The Riley County Law Board has scheduled a special meeting Monday afternoon where it’s expected to adopt the 2024 Riley County Police Department budget. The meeting comes after board members on Tuesday tabled a decision, directing RCPD leadership to make cuts within the budget in order to maintain a 6.5% cost of living adjustment for [...]
A Junction City man was arrested early Thursday morning on a Riley County warrant in connection to a Fentanyl-related overdose death. The Riley County Police Department has charged 19-year-old Noah Baker with a single count of distribution of a controlled substance, causing death. According to an online criminal complaint, filed June 15, Baker is accused [...]
The Riley County Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying a man who is a person of interest in a recent span of fraudulent purchases. Surveillance images from the Manhattan Best Buy show the suspect who is believed to have used a woman’s credit card to purchase up to $4,600 of merchandise. The [...]
Local legislators targeted by threatening letters last week say there’s no place for that kind of rhetoric in public discourse. As of Wednesday close to 100 letters had been received by Republican legislators and other public officials that included a white powdery substance. Preliminary testing by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation has indicated the substance [...]
The Riley County Law Board ended its meeting Tuesday without a finalized budget as board members worked through how to fund cost of living adjustments requested by the Riley County Police Department. The initial proposal by RCPD in April was for an 8% COLA, with a realized budget increase of almost 9%. Over the past [...]
Pottawatomie County officials got their first look at the proposed 2024 budget at a Monday work session. County administration is proposing an approximate half mill levy decrease, with an estimated valuation increase of over $22 million, over $229,000 in additional ad-valorem taxes and a $1.6 million increase in budgeted expenditures. Commission Chair Pat Weixelman explains [...]
More details have been released regarding an ongoing investigation into white powder found in envelopes sent to Kansas legislators and public officials. According to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, samples of the letters containing the mysterious powder were sent to a laboratory for testing, with preliminary results indicating no signs of common biological agents of [...]
Authorities are investigating a rise in the number of fentanyl-related deaths in Riley County. The Riley County Police Department noted in a Friday release that it has taken reports of eight suspected fentanyl-related overdose deaths since the beginning of this year. A majority of those overdoses involved young adults, aged 18 to 24, with most [...]
Junction City Police have arrested a 40-year-old man following an overdose of a 40-year-old woman Wednesday shortly before midnight. The woman was transported by the Junction City Fire Department to Stormont Vail Flint Hills, and later to Topeka in critical condition. Detectives with the Junction City Drug Task Force served a search warrant in the [...]
Junction City Police have arrested a 40-year-old man following an overdose of a 40-year-old woman Wednesday shortly before midnight. The woman was transported by the Junction City Fire Department to Stormont Vail Flint Hills, and later to Topeka in critical condition. Detectives with the Junction City Drug Task Force served a search warrant in the [...]
