MANHATTAN — The May 4 thunderstorm and heavy rainfall caused minor damage on Kansas State University’s Manhattan campus.

According to a release from KSU, The Division of Facilities staff cleaned water damage in portions of Seaton Hall, Anderson Hall, McCain Auditorium and the President’s Residence.

The storm caused roof leaks in Edwards Hall, eastern Weber Hall, Ahearn Field House, the Power Plant and Dykstra Hall.

Many of these buildings are scheduled for future roof replacements.

The storm also caused minor road damage and road erosion from heavy water flow on streets.

Division of Facilities staff continues to clean up any remaining water damage or leaks. Most damage was cleaned by the end of the day on Tuesday.

The two week jury trial for Christopher Lyman of Junction City began this week in Geary County District Court.

Lyman is charged in the case involving the death of an eight month old infant boy.

According to Prosecutor Chris Biggs, Lyman faces charges including one count of premeditated murder, three counts felony murder based on an underlying felony of child abuse in three theories…torture, shaking, and cruelly beaten. He also faces three counts of child abuse, and on count each of aggravated battery and aggravated criminal sodomy.

The infant boy was taken to the Emergency Room at Geary Community Hospital on September 15th, 2013 and then transported to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri with major injuries. On September 18th, 2013 police had learned the boy had died.

The Junction City Police Department is reporting the arrest of a juvenile on suspicion of Disorderly Conduct. 

The arrest was made at 1:51 p.m. Tuesday at 920 W 6th Street (Larry Dixon Center).

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A 20 year old Junction City man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of Reckless Driving, Fleeing and Attempting to Elude, Speeding, Failure to Stop at a Stop Sign.

Arrested was Corey Dion Gaines, 20, of Junction City just before 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The Board of Directors has been announced for Junction City First.

The board members will oversee the use of the funds raised in the recent Junction City First Capital Campaign.

According to the Chamber of Commerce the board members are Leon Osburn, David Walker, Terry Heldstab, Maureen Gustafson, Matt Junghans, Mark Stenstrom and Cecil Aska.

The Capital Campaign had raised approximately $1,120,000 in pledges by April 30th. The money will go towards economic development within Junction City.

The Junction City Public Works Department along with Veolia Water is inviting the public to the City’s water treatment plant today for an open house. 

The open house is being held in conjunction with National Drinking Water Week. It is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the water treatment plant located off of K-57, across from the airport.

A free lunch will be provided with Armour-Eckrich donating sausage and hot dogs for the event. Tours of the water treatment plant will be offered.

Several rounds of showers and thunderstorms are expected across northeast Kansas through Friday night. Rainfall totals will likely range from 1 to 3 inches. Severe weather chances increase, especially Saturday night, across the whole area and again Sunday afternoon over far eastern Kansas. All modes of severe weather will be possible and addition to more heavy rainfall!

Today: Breezy…cloudy. Showers likely and isolated thunderstorms in the morning…then chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs around 74. South winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.

Tonight: Breezy. Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms. Lows around 65. South winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts to around 35 mph.

Thursday: Mostly cloudy with thunderstorms likely. Highs around 77. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts to around 30 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.

Thursday Night: Thunderstorms likely. Lows in the upper 50s. South winds 5 to 10 mph shifting to the north after midnight. Chance of rain 70 percent.

Friday: Mostly cloudy with thunderstorms likely. Highs in the lower 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.

Friday Night: Thunderstorms likely. Lows in the upper 50s. Chance of rain 70 percent.

Saturday: Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s.

Saturday Night: Thunderstorms. Lows around 60.

Sunday And Sunday Night: Partly cloudy. A 30 percent chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the mid 70s. Lows in the upper 40s.

Monday And Monday Night: Cooler. Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the mid 40s.

Tuesday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 60s.

An elementary school teacher in Junction City was the winner of the new car in the Little Apple Toyota Teacher Car Giveaway in Manhattan Tuesday.

Shannon Echevarria, second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School, won a new Toyota Yaris automobile in a drawing at the dealership at 2828 Amherst Avenue in Manhattan. This is the tenth year Little Apple Toyota has given away a car to an area teacher.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An unsealed document charges a Topeka man with conspiracy in a plot to bomb the Fort Riley military base.

The court document unsealed Tuesday charges Alexander Blair with conspiring with John T. Booker, Jr., in the planned attack. Previously Blair had only been charged with failing to tell authorities about the plans.

The more serious conspiracy charge comes in the newly unsealed criminal information. Such documents are filed with the consent of the defendant and typically signal a plea deal is in the works. The document had been under seal since April 23.

It accuses Blair of giving Booker money on March 17 to rent a storage unit in Topeka to store components he believed would be used to build an explosive device for the attack at Fort Riley.

Brenda Edleston, Dean of the Geary County Campus of Cloud County Community College is pursuing a Rural Development Grant to fund upgrades for the campus’s original science building.

Edleston explained that the original science building has not been updated in the past 15 plus years. Along with the upgrades the she is hoping to have the grant fund the purchase of an electronic cadaver.

“This is not a human body cadaver, like they do have in Concordia,” Edleston explained. “We do not have the facilities to accommodate a human body cadaver. This is computerized, it’s about a six foot table with a glass top, and it’s a computer display screen. It projects a 3-D interactive model of the human body and students can investigate the organs and the systems they are learning about in Human Anatomy and Physiology. It’s very interactive.”

The grant does not require a dollar for dollar match according to Edleston and Geary County would not be fiscally responsible for the updates to the building. The grant does ask for an in kind contribution in place of a match and Cloud County Community College would be responsible for that contribution.

Edleston is currently working on writing and applying for the grant. It is unknown when the college could hear back on the grant request.

The guest speaker during the Noon Rotary meeting Tuesday in Junction City was Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt.

Schmidt touched on a number of subjects but explained that during his time as the State Attorney General he’s come to realize that not a lot of people know what his office actually does.

“I think a lot of folks, unless you have a reason to interact with the AG’s office, don’t have a reason to have thought about what it is we do,” said Schmidt.

He went on to explain that the Attorney General’s Office is responsible for approximately $20 million in public money,”not counting the KBI, which is another $30 million a year more or less.”

By statute the Kansas Bureau of Investigations is an affiliate of the AG’s office.

Schmidt went on to list a few of the more prominent things his office focuses one including working with crime victims across the state, handling consumer protection cases and civil litigation. He said that his office does handle some criminal litigation, but that it’s mostly just on a referral basis.

“I’ve never actually put the pencil to it, but I would bet pretty good money that ninety-nine, maybe and a half percent, of all of the criminal cases handled in Kansas are not handled by our office. At least not at the trial level in the District Court or the Municipal Court.”

The Attorney General is an elected position and Schmidt was first elected in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014.