TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas insurance commissioner seeking the Republican gubernatorial nomination is trying to prevent Gov. Jeff Colyer from taking $8 million this year from a state insurance fund.

Ken Selzer has filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to block Colyer from transferring money from an insurance-specific fund into a general fund that pays for the state government’s overall operation. Selzer is the commissioner of the Kansas Insurance Department.

The lawsuit says “consumers will be harmed” by the $8 million transfer because the Insurance Department would have to collect additional fees on insurance companies to make up lost revenue.

Colyer’s office says Selzer agreed to the transfer during former Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration in 2016.

Selzer said Friday the lawsuit is unrelated to the gubernatorial campaign.

SEDGWICK COUNTY — One person was injured in an apartment fire Sunday in a Sedgwick County.

Just after 5a.m., fire crews were dispatched to report of a fire in the 9100 Block of East Harry in Wichita, according to Captain Jose Ocadiz.

A neighbor heard a smoke alarm activated and called 911. First arriving crews saw fire and smoke coming from the apartment. They found a victim inside. The man remains hospitalized at the St. Francis Burn Unit in critical condition, according to Ocadiz.

Fire crews were able to keep the fire from spreading to another apartment. Cause of the fire is still under investigation.

BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on the deadly sinking of a duck boat in a southern Missouri lake (all times local):

11:30 a.m.

The U.S. Coast Guard says the National Transportation Safety Board will take custody of the duck boat that capsized in Missouri now that it’s been raised from Table Rock Lake.

U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Scott Stoermer spoke to reporters after the boat was raised Monday morning. Seventeen people were killed Thursday when the boat sank amid a thunderstorm that generated near-hurricane strength winds.

Stoermer says it took until Monday to remove the boat from the lake because that’s how much time was needed to amass the necessary equipment.

Stoermer says the boat was photographed underwater before being brought to the surface. He said he could not discuss specifics of the boat’s condition.

Nine of the people who died belonged to one Indiana family. Others killed came from Missouri, Arkansas and Illinois.

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11 a.m.

A duck boat that sank in southern Missouri, killing 17 people aboard, has been raised.

Live broadcast footage from KYTV showed a crane that is attached to a barge pulling the Ride the Ducks boat from Table Rock Lake on Monday morning. A boat pushed it toward the shore.

The boat sank Thursday night in churning waves near the tourist town of Branson. The victims were from Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri. The boat was submerged in 80 feet (24 meters) of water.

The National Transportation Safety Board and U.S. Coast Guard are investigating what caused the boat to sink.

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BRANSON — Ripley Entertainment, the company that acquired Ride the Ducks Branson in December of 2017, released a statement Monday about the deadly accident investigation on the company website.

“We remain deeply saddened by the tragic accident that occurred at Ride the Ducks Branson. Our focus from the start has been on the guests, families, and employees who were affected last Thursday.

Today, we continue to focus our efforts on the families. We are offering to pay for all related medical bills and funeral expenses, return all personal items from the rescue scene, and assist with any related travel or accommodations that will help the families in their time of need. An event like this deeply touches everyone and we are also providing grief counseling to our employees who have been affected by this tragic accident.

We are fully cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Highway Patrol and all federal and state authorities involved in the investigation. The investigation is being managed by the NTSB. Because we are a party to the NTSB investigation, we are not allowed to comment on any aspect of it. However, our job is to cooperate and provide information to those officials and to comfort the families of those affected by this tragic event.

Thank you for your support, and we continue to ask that your thoughts and prayers be with the families during this difficult time.”

On Thursday evening, one duck boat sank during a storm killing 17 people aboard.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Independent candidate Greg Orman has launched a television advertising campaign in the Kansas governor’s race even before securing a spot on the November ballot.

Orman’s campaign announced Monday that it has started airing the 30-second spot attacking the two-party system on broadcast and cable stations across the state.

The Kansas City-area businessman potentially is the most serious independent candidate for governor since the 1930s. His unsuccessful bid for the U.S. Senate in 2014 received national attention.

Orman’s campaign has until Aug. 6 to submit petitions with the signatures of 5,000 registered Kansas voters to get on the November ballot.

His ad portrays a supermarket where consumers are offered only a red and a blue alternative for each product.

Orman argues in the spot that the two-party system is broken.

MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — The legal process for a Kansas man facing charges in the 1999 disappearance of two Oklahoma girls is continuing slowly as the teenagers’ families wait for answers.

A Craig County district judge has postponed Ronnie Dean Busick’s case until September in the next step to schedule a preliminary hearing. The new court date was set after prosecutor Erin Oquin and Busick’s attorney Gretchen Mosely met for nearly two hours discussing discovery in the case.

The 66-year-old faces four counts of first-degree murder, first-degree arson and kidnapping charges for the 1999 disappearance and murders of 16-year-olds Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman, and the murders of Ashley’s parents Danny and Kathy Freeman.

The Freemans’ trailer house in Welch was also burned to the ground where the parents’ bodies were later found. Both were determined to have died from gunshots. Lauria had been spending that night at the home with her friend Ashley.

Busick is the lone surviving suspect in the long-running case. He was jailed in Harvey County Kansas in April of 2018.  Two other men suspected to be involved in the case, Warren Welch and David Pennington, died in 2007 and 2015 respectively.

A probable case statement in Busick’s arrest indicates the teenagers were both kidnapped and held for potentially days, then killed and their bodies hidden in an abandoned mine shaft. The statement says Busick was involved or knew of the crimes.

The teenagers’ bodies have still not been recovered. Busick has maintained that he doesn’t know the location of the bodies, and declined to disclose further information about the crimes.

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and Craig County Sheriff’s Office investigators continue following leads and ask anyone with further information to come forward.