KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas woman has been ordered to spend two years and three months in federal prison for embezzling about $471,000 she now must repay to her employer.

Kimberly Joyce Padgett of Osawatomie, Kansas, was sentenced Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri. That’s where she pleaded guilty in November to five counts of wire fraud.

Prosecutors say Padgett admitted embezzling about $471,000 from Reliant Financial Services in Kansas City, Missouri, from 2007 to last year. Among her duties at the company were paying bills and preparing paychecks.

She was accused of writing $350,000 in checks to herself and using a company credit card to pay for such things as clothing, jewelry and hotels.

RENO COUNTY – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just after 5 p.m. on Thursday in Reno County,

The Reno County Sheriff’s Department reported a 2010 Harley Davidson motorcycle driven by Gary A. Hornbaker, 54, Stafford, was traveling on Parallel Road at Kansas Highway 11.

The motorcycle was traveling at a speed that didn’t allow the driver to negotiate the curve in the road. The vehicle left the right side of the roadway and Hornbaker was thrown from the motorcycle, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

Hornbaker was transported to St. Francis Hospital. He was not wearing a helmet, according to the Sheriff.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A preliminary hearing for a northeast Kansas man accused of first-degree murder in a chase-related traffic death has been discontinued after his attorney cited an unspecified conflict of interest.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that a Shawnee County judge on Thursday halted the hearing for 62-year-old Sherman Norman Jenkins after his attorney said she no longer could represent him.

Donna Asher did not publicly identify her conflict in the case. But District Judge Mark Braun said he would appoint a new attorney for Jenkins.

Jenkins is accused in the Feb. 4 death of Mia Holden. She was a passenger in a car when authorities say her car was hit by Jenkins’s pickup truck while he was being pursued by police.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City restaurant owner has admitted in federal court that he failed to pay income and employment taxes totaling more than $566,000.

Sixty-seven-year-old Roger Geisler of Lenexa, Kansas, waived his right to a grand jury Thursday and pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return.

Prosecutors say Geisler has owned Domo Sushi and Japanese Grill as well as Matsu.

Geisler admitted that in the tax years 2007 through 2009, he submitted corporate tax returns under-reporting his restaurants’ gross receipts. He also acknowledged he didn’t report and pay employment taxes from 2007 to 2010.

Court documents show Geisler spent roughly $157,000 in business funds on such things as a Lenexa home and a Lexus SUV, and that he gambled more than $400,000 at area casinos.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The League of Women Voters of Kansas has joined a federal class action lawsuit seeking to overturn a state law that requires voters to show proof of U.S. citizenship to register.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit in November on behalf of all individuals who’ve unsuccessfully attempted to register since the state’s citizenship requirement took effect in 2013.

Plantiffs say that since then, nearly 23,000 Kansas residents have had their registrations placed “in suspense” or have been slashed from the voting lists altogether for failing to show the required proof of U.S. citizenship.

The conservative Public Interest Legal Foundation filed a brief this week arguing that a great number of non-citizens have been registered to vote and cast ballots in other states.

The Salina Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance with locating a missing family.

Police say Rebecka L. Lorentsen (a.k.a. Rebecka Swatsenbarg) and her two children, 15 year-old Donald Lorentsen and 7 year-old Ember Schultz were last seen on the evening of March 31st, when they left their residence in the 1400 block of South 9th Street to go to a school function at Salina South High School.

They left the residence between 6:00 and 6:30 p.m. and were going to ride a CityGo bus to the school. They did not arrive at the school and did not return home.

If you have information about the location of Rebecka and the children, please call the Salina Police Department at 785-826-7210 and ask for Detective Mangels,

Detective Everett, Officer Venables or Officer Adams.

LINN COUNTY – Five people were injured in an accident just before 6:30 a.m. on Thursday in Linn County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported an unknown semi lost wet distillers grain in the middle of U.S 69 one mile south of Kansas 52.

A Ford Econoline van driven by Gervin A. Aldana-Oroman, 21, Kansas City, was southbound on U.S. 68, struck the grain and lost control of the van.

It entered the west ditch and overturned several times.

Aldana-Oroman and passengers Victor J. Armijo, 25, Independence, MO., were transported to Fort Scott Mercy Hospital.

Luis D Tomas, 21, Overland Park, was transported to Research Medical Center.

Martinez, Antonio Martinez, 31, Kansas City, was transported to Overland Park Regional Medical Center.

Alnival Aldana, 26, Kansas City, was transported to KU Medical Center.

Rolando Antonio Estrada, 26, Overland Park was not injured.

Estrada and Aldana-Oroman were the only occupants wearing seat belts, according to the KHP.