A Beloit teen was killed and three others were injured in a single-vehicle, rollover accident on H Road, about 10 miles east of Beloit, shortly after midnight.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a 2002 GMC Denali driven by 16-year-old Quenton K. Foulke was Eastbound on H Road and failed to make the curve, drove into the creek and the vehicle overturned.

A passenger, 14-year-old Sabastian Roubedaux of Beloit was pronounced dead at the scene.

Foulke along with two other passengers, 15-year-old Aaron T. Beam of Beloit, and 18-year-old Patti A. Thomison of Ovieda, Florida were transported to Mitchell County Hospital with injuries.

Authorities have released the name of a man killed while breaking into a Topeka home.

Cpt. Jerry Stanley said Friday that the man killed in Thursday night’s shooting was 31-year-old Cyril K. Smith.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that he was one of at least two men who broke into a Topeka home. Smith was shot and killed by the homeowner.

Police say one person believed to be linked to the case has been arrested, and several other people have been interviewed.

Stanley said the motive for the intrusion is being determined, but he stressed that there is no indication that it was a “random act” or that the public is in danger.

Police are asking the public to call with tips.

U.S Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is making a two-day visit to Kansas.

During his first stop Friday night at Strong City in east-central Kansas, he and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will dedicate a new $6 million visitor’s center at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.

From there Salazar will head to Manhattan’s Flint Hills Discovery Center. Gov. Sam Brownback will join him Saturday in announcing that the Kansas River is being designated as the newest addition to the National Water Trails system. The national designation will provide money for highway signage directing people to boat and canoe access ramps along the river.

Both projects are part of President Barack Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative. Its goals include improving access to outdoor recreation and restoring ecosystems.

A government-backed research panel said the Department of Homeland Security should continue with its plans for a biosecurity lab in Kansas but consider ways to reduce costs.

A study released by National Research Council on Friday said the need for the $1.14 billion National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Manhattan hasn’t diminished since the project was first conceived.

But the council said Homeland Security has options: It could continue with the current plan, reduce the size and scope of the project and distribute its work among research centers around the country.

Homeland Security asked the council to review the risks of studying animal diseases at the lab, the capabilities needed to address those threats and analyze three options. One included keeping the current research at Plum Island, N.Y

A state board in Kansas has denied parole to a man who’s spent three decades in prison after being convicted of killing a state Highway Patrol trooper.

The Kansas Prisoner Review Board rejected a request from George Rainey. The board won’t consider paroling Rainey again until July 2017.

Rainey, 53, an inmate at the state prison in Hutchinson, is serving a life sentence for the shooting of Trooper Ferdinand “Bud” Pribbenow in July 1981 in Butler County. Pribbenow stopped a car speeding on the Kansas Turnpike north of El Dorado and was shot six times.

During a hearing in May, members of Pribbenow’s family asked the board to keep Rainey in prison. Also, Highway Patrol Superintendent Ernest Garcia submitted a letter opposing Rainey’s parole.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has formally filed criminal charges against three inmates who escaped from the Kansas Department of Corrections while they were placed at the Ottawa County Jail in April.

The Attorney General filed charges of aggravated escape from custody and battery on a law enforcement officer against 22-year-old Santos M. Carrera-Morales, 23-year-old Drew Edward Wade, and 23-year-old Alberto Jon Barraza-Lujan.

Assistant Attorney General Steve Karrer from Schmidt’s office is prosecuting the cases.