WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An 18-year-old is dead after pointing a gun at a Sedgwick County deputy who pulled him over for driving erratically.

Sedgwick County Jeff Easter says the deputy spotted a possible impaired driver around 1 a.m. Thursday in Wichita and stopped the vehicle. The sheriff says the driver, Caleb Douglas, pointed a handgun at the deputy’s face after being asked to step out of his car.

Easter says the deputy retreated before firing at least 16 shots at the driver, who drove off before striking a house. An autopsy will show whether one of the deputy’s bullets killed Douglas, or if he killed himself.

The 32-year-old deputy has been a patrol officer for 14 months and has seven years of prior law enforcement experience.

Both he and the driver are white.

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a man has died after a Wichita traffic stop led to a shooting and crash.

Lt. Lin Dehning of the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office says shots were fired after a deputy stopped a driver early Thursday. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the suspect or the deputy fired the shots. Dehning says there are no other suspects.

After the shots were fired, the vehicle left and struck a house a short time later. The man was taken to a hospital where he died.

No other information was immediately available. Authorities are planning a media briefing later Thursday to release more details.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is reporting that its tax collections in August fell $10 million short of expectations.

It was the fourth consecutive month that the state has failed to hit its revenue projections. Tax collections also have been lower than anticipated 10 of the past 12 months.

The state Department of Revenue reported Thursday that the state collected about $427 million in taxes last month, when a fiscal forecast made in April predicted that the state would take in more than $437 million.

The shortfall is 2.3 percent.

Since the state’s fiscal year began on July 1, it has collected $23 million less in taxes than anticipated, $852 million instead of the predicted $875 million. The gap is 2.6 percent.

Continued revenue shortfalls are complicating the state’s budget picture.

SALINE COUNTY- Law enforcement authorities in Saline County are investigating three suspects on drug charges.

On Tuesday, a search warrant was executed by the I-135/I-70 Drug Task Force at a home in the 1900 block of Larson Street, according to Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney.

The search warrant was issued as the result of a controlled drug buy in which a confirmed informant purchased marijuana from 37-year-old John Windell.

Sweeney said 29.6 grams of marijuana, 13.9 grams of crack cocaine, four ecstacy, scales, residue, and numerous marijuana and crack pipes were found inside the home.

Windell, 48-year-old Matthew Carlson and 37-year-old Mandy Rogers, were arrested.

Windell and Carlson both face charges of distribution of marijuana within 1000 feet of a school. Carlson also faces charges of possession of marijuana, possession of cocaine, possession of ecstacy and felony possession of drug paraphernalia.

Windell also faces charges of unlawful use of a telecommuncations device, receiving drug proceeds, and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.

Rogers faces charges of possession of marijuana, possession of cocaine, possession of

ecstacy, and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to Sweeney.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas saw 23.5 percent of its registered voters cast ballots in its Aug. 2 primary election.

Final election results presented Thursday showed that 411,552 voters cast ballots out of nearly 1.75 million registered.

The turnout was slightly below the 24 percent predicted by Secretary of State Kris Kobach but higher than the 23.2 percent in 2012, the last presidential election year.

Turnout exceeded 50 percent in 14 of the state’s 105 counties. The top figures were 64.8 percent in Wallace County and 60.3 percent in Greeley County.

Five counties saw a turnout of less than 15 percent. The lowest was 12.7 percent in Franklin County.

Secretary of State Kris Kobach says only 73 of the 17,600 Kansas voters at the center of legal fights over the state’s proof of citizenship requirements actually cast ballots in the August primary.

Voting rights advocates have won temporary court rulings in federal and state courts affirming the right to vote for people who registered at motor vehicle offices but never submitted citizenship papers as required by a 2013 state law championed by Kobach.

Election officials in populous counties previously reported only a few such voters.

Kobach said the low number suggests that many affected voters have moved to new addresses without registering again.

By ALEX SMITH

Medical information for hundreds of patients has been stolen from an area hospital.

Children’s Mercy Hospital, based in Kansas City, released a statement Wednesday reporting that information for 238 patients was stolen from the locked trunk of an employee’s care.

“We are very sensitive to these families’ concerns and have apologized to them,” the statement read.

The hospital said that the information does not include patients’ addresses, social security numbers or financial information.

Children’s Mercy has notified the families affected and is offering identity protection services to them.

The hospital provided no further information.

Alex Smith is a reporter in partnership with the Heartland Health Monitor team. You can reach him on Twitter @AlexSmithKCUR.

SALINE COUNTY- Law enforcement authorities in Central Kansas are investigating a suspect follow a high-speed chase on Wednesday across 3 counties.

Just before noon, the chase began in the 1500 block of N. Hedville Road when a concerned citizen contacted authorities after seeing a suspicious vehicle at the Singh Travel Plaza, 2124 N. Hedville Road, according to Saline County Sheriff’s Captain Brent Melander

Prior to the arrival of Saline County deputies, the vehicle left the travel plaza and traveled north on Hedville Road, before backing into a driveway on an abandoned property.

Deputies were able to make contact with the driver of a 1995 Honda Accord, Michael Thomas 24, of Loveland, Co., and an 18-year-old female passenger of Fort Collins, Co.

Melander said Thomas told deputies that he had no driver’s license or identification.

As the deputy was returning to his vehicle with what information he had, the vehicle sped off on Hedville Road and onto Interstate 70.

The vehicle, with an expired Colorado temporary tag, then exited south onto Interstate 135 at a high rate of speed, swerved into the median to avoid stop sticks and into the northbound lanes, where it continued the wrong way on the shoulder of the road. The vehicle then exited the onto Water Well Road on the northbound on-ramp and continued eastbound.

The chase went east on Water Well Road and south onto Ohio to K-4 Highway into Gypsum and then onto Gypsum Valley Road into Roxbury and east into Marion County, where Saline County called off the pursuit.

Marion County deputies then picked up the chase and were able to successfully spike the vehicle’s tires, which started a small fire, according to Melander.

The vehicle stopped moments later and the two occupants were finally taken into custody and returned to Saline County.

Thomas told authorities he was trying to get Oklahoma to see his mother before facing prison time in Colorado, where he has two outstanding felony arrest warrants from Fort Collins.

He was booked into the Saline County Jail on numerous requested charges including felony flee and elude, interference with obstructing felony warrants, criminal trespassing, reckless driving, possession of a stimulant, possession of a hallucinogenic drug, possession of drug paraphernalia, vehicle registrations violations, improperly crossing over a divided highway and driving while suspended.

The female passenger was not booked into jail and was released.

FINNEY COUNTY- Law enforcement authorities in Finney County are investigating an alleged case of stalking.

Just before 9:30p.m. on Wednesday, officers of the Garden City Police Department were sent to the 2300 Block of North 7th Street for a reported prowler call, according to a media release.

When officers arrived on scene they located the suspect, Oscar Moreno-Medina, 24, Albuquerque New Mexico, coming out from behind bushes at a residence.

The investigation revealed the suspect first saw the victim in June of 2016 at the Schulman Crossing shopping center while she was shopping at a store and followed her home when she left.

The suspect was able to identify the victim’s name by looking in her mail. The suspect then attempted to contact the victim via Social Media. In August of 2016 the suspect left gifts at the victim’s residence.

Further investigation revealed witnesses seeing the suspect in the area around the female victim’s residence on occasion.

Information was also obtained that the suspect did remove the screens to the windows in the victim’s home so he would have better visibility through the windows of the residence.

The victim does not know the suspect and had never had contact with him prior to this incident, according to police.

Moreno-Medina was arrested and is being held in the Finney County Jail and could face Stalking Charges.