BARTON COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just before 12:30p.m. Thursday in Great Bend.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Toyota Tundra driven by James W. Juergensen, 71, Great Bend, was making a right turn onto 19th Street at Heizer Street when the pickup struck Sreehitha Kadiyala, 23, Great Bend,  walking northbound crossing 19th street.

EMS transported Kadiyala to the hospital in Great Bend. Juergensen was not injured.

MANHATTAN — Law enforcement and school district authorities are investigating an alleged social media threat in Manhattan.

On Wednesday, a citizen alerted the Riley County Police Department that a video had been posted to the social media messaging phone app Snapchat which depicted a 15-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl holding what appeared to be a gun and making threatening statements, according to Captain Josh Kyle.

Preliminary investigation indicates the video was directed at a different 15-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy.

All the parties mentioned are students at Manhattan High School West Campus.

USD 383 has assisted RCPD during this investigation and all involved parties including parents have been contacted, according to Kyle. The video did not include any threats to the safety of Manhattan High School.

No arrests have been made.  The RCPD has not heightened its presence at the school in response to this incident.

TOPEKA – A federal court Wednesday sided with Kansas and declared that the Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule exceeded federal authority and violated administrative procedures, according to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt.

“From the beginning, it was clear to us that the WOTUS rule proposed by President Obama’s administration went far beyond the authority granted to the federal agencies by the Clean Water Act and did not go through the proper administrative procedures prior to its adoption,” Schmidt said. “This ruling agrees with our assessment and lays the groundwork for the Trump administration to continue its efforts to replace the illegal rule with one that instead complies with federal law.”

The ruling by Judge Lisa Godbey Wood in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia granted summary judgment to the 10 plaintiff states, including Kansas.

Because the Trump administration already has begun the proper rulemaking process to repeal the illegal Obama-era WOTUS rule and replace it with a lawful rule, Judge Wood did not vacate the Obama-era WOTUS rule but instead left in place the preliminary injunction she entered last year. That injunction will continue to prohibit the implementation of WOTUS in Kansas and the other plaintiff states while the repeal-and-replace rulemaking proceeds.

SEDGWICK COUNTY—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a violent attack and have a suspect in custody.

Just after 9a.m. Wednesday, police responded to an area hospital in reference to a report of an assault, according to officer Charley Davidson.

A 34-year-old woman reported her boyfriend strangled and battered her.

Police located a suspect identified as 42-year-old Ryan Risley at a home in the 1800 Block of West 53rd Street north in Wichita.

Police arrested him without incident on requested charges of attempted first-degree murder domestic violence, aggravated domestic battery and criminal threat, according to Davidson.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was looking “very seriously” at ending the right to citizenship for babies born to non-U.S. citizens on American soil.

Trump spoke to reporters as he departed the White House for a speech in Louisville, Kentucky. He said birthright citizenship was “frankly ridiculous.”

“We’re looking at it very, very seriously,” he said.

This isn’t the first time Trump has claimed he’d do away with it — he said something similar in October.

But the citizenship proposal would inevitably spark a longshot legal battle over whether the president can alter the long accepted understanding that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to any child born on U.S. soil, regardless of a parent’s immigration status.

James Ho, a conservative Trump-appointed federal appeals court judge, wrote in 2006, before his appointment, that birthright citizenship “is protected no less for children of undocumented persons than for descendants of Mayflower passengers.”

But Trump has said he was assured by his lawyers that the change could be made “just with an executive order” — an argument he has been making since his early days as a candidate, when he dubbed birthright citizenship a “magnet for illegal immigration” and pledged to end it.

There are no figures on how many foreign women travel to the U.S. specifically to give birth. The Center for Immigration Studies, a group that advocates for stricter immigration laws, estimated that in 2012 about 36,000 foreign-born women gave birth in the U.S., then left the country.

Places like Florida have seen in a boom in so-called “birth tourism.” Every year, hundreds of pregnant Russian women travel to the United States to give birth, paying from $20,000 to more than $50,000 to brokers who arrange their travel documents, accommodations and hospital stays. Sizable numbers of women from China and Nigeria also come to the U.S. for the same reason.

Trump’s comments Wednesday came as the administration continued to make immigration changes pushed by his hardline advisers that have been in the works for months. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced it had moved to end a longstanding federal agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention. The decision will almost certainly lead to a legal battle over the government’s desire to hold migrant families until their cases are decided.

The rule follows moves last week to broaden the definition of a “public charge” — a burden to the U.S. — to include immigrants on public assistance, potentially denying green cards to more immigrants. There was also a recent effort to effectively end asylum altogether at the southern border.

KANSAS CITY (AP) — Authorities say a teenager has been killed and a younger girl wounded in a Kansas City shooting.

Police say the shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday after a disturbance outside a home. The teen victim was taken to a hospital, where he died. His name wasn’t immediately released.

Police say a girl who apparently was in the yard with the teen also was wounded. Relatives rushed her to a hospital, where she is listed in critical but stable condition. Police say she is under the age of 10.

No arrests have been made. The shooter also was a teen. No other description was provided.