HUTCHINSON- A Kansas teen was injured in an accident on Sunday in Reno County.

The Reno County Sheriff’s office reported Madison Valentine, 16, was driving a 4wheeler on the west shoulder of Kent Road just north of 43^rd Street.

The vehicle hit an unknown object and crashed.

Valentine was transported to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. She suffered a fractured wrist and a fractured pelvic bone, according to the Sheriff’s office.

VALLEY CENTER, Kan. (AP) — A 56-year-old man has been arrested in a shooting northwest of Valley Center that left another man in critical condition.

According to Sedgwick County Sgt. Nathan Gerdsen, a man called 911 just before 4 p.m. Saturday to report that he had been shot. Gerdsen says officers arrived at the scene and found the victim with gunshot wounds to the face and upper chest. He was taken to Via Christi Hospital St. Francis in Wichita.

The suspect faces several charges, including attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.

NEOGA, Ill. (AP) — Crop experts say there should be enough pumpkins for Halloween, but that supplies of canned pumpkin could be scarce by Thanksgiving.

Illinois is the country’s top pumpkin-producing state. Mohammad Babadoost is a plant pathology professor at the University of Illinois. He says “we’ll have a pumpkin for everybody” for Halloween, but cautions that canned pumpkin could run low by Nov. 26’s Thanksgiving holiday. He says he’d “buy it whenever it comes to the store.”

Meanwhile the large canned pumpkin manufacturer Libby says yields in Illinois appear to be less than anticipated this year.

Farmers are blaming record rainfall in June for washing out crops. Jane Moran owns Moran Orchard in Neoga. She says they replanted and it rained more so they’re buying pumpkins at auction twice a week.

DALLAS (AP) — Passengers flying Southwest Airlines are being advised to get to the airport early and bring along pre-printed boarding passes. The Dallas-based company says it’s using back-up systems around the country to check-in travelers lacking printed or mobile boarding passes but technology problems that began Sunday morning continue, delaying hundreds of flights. Representatives for Southwest did not say what caused the problem or how long it would take to resolve.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — At least 16 children in the Kansas City metropolitan area have died in homicides in the last 12 months, with many of them being killed as their homes were shot up by reckless gunfire.

Police say this year does not appear statistically worse than most in the past decade. A common denominator for most is parents who are either perpetrators of the violence or the target of gunfire that instead claims their children.

The Kansas City Star reports five of the 16 cases remain unresolved. The killings have swelled the ranks of anti-violence neighborhood activists holding vigils and releasing balloons on city streets to draw attention to them.

Prosecutors say the senseless slayings of innocent children draw attention to the larger problem of violence in the area.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Douglas County residents are being encouraged to either get rid of their ash trees or commit to a lifetime of treating them against the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect that has devastated tree populations elsewhere.

State and U.S. departments of agriculture confirmed the presence of the insect last month in a tree in Eudora, southeast of Lawrence.

Kansas State University Extension horticulture agent Marlin Bates says with the insect so close, it’s best to assume every ash tree in the northeast Kansas county is in danger of infestation.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports the mortality rate for infected trees is 100 percent.

Bates says ash trees need to be treated every year, and owners who don’t want to do that should consider removing the tree before it becomes infected.