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By Parker Eaves For the 108th time, its wheat versus corn on Saturday as the No. 24 Kansas State Wildcats travel to Ames, Iowa, to take on No. 18 Iowa State in the annual Farmaggedon game. K-State and Iowa State have played every year since 1917. Farmaggedon is the 19th-oldest rivalry in FBS football and Iowa State leads the all-time series 53-50-4 with K-State being 17-7 since 2000. Cyclone head coach Matt Campbell is in his ninth year as the head coach with a record of 62-50. They are 9-2 on the season and are looking to win 10 games…
A Manhattan man was injured in a single-vehicle accident just after 5 p.m. on Wednesday in Saline County, Kansas. According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Jeffrey Lee Sims, 50, of Manhattan, was driving a 2020 Kia Sportage westbound in the 1600 block of West State Street. The vehicle veered off the south side of the road and into a ditch. It continued along the embankment, eventually leaving the edge of a ravine and coming to rest in a creek. Emergency Medical Services transported Sims to Salina Regional Health Center for treatment. Authorities noted that Sims was not wearing a seat…
Segment 1: 00:00 Segment 2: 7:47 Segment 3: 21:40 Segment 4: 35:14 On Wednesday’s edition of Within Reason with Mike Matson he spoke with the owner of “The Press” Derek Richards. Stream the show live weekday mornings at 9am: https://www.youtube.com/@NewsRadioKMAN
By Toby Hammes From the moment Manhattan High football fielded its first practice under the blazing summer sun, it expected to be competing for a state championship. Four months later, the Indians are giving it their all as the sun sets on frigid fall nights — a price they’re willing to pay to be competing during the final week of high school football. The West’s No. 2 seed Manhattan (12-0) and the East’s No. 1 seed Gardner Edgerton (11-1) are battling for it all Friday afternoon. It’s a rematch of the 2022 state title game at Emporia State’s Welch Stadium.…
The Sentinel Homeowners with houses built on ground leased from the City of Council Grove around the city-owned lake, are being threatened with having their leases canceled unless they pay $25,000 and agree to the land being annexed. While the city owns the lake — which is a few miles outside the city limits — it remains part of Morris County and has not been annexed. According to resident Ryan McDonald, when the leases were redrawn around 2012, the sorts of homes built around the lake shifted from fishing cabins to more expensive houses. McDonald said annexation has been an…
Cesilio Martinez Gonzalez, 30, of Manhattan, was arrested on November 25, 2024, at approximately 4:15 PM in the 1000 block of S. Seth Child Road. Martinez Gonzalez was arrested on the probable cause offenses of interference with an LEO, failure to appear, identity theft, perjury, and interference with the judicial process. Total bond was set at $21,500. Martinez Gonzalez was confined at the time of this report.