Aggieville: a place to eat and drink at a local restaurant, then get some shopping in. And if you’re lucky, the sighting of cattle. The fifth-annual Aggieville Showdown was held Friday and Saturday in Manhattan. It gives exhibitors across the nation an opportunity to show off their cattle in a different environment. Christian Calliham, a [...]
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Firefighters are responding to a brush fire in extreme northeastern Riley County. According to Riley County officials, firefighters were dispatched around 3:30 pm to a prescribed burn that got out of control. As of 6:45 pm a large area was still burning in a mostly rural area of northeast Riley County, near the borders of [...]
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By Emma Loura At Monday’s county commission meeting, the planning director presented a draft with updated language on licensing requirements and other rules for commissioner feedback. One planned requirement for short-term rentals (also called vacation rentals, commonly rented on sites like Airbnb and VRBO) is a responsible agent. Webb added a rule that the responsible [...]
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A St. Marys woman was seriously injured Saturday in an accident in Jackson County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 56-year-old Carol Jacas was westbound on a rural county road near Highway 75 when she ran a stop sign, striking a vehicle driven by 31-year-old Sierra Phillips. Jacas was transported to Stormont Vail in Topeka [...]
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One person was injured Friday in work zone crash on I-70 in Geary County. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol crash, a Toyota Highlander was traveling eastbound around 9:15 pm near mile post 301, when the driver swerved to avoid an animal in the road. That caused a trailing semi truck to strike the Highlander [...]
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By Emma Loura The federal government cut two grants for the Riley County Health Department related to the prevention and treatment of diseases, officials said Thursday. Effective March 24, the federal government discontinued four grants for health departments across Kansas, two of which affect Riley County. All health departments in the state received notices March [...]
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City officials on Tuesday will receive an update on Anderson Avenue reconstruction and a proposed intersection improvement project near K-State’s Unger Complex. The Manhattan City Commission meets for its bi-monthly work session at 6 pm on Tuesday at City Hall. The Anderson project will get underway in June and includes new sidewalks, water, sewer and [...]
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A federal court has sentenced a Manhattan man to 60 years in prison after he led a conspiracy to produce child pornography. Joel Womochil, 39, a former Burns police chief, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge John Broomes on March 28 for two counts of conspiracy to commit sexual exploitation of a child — [...]
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Two people have been charged in connection to a pair of shootings last fall in Manhattan. The Riley County Police Department said Friday that 20-year-old Victor Fuentes, Jr., of Compton, California, and 17-year-old Delron Tyree, Jr., of Topeka, had each been charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of criminal damage to [...]
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A portion of U.S. 24 near Manhattan is scheduled to close next week, as part of the Kansas Department of Transportation’s roundabout projects at the K-113 and K-13 junctions. In a news release, KDOT stated that in this phase of the project, U.S. Highway 24 between the two junctions will be closed to through traffic [...]
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