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For the second straight season, Kansas State is extending head women’s basketball coach Jeff Mittie’s contract. The one-year contract extension, announced by the team on Thursday, follows the Wildcats’ first Sweet 16 berth in over two decades and looks to keep Mittie in Manhattan until 2030. Last year, Mittie signed a five-year contract through the 2028-29 season, which set his base salary for the 2024-25 season at $750,000. This year, that will go up $30,000, followed by $45,000 in 2026-27 and $50,000 in 2027-28 and 2028-29, meaning Mittie will have a base salary of $925,000 by the end of the…
By Rose Gruenbacher Riley County commissioners on Thursday said meetings with the city are pointless if county commissioners are not allowed to ask questions or participate in discussions. Commission member John Ford said he disagrees with the structure of the joint county and city meetings, calling the current system for updates “pointless.” “If we have something of interest or a challenge to discuss, I’m good with that, but just to talk about what’s going on … I can email certain city people and they’re usually pretty good about answering. I don’t need a 4 o’clock middle-of-the-afternoon meeting to accomplish that.”…
A Junction City man was arrested Wednesday afternoon on a litany of charges including aggravated kidnapping. Marcus Devior Jackson, 37, was arrested by Riley County police at 3 p.m. for aggravated kidnapping, attempted rape, aggravated burglary, aggravated domestic battery, criminal damage to property, aggravated sexual battery and protection order violation. He is in Riley County Jail on a $150,000 bond. Click here for more local news.
By Meredith McColmon Kansas Tourism’s Sunflower Summer offers families free admission to certain museums, zoos, attractions and nature centers in the state from July 12 to Aug. 3. Kansas Tourism partners with a variety of attractions all over Kansas — including Riley County — for the yearly event, and features some “limited opportunities” for activities restricted to certain days of the summer. These excursions include Broadway RFD in Lindsborg, Great Plains Theatre in Abilene, Theatre in the Park in Shawnee and Wichita Wind Surge in Wichita. This year’s Sunflower Summer will be shorter because of funding cuts from Kansas legislature.…
By Megan Moser Sen. Roger Marshall on Tuesday said he doesn’t expect to see more federal funding cuts like the ones that affected the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility in February. However, he said the process of getting the lab fully operational has taken too long. As part of sweeping Department of Agriculture cuts, the White House and its Department of Governmental Efficiency in February fired and subsequently rehired dozens of employees at the Manhattan-based NBAF, a federal lab studying high-risk animal diseases. Marshall said he’s certain that leaders know how crucial NBAF is. To view the full article visit…
Marcus Jackson, 37, of Junction City, KS, was arrested on July 9, 2025, at approximately 3:00 p.m. at 1001 S. Seth Child Road on a Riley County District Court warrant for aggravated burglary, aggravated domestic battery, criminal damage to property, aggravated sexual battery, violation of a protection order, aggravated kidnapping and attempted rape. Jackson was issued a total bond of $150,000 and remains confined in the Riley County Jail at the time of this report. Demetria Scott, 30, of Manhattan, was arrested on July 9, 2025, at approximately 11:13 a.m. at 100 Courthouse Plaza on a no-bond Kansas Department of…
Pottawatomie County authorities are investigating a pair of injury accidents that occurred early Thursday morning. Deputies responded around 6:50 a.m. to a report of a rollover accident near Highway 99 and Kerr Road, north of Westmoreland. According to a release from Sheriff Doug Adams, the driver, 21-year-old Trevor Harbolt, of Frankfort, was transported by Pottawatomie County EMS to a local hospital for non-life threatening injuries. About 10 minutes later, at around 7 o’clock, deputies responded to a separate crash report near State Lake Road and Junietta Road in Blue Township, after a motorcycle struck a cow. The driver, 60-year-old Chad…
On today’s edition of The Game, we’ll go over day two of Big 12 Media Days, we’ll talk to Mason Voth about recent news involving K-State sports and go over an all-Wildcat matchup in NBA’s Summer League tomorrow night! https://www.youtube.com/live/IQvHlKuazK0?si=KPH4_nemi_kRUZIX Hour 1 Segment 1 – Mason Voth from K-State Online Segment 2 – Mason pt. 2 Segment 3 – Blindly Rank 5: 90s pro uniforms Hour 2 Segment 1 – Day 2 of Big 12 Media Days, Cody Campbell in attendance Segment 2 – WWE/Big 12 announcement lackluster, but a step forward Segment 3 – Keyontae Johnson vs. Markquis Nowell…
In a deal reached with the county attorney’s office, a Manhattan teen on Tuesday entered a guilty plea to robbery in Riley County District Court. Sixteen-year-old Miles Ellner’s defense attorney, Christopher Biggs, and Riley County attorneys recommend a sentence of probation, but Ellner faces a possible sentence of nine to 18 months in a juvenile corrections facility. About the events leading to his charge, Assistant County Attorney Phon Sounakhen said Ellner and another teen devised a plan in April to rob a 16-year-old boy. To view the full article visit theMercury.com. Click here for more local news.