On July 1, 2013, Kansas will have a newly vacant position on the Kansas Court of Appeals. The 14th position will be the first to be filled through the “federal process” approved by the 2013 Kansas Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Sam Brownback.

The new law requires the clerk of the Kansas Supreme Court to give prompt notice of a vacancy to the governor, who must then make an appointment within 60 days.

If the governor does not make the appointment within 60 days, the chief justice of the Supreme Court will appoint a qualified person for the position.

The Kansas Senate must vote to confirm the appointment within 60 days of being received. If the Senate is not in session and will not be in session within the 60-day time limit, it must confirm the appointment within 20 days of the next session. If the Senate fails to vote within the time limit, its consent will be deemed given. If the appointee does not receive a majority vote in the Senate, the governor would appoint another qualified person within 60 days, and the same consent procedure would be followed.

The Governor’s office already has received a number of applications for the 14th Court of Appeals position. Any qualified Kansan interested in the position must apply through the Governor’s Office of Appointments online at https://governor.ks.gov/serving-kansans/office-of-appointments/senate-confirmed-appointments.

AP) — Authorities have arrested a 26-year-old mother suspected of abandoning her 2-week-old baby inside a Wichita Wal-Mart.

The woman roamed around the store between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Saturday. Police Sgt. Bruce Watts says store security observed her opening items and placing them atop the baby in a child carrier.

The woman then was observed putting down the carrier and walking around the store for another half hour before attempting to leave.

The store notified police, and officers confronted the woman in the parking lot. Watts says the woman initially told police that a friend picked up the infant.

The woman was booked on suspicion of a child abandonment charge, along with an unrelated felony warrant. The infant was taken into police protective custody.

1: 15 p.m. Saturday A plane carrying a wing walker crashed Saturday as she sat on top of the inverted plane at the Dayton Air Show  The crash happened at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton. A schedule posted on the event’s website had Jane Wicker Wingwalker scheduled to perform.

A fire dispatcher confirmed a crash Saturday to The Associated Press but had no other information.

3:p.m. UPDATE The plane that crashed at an Ohio air show, killing the pilot and stunt walker, is registered to a veteran wing walker.

Federal records show that the Boeing Stearman biplane that crashed Saturday at the Vectren Air Show near Dayton was registered to Jane Wicker of Loudon, Va.

The Federal Aviation Administration says Wicker was also a contract employee who worked as an FAA budget analyst.

Congressman Tim Huelskamp tweeted that he will appear on Fox News Saturday night.

“Cong. Tim Huelskamp ✔ @CongHuelskamp
My sons Alex & Athan joined me at @KSNNews for my interview w/ @GeraldoRivera. Watch @FoxNews Saturday @ 9pm CT “

The program is broadcast on Eagle cable channel 50 or 650 in HD.

A western Kansas man was injured in a three-vehicle accident in Barton County on Friday. According to the Kansas highway patrol, ”Thirty-three year old Eric Lee Fox of Offerle driving a 2003 Ford passenger vehicle and Kristine Leigh Myers, age 24 of Larned, driving a 2011 Ford passenger vehicle were west bound on US highway 56, six miles east of Great Bend.

Fox’s Ford crossed the center line and hit the trailer of a an east bound Semi Truck driven by Brian K. Hoskins, age 50, of Robinson, Kansas

The semi hit debris from the two passenger vehicles. Fox was transported to Great Bend Regional Medical Center with injuries.

(AP) — Monsanto Co. is floating the theory that some of the company’s detractors may have intentionally planted genetically modified wheat discovered in an Oregon field last month.

The company said in a call with reporters Friday that sabotage is the most likely scenario partly because the modified wheat was not distributed evenly throughout the field and found in patches. Robb Fraley, Monsanto’s executive vice president and chief technology officer, Robb Fraley said that is the “pattern you would expect” if someone had dispersed the seeds.

The Agriculture Department is investigating the discovery of the wheat, which is not approved for farming in the United States. The department has declined to speculate on what caused the wheat to sprout in Oregon but has said it appears to be an isolated incident.