Heavy rain is blamed for a crash that injured three people Monday afternoon in Geary County. The Highway Patrol says 24-year-old Riley Brungardt of Hoisington lost control of his Jeep on eastbound I-70 near Moritz Road, hitting a Buick parked on the shoulder and pushing it into a Ford pickup. Brungardt and two people in the Buick, 63-year-old Tammy Bevan-Tyler of Overland Park and 60-year-old Mark Taylor of Olathe, suffered minor injuries. Only Brungardt was taken to the hospital. The pickup driver, 24-year-old Jake Sobonilla of Fort Riley, was not hurt. Click here for more Geary County news.
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Riley County Police responded to more than 20 incidents over the weekend, including a fight, a battery, child abuse and multiple theft cases. Among the calls, officers responded to an injury crash early Sunday at Denison and Kimball avenues, a reported assault on Kearney Street, and a domestic disturbance at an apartment on Tuttle Creek Boulevard. Eight arrests were made during the reporting period. Those included 38-year-old Nikita Miranda Brook Akbar of Manhattan, arrested on charges of child endangerment and driving under the influence. She was taken into custody Saturday evening at Dollar General on Tuttle Creek Boulevard. Other arrests…
A season that started with so much promise nearly spiraled into chaos two games in for No.17 Kansas State after a too-close-for-comfort 38-35 win over North Dakota Saturday evening. After trading blows all game, the Wildcats needed 81 yards to avoid absolute disaster, down four with just over two minutes to play. They managed to pull off a 10-play drive in just over a minute, as Joe Jackson rumbled into the end zone on a six-yard pass after a huge 25-yard scramble by quarterback Avery Johnson. The defense hung on, and the Wildcats secured their first win of the season…
Riley County Police responded to more than 20 incidents over the weekend, including fights, batteries and an unattended death, according to department activity logs. The most serious arrest came early Saturday when officers arrested 24-year-old Enrique Rayshon Morales of Fort Riley on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and making a criminal threat. Morales was booked into the Riley County Jail on a $15,000 bond. In a separate incident, 34-year-old Eduardo Luis Solorzano Torres of Manhattan was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, his second such offense. His bond was set at $1,500. Police also arrested…
After a rough start to the season, the No. 17 Kansas State Wildcats return return home with hopes to right the ship against North Dakota in front of a friendly crowd at Bill Snyder Family Stadium on Saturday. Eric Schmidt is in his first season as the head coach at North Dakota after spending the 2024 season as the defensive coordinator for San Diego State. This is his first time serving as a head coach, and he has previous stints at North Dakota, including as linebackers coach in 2006 and defensive coordinator from 2014 to 2019. He replaces Bubba Schweigert,…
Claire’s, a popular mall boutique for teens and young women, specializing in fashion accessories and ear piercings, will close nearly 300 stores nationwide as part of its ongoing bankruptcy process. That includes the store inside Manhattan Town Center. The company will also close stores in Dodge City, Emporia, Garden City, Leawood, Pittsburg, and Wichita. Claire’s Holdings LLC announced on Aug. 20 it had sold its North American business to private equity firm Ames Watson for $104 million. In a court filing on Monday, the company listed more than 290 stores it planned to close. Claire’s will shutter 235 Claire’s locations…
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Jordan Zimmerman, 27, of Manhattan, was arrested on August 28, 2025, at approximately 1:04 p.m., in the 1100 block of Bluemont Ave., in Manhattan, on a Riley County District Court warrant for probation violation. This warrant stems from an original charge of residential burglary. Zimmerman was issued no bond and remains confined in the Riley County Jail at the time of this report. Rontavius Banks, 29, of Ogden, was arrested on August 28, 2025, at approximately 11:55 a.m., in the 1000 block of Seth Child Road in Manhattan, on a Geary County District Court warrant for failure to appear. Banks…
By Rose Gruenbacher Former Manhattan chiropractor Clark Petersen was convicted Thursday evening of 51 counts of sex crimes against 16 clients, after a jury deliberated for a day and a half in Riley County District Court. The jury found Peterson guilty of four counts of rape, 40 counts of aggravated battery, four counts of sexual battery, one count of lewd and lascivious behavior, one count of attempted rape and one count of attempted aggravated criminal sodomy. The victims, all women, said he sexually assaulted them during appointments. The jury found Petersen not guilty of the remaining charges, which were two…
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