Icy conditions are blamed for a Sunday rollover accident on I-70

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol sixty-five year old Elizabeth Pierce of Abilene was  driving a 1999 Ford F 150 westbound on I-70 four miles east of Salina when she lost control on the ice. The truck entered the median, rolled once and came to rest on its wheels in the eastbound lanes of I-70. Pierce was transported to Salina Regional Medical Center. She was wearing a seat belt.

(AP) — After a New York commuter train derailment killed four people, two federal lawmakers want trains to be outfitted with cameras pointed at engineers and at the tracks.

Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut held a news conference Sunday at Grand Central Terminal, one week after the derailment in the Bronx. The Democratic lawmakers are urging the Federal Railroad Administration to implement the cameras.

The National Transportation Safety Board has suggested it.

The railroad administration hasn’t immediately responded to messages seeking comment on the idea. There’s also no immediate comment from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. It runs Metro-North, the railroad involved in the crash.

A lawyer and union leader for the derailed train’s engineer have said he briefly nodded or experienced a daze at the controls.

More than 60 people were injured.

(AP) — A fresh round of snow and drizzle has slickened roads across parts of Kansas and Missouri.

The wintry precipitation began falling Saturday and continued into Sunday.

The hardest-hit part of Kansas was the north-central section of the state, where 6-inch accumulations were recorded. Two inches fell in the northwest and 2 to 4 inches in the state’s far northeast section. Light snow and freezing drizzle were reported in south-central, southeast and central Kansas.

One inch fell at Kansas City International Airport and 3 to 4 inches in the northwest part of Missouri. North-central and northeast Missouri had received about half an inch by around noon.

There was just a light dusting in parts of southern Missouri already digging out from 6 to 12 inches of snow.

(AP) — A Wichita falconer has been reunited with his golden eagle.

Nate Mathews has been using birds of prey to hunt for the past decade. He took on the challenge of training a golden eagle named Isaiah in 2011.

But a few days before the first hunt, the bird escaped. About 18 months later, Mathews heard of a golden eagle that had been trying to kill chickens and was beaten when it was trapped inside an Arizona coop. The captured bird was Isaiah.

For much of this spring and summer, Mathews worked with Isaiah. Recently, Mathews made the two-hour drive to west of Lyons to test whether Isaiah would return or set off for parts unknown. Success. Isaiah returned to his handler every time.

(AP) — The area surrounding a central Topeka home in which three people were found shot to death has seen four other homicides in a little over six years.

Some residents say the Central Park neighborhood is a good one that has improved in recent years.

Topeka police still have not publicly listed any suspects in what they’ve described as the first quadruple homicide in the city’s history. One female victim was found at a Topeka restaurant about a half-mile from her home, where the bodies of two men and a woman were found.

The same home was the site of a teenage boy’s shooting in September 2007. Also, shooting deaths occurred within several blocks in October 2009, August 2011 and June of this year.