A new expansion at the Hilton Garden Inn set to complete summer 2026 will bring 40 additional guest rooms, providing accommodation for more attendees of the events held at the hotel’s event center. The hotel currently has 135 rooms available, but with a 29% increase in that department, Katie Bowers, Hilton Garden Inn director of sales, said she hopes to draw more attendees to events the hotel hosts. When the Hilton Garden Inn fills all its reservations, guests reserve rooms with overflow hotels in the adjacent Blue Earth Plaza. “We are still going to definitely work with all of our…
Author: Rose Gruenbacher
A Manhattan man convicted of rape in October received his sentencing Tuesday in Riley County District Court. Gavin Gregory Haberman, 21, will serve 12 years and 11 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections, as ordered by Judge Kendra Lewison. A jury on Oct. 31 found Haberman guilty of one count of rape against a woman he knows and not guilty of aggravated sexual battery against another woman. Haberman maintained his innocence, and defense attorney Cole Hawver said his client’s case is pending in the court of appeals. To view the full article visit theMercury.com.
Antwajuane McNeil was sentenced Monday in Riley County District Court to a lifetime term of imprisonment for the first-degree murder of 58-year-old Don Stovall on October 2024. McNeil, 32, of Ogden was convicted of the murder at the completion of his November trial. The jury also found him guilty of 11 other charges, including two counts of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated burglary, two counts of battery, three counts of criminal threat and three counts of domestic battery. The jury found him not guilty of aggravated assault. To view the full article visit theMercury.com.
The victim in a case against a Haysville man said she made a TikTok about sexual crimes committed against her while she was asleep next to him. She testified Thursday in Riley County District Court during a jury trial for the case. Matthew Dunaey Klingforth, 18, is charged with rape, aggravated sexual battery and sexual battery against a woman born in 2003. He was arrested on Feb. 24 and pleaded not guilty to all counts during his arraignment June 30. The Mercury does not identify victims of sexual crimes. To view the full article visit theMercury.com. Click here for more Riley…
A woman said she was trying to survive the night when a man she knew raped and beat her. The woman, 29, testified Tuesday in Riley County District Court to a jury for the trial of Ricky Dunklin. Dunklin, 30, St. George, is charged with rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated domestic battery. All charges involve the same woman who Dunklin knew and stem from an incident in the early morning hours of May 1, 2021. To view the full article visit theMercury.com. Click here for more Riley County news.
Attorneys for the defense and state gave conflicting accounts of evidence Tuesday morning in Riley County District Court during opening statements of the jury trial of a St. George man accused of sex crimes and kidnapping. Ricky Dunklin, 30, is charged with rape, aggravated criminal sodomy, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated domestic battery. He pleaded not guilty to all four counts at his July arraignment. All charges involve the same victim, a woman Dunklin knows who is now 29 years old. The Mercury does not identify victims of sexual crimes. To view the full article visit theMercury.com. Click here for more…
A Pittsburg man’s trial was cancelled this week following a denial for change of judge and the prosecutor’s notice of interlocutory appeal with the Kansas Court of Appeals regarding pre-trial rulings in the case made by Riley County District Court Judge John Bosch. Jeffery Scott Bailey, 44, was scheduled to be in a jury trial from Tuesday to Friday for a case charging him with three counts of rape of a minor under 14 years old. He was arrested April 16 for five counts of rape against a girl he knows, born in 2010. Two of the counts were dropped when a…
Riley County Police officers are investigating the death of an unidentified man Tuesday morning. The body was found in the area of Linear Trail, between Manhattan Avenue and 5th Street. RCPD asked the public in a social media post to avoid the area until further notice. An RCPD representative said the circumstances of the man’s death are unclear, and said the investigation is active. No further information is being released at this time.
Two Manhattan men were sentenced Monday in Riley County District Court for separate cases involving sex crimes. Shawn Trey Sinnott, 48, was granted a year and a half of probation for breach of privacy by installation or use of a concealed camcorder and one year of probation for sexual battery in a separate case. He will serve his sentences consecutively for a total duration of two and a half years in probation. Sinnott entered a plea agreement with the state for the two cases in September. To view the full article visit theMercury.com. Click here for more Riley County news.
Two men entered plea agreements this week in Riley County District Court for charges including distribution of a controlled substance. Caziah Self, 23, of Ellsworth pleaded guilty on Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter and distribution of a controlled substance causing great bodily harm. Self’s count of involuntary manslaughter was originally charged as distribution of a controlled substance causing death. A recent document filed with the court lists the victim connected to the conviction as Narianna Dachelle Williams. She died June 7, 2023 at age 25. To view the full article visit theMercury.com. Click here for more Riley County news.