Silver Creek Road in Riley County will be closed for a bridge repairs beginning Thursday. The road will be closed north of 52nd Street on Silver Creek Road. Traffic will need to use alternate routes throughout the duration of this project. Repairs will take approximately 1 working day to complete, unless adverse weather conditions cause unexpected delays.
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The City of Junction City has issued a boil water advisory for water customers on the west side of Spring Valley Road, north of Wildcat Lane and south of Buddy Drive in Olivia Farms development. This advisory is the result of a sixteen inch water main break. The water main was in the process of being repaired, but the advisory will remain in effect until testing of water samples indicates no evidence of contamination and all other conditions which place the systems at risk of contamination are deemed to be resolved. For questions, you can call Veolia Water at 785-238-7142 or…
An effort to ease traffic congestion on I-70 near Fort Riley began Tuesday morning, with an agreement for inbound traffic only to Marshall Field off of I-70 from 5:00 to 7:00 a.m. five days a week. Geary County Sheriff Jim Jensen indicates it was an agreement involving Geary County, Fort Riley and the Kansas Department of Transportation. The arrangement will allow for three lanes of traffic into Marshall Field during those hours, which will be observed on weekdays. Jensen indicates military police are directing traffic during those times and it will be well-marked, but he wanted motorists to be advised of the change.
An Ogden woman charged with attempted second degree murder entered a no contest plea Monday morning to aggravated battery and aggravated assault. Elizabeth Heaven, 29, entered the plea in Riley county District court. Heaven’s sentencing is set for March 19th. Heaven was taken into custody in early July 2011.
A Junction City man has entered a plea of no contest in connection with a five year old murder case. Riley County Police announced Tuesday Mekel McApline, 26, pled no contest Monday to charges that he aided a felon, identified as 29 year old Kenneth Dotson, in the January 2007 murder of Terrell Morris at 1369 Flint Hills Place. “What (McApline) did was drive the people over there,” Lt. Josh Kyle, RCPD Public Information Officer, said. “And then drove them away from the murder. He was also involved in the destruction of some evidence.” Already convicted in connection with the murder in were Kenneth Dotson…
A man from Manhattan has been charged with arson in connection with a fire in April 2010 at an apartment complex. Christopher L. Kenny, Jr., 24, is charged in a federal criminal complaint unsealed Monday with one count of arson. The complaint alleges that on April 18th, of 2010, he started a fire that damaged an apartment complex at 1030 Vattier Street in Manhattan. An agent’s affidavit filed with the court alleges the Riley County Police Department discovered a trash dumpster on fire in the 1000 block alley between Vattier and Kearney streets. While officers were waiting for the Manhattan Fire Department…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Several Kansas legislators say Gov. Sam Brownback raised issues such as tax cuts and water policy in private meetings with them at his official residence. But their accounts of the meetings differed Monday. Some Republican legislators who attended one or more of the gatherings with the GOP governor described them as purely social events. But several lawmakers interviewed by The Associated Press said Brownback made remarks about substantive issues. Brownback had seven meetings in January for Republicans on 13 legislative committees. He planned gathering planned Monday evening for a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Shawnee County District Attorney…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas House committee is signing off on a proposal to redraw the chamber’s 125 districts to reflect changes in the 2010 census. The reapportionment committee took less than 10 minutes on Monday to approve the map, endorsing it on a bipartisan, voice vote. There were no amendments offered to the plan, which would collapse three current House districts and create three new ones in the Kansas City metropolitan area. One district each would be lost in southeast, southwest and central Kansas, reflecting the population gains over the past decade in Johnson and Wyandotte counties. House Speaker…
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) A Junction City woman has taken a $55 parking ticket all the way to the Kansas Court of Appeals and won. Mary Somrak got the ticket for parking over the line in her parking space at a townhome complex. Somrak said she fought the ticket through three courts and almost two years because she didn’t think it was right for the city to write tickets in a private parking lot at 2 a.m. especially when the car she parked too close to was her own second car. The Wichita Eagle reports Somrak also fought the ticket…