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A 21-year-old man was pronounced dead after being shot in the 1400 block of Vista Lane around 7:45 p.m. Saturday, according to the Riley County Police Department.
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K-State’s College of Agriculture ranked in the top 10 ag colleges, according to a website.
A Kansas State University psychologist researcher discovered that artificial intelligence could help create accurate personality tests for job candidate selection tools, among other tasks.
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FORT RILEY — It’s become harder to recruit and retain soldiers, but Fort Riley is the best at the nation at it, said Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth during a visit Wednesday.
The U.S. Department of Defense has given Kansas State University professor Hongyu Wu a $300,000 grant for research related to the Navy.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct an earlier error on which fraternity’s basketball court the incident took place.
COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths are on the rise across the country, but Riley County hasn’t been as affected, local officials say.
Manhattan temperatures reached a record-high on Saturday, becoming the hottest destination in the United States that day.
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A legal nonprofit organization said Wednesday it has filed a federal civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights in Kansas City against K-State. The complaint alleges that K-State’s annual scholarship for diversity actually violates federal law with …
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation turned over the investigation of letters with suspicious white powder sent to state officials to the FBI.
After a 17-year journey, the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility will have a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 24.
U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kan., and U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., will both remain in Congress after winning reelection bids.
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U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall praised Friday’s Supreme Court decision to overturn constitutional protections for abortions.
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Construction has officially ended for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, the federal lab in the works for more than 15 years in Manhattan.
Members of the Kansas Congressional Delegation have expressed their condolences for former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, who died Sunday.
K-State President Richard Myers said Monday that America lost a “great military man and statesman” with Colin Powell’s death.
Hormel, a global leader in meat production, is taking its biggest step to date into the growing meat-substitute market in partnership with a California company.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It’s an 8-inch master of disaster: a snail that can eat the stucco off your house and give you meningitis.
Beef prices have climbed as much as 30% since the pandemic began, and that has Lorry Denis seeing red.
Manhattan Regional Airport will receive nearly $6 million from the federal government to reconstruct its runway.
A former New York Times editor and current communications consultant for Kansas State University says she heard the impact of the first plane as it struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Approximately 500 troops from Fort Riley will deploy in support of Afghan evacuees in the United States.
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — A harvester rumbles through the fields in the early morning light, mowing down rows of corn and chopping up ears, husks and stalks into mulch for feed at a local dairy.
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Pottawatomie County is No. 1.
The U.S. Senate has passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion budget bill without the support of Kansas’ senators Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran.
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — The cotton’s gone.
Fred Yoder found that applying nitrogen-infused fertilizer to his fields three times in a growing season instead of all at once helped his crops use the nutrient more efficiently, and less nitrogen ended up in rivers and streams.
Meatpackers are in the crosshairs of U.S. lawmakers including traditional allies as ranchers complain that beef processors are abusing market power to gain out-sized margins at their expense.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Robert Alexander Jr. put a small pile of the Napa cabbage slaw onto his plate and eyed it with suspicion.
If you stockpiled masks, hand sanitizer and toilet paper and are looking for ways to repurpose your excess, try these creative suggestions from local makers, designers and artists.
Moderating a Facebook gardening group in western New York is not without challenges. There are complaints of wooly bugs, inclement weather and the novice members who insist on using dish detergent on their plants.
BOISE, Idaho — The 100-degree temperatures are taking a toll on Idaho farmers, and worries about water usage are becoming commonplace.
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, is working on a bipartisan plan that would improve infrastructure across the country, including transportation in Kansas, but he wants to keep it affordable, he said Thursday.
A former Mercury reporter has won a Pulitzer Prize in audio reporting for his work on an NPR series examining American conservatives, gun rights and social media.
Riley County Commission chairman John Ford is curious whether new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance will encourage people to get vaccinated.
City officials believe a conservative podcaster’s spread of an unlikely coronavirus theory led to people flooding a commission livestream Tuesday with nearly 2,000 comments questioning the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility’s presence in Manhattan.
Kansas State University will host counseling sessions and a vigil later this week in anticipation of a verdict in the Derek Chauvin murder trial.
As Sgt. Madison Dowdy finished administering a COVID-19 vaccine to a woman at the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s community vaccination center in Dallas, the woman broke down in tears, relieved.
Kansas Republicans continue to express their opposition to a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill as it passes through Congress along party lines.
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U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, on Wednesday introduced a bill to give college athletes greater ability to profit off their names, images and likenesses.
Federal officials earlier this week released a K-State doctoral student who’d been arrested in connection with last month’s U.S. Capitol riot.
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole announced Thursday that he has Stage 4 lung cancer.
While both of Kansas’ U.S. senators voted to acquit former President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial Saturday, they gave different reasons for doing so.
FBI agents on Friday arrested a K-State graduate teaching assistant in connection with the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
The U.S. House on Wednesday impeached President Donald Trump for a second time.
Pat Roberts, who left the U.S. Senate only a few days before it was overrun by an insurrectionist mob, says he doesn’t believe President Donald Trump should be removed from office.
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, for the first time recognized President-elect Joe Biden as the next leader of the country Thursday afternoon. He also urged a peaceful transition of power from President Donald Trump.
Even though he condemned the violent riots on Capitol Hill on Wednesday a few hours earlier, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, rejected the Electoral College results in Arizona and Pennsylvania, saying it was a decision “from my heart.”
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U.S. senators Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall and others condemned the acts of rioting on Capitol Hill as Congress met Wednesday to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran announced Tuesday that he will vote to certify the Electoral College’s vote to make Joe Biden the next president.
U.S. Senator-elect Roger Marshall plans to vote against the Electoral College results, continuing his alignment with President Donald Trump’s belief that President-elect Joe Biden’s victory happened because of voter fraud.
A coronavirus relief package worth $900 billion could pass in the U.S. Senate as early as Friday evening, according to a staff member for Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas.
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