Riley County News

The snow and ice were just enough to make for slick driving around northeast Kansas.

Shawnee County commissioners will hear from the public Thursday on whether voters should have a say in a proposed consolidation of the recently criticized treasurer's office and the audit and finance department.

Riley County police need your help to find a vehicle involved in several reports of suspicious activity.

Use of cell phones while driving has been the topic of several governmental meetings lately, and the Riley county law board made that list Monday.

Those wanting to receive H1N1 vaccinations won't be limited to lining up at the health department this week.

A Manhattan woman has been arrested in the shooting death of a 70-year-old man.The Riley County Police Department said in a news release that the woman is being held on $150,000 bond.She is suspected in the death of Robert Potter of Manhattan.Authorities found him dead Friday night while responding to a report that someone had been shot.

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.

A Riley County teen suffering from cystic fibrosis was praised for her fight against the chronic lung disease at her school Friday.

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

The H1N1 influenza vaccine is now available at Kansas State Universitya s Lafene Health Center.

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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.

Fire at a home at 112 Pride Drive, just off of K-177, disrupted traffic for a while on the highway, reducing it to one lane and also caused significant damage to the single family home.

The man accused of killing a mother and child and burying their bodies in a Riley County field is headed back to Kansas.

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

Riley County police are currently investigating a rape that was reported to them Monday, but that allegedly occurred on August 22nd and 23rd.

The line wound up a hill and down the sidewalk, those at the end so far back, they couldn't see the doors of the Riley County Health Agency.

New details are emerging in the investigation surrounding the discovery of two dead bodies in Riley County.

Bradley Schoen, director of the Riley County Police Department, said Monday morning authorities had arrested a man in connection with the slayings of an 18-year-old woman and her 15-month-old son in Riley County.