HOISINGTON- A Hoisington man was injured in an accident just after 3 p.m. on Sunday in Barton County.

Barton County Sheriff’s Department reported a1996 Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Burt Thompson, 25, was northbound in the 900 Block of Northwest 10 Avenue.

Thompson lost control of the vehicle. After over correcting, the vehicle went into a sideways skid, entered the west ditch, hit an embankment and went airborne. The vehicle rolled and came to rest in the field on the west side of Northwest 10 Avenue.

Hoisington Ambulance transported Thompson to Clara Barton Hospital. The Sheriff’s Department said he was transferred to Wesley Medical Center to due to a severe head injury.

DETROIT (AP) — Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia will pay the U.S. government a $100 million penalty to end a two-year investigation into overstated gas mileage claims on about one-third of their models.

The government says the civil penalty is the largest for a Clean Air Act violation in U.S. history.

The discrepancy was discovered after the EPA got complaints about lower-than-advertised mileage on Hyundai’s Elantra compact. Audits discovered overstated mileage on the Elantra and other models from 2011 into 2013.

Hyundai says it made honest mistakes in interpreting complex EPA mileage test requirements. Neither company admitted liability and both maintain they complied with the law.

Generally mileage was overstated by one or two miles per gallon on 13 vehicles. But one vehicle’s highway mileage was 6 mpg higher than the EPA tes

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal challenging the constitutionality of a  law that prohibits people from obstructing entry to abortion clinics.

The justices on Monday left in place a lower court ruling that said the Colorado law does not restrict free speech or otherwise violate the rights of abortion protesters.

Protester Jo Ann Scott was convicted of violating the law after a jury found that she made physical contact with a woman trying to enter a Planned Parenthood clinic in Denver. An appeals court affirmed.

Scott argued that the law contains vague and overly broad terms that give police too much discretion to enforce it.

The court is also leaving in place a portion of a New York City law aimed at regulating crisis pregnancy centers that are run by anti-abortion organizations.

The court rejected a free-speech appeal Monday in which the centers argued that the law’s requirement that they disclose whether a licensed medical provider works at the facilities is unconstitutional under the First Amendment.

City officials said the 2011 law protects consumers and demands truth in advertising.

Courts have blocked other parts of the law, including a requirement that centers disclose whether they provide referrals for abortion, emergency contraception or prenatal care.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A monthly economic survey index for nine Midwestern and Plains has dropped again.

A survey report issued early Monday says the overall Mid-America Business Conditions Index fell in October to 51.8 from 54.3 in September. The figure was from 57.2 in August.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he says sharp declines in grain and crude oil prices drove down the overall index for the month. He says the index figure points to slow economic gains ahead.

The survey results from supply managers are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests economic growth, while a score below that suggests decline.

The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Health officials are trying to determine why Medicaid enrollment grew at extremely low rates last year in Kansas.

The Kansas Health Institute reports Medicaid enrollment grew by 0.1 percent from 2012 to 2013. The normal yearly growth rate is about 3 percent, which reflects population growth and families becoming eligible or dropping out of Medicaid.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports a KHI analyst said Medicaid’s transition to private management in Kansas last year, called KanCare, did not appear to effect enrollment because eligibility requirements were the same.

About 61,286 children were enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program in Kansas in 2013, and 225,116 children and families were enrolled in Medicaid. Another 103,364 people were enrolled in Medicaid programs for the disabled and low-income senior citizens.

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona woman is searching for her wedding ring after she says she accidentally gave it away with Halloween candy.

KNXV-TV reports that Mesa resident Brooklin Yazzie says she mistakenly handed out the ring Friday during a mix-up.

Yazzie says she placed her wedding ring in a candy jar while helping her daughters carve pumpkins, and when the night became hectic she absentmindedly dumped the contents of the jar into the candy bag.

She says there were also plastic rings inside the candy bag.

Yazzie says she is hoping someone has the ring because it isn’t worth much money but has more value to her.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A former University of Kansas student is fighting his expulsion over social media posts about his ex-girlfriend.

The university expelled Navid Yeasin in November 2013 for violating an order not to contact his ex-girlfriend in any way. Yeasin sued earlier this year and a Douglas County judge ruled in September that the school did not have jurisdiction to expel him.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports the university’s lawyer has filed a motion asking the court to reconsider its ruling and continue Yeasin’s expulsion until the judge rules.

The university cited its Student Conduct Code to expel Yeasin. The code says a student can be punished for incidents that occur while on campus or at university-sponsored events. Yeasin says the incidents that led to his expulsion didn’t occur on campus.