RCPD filed a report of burglary in the 500 block of Richards Drive on Monday morning just after at 8:30 a.m. Officers list a 35-year-old female as the victim when it was reported her work van had been broken into and a Honda generator had been taken by an unknown subject. Total estimated loss [...]

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RCPD arrested a Junction City man overnight Tuesday at The Links apartment complex in Manhattan. Officers arrested 30-year-old Stephon Calhoun Jr. just before 3 a.m. in the 500 block of Gatlinburg Way on probable cause charges of criminal damage to property with a value less than $1,000, criminal trespassing and intimidation of a witness or [...]

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Riley County Police Officers arrested a pair of individuals on a slew of charges Sunday afternoon at Menard’s. Just before 3 p.m., RCPD arrested Ginger Moore, 58, of Wamego, and Peter Henry, 35, of Salina. Moore was arrested for theft, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of opiate, and distributing a certain stimulate. [...]

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Officials estimated more than 12,000 voters in Riley County had cast ballots as advance voting closed on Monday. Riley County clerk Rich Vargo, reporting during the county commission meeting Monday morning, said advance voting closed at noon Monday ahead of Election Day on Tuesday. He said as of Saturday, 11,655 people had participated in the [...]

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By Annie Wolfe/The Times The Pottawatomie County Commissioners Monday lent their support to Road Runner Properties LLC for a Kansas Moderate Income Housing (MIH) Grant and a Housing Investor Tax Credit (HITC). Road Runner Properties LLC owns North Ridge Apartments in Wamego and is hoping to add 24 more units. The existing 108 units are [...]

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Attendees honored the dead and celebrated the living during a Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, event at K-State this weekend. The two-day event was hosted by the K-State Student Union Program Council, or UPC, and featured sugar skull decorating, kite decorating, face painting, live mariachi music, folkloric dancers and snacks. Attendees had [...]

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Two people were injured in an accident just before 6 p.m. Saturday in Wabaunsee County. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported 2016 Buick passenger vehicle driven by Carsyn Frieden, 20, Cheney, was westbound on I-70 just east of Spring Creek Road. The vehicle hydroplaned, left the roadway to the right and collided with a 2008 Chevy [...]

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Two Junction City residents were taken to a local hospital for minor injuries following a Sunday evening crash in Geary County. The accident occurred just after 6:30 p.m. on I-70 near milepost 306.7 when a 2019 Freightliner semitruck driven by a 37-year-old Sukhrob Dastanov of Mason, Ohio lost control of the truck due to the [...]

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By Emma Loura Workers in October broke ground on the Flint Hills Community Accelerator and Childcare Business Initiative, a facility to house and develop childcare businesses in Manhattan. Construction is underway at the planned site at the intersection of Kimball and College avenues. Executive director Lisa Isaacson, who also is the director of early childhood [...]

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