KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas Highway Patrol has discovered more than 90 pounds of methamphetamine during a routine traffic stop.

The Kansas City Star reports the discovery was made Tuesday after a trooper pulled over a vehicle. According to a spokesman for the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department, the methamphetamine is believed to have a street value of $2 million to $3 million, and to have originated in Mexico. Its destination was not known.

The spokesman said officers, including the narcotics unit that was called for assistance, found 15 packages of methamphetamine inside a large wooden crate.

The driver of the vehicle was taken into custody and is being questioned.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Military representatives from more than 30 countries are visiting Fort Riley this week.

The officers will continue their visit Wednesday as a part of the “Spring 2015 Foreign Military Attaché Orientation” event, which will last until Thursday.

The officers will have the opportunity to interact with Fort Riley soldiers and learn about the installation.

The group will tour of the base and visit the 1st Infantry Division headquarters. They will also receive informational briefings and learn about Fort Riley’s mission readiness, sustainability and community partnerships.

Fort Riley was founded in 1853 and is the largest base in the state. It employs more than 25,000 military and civilian workers. About 500 troops from the base are currently deployed to Iraq as a part of the country’s military campaign against ISIS.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office says legislators have known for weeks that the state could spend up to $450,000 to defend a new law banning a procedure common in second trimester abortions.

Abortion providers have said they’re considering lawsuits.

Spokeswoman Jennifer Rapp said Tuesday that Schmidt’s office supplied figures to Gov. Sam Brownback’s budget staff at its request for an estimate of potential defense costs for lawmakers in February.

Legislative researchers included the numbers last week in a list of budget items for lawmakers to consider.

The new law bars doctors from using forceps, clamps or similar instruments on a live fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces. Kansas was the first state to enact such a measure, and the law takes effect in July.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A high-school student’s documentary, “Where the Buffaloed Roam: An Ode to the Kansas Budget,” is raising a stir.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the 51-minute movie was featured this month at the Kansas City FilmFest in Missouri. Released in February by Louisburg High School student Carson Tappan, the film was just posted Sunday on YouTube.
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The film highlights major income tax cuts that Republican Gov. Sam Brownback championed in 2012 and 2013 to help stimulate the economy. The cuts have contributed to massive revenue shortfalls.

President Dave Trabert of the conservative Kansas Policy Institute wrote a critical blog post about the film this month. He wrote that it “merely presents a political viewpoint that doesn’t let facts get in the way of the story it wants to tell.”

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The three companies that comprise Kansas’ Medicaid system lost millions of dollars last year but not as much as the year before.

The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/1FvNhei ) reports Amerigroup, Sunflower Health Plan and United Healthcare lost a combined $52 million in 2014 after losing roughly $116 million in 2013.

Of the managed care organizations operating under KanCare, United Healthcare fared the best last year with only $1.5 million in losses. Amerigroup lost $16 million and Sunflower lost about $35 million.

The Legislative Oversight Committee received the figures on Tuesday. Kansas Department of Health and Environment health care finance director Mike Randol made a presentation summarizing the information.

Randol says the organizations lost a total of about $170 million in the past two years.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka officials are encouraging anyone using the Kansas River to take precautions after an equipment failure allowed 3 million of gallons of raw sewage to seep into the waterway.

Water Pollution Control general manager Bob Sample says the leak began about 1 p.m. Friday when the South Kansas River pump station had a power outage. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports it wasn’t discovered until noon Sunday when an operator noticed unusually low flows at a wastewater treatment plant.

Sample says the leak went unnoticed because it was the weekend, and because a backup generator also failed and didn’t send notification to a monitoring system.

The city on Tuesday said it still didn’t know what caused the malfunction. Sample says it’s the largest Topeka overflow he has seen.