Fort Riley

Two Soldiers are killed in small-arms fire while on patrol in souther Afghanistan.  21-year-old Spc. Robert Dyas of Nampa, Idaho, and 24-year-old Spc. Jakob Roelli of Darlington, Wisconsin, were on patrol in Jakari, Afghanistan, when their unit came under attack. The Soldiers were assigned to 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, currently deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Dyas joined the Army in January 2009 as a fire support specialist.

By Angela Smith (FORT RILEY, Kan.) Authorities find a body in a vehicle submerged in a Riley County lake. A fisherman notified police Thursday morning after finding the vehicle underwater in Moon Lake. Map - Location of Lake Fort Riley's Directorate of Emergency Services called out a tow truck and requested help from the Saline County Sheriff's Department's dive team. When the vehicle was pulled from the water, emergency crews discovered the body inside.

FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) - State and federal officials are pressing for improvement in getting military votes counted this election cycle after none of the 560 registered voters in 12 Fort Riley precincts cast ballots in the August primary. Officials aren't sure how that happened, but say a number of factors including the military's transient nature could have played a part. Election officials say making it easier to vote, such as increasing use of the Internet, would improve access and reduce the time it takes for soldiers to get ballots anywhere.

Only 24 active-duty soldiers can say they served in the Vietnam War, and Fort Riley Garrison Chaplain Col. Edwin Ahl is one of them. After serving in three wars - Vietnam, Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom - and about 40 years of military experience, Ahl retired from active-duty service Thursday morning. “You know I tell people you cut me and I bleed infantry blue”, says Ahl. At Thursday's retirement ceremony from Fort Riley Ahl talked about his home life that he is looking forward to. “I have my daughter teaching me color coordination because I won't be wearing uniform”.

A Fort Riley soldier dies from injuries he sustained while serving in Afghanistan. Sergeant Jamie Jarboe was injured last April when he was struck by a sniper's bullet while on foot patrol. The shot paralyzed him from his chest down. The 27-year-old has had more than a hundred surgeries and more were scheduled Jarboe died Wednesday. Officials say Jarboe returned home to Topeka just five weeks ago.

More than 500 members of the Kansas National Guard are preparing to deploy, however, they’re not going to Afghanistan or Iraq. Instead, they're going to the northeast part of Africa. "The horn of Africa has all the makings to turn into a terrorist hot spot…we are really trying to stop a problem before it starts," says Capt. Will Chuber of Fort Riley. The Kansas National Guard held a training run Thursday at Fort Riley. Their mission was to prepare for a possible outbreak of violence when they deploy to Africa this spring.

A little more than a year after being unfurled following a deployment to Iraq, the colors of the 1st Infantry Division were again cased March 7 during a ceremony on Fort Riley's Cavalry Parade Field. The ceremony symbolized one of the unit's final steps in preparation for its upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. The first of about 700 division staff members and Division Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion Soldiers slated to deploy are set to depart by the end of the month.

Travelers heading west are warned that roadblocks are ahead.  The Kansas Department of Transportation moved the I-70 closure further east as the day went on, because it leads right into the first winter storm of the season. At the rest area near Ellsworth, Chad Teats and his family stopped to figure out what to do.  Their trip from Fort Riley to Colorado Springs just got a little more complicated. "We knew the storm was coming, but we didn't know the roads were going to be closed," Teats says.  "We're just going to have to re-route and see if there's a safer route.

It's not something you expect to see on the highway but the highway patrol wants drivers to be alert after an accident kills a bull elk. That crash happened Monday morning on I-70 near Salina; the animal is estimated to weigh more than 600 pounds. The driver of the semi-truck that hit the elk is okay but investigators say the accident is unusual. “Utter shock”, it's the only way tow-truck driver Jacob Palmer could describe the scene he discovered Monday morning on I-70.