TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are close to the end of their annual spring break and plan to reconvene this week at the Statehouse to wrap up their business for the year.

The House and Senate are scheduled to be back in session Wednesday.

Lawmakers must balance the next state budget, and their research staff says they must close a $422 million shortfall for the fiscal year beginning July 1. But they have a full plate of other issues as well.

Wednesday would be the 73rd day of their annual session, out of 90 scheduled. The 90th day would be May 16.

Lawmakers have met more than 90 days in previous years, and their longest annual session was in 2002, at 107 days. Last year’s session lasted only 79.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — General Motors is planning a celebration next month at the Fairfax Assembly Plant in Kansas City, Kansas, to mark the completion of its 500 millionth vehicle globally.

The auto maker says GM CEO Mary Barra and North America President Alan Batey will be on hand May 4 for a news conference.

The Fairfax plant builds the Buick LaCrosse and the Chevrolet Malibu. The plant has about 3,900 hourly and salaried employees and recently completed $600 million in improvements, including a new paint shop.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A nearly 400-year-old collection of William Shakespeare’s plays will make a stop in Manhattan.

Kansas State University will host an exhibition featuring a rare “First Folio” of the Bard’s plays in February 2016.

The folio was assembled by two of Shakespeare’s actors in 1623 and is an original printing of the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. Included are plays such as “Macbeth,” ”Julius Caesar” and “The Tempest.”

Of 800 copies made originally it’s estimated between 200 and 300 remain. The exhibition will tour all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Island.

The university reports that planning is beginning this spring on a monthlong program of events. The tour is organized by the Folger Shakespeare Library, in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Department of Transportation plans to announce how many Kansans are buckling up.

The department announced Friday that it will announce the observed rate of seat belt use in the state at a press conference Monday.

Kansas Highway Patrol Superintendent Mark Bruce and Norraine Wingfield of the Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Office will make the announcement at 2 p.m.

In 2008, just 72 percent of Kansans were observed to be regularly wearing their seat belts.

The state had 405 traffic fatalities in 2012, and set a goal of dropping that number to 390 in 2014.

BELLVILLE- Two people were injured in an accident just before 2:30 p.m. on Sunday in Republic County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1995 pickup driven by Jonathan D. Shelly, 36, Bellville, was westbound on U36 six miles west of Bellville preparing to turn left onto 110 Road.

A 1997 Peterbilt semi driven by Colt J. Davies, Wamego, was also westbound and rear-ended the pickup.

Shelly and a passenger Leon L. Davis, 34, Henderson, KY., were transported to Republic County Hospital.

Davies was not injured.

The KHP reported all were properly restrained at the time of the accident.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita school board members are getting ready to make changes after a student who participates in extracurricular special needs basketball faced pushback for wearing a letter jacket.

The Wichita Eagle reports that the board is hearing a report Monday from a league for high school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The Tri-County Sports League report will include a recommendation that schools award regular varsity athletic letters to its athletes who meet eligibility and participation requirements.

Superintendent John Allison has told board members that once the Tri-County league finalizes its guidelines for eligibility, lettering and other issues, participating schools would abide by them.

The issue arose after East High student Michael Kelley started wearing a jacket bearing a varsity letter his mother had purchased. Kelley has Down syndrome.

LAKIN – Two Kansas men were injured in an accident just after 2 p.m. on Sunday in Kearney County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Chevy Malibu driven by Jonathon Rodriquez, 27, Deerfield, was making a right turn from Road 180 onto U. S. 50 one mile east of Old Highway 50.

The vehicle failed to yield for oncoming traffic.

A 2005 Jeep Liberty driven by Joseph Jackson, 38, Lakin, was eastbound on U.S. 50 and struck the Chevy.

Rodriquez was transported to Kearney County Hospital.

Jackson was transported to St. Catherine’s Hospital in Garden City.

The KHP reported the drivers were not wearing seat belts.

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Former two-term Kansas Gov. John Carlin has started a website to share his concerns about the direction state government is heading.

The Salina Journal reports that one of the hottest issues for John Carlin is financing education. Carlin says companies locate in state where there is quality education. He added that it worries him that there is an appearance that the state is backing away from supporting public education.

Carlin, now 74, is teaching at Kansas State University. As a Democrat in a Republican state, the dairy farmer from Smolan said he built grassroots support before selling causes and solutions in Topeka, and that required many reaches across the aisle.

Carlin says that in many ways, “the public has been left out the last few years.”

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An Oklahoma woman is challenging her convictions in the 2002 shootings of her ex-husband and his fiancee as they slept in their Topeka home.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Dana Chandler, of Duncan, Oklahoma, alleges that a Shawnee County District Court judge erred in imposing two “Hard 50” sentences. Chandler, now 55, received the sentences in 2012 for the killings of 47-year-old Mike Sisco and 53-year-old Karen Harkness. The sentences mean Chandler would have to serve 100 years before appearing in front of a parole board.

Chandler is asking the Kansas Supreme Court to vacate her convictions, grant her a new trial, or send the convictions back to Shawnee County District Court so she can be resentenced. The earliest the case could be argued would be in the fall.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The website of a Topeka arts districts has been restored after it was hacked.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the main page of the North Topeka Arts District site was replaced last week with an image of a masked man holding a firearm. A message in garbled English read, in part, “I am Muslim & I love jihad. I love ISIS 3.”

Brookings Institution analyst and nonresident fellow J.M. Berger is the co-author of a book on Islamic State extremists. He said website defacements generally tend to go where there are known security vulnerabilities. Messages such as the one placed on the arts district website are less likely to be placed for strategic messaging reasons.