11:55 a.m. Wednesday (AP) — Wichita authorities have identified two adults and two young children killed in a mobile home fire.

Fire Marshal Brad Crisp on Wednesday identified the four victims as 21-year-old Amanda Nichols; her 1-year-old son, Isaaca; 27-year-old Camaron McGowan, and his 2-year-old son, K’dyn McGowan.

They were killed in the fire at the mobile home early Tuesday. Crisp says firefighters found all four in the same bedroom.

Crisp says autopsies have been completed, but the cause of death and the cause of the fire had not been released.

Three people in the mobile home escaped. Those three people, a firefighter and a neighbor who helped, sustained minor injuries.

 

8:40 a.m. Tuesday  (AP) — Wichita fire officials say four family members, including two children, have been killed in a mobile home fire.

Fire Chief Ron Blackwell said that the four family members died in a fire at their mobile home early Tuesday. Three other people were injured. He says the two children were found sleeping side-by-side in a bed.

Their identities have not been released.

Blackwell says another nearby fire in a mobile home was reported about four hours earlier, but officials don’t think the fires are related. One person was also injured in the first fire.

Fire officials are investigating the causes.

 

(AP) — Prosecutors have withdrawn subpoenas for business records of an eastern Kansas man accused of killing three adults and a toddler.

The subpoenas were mentioned at a status hearing in Franklin County District Court on Tuesday for 28-year-old Kyle T. Flack, who is jailed on $10 million bond on charges of capital murder, first-degree murder, rape and criminal possession of a firearm.

He’s accused of killing 30-year-old Andrew Adam Stout, 31-year-old Steven Eugene White, 21-year-old Kaylie Kathleen Bailey and Bailey’s 18-month-old daughter, Lana-Leigh earlier this year.

The state did not rule out making a similar request in the future.

The state’s attorney general’s office is handling the prosecution.

(AP) — Former legislator and long-time business owner Terry Presta has been named the new executive director of the Kansas Lottery.

Gov. Sam Brownback announced Presta’s appointment Wednesday. He replaces interim director Sherriene Jones-Sontag, who filled the post after the announcement that executive director Dennis Taylor was retiring.

Presta served in the Kansas House from 1995 to 1999. He was the president and CEO of Overland Park-based Presto Convenience Stores until January 2013. Brownback cited Presta’s business experience in making his selection for the position.

Jones-Sontag will stay with the lottery as deputy director. Taylor had been handling special projects for the lottery in addition to serving as an interim director. He previously was secretary of the Department of Administration for Brownback.

 

 –Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s Office confirmed that homicide suspect David Cornell Bennett, Jr., was apprehended Tuesday night in Independence, Kan., by law enforcement officials. The investigation remains ongoing.

 Any criminal prosecution resulting from the investigation will be handled by the Kansas Attorney General’s Office at the request of the Labette County Attorney. No charges have been filed. Any charges that might arise from the investigation are merely accusations. Individuals are presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty.

The Kansas Attorney General’s Office and other involved agencies are bound by the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 3.6, Trial Publicity and Rule 3.8, Special Responsibilities of a Prosecutor.

11 a.m. Tuesday   (AP) — Police in southeast Kansas are investigating the deaths of a mother and her three young children.The Kansas Attorney General’s Office said in a release Tuesday the victims are 29-year-old Cami Umbarger, of Parsons, and her three minor children. The attorney general’s office did not say how the four were killed or provide other details about their deaths.

The attorney general’s office said authorities are seeking a male suspect, David Cornell Bennett, Jr, but no charges have been filed.

Police received a call Monday from concerned co-workers and family members that Umbarger didn’t show up for work.

Parsons police, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies are investigating. Parsons has about 10,500 residents and is about 125 miles southeast of Wichita in Labette County.

 

(AP) — Wyandotte County authorities are investigating after a man’s body man was recovered from Wyandotte County Lake.

Officials said police received a call late Tuesday to report the body on the east edge of the 400-acre lake, about two miles from the park entrance. The victim was a white male about 58 years old.

Officials were treating it as a crime scene.

 

 (AP) — Sporting Kansas City’s MLS Cup presale for season-ticket members was apparently compromised.

Real Salt Lake fans acquired the online code and bought up tickets during the Tuesday presale for the Dec. 7 game, which will decide the MLS champion at Sporting Park.

Real Salt Lake says the tickets bought by the leaked code will be cancelled. The visiting team is allotted 1,000 tickets, which will be distributed by Real Salt Lake.

Tickets bought by Sporting KC season-ticket members using the compromised code also will be invalidated.

Sporting KC officials confirm the presale went awry, but says the team will work with season-ticket holders who made legal pre-sale purchases to ensure they have game tickets. Tickets go on sale to the general public Monday.