Information from the National Weather Service of Topeka.

Fall arrived at 320 AM this morning! However, the weather will seem more like summer through the weekend with highs mainly in the 80s. Rain chances will continue through Thursday acrossparts of northeast Kansas with the best chance of rain coming tonight.

Today: Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

Tonight: Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the mid 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday: Partly sunny with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 80. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

Friday: Mostly sunny. Highs around 80. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

Friday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s.

Saturday: Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.

Sunday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.

Monday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny with slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 80.

FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a body was found in a vehicle at Fort Riley military base.

The military base said in news release that emergency services discovered the body of an unidentified person in a vehicle around 6 p.m. Tuesday.

According to the news release, Fort Riley police and special agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command are investigating the incident.

Family practice physician Dr. Teran Naccarato and nurse practitioner Tiffany Niccarato had an opportunity to meet the public during a reception at the convention center in Junction City on Tuesday.  They have just arrived in the community in recent weeks.

Dr. Teran Naccarato is employed in the Geary Community Hospital Rural Health Clinic. He began work at the Clinic on Sept. 8. “It’s been very good. We’re building up the practice real well. And when Dr. ( Jimmy ) Jenkins switches to a hospital practice October 5 then a lot of his patients are going to come and see me as well. So we’ll be able to continue the care with that.”

As a family practice physician, Naccarato will see people of all ages. “My style of practice, I tell people I’m not so much the dictatorial practice. I like to talk to people about their options of treatment.  I like to give people all the options, educate them as to their medical condition and talk to them like a person, and I’m very big on preventive health care.”

Naccarato comes to Junction City from Winfield where he practiced for approximately the past five years. He  obtained undergraduate and master’s degrees from Wichita State University, a medical degree from the KU School of Medicine, and did his residency with Via Christi in Wichita.

Tiffany Naccarato is a nurse practitioner. She is awaiting her final certification paperwork to arrive, and will then be working on the fourth floor of Medical Arts II at Geary Community Hospital under the supervision of Dr. Marc Felts.  “I’m excited to hit the ground running.”

She obtained her nursing education at Wichita State and then attended Simmons College in Boston.

Tiffany has a family tie in Junction City. Her father, David Yearout, is the planning and zoning director for Junction City and Geary County. “When we interviewed up here in Junction City, we actually didn’t tell Dad that we were interviewing because we just knew that he would get so excited and have so much to say. He already said so many great things about Junction City, so we kind of kept it a secret until the day before we came up. And then we told him, and of course he was over the moon. Definitely his vote was for Junction City.”

The Naccarato’s have two small children, who are nearing their fourth and first birthdays.

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This Saturday ( Sept. 26 ) from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. the Junction City Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs.

You can bring your pills for disposal to the Junction City Police Department at 210 East 9th Street. ( The DEA cannot accept liquids or needles or sharps, only pills or patches.) The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.

This is the tenth time in five years the JCPD has conducted a Take Back event for unwanted prescription drugs.

Last September, Ameircans turned in 309 tons of prescription drugs at nearly 5,500 sites operated by the DEA and more than 4,000 of its state and local law enforcement partners. When those results are combined with what was collected in its eight previous Take Back events, DEA and its partners have taken in over 4.8 million pounds — more than 2,400 tons — of pills.

This initiative address a public safety and health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are susceptible to diversion, misuse, and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to those drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.  In addition Americans are also advised that their usual methods of disposing of unused medicines — flushing them down the toilet or throwing them in the trash — both pose potential safety and health hazards.

The Geary County Commission had some discussion about 4-H during their meeting on Monday.

Commission Chairman Ben Bennett explained that 4-H Clubs are looking into developing an exchange program with other states.

“They said Dickinson County has had a couple of successful programs over the summer and so our 4-H extension group is looking into maybe taking a group of kids and exchanging with a different state,” said Bennett.

The Commission received that information on Monday.

They have also set the dates for the 2016 Geary County Free Fair for July 18-21.

The Geary USD 475 Board of Education wants to develop a long-range, three to five year, comprehensive plan for the school district.

Brian Field, Board of Education President says the community would be involved in the development of the plan.

“One of the ways that we are going to accomplish that is, as a board we’ll each pick three members from our community that we feel would be a good representation of the community, and then one staff member,” said Field. “So each board member can recommend or nominate different people, and then we will put together a committee of Board Members and some of the Administrative Staff from USD 475, who will actually decide who those community representatives are going to be.”

The Board will follow a Kansas Association of School Boards developed process in developing the long-range plan.

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Junction City officials remain optimistic lots the city took back after overbuilding a decade ago will be sold, even though only two of the first 25 lots offered for sale received bids.

The city took back 900 undeveloped lots left empty after the city was told in 2005 that as many as 8,000 troops would be transferred to Fort Riley. About 5,500 troops arrived but most preferred to live on base or couldn’t afford the new housing.

City Manager Allen Dinkel says a construction company bid on two adjacent lots during the recent auction. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Dinkel said the first 25 lots were not adjacent to each other and many developers have said they would be interested if they could buy larger groups of lots together.

MANHATTAN –Law enforcement authorities have taken another aggravated robbery suspect into custody  in connection with a series of robberies and a theft that were reported in the central portion of Manhattan on September 4, that prompted the campus lockdown at Kansas State University.

Riley County Police reported Carson Buckley, 16, Manhattan was arrested just after 8:30a.m. on Tuesday for the offenses of aggravated robbery (X3) and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery (he was also served a warrant for failure to appear).

He was given “no bond” and transported to the North Central Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Facility in Junction City.

Buckley is the fourth of the named suspects in these aggravated robberies that have been taken into custody.

According to the National Weather Service of Topeka, expect mostly sunny skies and unseasonably warm conditions today as temperatures should rise into the mid 80s to around 90 degrees. More scattered showers and storms are expected Wed. through Thu., with this precipitation focused primarily across north central and central KS. Once that system exits the area, we will have a beautiful weekend in store for us, with dry conditions and highs in the 80s.

Today: Warmer. Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 80s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.

Tonight: Partly cloudy in the evening then becoming mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 60s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

Wednesday: Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 80s. South winds 5 to 15 mph.

Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. South winds 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday: Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph.

Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy. Lows around 60.

Friday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

Friday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.

Saturday: Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 50s.

Sunday: Sunny. Highs in the lower 80s.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s.

Monday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s.