STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tax Day is a necessary burden for most Americans.

But it’s an accounting nightmare for thousands of gay and lesbian couples as they wrestle with the uneven legal status of same-sex marriage in the United States.

They live a country that recognizes their marriages, but some reside in the 13 states that don’t.

It’s an issue that will be argued before the Supreme Court later this month.

The situation is complicated at tax time because most state income tax returns use information from a taxpayer’s federal return.

Straight couples simply copy numbers from one form to another.

But that doesn’t work for same-sex couples reporting combined incomes and deductions on their federal returns. These couples must untangle their finances on their state returns, where they’re still considered single.

TOWANDA- Three people including a deputy sheriff were injured in an accident just after 6 p.m. on Saturday in Butler County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Ford F 150 driven by Jan A. Adair, 72, Wichita, was eastbound on Kansas 254 one mile east of Towanda.

The vehicle crossed through the left turn lane onto the left shoulder into the median striking a Butler County Sheriff’s Department 2013 Dodge Charger driven by Deputy Benjamin L. Griffith, 31, Cassoday.

The deputy was stopped in the median waiting to complete a left hand turn to the south onto Ohio.

Adair, a passenger in the Ford Manuel Juan Caldera Jr., 46, Wichita, and Deputy Griffith were transported to Wesley Medical Center. Griffith was released a short time later.

The KHP reported all were properly restrained at the time of the crash. The accident remains under investigation.

PANAMA CITY (AP) — President Barack Obama says he thinks Hillary Rodham Clinton would be “an excellent president.”

Clinton is expected to launch her long-anticipated second run for president on Sunday with an online video.

Obama says Clinton was a formidable candidate against him when they competed for the Democratic nomination in 2008.

He says she became a great supporter of his in the general election that year, and that she was an outstanding secretary of state during his first term.

Says Obama: “I think she would be an excellent president.”

He adds that Clinton will have strong messages to deliver if she does decide to run.

LEROY- A Kansas teenager was injured in an accident just before 3 p.m. on Saturday in Woodson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Chevy Malibu driven by Gaven L. Cranor, 16, Neosho Falls, was northbound on Rock Road three miles south of Leroy.

The driver lost control of the vehicle it rolled.

Cranor was transported to Wesley Medical Center for treatment.

The KHP reported he was not wearing a seat belt.

NICHOLAS CLAYTON, Associated Press
JOHN HANNA, Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 20-year-old Kansas man charged with plotting a suicide bombing at Fort Riley struck others as strange and even troubled.

But some of John T. Booker Jr.’s acquaintances didn’t see the side of him that FBI informants did.

Instead, acquaintances saw a young man who discussed his faith as a Muslim or debated Islamic philosophy at the Topeka mosque he attended.

Booker told a confidante who was in fact an FBI informant six months ago that he wasn’t liked at his mosque because he expressed support for the terrorist group al-Qaida. Imam Omar Hazim said such views would have gotten him barred.

A college student who knew Booker in high school said Saturday that while Booker regularly discussed and defended his faith, he didn’t make radical statements.

WICHITA – A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just before 1 p.m. on Saturday in Sedgwick County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Buick Le Sabre driven by Helen Nickelson, 82, Valley Center, was southbound on Interstate 235 at Central in Wichita.

The vehicle was in the right lane, attempted to make a left turn and collided with a 2014 Ford Escape driven by Oscar M. Garcia, 47, Wichita, that was also southbound.

A passenger in the Ford Maria Elena Alvarez De Garcia, 43, Wichita, was transported to St. Francis Medical Center.

Nickelson and Garcia were not injured.

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

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas police chief says recent shootings involving law enforcement officers are reducing the number of people applying for openings in his department.

Topeka Police Chief James Brown says in the past when his department announced 15 to 20 openings it would get 700 applications, but in four recent testing dates only 250 applied.

He told The Topeka Capital-Journal more young people would be interested in law enforcement if not for the current “turbulent times.”

The August shooting death of Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson sparked tensions and led to a Justice Department report that found patterns of police discrimination against blacks.

On Tuesday a white officer in South Carolina was charged with murder after he was video recorded fatally shooting a fleeing black man.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The family of a Kansas woman who was seriously injured in a car crash that killed her 1-month-old daughter says a GoFundMe page set up in the woman’s name appears to be an attempt at fraud.

University of Kansas Hospital released a statement Friday on behalf of 22-year-old Breonna Emery’s family, which says it has filed a complaint with the state attorney general’s office. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the fund has raised more than $13,000 from more than 400 donors.

Emery was driving west on US-24 west of Perry on Monday when she drove onto the gravel shoulder, overcorrected and slid into the path of an eastbound pickup truck.

The collision killed 1-month-old Kaysein Harris, who was in her safety seat, and injured a 3-year-old passenger.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man suspected of carjacking two vehicles and twice firing at Topeka police is shot by officers after he rammed two cars.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the suspect was taken to an area hospital with gunshot wounds, but authorities haven’t released his name, age or medical condition.

Police Chief James Brown says officers responded to the first carjacking at 9:24 p.m. Friday near a Hy-Vee parking lot. The suspect was gone but was seen driving erratically half an hour later before he lost control and crashed.

Brown says the man started shooting at officers before carjacking a second vehicle.

He was spotted driving a short time later at Interstate 70 and Wanamaker Road, where he rammed two cars and fired again at police before being shot by officers.