Manhattan News

Manhattan, KSa 'Faced with declining enrollment and possible closure by the Newton School District in 2005, the school administration in tiny Walton, KS had one opportunity to keep the school open: turn it into a charter school.

The Manhattan Police Department is alerting residents about suspicious activity by a blue van around the city.

More than 1,000 Farm Bureau members representing each of the state's 105 counties will have the opportunity to learn more about how they can strengthen their farm, their farm organization and their way of life, as they attend the KFB annual meeting, Nov.

The Manhattan Urban Area Planning Board recommends the City Commission to approve the rezoning of several business and commercial districts to Commercial Planned Unit Development District.

Manhattan, Kansas, November 13, 2009 --- Adrian J. Polansky, state executive director for USDA's Farm Service Agency in Kansas recently announced that FSA provided $147,683,765 in direct and guaranteed loans to 1,288 family farmers in Kansas during Fiscal Year 2009.

A. Lois Redman, a former Kansas state 4-H specialist, who chose to focus her career on creating opportunities for youth and the adult volunteers who serve them, has been selected as a member of the National 4-H Hall of Fame, Class of 2009.

Vicki Broderson, math and reading teacher at Manhattan Alternative High School at Flint Hills Job Corps, receieved the Educator of the Year award by both the 2009 Flint Hills Job Corps and the 2009 Management and Training Corporation's Central Region.

Riley County Police have a woman in custody on second degree murder charges. RCPD Police Captain Jeff Hooper tells KMAN that Friday night at 7:19 a call came into 911 of an individual who had been shot at 1840 Plymouth Road in Manhattan.

The Riley County Police Department is scheduled to have an on-site assessment Saturday, December 5th, as part of their program to maintain their accreditation status by verifying it meets professional standards.The accreditation process will be administered by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc.

The anniversary was celebrated in style Tuesday, with an open house most of the day and plenty of goodies on hand.

Veteran's Day is a time for remembrance, and Manhattan's Veteran's Day celebration was very keen on that fact.

A body was discovered in the sunset cemetary from an apparent self inflicted gun shot wound.

Attorney General Steve Six announced Monday that 22-year-old Luis Antonio Aguirre had been charged with capital murder in Riley County in the slayings of an 18-year-old woman and her son, whom authorities think was 13 months old when he died.

A Lawrence man was flown to a Topeka hospital on Saturday after shooting himself at a Manhattan residence, police said.

By now, everyone has heard about the new downtown redevelopment. A convention center, a hotel, a conference center, a parking garageA and a park are all in the works.

They're big and yellow, and were also a hot topic at Wednesday night's USD 383 School Board meeting.

A March jury trial has been set in a Riley County involuntary manslaughter case.

An Ogden, Kan., resident has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of a woman and her toddler son, whose bodies were found last week in rural Riley County.

A reminder-Landon lecture Monday! November 1st, 2009 in Local by Cathy Dawes A reminder that FDIC chair Sheila Bair will be in Manhattan Monday, to present a Landon lecture on the K-State campus.

Congress earlier this fall approved $1.5 million to move the Arthropod-Borne Animal Disease Research Laboratory from Laramie, Wyo., to Kansas.