KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police in Kansas City, Kansas, say a man is dead after being run over by his own car outside his home.

Authorities say the man was getting to leave for work shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday when he tried to adjust something with the engine to get the car running. Police say that’s when the vehicle popped into gear and ran over him.

His name was not immediately released.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A white University of Kansas assistant professor who used a racial slur during a class discussion on race will not have her contract renewed after the next academic year.

Andrea Quenette, an assistant professor of communication studies, told The Lawrence Journal-World the university notified her last week that she would not be reappointed to her position at the end of the spring 2017 semester.

Some graduate students complained about Quenette after she used the racial slur in November, a day after the university held a contentious forum on race and discrimination.

Quenette and supporters set up a GoFundMe page for her “academic freedom”

A school review concluded in mid-March that Quenette didn’t violate the university’s nondiscrimination or racial and ethnic harassment policies.

A university spokesman would not confirm or deny Quenette’s employment situation, saying it is a personnel matter.

SALINA  -A preliminary hearing for a Kansas woman accused in the stabbing death of a Salina woman may be delayed due to the length of time it will take to get a completed autopsy report.

A hearing for Thuy Linh Thi Duong, 46, Salina, has been scheduled for June 13.

Details on the autopsy of stabbing victim 43-year-old Loan Nguyen-Lovelace may be available at that time, according to Saline County Attorney Ellen Mitchell.

Nguyen-Lovelace’s only child is taking her body to Vietnam for burial, and she requested that the preliminary hearing not be scheduled until after she returns, according to Mitchell.

Duong appeared in Saline County District Court Monday. She is accused of stabbing Nguyen-Lovelance to death during the course of an argument at Nguyen-Lovelace’s home on Max Avenue on May 12.

Police investigators quickly identified Doung as a suspect and
she was located in her parked vehicle at the Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The father of a Wichita baby not seen since last summer has pleaded guilty to cutting off a GPS tracking device.

The Wichita Eagle reports that 24-year-old Gary Moore Jr. entered the plea Monday. Prosecutors will recommend a 34-month prison sentence. Moore had been ordered to wear the tracking device as a condition of his probation in a 2014 battery case.

No one has been arrested or charged in the disappearance of Moore’s 5-month-old son, Vincent Moore. The child was last seen leaving a house with his father July 11. When officers stopped Moore on July 29, his 2-year-old child was with him but the baby wasn’t.

Moore has been in jail since July because of the charge and a yearlong sentence ordered served because of probation violations.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police say an 18-year-old man was the victim of a fatal Kansas City, Kansas, shooting.

The Kansas City Star  reports that police identified the man Monday as Stephon Egans of Kansas City, Kansas. Police say he was shot Saturday night and died later at a hospital.

The man’s death is the city’s 13th homicide for 2016.