PAOLA- A Kansas teenager was injured in an accident just after 3 p.m. on Sunday in Miami County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Chevy passenger car driven by Caspian O. Tressin, 16, Paola, was westbound on Kansas 68 one mile west of the roundabout on Old Kansas City Road.

The driver fell asleep, woke up and overcorrected, striking a guardrail and the vehicle rolled onto its top.

Tressin was transported to Miami County Medical Center.
The KHP reported she was properly restrained at the time of the accident.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Because of a string of security lapses, the U.S. Secret Service didn’t realize for four days that a man had fired a high-powered rifle at the White House in 2011.

Following an investigation The Washington Post concludes the Secret Service bungled the response to the shooting. An Idaho man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for firing at least seven bullets at the White House on November 11, 2011. The president and Michelle Obama were away, but one daughter was home.

The Post reported a White House usher expressed concerns about the safety for Malia Obama, who was to arrive within minutes of the incident.

In a statement to The Associated Press, the Secret Service said it beefed up White House security following a review of the incident.

HUTCHINSON- A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just after 1 p.m. on Sunday in Reno County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2000 Chevy pickup driven by Chanita Rachelle Colbert, 24, Wichita, was westbound on U.S 50 three miles south of South Hutchinson.

The truck made an improper lane change into the path of a 2005 Ford pickup driven by Tate Kristopher Minchew, 21, Hereford, TX.
The Ford ran into the back of the Chevy

After the collision the Chevy fled the scene and was located on U.S. 50 at Yoder Road.

Colbert was transported to the Hutchinson Hospital. Minchew and three adult passengers and four children in the Chevy pickup were not injured.

The KHP reported that Colbert, three adults and three children were not properly restrained at the time of the accident.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The undead have taken to Topeka streets to fight hunger and poverty.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that hundreds of people with rotting faces and severed limbs participated in the Saturday night fundraiser.

The participants were accompanied by members of the Capital City Reapers Zombie Response Team, who donned black uniforms and combat gear. The group of undead impersonators ended their march on the Statehouse steps, where they posed as victims of the vigilant zombie fighters.

The annual event attracted zombie hunters as young as age 5. Participants were asked to bring canned goods or make a $5 donation to Let’s Help, a community nonprofit that seeks to break the cycle of poverty.

Zombie walk organizer Louie Creek says the event is a “way to give.”

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Little use is being made of a law that allows farmers to form groups that can require deep reductions in irrigation.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the hope was that if enough western Kansas farmers pared their water use, the aquifer’s lifespan could be extended.

But two years later, only one group of 110 farmers, who own 99 square miles in Sheridan and Thomas counties near Colby, has formed.

Kansas Water Office director Tracy Streeter says there were expectations of the program “catching on like wildfire.”

But Haskell County farmer Jay Garetson says farmers were never going to cut their use of water without mandates because it could harm them economically in the short term. Garetson has sued an oil and gas company for not conserving water.

JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s Democratic challenger is on the defensive over disclosures that he was inside a southeast Kansas strip club during a 1998 drug raid and was found in a back room with a nearly naked woman.

The GOP says the incident raises questions about Davis’ character, while Davis supporters say Republicans are desperate over a potential Brownback loss.

Democrat Paul Davis was 26, single and a young attorney in a firm representing the owner of the club near Coffeyville. The owner spent six years in federal prison, but Davis was not arrested.

Davis is now 42, and says he was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” He released a statement from a participant in the raid saying Davis was not involved in any wrongdoing.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas is receiving more sexual assault reports from students after the school’s handling of an alleged on-campus rape set off protests.

The Kansas City Star reports that the recent complaints include two reports of stalking, seven of sexual harassment, one of sexual assault, one of date violence, one of domestic violence and seven so recent the office had not yet categorized them.

The reports began rolling in after a student who said she was raped in 2013 complained of her attacker’s lenient punishment. The university has declined to comment on the case. Other women have come forward to say the school didn’t take sexual violence seriously.

The university is among 76 schools being investigated by the federal government for their handling of sexual assault cases.

WICHITA- A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 6 a.m. on Sunday in Sedgwick County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Jeep SUV driven by Dilaurice M. Clark, 22, Wichita, was northbound on Interstate 135 at 21st Street.

The vehicle braked and swerved to miss road debris in lane #3, spun out, went off the road on the right shoulder and rolled.

A private vehicle transported Clark St. Francis Medical Center.
The KHP reported he was properly restrained at the time of the accident.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A marijuana giveaway for veterans attracted about 1,000 people to a Colorado Springs hotel.

The “Grow 4 Vets” giveaway aimed to bring cannabis-based treatments to veterans with service-related conditions as an alternative to pain medications.

The Gazette reports that veterans were given a bag of items that included cannabis oil, an edible chocolate bar and seeds to grow plants.

Marijuana activists have tried unsuccessfully to have post-traumatic stress disorder added to the Colorado list of medical conditions that qualify for joining the medical marijuana registry. Now that pot is legal for all adults over 21, organizers are free to give away marijuana.

Not all who received the bags were veterans. A $20 dollar donation for nonveterans was encouraged.