ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police have ticketed two teenage girls in connection with a drag racing accident that sent two people to the hospital.

Arkansas City police cited 18-year-old Hunter Lenox and 19-year-old Ashley McCoy for drag racing over the weekend. Lenox was also cited for reckless driving.

Police said Sunday that Lenox lost control of her SUV because she was speeding. They say it launched into the air and struck a tree.

Fire crews removed Lenox and a front-seat passenger from her SUV within about an hour. Both were taken to an area hospital and treated for minor injuries. A 16-year-old passenger from the back seat was able to exit the vehicle and wasn’t taken to the hospital.

McCoy’s car didn’t crash and she was cited later.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Lenox or McCoy have attorneys.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police have arrested a woman who they say robbed three convenience stores while wearing a Batman mask.

Police say a female clerk foiled an attempted robbery on Saturday night when she pulled a gun on the masked intruder. They say the 24-year-old suspect robbed two other convenience stores of cash and cigarettes last week while wearing the blue Batman mask.

The woman fled into a car waiting outside after the clerk drew the weapon. Police also arrested a 23-year-old man who was in the car.

It’s unclear if the woman was armed during any of the robberies.

Police haven’t released their identities.

CANDICE CHOI, AP Food Industry Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Pizza Hut is letting customers play mad scientist, giving them the freedom to make pies with honey Sriracha sauce or add curry flavor to the crusts.

The atypical flavors and new ingredients are part of a menu overhaul set to be announced Monday and hit stores Nov. 19. Executives are hoping the revamp — which includes an updated logo and more relaxed uniforms for workers — will be the trick that finally jumpstarts sales.

Even as rivals Domino’s and Papa John’s have enjoyed growth, Pizza Hut has reported sales declines for eight straight quarters at established locations.

To regain its footing, Pizza Hut is turning to a growing trend in the industry — giving people greater flexibility to tailor orders exactly to their tastes.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Riley County authorities say a man has been hospitalized after wrecking his airboat in Tuttle Creek Lake.

Emergency Management Director Pat Collins said Sunday it took first responders more than two hours to rescue the man from a portion of the lakeshore without drivable access on Saturday night. He says the man was suffering from hypothermia when he was hospitalized. Collins didn’t provide an update on the man’s condition Sunday.

Collins says a passerby heard the man yelling and swam across the lake to find him before calling 911.

It’s unclear what caused the wreck. The man’s identity hasn’t been released.

LENEXA, Kan. (AP) — Police in northeastern Kansas say a woman has been hospitalized in critical condition after being struck by a train.

Lenexa police say the woman was standing on the tracks Sunday night when the BNSF Railway train hit her. The train’s engineer called 911 to report the accident.

Fire crews had to use all-terrain vehicles to access the area to find the woman. Her identity hasn’t been released.

Railway and local authorities are investigating.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police have arrested a man who they say used a 40-pound headstone to break through a family’s glass door in the middle of the night.

A woman and her 3-year-old son were sleeping in the bedroom early Sunday when police say the 23-year-old man broke in. The man told the woman that he was being shot at and needed to use her phone.

She tells KAKE-TV the man ran out of the room when she said she was going to get her gun.

Police say they found the man hiding behind a wheelbarrow in the victim’s backyard. They say he was likely high.

The woman says the headstone is a memorial for a pet.

The man’s identity hasn’t been released. No charges have been reported.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas State Board of Education is expected to vote on its final choice for state education commissioner Thursday.

The state is seeking a replacement for Diane DeBacker, who left her position in May to become an adviser to the director general of the Abu Dhabi Education Council in the United Arab Emirates.

The Lawrence Journal-World (https://bit.ly/13WBu9l ) reports that four candidates are vying for the job. They include Georgia Schools Superintendent John Barge, who unsuccessfully challenged Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal in the spring primary. Also on the list is associate Shawnee Mission school district superintendent Gillian Chapman, interim Kansas education commissioner Bradley Neuenswander and McPherson school district superintendent Randall Watson.

The candidates were interviewed last week.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new revenue forecast being drafted by Kansas officials will tell Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and the GOP-dominated Legislature the size of the budget problems they’re facing.

Legislative researchers, officials in the Brownback administration and university economists were meeting Monday afternoon to draft the new forecast.

It will revise revenue projections for the budget year that began in July and issue the first official numbers for the budget year beginning July 2015.

The Legislature’s nonpartisan research staff made unofficial predictions going into the meeting of a $14 million budget shortfall by July, compounding to $282 million by July 2016.

The new forecast is widely expected to be more pessimistic.

The budget problems come after legislators enacted massive personal income tax cuts at Brownback’s urging to stimulate the economy.

JOHN HANNA, Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve its gay-marriage ban while a legal challenge from two lesbian couples is considered by lower federal courts.

Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Friday that he’ll act before a federal judge’s injunction barring the state from enforcing its ban takes effect Tuesday.

Schmidt announced his plans after the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver refused to stay the injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree earlier this week. Crabtree delayed his injunction to allow the state to appeal.

Schmidt said he has a duty to exhaust all the state’s options because the state constitution bans gay marriage. Voters approved the constitutional provision in 2005.

He said his request would go to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

WICHITA- A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just before 3:30 p.m. on Sunday in Sedgwick County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Ford Taurus driven by Linda L. Griebel, 60, Wichita, was southbound on Interstate 235 at Zoo Blvd.

An unidentified vehicle made an unsafe lane change to the right, cutting off the Taurus.

The Taurus made an avoidance maneuver to the left and struck the KDOT bridge wall, then struck the right KDOT bridge wall. The other vehicle did not stop after the collision.

Griebel was transported to St. Francis Medical Center

The KHP reported she was properly restrained at the time of the accident.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that Kansas and Arizona residents can register to vote using a federal form without providing proof of citizenship.

Most residents in the two states register using a separate state form requiring them to show a birth certificate, a U.S. passport or naturalization papers. Kansas and Arizona had asked the U.S. government to also impose that same requirement on voters who register using the simpler federal form, which only requires a sworn statement.

But the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found Friday that the states have no authority to demand the federal government apply the citizenship proof requirements to the federal form.

The ruling effectively gives potential voters a simpler way to register without providing citizenship documentation in order to vote in federal races.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Dole Institute of Politics is planning a panel discussion about police militarization in the U.S.

On Monday night, experts will talk about the appropriateness of using equipment usually reserved for battlefields in neighborhoods.

Dole Institute Director Bill Lacy said in a news release that the subject is timely after police outfitted in paramilitary gear clashed with protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. The protests erupted in August after a white officer shot and killed a black 18-year-old.

The event is free and open to the public. The Dole Institute’s Student Advisory Board also is involved in the event.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health officials say the state has a plan for dealing with Ebola, although they are downplaying the risk the deadly disease poses to the public.

Officials at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment began working with local health departments, the medical community and numerous other groups in August, more than a month before the first Ebola case in the United States was reported. The Lawrence Journal-World (https://bit.ly/13WypWL) reports that the goal of the meetings was to develop a plan for how to respond if a case actually occurs in Kansas.

State epidemiologist Charlie Hunt discussed the preparation efforts Friday while briefing the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Kansas Security.

Hunt says the plan calls for voluntary 21-day isolation and restriction of movement for people at risk of being exposed.