MANHATTAN, Kan. (K-State Athletics) – For the second-consecutive season, Kansas State offensive lineman Cooper Beebe has been named to the preseason watch list for the Lombardi Award, the Rotary Club of Houston announced Tuesday. Beebe is one of 12 Big 12 players on the watch list for the award that is presented annually to the college football offensive or defensive lineman who exemplifies the character and discipline of NFL Hall of Fame Head Coach Vince Lombardi in addition to outstanding performance and ability. He is the fifth two-time candidate in school history for the award, joining offensive linemen Nick Leckey (2002 and…
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The USD 383 school board meets at 6:30 p.m. this evening at the Robinson Education Center. Among the agenda items to be considered is a 4.63% wage increase for classified employees, as well as administrator, coordinator and manager employee salaries, retroactive to July 1, the start of the new budget year. The board will consider a change order for the guaranteed maximum price for the 901 Poyntz building renovations, totaling $108,000, for parking to be added along the east side of 10th Street between Pierre and Houston. A $55,000 contract to install cameras at 901 Poyntz will also be considered.…
Manhattan City Manager Ron Fehr and Commissioner Wynn Butler discuss city news and preview Tuesday’s commission meeting and other local business.
In our ongoing commitment to transparency and accessibility, we provide a summary of calls for service and reports filed by our agency. Some names, addresses, and case details are withheld to protect community members from being victimized further and to follow local, state, and federal law. Manhattan, Kan. – Andrew Jones, 44, of Manhattan was arrested on August 14, 2023, at approximately 3:45 p.m. on a Jackson County District Court warrant for unlawful distribution of meth and possession of drug paraphernalia. Jones was already confined in the Riley County Jail for previous charges at the time of his arrest. He…
TEL AVIV, Israel (K-State Athletics) – Members of the Kansas State men’s basketball team and their traveling party continued their historic 10-day trip to Israel and Abu Dhabi with visits to Bethlehem on Saturday (August 12) and the Dead Sea on Sunday (August 13) before finally arriving back in Tel Aviv. Saturday, August 12: Visit to Bethlehem The group got up early on Saturday morning (August 12) and made the near 30-minute trip to another historic and religious site – the city of Bethlehem and the Basilica of the Nativity. Although a short trip in time, Bethlehem is located within…
A 24-year-old Manhattan man was arrested Sunday morning in the 500 block of 9th Street for a domestic dispute. Oscar Herrera is charged with five total counts including domestic battery and battery, criminal threat, criminal damage to property and criminal restraint. Herrera is accused of restraining, hitting and threatening a 31-year-old woman and breaking a television. He remains jailed on a $12,000 bond.
A report for battery was filed Sunday morning in the 1100 block of Moro Street after a 21-year-old man was reportedly struck in the head during a fight inside Fat Shack, which caused him to have a seizure. The victim was transported to Via Christi for treatment. Anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
Anthony Edwards, 38, of Manhattan was arrested on August 11, 2023, at approximately 3:00 p.m. on a Wyandotte County District Court warrant for probation violation. Edwards was issued a total bond of $25,000 and is no longer confined at the time of this report. Officers responded to the report of an injury crash in the 6800 block of Vinton School Rd. on August 11, 2023, at approximately 7:00 p.m. Upon arrival, officers found a 2008 Kawasaki motorcycle driven by Sierra Davis, 23, of Fort Riley had lost control while navigating a bend in the road and overturned. Davis was transported…
Brandon sits down with Associate Professor Dr. Neala Boyer of K-State Vet Medicine and Junction City Manager Allen Dinkel to discuss animal health and city business.
BY JOHN HANNA AND MARGERY A. BECK MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones, and, in the publisher’s view, stressing his 98-year-old mother enough to cause her weekend death. Several press freedom watchdogs condemned the Marion Police Department’s actions as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protection for a free press. The Marion County Record’s editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, worked with his staff Sunday to reconstruct stories, ads and other materials for its next…