MADISON, Ind. — A Kansas man has been identified as the victim of a weekend crash in Indiana.

The Indiana State Police reported the passenger killed in the crash Saturday afternoon on U.S. 421 as John Thomas Walker, 21, Arkansas City. Police say alcohol was involved.

Walker suffered fatal injuries as a result of a head-on collision when the vehicle in which he was riding crossed the centerline and struck a 2001 Dodge Ram pickup driven by Charles L. McRoberts, 37, Versailles, Ind.

Six other people suffered injuries.

The accident remains under investigation.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — After a slow start to 2014, several wind energy projects in Kansas are under construction and more are planned once utilities have signed contracts to purchase the power they generate.

The Wichita Eagle reports the state has nearly 3,000 megawatts of wind energy capacity in 25 wind farms, and four wind farms under construction bring an additional 475 megawatts. Six other wind farms under development and approved for construction have a combined capacity for 1,800 more megawatts.

Federal wind energy tax credits expired at the end of last year, but by law developers can still qualify for the credits if their wind farms were started in 2013 and are finished by 2016.

Developers says some of the projects are on hold until utilities agreed to purchase power from them.

NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation’s largest private employer.

Wal-Mart tells The Associated Press that, starting Jan. 1, it will no longer offer health insurance to employees who work less than an average of 30 hours a week.

The move, which would affect 30,000 employees, follows similar decisions by Target, Home Depot and others to eliminate health insurance benefits for part-time employees. A senior manager says the company will use a third-party group to help part-time workers find insurance alternatives.

The announcement comes after Wal-Mart said far more U.S. employees and their families are enrolling in its health care plans than it had expected following rollout of the Affordable Care Act.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Rumors that a patient at a Kansas City hospital had Ebola were false, but they forced health officials to respond to stories that spread online.

The Kansas City Star reports a feverish man, apparently from Nigeria, was taken to Research Medical Center’s Brookside Campus on Saturday night, prompting the hospital to take precautions. Police were told hospital was under lockdown because of suspicions about the patient, and officers blocked access to the man’s apartment.

A Kansas City television station reported the apartment lockdown but didn’t mention Ebola. A local blog reported Ebola case had come to Kansas City, and a Wichita, Kansas, station’s website followed suit.

A spokeswoman for Research Medical Center says the man didn’t have Ebola and was released from the hospital on Monday.

Bethel College Media Release

NORTH NEWTON, KS – Emergency drills and crisis plans are a little like insurance. You hope you never need them. But preparation paid off when during the overnight hours Monday, there were reports of shots being fired near the Bethel College Administration Building.

Early responders immediately enacted emergency procedures, locking down the campus, utilizing text alerts and loud-speaker systems as designed. Information was also posted to the college website and social media.

Local police officials began their investigation, determining no imminent danger and an all-clear was issued. Allegedly the shots came from CO2 pistols discharged near the college’s hallmark building. It is believed that the shots were not aimed at anyone. No arrests have been made, but college disciplinary procedures will be enacted once determination is made of those responsible.

“Our people responded to the report immediately – no questions asked – and enacted emergency procedures just as we have trained and drilled. Our very first precaution is the safety of our students and staff,” President Perry D. White said. “The best news is that the process worked exactly as it should have. Compliments to our student life staff for the way they enacted the process and to the campus for the way they responded, following their training precisely.”

Events took place during the college’s fall break, which concludes Tuesday evening.

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MOORESTOWN, N.J. (AP) — The Latin motto engraved on the wall of a new library in southern New Jersey got lost in translation.

Officials had thought the phrase “Nos Secundus Coniecto Omnia” meant “we confirm all things twice.” But it actually means “we second-guess all.”

Moorestown architect Rick Ragan tells the Burlington County Times he learned of the problem from residents who translated it online.

Ragan says he’ll pay a stone cutter to change the phrase to “We encourage all.” He’ll also have the Roman numerals fixed to reflect the proper year.

Mayor Chris Chiacchio tells the newspaper a mistake is only a mistake if you do not have the courage to correct it.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new poll says the Kansas governor’s race between Republican incumbent Sam Brownback and Democratic challenger Paul Davis is a toss-up.

The poll released this week by NBC and Marist College in in Poughkeepsie, New York, showed Davis as the choice of 44 percent of the 636 likely voters surveyed. Brownback was the choice of 43 percent.

Libertarian candidate Keen Umbehr polled at 4 percent, and 7 percent were undecided.

The poll was conducted from Sept. 27 to Oct. 1 and had a 3.9 percent margin of error.

Nearly 1,100 registered voters were surveyed about how they viewed Brownback. Fifty-one percent said they disapproved of the job he’s doing as governor, while 40 percent approved. The margin of error for the question was 3 percent.