A Sears Home Store is opening on East Highway 24. The Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce confirmed the new store Friday morning, which will be located in the 8000 block of East Highway 24, across the highway from Manhattan’s Dick Edwards Auto Plaza. The store will offer appliances, seasonal lawn and garden items, and Craftsmen tools. The new store is set to open January 27th. The large Sears store at Manhattan Town Center closed just last month.
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Updated at 12:40 p.m. Friday: The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Department has issued a news release regarding the Staples incident, indicating on December 26th, at about 6:55 a.m. Pottawatomie County Sheriff Deputies responded to a call of smoke coming from the Staples business at 632 Tuttle Creek Blvd Manhattan, Pottawatomie County. A responding Deputy while checking the building located a hole in the North side of the structure that was occupied by Short Go at 634 Tuttle Creek Blvd. Deputies discovered a vehicle had driven through the exterior wall of the structure leading into the back of the Short Go business, through…
American and NATO troops serving as the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan celebrate what for many will be the final Christmas in Afghanistan.
In an unprecedented move, Sony Pictures broadly released “The Interview” to digital platforms.
AP-KS–PrisonNurseAssaul HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) The Hutchinson Correctional Facility has ordered new alarm pendants for contract nurses to wear in the wake of last summer’s alleged sexual assault at its central unit. The Hutchinson News reported that the system has been ordered, but not yet installed. In the interim, the facility has given contract employees prison radios that also have an alarm feature built in. Prison spokesman Dirk Moss says the facility provided all 116 contract workers with the radios about two months ago. Prior to that, only corrections officers had access to the radios. The plan is to only provide…
Volunteers at the North American Aerospace Defense Command are monitoring Santa Claus as he makes his storybook Christmas Eve flight.
The mayor of Berkeley, Missouri, says the city will thoroughly investigate the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer. But Mayor Theodore Hoskins says comparisons to the Michael Brown case in Ferguson are unfair.
The Kansas Court of Appeals has affirmed a Riley County Court decision in a 2012 drug-related case. A jury convicted Antonio Hill of Manhattan of distributing a controlled substance. The matter was heard in Judge David Stutzman’s court room. Hill contends the trial court should have provided the jury with a limiting instruction on prior crimes evidence and he argues the trial court erred in the way it considered his criminal history at sentencing. However the higher court indicates based on independent review of all the identification evidence, the judges are firmly convinced the jury would not have reached a…
Guests on In Focus included Riley County USD 378 Supt. Brad Starnes and Blue Valley/Randolph USD 384 Supt. Brady Burton; new Kansas Farm Bureau Board of Directors member Glenn Brunkow; Kansas State University’s Director of Bands Dr. Frank Tracz. Segment 1-Brad Starnes and Brady Burton Segment 2-Brady Burton and Brad Starnes Segment 3-Glenn Brunkow Segment 4-Frank Tracz
A man who pulled a gun and pointed it at a police officer has been killed in the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley, St. Louis County police said early Wednesday. Dozens of people quickly converged on the scene.