, was taken into custody at approximately 2:30 p.m. April 30th in the 1000 block of South Seth Child Road. He was arrested on four counts [...]

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Police are investigating a reported aggravated assault involving a firearm and knife Thursday afternoon in Manhattan, according to the Riley County Police Department. Officers filed a report at approximately 4:18 p.m. April 30th in the 500 block of North Manhattan Avenue. According to the report, a 23-year-old man pointed a gun at a 47-year-old man [...]

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By Bryan Richardson The Riley County Commission on Thursday adopted a policy for handling complaints related to a recent state law prohibiting transgender Kansans from using facilities associated with their gender identity. “It’s relatively straightforward,” county counselor Jacob Hansen told commissioners. “The purpose, of course, is that individuals who want to make a complaint pursuant [...]

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Manhattan city crews are replacing manhole cover lids and concrete collars over the next few weeks along Anderson and Bluemont avenues between Harris Avenue and 11th Street. City officials said the work includes necessary repairs that were unplanned. Work was expected to begin Thursday in the eastbound lanes of Bluemont from North Manhattan Avenue to [...]

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A Manhattan woman was arrested Wednesday at the jail for violating a Riley County District Court order. 31-year-old Brittanie Vaughn was arrested Tuesday evening on charges of unlawful distribution of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. According to RCPD, that violated a court order after Vaughn had initially been charged with distributing methamphetamine, possession of [...]

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A judge ordered Joseph Marlow on Tuesday to serve a lifetime sentence in the Kansas Department of Corrections for child sex crimes against a girl he knew. A jury in February convicted Marlow, 26, of Manhattan of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under 14 years old following his trial in Riley County District Court. [...]

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The K-State student who fell from the window of his fraternity house Saturday has died, according to sources close to the family. Jack Fleischaker, 19, had fallen out of a second-story window of the two-story Sigma Chi fraternity house at 1224 Fremont St. at about 3:15 a.m. Saturday, sources said. Emergency personnel transported him to [...]

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Three people were arrested Tuesday following a traffic stop and search warrant connected to an ongoing drug distribution investigation in Riley County, according to the Riley County Police Department. Officers conducted a traffic stop at approximately 12:30 p.m. April 28th, 2026, near Irene Circle and Davis Drive. As part of the investigation, a search warrant [...]

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A former Manhattan CBD store owner is facing federal drug distribution charges. Law enforcement officers arrested Donald Ince, 47, on a U.S. Marshals Service warrant last July for charges in Wake County, North Carolina. Ince is the former owner of American Shaman in Manhattan. Online records for North Carolina’s federal court system did not give [...]

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