(AP) — Ten sites have been nominated by a board of the Kansas Historical Society to be added to the National Register of Historic Places.

The list announced Wednesday includes an eastern portion of the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence and two locations where the Oregon and California trials converged in Kansas.

Other sites include two buildings in Kansas City, Kan., that have ties to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, a former school in rural Douglas County, the City Square Park Bandstand in Humboldt, and a youth cabin in Manhattan constructed during the Great Depression.

The list will be forwarded to Office of the Keeper of the National Historic Places in Washington, D.C., for evaluation.

(AP) — The number of voter registrations on hold in Kansas because of the state’s proof-of-citizenship requirement is rising again.

Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office said Wednesday that almost 17,700 registrations were on hold because new voters hadn’t provided a birth certificate, passport or other papers documenting their U.S. citizenship to election officials.

The figure peaked at about 18,500 in October but dropped to fewer than 17,200.

That decline occurred in late October. The state Department of Revenue sent election officials information about 6,000 people who had presented one of several required documents when obtaining or renewing a driver’s license.

The proof-of-citizenship requirement took effect in January, and Kobach argues that it prevents election fraud. Critics say it suppresses voter turnout.

U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)has  introduced a bipartisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would support the Kansas National Guard and Department of Defense (DoD) Reserve Components by protecting their ability to carry our cyber missions in support of DoD. As part of the DoD strategy requirement in Section 945 of the Senate version of the NDAA, passage of this amendment would halt, and likely prevent cuts to the 177th Information Aggressor Squadron (IAS) based at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita. The 177th is one of only two National Guard units executing the critical information aggressor mission focused on cyber security, information operations and cyber intelligence.

“The 177th is critical not only to Kansas National Guardsman, but also as a national security asset for the DoD and other organizations that require cyber mission support,” Sen. Moran said. “It is vital that DoD protect against the unintended loss of a one-of-a-kind asset and prevent a reduction in personnel from being implemented.”

The 177th Red Team has provided cyber security training to more than 30,000 end users since unit inception. It is the only Air National Guard (ANG), National Security Agency (NSA) certified and USSTRATCOM accredited Red Team. Its capabilities include Cyber Intel Analysis, Close Access Security, and Close Range network adversary replication.

The amendment would enhance Section 945 of by requiring DoD to develop a strategy on use of the Reserve Components in cyber missions. The amendment provisions include:
Providing for an inventory of the existing cyber skills of reserve component personnel, including the skills of units and elements in the reserve components that are transitioning to cyber missions;
Providing for an inventory of the existing infrastructure of the reserve components that contributes to the cyber missions of the United States Cyber Command, including the infrastructure available to units and elements in the reserve components that are transitioning to such missions;
Developing an estimate of the personnel, infrastructure and training required, and the costs that would be incurred, in connection with implementing the strategy for integrating the reserve components into the total force for support of the cyber missions of the Department and United States Cyber Command. The estimate will examine whether there are any misalignments between unit mission and facility readiness to support such missions;
Protecting against unintended duplicate spending, preventing reduction in personnel of a cyber unit of the Air National Guard of the United States from being implemented or carried out in fiscal year 2014 before the submittal of the strategy; and
Protecting against reduction in the personnel or capacity of a Red Team from being implemented or carried out unless the strategy states clearly that it is not required.
The bipartisan amendment is cosponsored by U.S. Sens. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.).

(AP) — The Kansas Historic Sites Board of Review has asked that a prominent structure that partially collapsed earlier this year be removed from the National Register of Historic Places.

The two-story Parker House Hotel in Minneapolis, Kan., was built in 1887 and partially collapsed June 7. Some of the debris hit a natural gas riser and forced the evacuation of downtown Minneapolis.

The City Council voted later to pay $76,800 to have the hotel torn down.

Staff from the National Register in Washington, D.C., will consider the request.

A single car accident Wednesday afternoon sent a man to a Wichita hospital by Midwest Lifeteam helicopter.

The man was southbound on K-61 when he lost control of his vehicle on a curve right before the on ramp coming off of “A” Street near Hutchinson. His vehicle went across the on ramp, then down a embankment rolling several times ending up in a ravine.

The car was badly damaged and rescue crews had to us the “jaws of life” to free him. He was wearing a seat-belt at the time of the crash.

Witnesses told police that he was driving well past the 45 mph speed limit on that section of the highway.

The victims name has not been released.

 (AP) — A 19-year-old Kansas man has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison without parole for killing two people inside a Wichita Dollar General store late last year.

Marquis Marshall spoke few words Wednesday at his sentencing hearing. He was convicted in October of capital murder in the Nov. 30, 2012, fatal shootings of 22-year-old store employee Zachary Hunt and 79-year-old customer Henry Harvey.

Prosecutors say they still don’t know why Marshall shot the victims. A Sedgwick County jury deliberated less than two hours Oct. 2 before convicting Marshall. His defense lawyer presented no evidence at his trial, and a motive for the shootings was never disclosed.

About two dozen relatives of Harvey and Hunt attended the sentencing hearing.