HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State Fair officials are warning the public about online ticket brokers who have been promoting tickets they don’t have yet for the fair’s grandstand concerts.

Fair Manager Denny Stoecklein said Tuesday the sites are advertising and selling tickets they cannot guarantee. Stoecklein also says he’s contacted the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, which plans to communicate with the online sites to stop selling tickets they do not have.

The Hutchinson News reports that a site promoting tickets for country singer Hunter Hayes has been offering prime seating for from $120 to $380. The fair’s tickets range from $37.50 to $75.

Stoecklein says the Kansas State Fair and Tix.com are the only official sellers for the Kansas State Fair concert tickets. Sales open to the general public Saturday.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita City Council has agreed to a state plan that will provide city water to some residents whose groundwater is polluted.

The council voted on Tuesday to allow the some residences in west Wichita to be hooked up to new lines and mains. The $3.1 million project is funded by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.

The Wichita Eagle reports the homes were previously served by well water but lost their service after high levels of a toxic dry cleaning solvent were found in the groundwater.
Wichita public works director Alan King says the state wants to install waterlines that would extend city water services to about 114 homes.

The work will start immediately and should be completed by Aug. 1.

WICHITA–A Newton man was injured in a rollover crash in Sedgwick County at 5:15 a.m. on Wednesday.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Ford Taurus driven by Stanley W. Wooley Jr., 26, was southbound on I-135, struck a bridge pillar and rolled.

Wooley was transported to Wesley Medical Center.

The KHP reported he was properly restrained.

TOPEKA – Two more states have agreed to recognize Kansas concealed carry licenses, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said today in a news release.

The states of Virginia and Washington have each notified the Kansas Attorney General’s office that Kansas-issued permits are now recognized in their respective states. This brings the number of states where Kansas licenses are recognized to 36, up from 24 at the start of 2011.

A law passed last year by the Kansas Legislature, recommended by Attorney General Schmidt, allows all valid out-of-state permits to be recognized in Kansas when the non-resident permit holder is traveling temporarily in Kansas. As a result of this law, many states that require their permits to be recognized in Kansas before reciprocally recognizing Kansas permits have now done so.

A complete list of states that recognized the Kansas concealed carry license is available on the Attorney General’s website at www.ag.ks.gov.

There are currently 80,810 active concealed carry license holders in Kansas.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Just days before trial, the former owner of Asian massage parlors in Wichita has notified the court he intends to change his plea in a Kansas sex trafficking case.

A court notation Tuesday shows the change of plea hearing for Gary H. Kidgell, of Waltham, Massachusetts, is set for Thursday.

Kidgell and his wife, Wichita resident Yan Zhang, had been scheduled for trial Monday. Court documents also indicate Zhang has been talking to prosecutors and may change her plea.

An indictment charges both with sex trafficking. One count also charges Kidgell with harboring for financial gain an immigrant who was in the country illegally.

The couple is accused of recruiting women from around the country to come to Wichita to work at massage parlors, then coercing them into prostitution.

COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) — Columbus voters have overwhelmingly rejected a $30.6 million bond issue that would have paid for a new elementary school and renovations throughout the school district.

The Joplin Globe reports the final tally Tuesday was 668 in favor of the bond issue and 1,746 against it. The measure would have raised the mill levy by roughly 16.5 cents, from 49.82 to 66.35.

Superintendent David Carriger says the committee promoting the bond issue needs to find out what the community is willing to support. Tuesday’s measure would have paid for a new school for students in first through eighth grades, remodeling the pre-kindergarten building and renovations at the high school.

Carriger says the money also would have paid for construction of safe rooms, which is one of the district’s top priorities.

CONCORDIA (AP) — The Kansas Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a woman who was injured along a highway in north-central Kansas.

Patrol Trooper Ben Gardner said Tuesday details about what happened to the woman are “pretty limited.”

He said the patrol was contacted late Saturday about a woman being injured near a U.S. Highway 81 intersection, approximately 4 miles north of Concordia. He said the woman was a pedestrian. She was taken to a hospital but died from her injuries.

The Salina Journal reported the woman’s name was not released, but Gardner said she was from the Concordia area.