USD 383 to levy an estimated $27.8 million in 2023-24 budget

The Manhattan-Ogden School Board gave approval Wednesday night to exceed the revenue neutral rate for all mill levy funds for the proposed 2023-2024 budget. The proposed mill levy is 60.072, a decrease of about a half a mill from fiscal 2023. The primary reason for the mill levy going down is a slight drop in [...]

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Wichita man injured in Wednesday crash near Zeandale

One person was injured Wednesday following a rollover crash in southern Riley County. The Kansas Highway Patrol says a dump truck was traveling westbound on K-18 near Moore’s Lane around 12:30 p.m., when it left the roadway and entered a ditch. The truck overturned, lost it’s load, traveled through a fence and into a culvert, [...]

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Secretary of State discusses election statutes and presidential preference primary

Earlier this year, the Election Modernization Bill was passed, with bipartisan support, amending certain statutes to enhance election transparency and security. Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab told KMAN that a key piece of this bill was altering a current statute requiring requests for county vote recounts to take place before the State Board of [...]

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Riley County judge grants probation to man who failed to appear in court last month

A Riley County judge has granted probation for a 43-year-old man with a lengthy criminal history, despite a local prosecutor’s continued request for him to be sent to prison. Desie Chatfield appeared from his jail cell Wednesday morning, following a June 27 arrest on a bench warrant for failure to appear. After prosecutors requested he [...]

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