2 arrested in Michigan charged in Kansas double homicide
March 21, 2023 GMTJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Two people arrested over the weekend in Michigan have been charged with killing a Kansas couple while stealing their car.
Online court records show that 33-year-old Steven Pierce was charged Tuesday and 29-year-old Kallie Peters on Monday with two counts of first-degree murder, aggravated robbery and theft.
1 dead, 1 hurt in Junction City stabbings; suspect arrested
August 6, 2022 GMTJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police have arrested a man in connection with a stabbing incident early Saturday in Junction City that left one woman dead and one man injured.
Kansas authorities investigating after man shot by police
May 23, 2022 GMTJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is probing the police shooting of a Junction City man over the weekend.
The shooting happened late Saturday afternoon when officers were called to a Junction City home by a woman who reported that a man was outside her house waving a gun and threatening her and another woman, the agency said in a news release.
9-year-old shot, wounded while playing with gun in Kansas
April 6, 2022 GMTJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 9-year-old boy was shot and wounded while playing with a gun with his 11-year-old brother.
The Junction City police department said in a news release that the shooting happened Tuesday.
Court upholds sentence in 2018 Junction City deaths
March 12, 2022 GMTTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to killing a Junction City woman and her unborn baby on Christmas Day in 2018 has lost an appeal of his sentences.
The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday rejected an appeal from Dion Jamal Green, who pleaded guilty in 2020 to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 31-year-old Jenna Schafer and her baby.
Police say 2 men killed in Junction City double shooting
January 27, 2022 GMTJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Two men have been shot to death in Junction City in northeastern Kansas, police there said.
The shooting happened early Wednesday afternoon on the south end of the city a couple of blocks northeast of Highland Cemetery, police said in a news release.
Army offers reward in Fort Riley woman’s killing last fall
January 12, 2022 GMTJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to a conviction in a shooting death at Milford State Park last year.
Enfinnity Hayes, 22, of Fort Riley, was killed on Oct.
Shooting death in Kansas investigated as homicide
October 4, 2021 GMTJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies in northeastern Kansas identified on Monday the victim of a fatal shooting over the weekend as 22-year-old Enfinnity Latania Hayes of Fort Riley.
Ex-Kansas athletic trainer sentenced for sexual exploitation
August 17, 2021 GMTJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — A former high school athletic trainer in Junction City has been sentenced to two months in a county jail and three years’ probation for sending obscene photos and text messages to an underage student.
Man shot to death outside Junction City barber shop
June 12, 2021 GMTJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Junction City police are investigating the shooting death of a 23-year-old soldier from Fort Riley.
Police said in a statement that LaVincent Perdue was shot outside the Elite Cuts Barber Shop on Friday afternoon.
Former Kansas school worker jailed over nude photos of kids
June 5, 2021 GMTMANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas police arrested a former school worker for sexual exploitation of a child Friday.
Riley County police arrested 31-year-old Junction City man Aaron Zachry, The Manhattan Mercury reported.
Kansas man convicted in plot to kill attorney, informant
May 4, 2021 GMTJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Grandview Plaza man has been found guilty of conspiring to hire someone to kill an assistant Geary County attorney and a confidential informant...
Pit bull supporters want Junction City to lift pit bull ban
February 10, 2020 GMTJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Pit bull supporters are calling for the military town of Junction City to lift its ban of the breed.
The Hays Post reports that Kim Bradney of Legalize Bully JC says the ban forces some people in the community near Fort Riley to choose to live in surrounding communities with friendlier pit bull policies.