(AP) — Residents are being invited to the University of Kansas in Lawrence to help mark the 90th birthday of former Sen. Bob Dole and

celebrate his life of public service.

The event Monday will be held at the Dole Institute of Politics where the former Republican U.S. senator’s archives are housed. The institute opened in 2003.

Dole is not expected to attend.

Dole served in the U.S. Senate from 1969 until 1996, when he retired to run for president but lost to Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton. Dole is a World War II veteran who served in Europe, where he was severely wounded in battle in Italy.

Activities scheduled for the birthday celebration include serving cupcakes, making political buttons and the signing of a card wishing Dole a happy birthday.

(AP) — Issues have arisen with two figures Wichita is negotiating with to extract oil from beneath the Century II exhibition hall in Wichita.

The Wichita Eagle (https://is.gd/YlF38H ) reports that one man has unpaid state taxes, loan defaults and debt recovery judgments. A second key figure in the negotiations ran a company that has a tax dispute with the state.

The Eagle reported that city officials had no idea about the issues until the newspaper found the financial cases in Sedgwick County District Court last week. The discovery came weeks after city planning officials began discussing a mineral rights lease with the men.

The discovery has put the drilling project on shaky ground. Several city officials now say they won’t partner with any driller who has financial issues.

(AP) — Paleontologists long have debated whether the Tyrannosaurus rex was a vicious killing machine or a scavenger.

But now David Burnham of the University of Kansas says new evidence shows the dinosaur is “the monster of our dreams.” The new evidence is a T. rex tooth lodged in the fossilized spine of a hadrosaur. The plant-eater seems to have survived the attack. And because the T. rex regularly shed teeth, the hunter would have simply grown a new one.

The university said in a news release that Burnham was part of a team that analyzed graduate student Robert DePalma’s fossil discovery from the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. The team describes the find in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kansas First Lady Mary Brownback announced the third annual Kansas Book Festival will take place at the Kansas Capitol Building on Saturday, September 7th. The festival will showcase current authors and books and will promote the importance of reading. It is free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

More than 30 authors will take part in the festival, most notably former Kansas City Royals player Frank White, who will be talking about My Team, My Town, My Time. Several authors will be discussing their latest books, including Joel Rosenberg, Alex Grecian and Larry Berman. Local favorites include Gary Krohe, Larry Welch, and Deb Goodrich Bisel.

“Our mission is to promote literacy and encourage a life-long love of reading,” Mary Brownback said. “This year the Kansas Book Festival has put together a great lineup of authors and activities for the whole family to enjoy. The Kansas Book Festival is a wonderful way to spend a Saturday together.”

Along with the author presentations there will be book signings, outdoor entertainment, and activities for children of all ages. The presentation for the Kansas Notable Book award winners will also take place at the event.

(AP) — Swimming, skiing and other direct water contact is banned at six Kansas lakes because of toxic blue-green algae.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says the lakes are Buhler City Lake in Reno County, Colwich City Lake in Sedgwick County, Logan City Lake in Phillips County, Memorial Park Lake in Barton County, Riggs Park Lake in Sedgwick County and South Park Lake in Johnson County.

At two other Kansas lakes, direct water contact is discouraged. Those lakes are Marion Reservoir in Marion County and Milford Lake in Dickinson and Geary counties.

The KDHE urges visitors to the six lakes where direct water contact is banned and the two where it’s discouraged to keep their pets from drinking untreated water. Any fish caught in the lakes should be cleaned well.

(AP) — Some prominent Kansas Democrats expect their party’s top candidate for governor to emerge by Labor Day for a challenge to Republican incumbent Sam Brownback.

The Democrats most often mentioned as potential candidates are Kansas House Minority Leader Paul Davis, of Lawrence; businesswoman and former Board of Regents member Jill Docking, of Wichita, and former state Agriculture Secretary Joshua Svaty, an Ellsworth County native.

Democrats acknowledge that their nominee will need to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars and build statewide name recognition early. In 2010, the Democratic nominee, state Sen. Tom Holland, of Baldwin City, was hampered by a relatively late start in February of that year.

Kansas Republican Party Executive Director Clay Barker says the GOP doesn’t see Brownback as vulnerable.s