A teenage driver was critically injured in a Thursday afternoon crash in Barton County.

According to the Kansas Highway  Patrol eighteen-year old Cassidy James Moss of Olmitz was driving a 1993 Buick southbound on NW 90th Ave in Barton County and 45-year-old Raul Rivas-Cruz was eastbound in a 2006 Chevy truck on K4.

The Buick failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection of K4 and NW 90th Ave and collided with the truck.

Both vehicles entered the southeast ditch where the truck overturned.

Moss, who was not wearing a seat belt, was transported to the hospital in Wichita.  Rivas-Cruz and Javier Lopez-Chaves, age 35 of Rio Rancho, New Mexico, a passenger in the truck, were transported to the hospital in Hoisington. They were both wearing seat belts.

A 52-year-old Saline County man was arrested Thursday afternoon on a warrant in connection with an incident October 30th at the Saline County Tag Office.

According to a news release from the Saline County Sheriffs Office, Steven Lee Streit was arrested on charges of Criminal Threat and Disorderly Conduct

Saline County Sheriff Glen Kochanowski said Wednesday morning that deputies responded to the tag office over the noon hour on October 30th after Streit made threats after becoming frustrated while trying to renew tags and learning he had delinquent taxes.

The Sheriff said Streit after being sent to the treasurer’s office, then the office of the county counselor, returned to the tag office and allegedly made a threat of getting guns and blowing up the place.

Tag office staff pushed a panic button, and deputies on the 3rd floor of the building which houses the district court, went to the office and talked to Streit who was then allowed to leave.

After a review of the incident by the Saline County Attorney’s Office, an arrest warrant was issued for the arrest of Streit.

(AP) — A northeast Kansas trial judge will sit with the state Supreme Court in December to hear a case involving attorney discipline.

District Judge Martin Asher, who serves Atchison and Leavenworth counties, was named Thursday to sit with six of the high court’s justices.

Justice Marla Luckert recused herself from hearing the discipline case involving attorney Brendon Patrick Barker. Asher will only hear the one case on the docket and will participate in the court’s deliberations and drafting of the opinion regarding Barker.

AP) — A massage parlor worker has told a federal judge she plans to plead guilty for her role in a sex trafficking scheme linked to Asian massage parlors in Wichita.

A document filed Thursday by the lawyer for Xiuqing Tian notifies the court of her plans to plead guilty ahead of a trial scheduled to begin next week.

The move would leave massage parlor owner Gary Kidgell and his wife, Yan Zhang, as the remaining defendants to face jurors. They’re accused of conspiring to recruit women from around the country to come to Wichita to work at massage parlors, then coercing them into prostitution.

Investigators who raided the parlors reported finding ads in a Chinese-language newspaper in New York, Chicago and San Francisco offering “massage parlor hiring” in Kansas.

A driver was injured in a Thursday I-70 crash when she fell asleep at the wheel.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol a Mercury Mountaineer driven by Brenda Mcnair of Solomon was eastbound on I-70 at milepost 265, a mile east of Solomon, in the driving lane and she fell asleep.

The Mercury then veered across the passing lane into the median. Th vehicle then went back into the passing lane, rolled several times and then came to rest in the median.

Mcnair was transported to the Salina Regional Health Center.  She was wearing a seat belt.

(AP) — The Senate has approved a bill outlawing workplace discrimination against gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.

The vote reflected the nation’s rapidly evolving attitude toward gay rights nearly two decades after Congress rejected same-sex marriage. The final tally was 64-32.

Despite the bipartisan vote, the measure’s chances in the House are dim. Speaker John Boehner calls the shots, and he opposes the bill.

Gay rights advocates hailed Senate passage as a major victory in a year of significant change.

The Supreme Court in June affirmed gay marriage and granted federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. Illinois is on the verge of becoming the 15th state to legalize gay marriage along with the District of Columbia.

 (AP) — A Wichita woman has received probation for a drunken-driving crash that killed her 6-year-old son in January.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers all recommended the sentence for 31-year-old Crystal Ross.

Ross pleaded guilty earlier to involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence. The charge is punishable by up to 3½ years in prison.

Sedgwick County District Judge Ben Burgess agreed to the probation Wednesday but warned Ross that a single traffic infraction will put her behind bars.

The accident that killed 6-year-old Cryisol Hall happened Jan. 26 when Ross lost control of her SUV and skidded into a ditch. Ross and her two other sons were injured.