WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man pleaded guilty to two felonies for a hit-and-run accident that killed a man who was riding a horse.

A boy also was injured after a car driven by 26-year-old George Childers hit the horse last July 5 and then fled. The horse had to be euthanized.

Childers hit a horse being ridden by 49-year-old Lloyd Ferguson and 6-year-old Eddie Caddell.

The Wichita Eagle reports (https://bit.ly/1gyelKM ) Childers will be sentenced April 2 for leaving the scene of an accident and one count of interference with law enforcement. He was scheduled to go to trial this week.

Tokyo (AP) — Toyota is recalling 294,000 vehicles in North and South America for a skid-control software glitch.

No accidents or injuries have been reported.

Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday the recall affects the RAV4 sport utility, Tacoma pickup and Lexus RX 350 luxury model, manufactured from March 2012 through December 2012.

Some 260,000 of the vehicles were sold in the U.S.

The Japanese automaker said the problem can cause stability control, anti-lock brakes and traction control to turn off, although standard braking will keep working.

The recall was announced Wednesday in North America along with a bigger global recall involving 1.9 million Prius hybrid vehicles, over a different software problem.

Toyota suffered massive recalls starting in 2009, affecting more than 14 million vehicles for problems including floor mats, gas pedals and brakes.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new proposal before the Kansas Legislature would nullify reading, math and science standards for public schools adopted previously by the State Board of Education.

The measure is sponsored by the House Education Committee and was introduced this week.

The bill also says that new standards would be drafted “solely” by the Kansas board with help from an advisory committee.

Conservative Republican legislators tried unsuccessfully last year to block the board from putting into effect the multistate Common Core standards for reading and math.

The board adopted the standards in 2010. Because the federal government has encouraged states to adopt them, critics see them as federal education standards, and costly to implement as well.

The bill also would nullify multistate, evolution-friendly science standards adopted by the Kansas board last year.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors are preparing to lay out their evidence against three Wichita men accused of stealing a wedding ring and other items from a dying woman at a fast-food restaurant drive-thru.

A preliminary hearing was scheduled Thursday in Sedgwick County District Court for Daquantrius Johnson, Quanique Thomas-Hameen and Keith Hickles Jr.

All three are 19 years old and charged with robbery, theft and aggravated burglary.

Danielle Zimmerman was pulling into a Taco Bell on Dec. 29 when she suffered a brain aneurysm. While she was unconscious, someone took her purse, a cellphone and wedding ring. The 43-year-old Wichita woman died the following day.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas House committee is weighing a resolution that urges Congress to resist following President Barack Obama’s plan for addressing climate change.

The nonbinding resolution is before the House Energy and Environment Committee. It declares that the federal goals for addressing climate change are based on false assumptions about the role of carbon dioxide and human activity.

Environmentalists argue that the resolution is based on bad science and ignores data that emissions and humans are altering sea levels and weather patterns.

The resolution cites Obama’s 2013 plan that calls for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and encourages development of renewable forms of energy.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A company that supplies components for the aircraft industry is committing $100,000 over five years to help Wichita State University develop a mentoring program.

The Wichita Eagle reports the university will use the gift from TECT Aerospace to raise interest among public school students in careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

The mentoring program will be aimed at low-income youth and students of color from kindergarten through 12th grade.

Wichita State says the program will recruit professionals in the relevant fields to volunteer with mentoring and other activities.

The gift was made with help from The Glass Foundation, which supports philanthropic endeavors on behalf of Kenneth Glass and family, which owns the TECT family of businesses.