TOPEKA – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 4 p.m. on Wednesday in Shawnee County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1998 Honda Accord driven by Erik Cervantes, 23, Topeka, was westbound on Interstate 70 at MacVicar. The driver lost control of the vehicle. It left the roadway, struck a guardrail, a concrete utility post and struck a tree.

Cervantes was transported to St. Francis Medical Center.

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

TOM RAUM, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s new postmaster general says the Postal Service is looking beyond its regular mail and package delivery for new sources of revenue.

And that means building on what Megan J. Brennan calls its “core competency” — the delivery of goods.

The Postal Service is testing grocery delivery in San Francisco and delivering cases of drinking water to customers in parts of New York City.

During the 2014 holiday season, it joined with Amazon to deliver packages and expand Sunday deliveries of them.

The 52-year-old Brennan — the first woman to be postmaster general — is easing into her first days on the job.

She’s a 29-year veteran of the Postal Service who started her career as a letter carrier in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.

SCHUYLER DIXON, AP Sports Writer

WICHITA -Dallas running back Joseph Randle has been arrested for the second time in less than four months, this time on suspicion of marijuana possession after a domestic violence call to police in his hometown in Kansas.

Wichita police spokesman Lt. James Espinoza said Randle was arrested early Tuesday after the 22-year-old mother of Randle’s child called 911 to report she fought with him in a hotel room. Espinoza said the woman showed no signs of being injured.

The 23-year-old Randle was arrested after a small amount of marijuana was found.

In October, Randle was arrested on a misdemeanor shoplifting charge at a Dallas-area mall. He just finished his second season as the backup to DeMarco Murray, who led the NFL in rushing in 2014.

WICHITA – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Sedgwick County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1999 Kenworth Semi driven by Maria E Vasquez, 51, Wichita, was northbound on Interstate 135 just north of Interstate 235.

The semi changed lanes and struck a 1998 Chevy pickup driven by Jesse C. Dyke, 32, Wichita.

Dyke was transported to Wesley Medical Center.
Vasquez was not injured.

The KHP reported Dyke was not wearing a seat belt.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators don’t agree about how much to restrict the bundling of multiple measures into a single bill.

The Senate voted 35-4 on Wednesday to approve proposed rules governing interactions with the House after stripping out a provision against bundling. Critics say bundling leads to sloppy legislation.

House members added the anti-bundling provision last week before approving the joint rules. The two chambers must draft a final, compromise version.

The House wants to prevent negotiators from the two chambers from bundling more than two measures together in the final version of a bill.

Bundling occurs because the same teams of lawmakers negotiate over multiple measures on broad topics such as insurance and agriculture.

Senate leaders said they’re fine with a limit, but think the House’s proposal is too strict.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are considering a bill that would narrow negotiations between school boards and teachers.

The House Education Committee conducted a hearing Wednesday on the bill, which would remove 30 issues from a list of things over which the teachers’ union and school boards would be required to bargain.

That would leave only salary and work hours on the annual bargaining agenda. Both sides would have to agree beforehand to discuss benefits or other issues.

Representatives of teachers and school boards testified against the bill, saying they had agreed to a compromise last month that would allow each side to bring five issues to the negotiating table.

Rep. Ron Highland, a Wamego Republican who is chairman of the committee, said he still believes the bill would speed up negotiations.

WICHITA  – A Kearny County man was indicted Tuesday on federal child pornography charges, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom,

Mark A. Wireman, 44, Lakin, Kan., was charged with five counts of distributing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography.

According to court records, the investigation began in October 2014 when Google made a report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) CyberTipline. The report was about a file containing child porn that had been uploaded on a Google email server. Investigators followed an electronic trail to Wireman, who was a previously convicted sex offender.

Wireman allegedly was exchanging emails containing child pornography with a man who he met in prison. The emails included photos of young children including toddlers in sexual situations. In one of Wireman’s emails, he urged the other man to take pornographic photos of a child to whom the man had access.

If convicted, Wireman faces a penalty of not less than 15 years and not more than 40 years on the distribution charge and not less than 10 years and not more than 20 years on the possession charge. Homeland Security investigations, the Wichita Police Department’s Exploited and Missing Child Unit and the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hart is prosecuting

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Senate has confirmed Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s secretary for aging and disability services and three of his appointees to the state Board of Regents.

The votes Wednesday all were 40-0.

Kari Bruffett has been interim secretary at the Department for Aging and Disability Services since May. She replaced Shawn Sullivan, who became Brownback’s budget director.

The Board of Regents oversees the state’s higher education system. The Senate confirmed appointments made by Brownback in August that included former Democratic state Rep. Bill Feuerborn of Garnett.

The other two new regents are Goodland lawyer Joseph Bain and Sedan city attorney Zoe Forrester Newton.