WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge gave final approval to a $90 million settlement in the lawsuit by former Boeing workers over retirement plan benefits after the sale of the company’s Wichita operations.

U.S. District Judge Monti Belot found on Thursday that the settlement agreement is “fair, reasonable, and adequate,” and was entered into in good faith.

The settlement in class-action lawsuit covers former Boeing workers who were participants in the company’s retirement plan in June 2005. The settlement covers Boeing workers who had at least 10 years of vesting service and were between the ages of 49 and 55 at the time they went to work at Spirit AeroSystems or its predecessor Mid-Western Aircraft systems.

Belot preliminarily approved it in May, and this final ruling comes after a fairness hearing last month.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The headquarters of Kansas City-based Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill and Bar is moving to California.

The company also says Steven R. Layt, president of Applebee’s, will not move and has resigned.

The Kansas City Star reports that a statement from DineEquity Inc., the California company that owns the Applebee’s and IHOP chains, said the move to Glendale, California, is aimed at spurring brand growth and developing traditional and non-traditional locations.

Applebee’s headquarters moved to Kansas City from Lenexa, Kanas, in 2011, after receiving a $12.9 million incentive package.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback says the public pension system in Kansas is on a solid financial footing, though he’s still open to changes such as moving toward a 401(k)-style plan for new teachers and government workers.

The Republican governor had a news conference Friday to discuss the financial health of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. The event was less than a month after the state sold $1 billion in bonds to bolster the system’s finances.

Brownback and KPERS officials argue issuing the bonds makes it easier to close a $9.5 billion gap in funding for retirees’ benefits over the next 18 years. Even without the bonds, the state expected to eliminate the shortfall.

The governor said his administration is always looking at additional changes, including a 401(k)-style plan.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is preparing to tout the state’s sale of $1 billion in bonds as a boost to the financial health of the pension system for teachers and government workers.

Brownback scheduled a Friday morning news conference at the Statehouse with Executive Director Alan Conroy of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System.

The state sold the bonds last month. State officials expect the pension system to earn more from investing the proceeds than it will pay in interest to investors.

The move is aimed at making it easier to close a long-term funding gap facing the system. Supporters compare it to paying off high-interest credit card debt with a lower-interest loan.

But some financial analysts have said the state is increasing its financial risks.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Preliminary data of wheat samples from 47 counties in Kansas shows test weights and protein were both down for this year’s crop.

The report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service and Kansas Grain Inspection Service released Thursday is the only wheat quality report the agencies plan to release for the 2015 wheat harvest.

It shows an average test weight of 59.9 pounds per bushel, down from the 60.5 pounds per bushel a year ago.

Protein content averaged 12.7 percent, down from last year’s 13.4.

Just 53 percent of the samples graded as No. 1 wheat — well below the 73 percent that got the top rating a year ago.

About 38 percent of the samples graded as No. 2 wheat and 9 percent graded as No. 3 or below.

The Associated Press

Nissan is recalling nearly 300,000 of its Versa and Versa Note vehicles to adjust a console panel that could catch the driver’s shoe and slow braking speed.

The carmaker says it received a report of an accident involving injury, but no deaths have been tied to the issue.

It says in rare cases, the right edge of a driver’s shoe might catch on the center console’s lower trim panel.

Nissan North America Inc. says it will notify owners and dealers and modify the console trim panel for free.

The company expects to start the recall by mid-October.

It involves Versa sedans made between June 9, 2011, and March 11, 2015, and Versa Note vehicles made between April 23, 2013 and March 11, 2015.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The head of the Kansas Geological Survey says no one should become complacent just because fewer earthquakes are rattling southern Kansas.

Rex Buchanan says oil-waste regulations that seem to have contributed to lowering the number of earthquakes are set to expire Sept. 13.

The Kansas Corporation Commission approved regulations in March to limit the underground disposal of saltwater that comes up with the oil. The Wichita Eagle reports injecting that water back into the ground is considered a likely cause of increased earthquakes in Kansas and Oklahoma. Most of the Kansas earthquakes have been in Harper and Sumner counties.

Buchanan says it would be short-sighted to assume the problem is solved. He says the state needs to be better prepared than it was in the past.

NEW YORK (AP) — Kraft Heinz is expanding a recall of Kraft Singles products, saying a problem with the packaging film affects 10 times as many cases as it first thought.

The company recalled 335,000 cases Thursday because a thin strip of packaging film may stick to the slice after the wrapper has been taken off, creating a choking hazard. Kraft Heinz took 36,000 cases off the market July 31 for the same reason.

The privately-held company said it’s received two new reports of customers choking. It disclosed three such reports in July.

The recall covers 1-, 3- and 4-pound Kraft Singles American and White American cheese product sold in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and 10 other countries and territories. The cases have “Best When Used by Dates” from Dec. 29 through Jan. 4.