The Civilian Human Resources Agency Southwest Region, headquartered at Fort Riley, has received an appropriation for additional positions. CHRA Southwest provides civilian human resources services to the Department of Defense.

The new positions, which CHRA hopes to have mostly filled by the end of April, have been designated to provide civilian human resources products.

Carol Burton, CHRA Southwest Region Director, said the new positions vary from technical work to transactiuonal work, and clerical positions. Some job openings have been filled through internal personnel, but about 40 are being recruited from the general public.

There are a variety of different positions. Burton said some require a high school graduation or general experience, and some require previous work in the field. “The vast majority of the ones that we are recruiting for right now require a bachelor’s degree or some type of related experience.”

The new CHRA job vacancies will be posted on www.usajobs.gov.

Tierre Wall, Fort Riley, appeared in front of Judge Stutzman in Riley County Court on Monday for sentencing after he had plead ‘no contest’ to charges of voluntary manslaughter and attempted aggravated assault on February 25, 2016.

Tierre Wall

On March 10, 2015, law enforcement officers were dispatched just after 2 a.m. to Ogden after receiving reports of a shot fired.

Police found Casey Lindley, 27, Ogden, KS suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to a Topeka hospital where he died of his injuries. Wall was arrested after turning himself in at a police station in Georgia.

Judge Stutzman sentenced Wall to 61 months for the charge of voluntary manslaughter and 7 months for attempted aggravated assault, which will run concurrent for a total controlling sentence of 61 months with the Kansas Department of Corrections. He will also have post-release supervision for 36 months following his incarceration.

Today will be mostly sunny and warmer with highs in the mid to upper 60s according to the National Weather Service of Topeka. There will be a very high fire danger for most of the area this afternoon. There will be a slight chance for showers and thunderstorms late Tonight and into Tuesday. Thunderstorm chances will increase Tuesday night through Wednesday evening.

Some of the storms Wednesday afternoon and evening may be strong to severe with large hail and damaging wind gusts the primary hazards. A cold front will move across the area Wednesday night bringing in a cooler air-mass. Highs on Thursday will only reach the upper 50s.

Tonight: Not as cool. Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 40s. Southeast winds 5 to 15 mph.

Tuesday: Breezy. Partly sunny. Slight chance of rain showers and isolated thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the mid 60s. South winds 10 to 25 mph increasing to 20 to 25 mph in the afternoon. Gusts up to 35 mph.

Tuesday Night: Breezy…warmer. Mostly cloudy. Slight chance of rain showers and isolated thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 50s. South winds 15 to 25 mph.

Wednesday: Breezy. Partly sunny with a 30 percent chance of rain showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 70s. South winds 15 to 25 mph.

Wednesday Night: Colder. Partly cloudy with slight chance of rain showers. Lows in the lower 40s.

Thursday: Cooler. Mostly sunny. Highs in the upper 50s.

Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 30s.

Friday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 50s.

Friday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 30s.

Saturday: Warmer…sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.

Saturday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 30s.

Sunday: Sunny. Highs in the mid 60s.

The Junction City South Kiwanis Club will break ground this week on a new basketball court project.

Club spokesman Jim Germann stated the Club has raised about $8,000 for the project over the last six years. “But we applied for a grant from the Kiwanis International Foundation, and they gave us $14,500 to finish our project.”

Germann said the new court will be 50-feet by 80-feet long, the same size as the courts at the 12th Street Community Center. There will be six goals.

The groundbreaking for the project is Saturday ( April 2 ).

The Junction City Police Department Sunday morning tour log report:

–Jeremy Patrick Hockett, 39, suspicion of Felony Criminal Damage to Property, Assault. The arrest occurred Saturday afternoon at 1522 North Madison Street.

–Reginald Larmar Carter, 32, Junction City, Felony Theft. The arrest occurred at 618 West 6th Street ( Dillon’s Grocery Store ) Saturday evening. Carter was also arrested in a second case at the same time that included suspicion of Possession of Methamphetamines, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

MANHATTAN – Law enforcement authorities in Riley County are investigating a suspect in connection with an aggravated kidnapping.

Police reported Sergio Guerra, 38, Wichita, was was arrested late Friday, according to a media release.

Just before 11:30 p.m. on Thursday, police in Manhattan received an emergency call about a woman who had been dragged by her vehicle after attempting to flee an attacker who was not known to her.

Police responded to the 500 block of Richards Drive in Manhattan and found that several bystanders were assisting a 19-year-old woman who had received non-life threatening injuries. She was treated and released, however, the injuries were significant. This victim’s personal information has been withheld due to the nature of this crime.

Officers found that sometime after 11:00 p.m. the woman was approached by an unknown hispanic male while she attempted to start her car while in a parking lot on Richards Drive.

This suspect took her mobile phone and forced her to move to the passenger seat of her vehicle. The man then sat in the driver’s seat and began to drive out of the parking lot, according to police.

At that time the 19-year-old victim attempted to flee her vehicle, however, was unable to completely exit through the passenger side door and fell to the ground while a portion of her body was still inside. She was dragged for approximately 800 feet while the male suspect traveled south on Richards Drive and then west onto Fort Riley Blvd. when she was able to free herself. Bystanders then tended to her and contacted police. The suspect fled the scene and law enforcement later recovered the vehicle in the Redbud Estates neighborhood.

Guerra was booked on counts of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated robbery and aggravated battery, according to police in Manhattan.

Bond for Guerra was set at $500,000 and he is currently confined at the Riley County Jail.

The Geary County Sheriff’s Department has reported the arrest of Dakota Miller, Junction City, on a Geary County District Court warrant charging a probation violation. Miller was also arrested on suspicion of  felony counts of Possession of Marijuana and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

The arrest occurred Friday evening at 8:10 in the 1700 block of North Jackson Street in Junction City.

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A Manhattan woman was injured in an accident just after 9p.m. on Friday in Jefferson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Ford Utility vehicle driven by Harry Stephen Russom III, 37, Manhattan, was southbound on U.S. 59 two miles south of Oskaloosa, when the front seat passenger Elizabeth Ann Russom, 36, jumped out of the vehicle.

Russom was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

The driver was not injured and was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

No additional details were released.