OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — An Olathe school isn’t taking any chances and is testing about 350 students and staff for tuberculosis after they came into contact with an infected student.

The director of the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment says there’s a very low chance the student spread the disease to others at Olathe Northwest High School.

KCTV-TV reports the screenings this week will involve students and staff having their blood drawn. The student diagnosed last week with tuberculosis hasn’t returned to school and is being treated at home.

Parents and students attended a public meeting to learn more about tuberculosis, an airborne disease that can be spread by coughing and sneezing. Symptoms include a bad cough for three weeks or longer, chest pain, weakness or fatigue, and coughing up blood.

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — The Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office has identified the body of a woman found in a field over the weekend.

The sheriff’s office identified the woman as 22-year-old Karissa Warren of Kansas City, Kansas. Her body was discovered Sunday in rural Leavenworth County, and her death is being investigated as a homicide.

Investigators have said they believe Warren’s body was in the field for less than 24 hours. Authorities haven’t said whether they believe Warren was killed in the field or if her body was disposed of there.

Warren’s family say they don’t know who would want to hurt her or why, but her cousin notes Warren was a witness to her boyfriend’s killing.

Anyone with information about Warren’s death is asked to contact authorities.

WICHITA- Two people were injured in an accident just before 10 p.m. on Tuesday in Sedgwick County

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Chevy passenger vehicle driven by Marion A Taylor, 20, Wichita, was westbound on Murdock being pursued by law enforcement.

The vehicle entered the intersection at Washington and struck a 2015 Chevy truck driven by Tammy L. Thomas, 56, Wichita and a 2009 Pontiac driven by Whitaker, Stephanie L. Whitaker, 31, Wichita.

Passengers in the Chevy Raashad D. Robinson, 19, and Bennett, Marquel E. Bennett, 20, both of Wichita were transported to St. Francis Medical Center. The KHP reported Taylor was injured but not where he was treated. He was arrested after a brief chase on foot.

Thomas and Whitaker were not injured.

The occupants of the Chevy were not wearing seat belts according to the KHP.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be headlining the National Farmers Union convention meeting in Wichita.

Kansas is hosting the group’s national conventional for the first time since 1946. The four-day event begins Saturday at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Wichita. Its theme is “Driving the Future of Agriculture.”

Vilsack will be speaking Monday to the group. He will be joined later that day by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. They will be addressing agricultural and environmental issues.

Convention breakout sessions include farm safety, weather patterns, perennial grain crops, among other topics.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has filed a federal lawsuit to block plans by the Quapaw Tribe in northeast Oklahoma to expand a casino across the state line.

The lawsuit filed by Schmidt this week challenges a decision in November by the National Indian Gaming Commission to clear the way for casino games on 124 acres in Cherokee County in southeast Kansas.

Schmidt contends the commission exceeded its legal authority.

A spokesman said the commission hasn’t seen the lawsuit.

The tribe bought the land in 2006 for a parking lot for its Downstream Casino Resort across the state line. It later asked the federal government to allow gambling there and wants to expand its casino.

Meanwhile, the Kansas Lottery is reviewing three applications for a state-owned casino in the area.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A manufacturer of over-the-counter infant’s and children’s liquid medications has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge that it sold products that contained metal particles.

Court documents unsealed Tuesday say McNeil Consumer Healthcare, of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, will acknowledge selling adulterated bottles of Infants’ and Children’s Tylenol and Children’s Motrin. The company agreed to pay $25 million to resolve the case.

Court documents say metal particles, including nickel, iron and chromium, were introduced during the manufacturing process. Prosecutors said McNeil failed to take immediate steps to fix the problem.

McNeil issued a recall in April 2010. The Food and Drug Administration said the potential for serious medical problems was remote but advised consumers to stop using the medicine.
McNeil is a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson.

RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press
KEVIN VINEYS, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new government report shows that nearly 8 million people could lose up to $24 billion in health insurance subsidies this year in a case before the Supreme Court.

The case threatens the future of President Barack Obama’s health care law in some three dozen states. Health overhaul opponents argue that subsidies are illegal in states where the federal government took charge of sign-ups.

Tuesday’s report from the Department of Health and Human Services shows that about 7.7 million people in those 37 states are getting an average of $263 a month to help pay premiums. That’s around $2 billion a month, although the number will fluctuate over the year.

The biggest loser: Florida, with nearly 1.5 million residents getting an average of $294 a month.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The new president of the Kansas Farm Bureau says the state needs to rebalance its tax structure in the wake of revenue shortfalls created by massive income tax cuts enacted last year.

Rich Felts says he worries property taxes may still take the brunt of tax hikes in the waning days of the legislative session as lawmakers struggle to fill the budget hole. For years, Kansas had “a three-legged stool” of income, sales and property taxes that worked.

But Felts stresses that is only his personal opinion because his grassroots organization didn’t take a position on the income tax cuts when members met last December. Its members didn’t realize the extent of the shortfall.

He says a lot of people were in denial then, including Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration.

JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed a presidential memorandum clamping down on companies that service student loans issued by the federal government.

MARION – A Marion County man Tuesday pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, according to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt.

Kenneth Newell, 47, Marion, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child under 14 years of age. The crimes occurred in March 2014. Chief Judge Michael Powers accepted the plea in Marion County District Court. Sentencing is scheduled for April 20 at 11:30 a.m.

The case was investigated by the Marion Police Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation with assistance from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the Exploited and Missing Child Unit in Wichita. Assistant Attorney General Melissa Johnson of Schmidt’s office is prosecuting the case.