A teenager is recovering at a Wichita hospital from injuries  following a weekend accident.

The Reno County Sheriff’s Office says three teens were in a field, using a skid steer to do fence work a half-mile west of Langdon Road on Parallel Road.

Sixteen year old Kolton Kincaid was one two teens riding on the stump remover and became pinned when his shoulder got caught on the roof of the skid steer and it began to compress him.

The driver quickly lowered the arms, but Kincaid was unable to move once the arms were down.

Kincaid reported not having any sensation from the waist down and having a hard time breathing, when he was transported to by Lifeteam helicopter to Wesley Medical Center

The accident is still under investigation.

 

A man in the Reno County community of Yoder was injured after a car he was working on fell on top of him.

It happened Sunday at a mobile home park, located in the 3100 block of Switzerland Road.

The Reno County Sheriff’s Office reported that 38-year old Marvin Sherwood was working on a car that was resting on a scissor when the vehicle slipped off the jack pinning him underneath.

A group of four to five neighbors were able to lift the car up and pull Sherwood from underneath it.

The sheriff’s office says Sherwood was conscious and alert when he was airlifted to Via Christi Hospital – St. Francis in Wichita, for treatment.

He is listed in fair condition.

Amazon is teaming up with the U.S. Postal Service to deliver packages on Sundays.

The Seattle company says Sunday delivery will be available this week to customers in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. Amazon and the Postal Service plan to roll out service to “a large portion of the U.S. population” next year, including Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, and Phoenix.

Amazon expects Sunday delivery to be popular with members of its Prime service, which costs $79 a year and comes with free two-day shipping on many items on the site as well as access to Amazon’s TV and movie streaming service. But Sunday delivery will be available to all Amazon customers.

“For Prime members, it’s free, for non-Prime members, it’s like any other delivery day of the week,” said Dave Clark, vice president of worldwide operations and customer service at Amazon. It won’t cost extra to get a package delivered on a Sunday.

Sunday delivery has been on Amazon’s wish list for a long time. The company does not disclose the percentage of its packages that are delivered on weekends, but Clark expects customers “to be delighted that they will get their products on a weekend.”

Financial terms of the arrangement were not disclosed, but the deal, but it’s likely to give the financially ailing Postal Service a boost. The agency, which lost $16 billion last year, had tried but failed to end Saturday mail delivery as a cost-saving measure.

Shares of Amazon.com Inc. climbed $1.69 to $52 in morning trading.

 

(AP) — Kansas health advocates are seeking to reduce smoking rates among the mentally ill.

The Kansas Health Foundation’s vice president for programs, Jeff Willett, says Kansans with mental illness are twice as likely to smoke as the general population.  Willett co-wrote a recent paper on the topic in the Journal of American Medical Association Psychiatry.

Willet says the paper is a “call to action” for the mental health and public health communities to address the issue of tobacco use among people with serious mental illness.

The National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors has found that people with serious mental illnesses die an average of 25 years earlier than everyone else, largely from treatable conditions such as nicotine addiction and obesity.

 

(AP) — The Kansas State Board of Education is expected to be asked next week to switch to standardized math and English tests called Smarter Balanced, which would end a 30-year reliance on the University of Kansas to create annual state exams.

The director of the university’s testing research cente says the change probably wouldn’t mean any job losses at KU because the school would retain its contract with the state for other services.

Director Neal Kingston says sticking with his center would give the state more control over the testing program, while going with Smarter Balanced provides comparability across states and gives Kansas access to more shared resources.

The education board likely will reach a decision next month.

 

(AP) — Congressman Kevin Yoder is a new father.

The northeast Kansas representative announced on his website that his wife, Brooke, delivered the child Thursday at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Merriam. The girl, named Caroline Lucille Yoder, measured 20 inches and weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce.

Yoder says mother and baby are healthy and resting at home. He described the baby as a “true blessing” and said he and his wife “couldn’t be happier” to add Caroline to their family.

AP) — Kansas Food Bank officials are expecting a new record this year for the number of weekend backpacks the agency sends home to hungry schoolchildren as it continues to extend its reach beyond Wichita.

The Food Bank says it’s now giving backpacks to 6,352 schoolchildren every week in Wichita and the counties it serves in Kansas. By the end of the school year it expects to be giving out food to 7,500 to 8,000 schoolchildren.

That would easily surpass the record set last year of 7,158 receiving the assistance.

The Food Bank and other charities say they have seen a steady increase in poverty and hunger in recent years as parts of the state economy continue to suffer from the recession.