JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Election-year politics will hinder efforts by Kansas officials to comply with a state Supreme Court mandate on school funding.

The court has ordered lawmakers to enact a new, fairer education funding law that also significantly boosts spending on public schools.

Finding a solution that satisfies the court next year will force the Republican-controlled Legislature and soon-to-be GOP Gov. Jeff Colyer to consider a second big tax increase in as many years.

An alternative would be big spending cuts in other parts of state government, which many lawmakers find equally distasteful.

Colyer is now lieutenant governor and waiting for Republican Gov. Sam Brownback to depart for an ambassador’s post. He’s already running for a full four-year term next year, and all 125 members of the House face re-election.

BARBER COUNTY – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is investigating an officer involved shooting which occurred Friday evening in Barber County.

The Barber County Sheriff’s Office requested KBI assistance at approximately 7:35 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6 following an officer involved shooting which occurred in Sun City, Kan. KBI agents and the Crime Scene Response Team responded to investigate the incident, according to a media release.

Preliminary information indicates that at approximately 6:30 p.m. Friday, the Barber County Sheriff’s Office received a call reporting a male subject threatening individuals with a gun outside a bar on Main St. in Sun City. When they arrived, bystanders indicated the subject had left the area.

Deputies searched several locations and properties looking for the male subject until they located him at 201 W. Main St., in a shed approximately 15 feet south of the residence. At that time three members of the Barber County Sheriff’s Office were present on the property. When the subject exited the shed, he did not comply with all verbal commands given by deputies. One deputy fired a less-lethal bean bag round toward the subject, hitting him. Law enforcement officers and EMS provided medical treatment to the subject, however, despite those efforts he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The deceased man was identified as 42-year-old Steven P. Myers of Sun City. No law enforcement officers were injured during the incident.

The KBI will complete a thorough and independent investigation into this matter. Once completed, the findings will be turned over to the Barber County Attorney for review.

SHAWNEE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating an armed robbery and have a teen suspect in custody.

Just after 10:3p.m. Friday, officers responded to a call of an Aggravated Robbery that had just occurred in the 1400 block of SW Byron Lane in Topeka, according to a media release.

As officers were receiving information on the call, proactive officers saw a suspicious car traveling north on SW Lane commit a traffic infraction and attempted to stop it.

The white Hyundai matched the description of a car taken from an Aggravated Burglary on October 5th. The driver attempted to flee on foot but was quickly taken into custody without further incident.

The officers quickly learned the driver was the suspect in the Aggravated Robbery at SW Byron and that he had tried to force the victim into the trunk of the car.

Police booked the driver, Isaac King, 19,  Topeka, was booked into the Shawnee County Dept. of Corrections for Aggravated Robbery, Attempted Aggravated Kidnapping, Aggravated Burglary, and several other charges.

GRAY COUNTY — A Kansas girl died in an accident just before 8a.m. Saturday in Gray County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1999 Olds Intrigue driven by Irian V. Filatova, 48, Lakin, was southbound on Kansas 23 five miles east of Montezuma.

The driver failed to stop at the stop sign, entered the intersection, and was struck by 2008 Nissan Xterra driven by Jesus M. Millan-Pena, 66, Elkhart, that was eastbound on U.S.56.

Both vehicles came to rest in the southeast ditch.

A passenger in the Olds Zarina Butler, 11, Lakin, was transported to the hospital in Dodge City where she died.

EMS also transported Filatova, Millan-Pena and a passenger in the Nissan Rosa Millan, 61, Elkhart, to the hospital in Dodge City.

Butler and Millan were wearing seat belts, according to the KHP. CORRECTED: 10/11/17 to clarify Butler and Millan were wearing seat belts.

FINNEY COUNTY – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is investigating an officer involved shooting which occurred Thursday afternoon in rural Finney County and have identified the man killed as Cristino Umana-Garcia, 29, originally from Garden City, according to the media release.

Just before 1:30 p.m. Thursday, the Finney County Sheriff’s Office and the Garden City Police Department contacted the KBI to request assistance following an officer involved shooting. KBI agents and the Crime Scene Response Team responded to the scene to investigate the incident.

Preliminary information indicates that deputies from the Finney County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a citizen just before 11:30 a.m. reporting a male subject who was behaving erratically, and whose vehicle had become stuck on an unmaintained road approximately 15 miles southwest of Garden City.

A deputy from the Sheriff’s Office arrived in the area just before 12 p.m. and located the subject later identified as Cristino Umana-Garcia armed with a knife, and holding it to his own throat.

Shortly after, the subject retreated to his vehicle and locked the doors. A second sheriff’s deputy and an officer from the Garden City Police Department arrived on the scene, and attempts were made to speak with the subject until he emerged from his vehicle and charged toward them. At that time two law enforcement officers, one from each agency, fired at the subject, fatally injuring him.

Umana-Garcia was pronounced dead at the scene.  He had previous convictions for identify theft and forgery, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.

No law enforcement officers were injured during this incident.