HUTCHINSON— A Kansas man bound over for trial in a child sex case was in court Monday seeking dismissal of the charges.

Although Judge Tim Chambers denied that request, he did order a new preliminary hearing for Kenneth Broadfoot, 25, Hutchinson.

He s charged with criminal sodomy involving a 15-year-old girl.

The state alleges that he engaged in sexual activity with the girl in September 2015 in a temporary building on the Kansas State Fairgrounds.

The victim admitted at the preliminary hearing that the sexual contact was consensual and that she even initiated it. However, under Kansas law, it’s still unlawful for him to have any sexual contact with a child that age.

The defense Monday called two police detectives to the stand as well as the investigator for the District Attorney’s Office over a video tape that the victim in the case apparently made, but it did not show anything.

The judge ordered a new preliminary hearing with a new judge and also lowered the defendant’s bond to $2,500 from $15,000.

DERBY, Kan. (AP) — Electronic cigarettes will be permitted in public buildings in a southern Kansas county under a newly approved policy.

The Wichita Eagle reports that the Sedgwick County commission took up the issue Monday night.

The county’s tobacco policy didn’t previously address e-cigarettes, or “vaping” devices. The new policy was approved with a 3-2 vote. It clarifies that employees and customers can use unflavored e-cigarettes. Each county department can set its own designated areas for customers and employees who want to vape indoors.

Anti-tobacco groups fear that vaporizers are enticing to young people and may encourage them to eventually take up smoking. Others say the devices are a less harmful, tar-free alternative to cigarettes.

They have not been extensively studied, and there is no scientific consensus on their risks.

JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — After he became Kansas governor in 2011, Sam Brownback slashed taxes on the promise that the cuts would trigger a furious wave of business expansion.

But the “shot of adrenaline” hasn’t worked as envisioned, and the state budget remains in crisis. Now many of the same Republicans who helped pass Brownback’s plan are in revolt, refusing to help the governor cut spending after tax collections missed projections.

If Brownback won’t reconsider any of the cuts, lawmakers say, he will have to figure out for himself how to balance the budget in the face of disappointing revenue.

Many legislators want to scale back an income tax exemption granted to more than 330,000 farmers and business owners.

Brownback says reversing the policy would stymie growth.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Investigators say no charges will be filed after a 2-year-old boy was fatally struck by a car in a Wichita driveway.

Wichita police Sgt. Nikki Woodrow said Monday that the child was struck by a 24-year-old relative’s pickup backing out of the driveway around 5:45 p.m. Saturday. He was transported to Via Christi Hospital St. Joseph, where he was pronounced dead.

Woodrow said that there was no evidence of drugs or alcohol playing a role in the incident that is being considered an accident.

MONTGOMERTY COUNTY – A Kansas man died in an accident just before 4p.m. on Monday in Montgomery County

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2008 Ford Explorer driven by Earl E. Wooldridge, 62, Cherryvale, was eastbound on U.S. 160 five miles south of Cherryvale.

The driver failed to stop at the stop sign at U.S.169. The Explorer was hit by a semi that traveling southbound on U.S.169.

Wooldridge was transported to Coffeyville Regional Medical Center where he died.

The semi driver from Missouri was not injured. Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming the Kansas City Power & Light entertainment district discriminated against black patrons.

Glen Cusimano accused the district’s developer, Cordish Cos., and related entities of hiring whites to pick fights with black patrons. He alleged the black patrons were thrown out of bars after the fights. Cusimano, who is black, said he was a victim of that tactic when he was fired in September 2013 as manager of the Mosaic lounge.

Lawyers for Cordish said Cusimano was fired for hitting a patron who was handcuffed.

The Kansas City Star reports Jackson County Circuit Judge Joel Fahnestock ruled Monday that Cusimano did not prove his claims.

A related federal class-action lawsuit filed by Cusimano’s attorney, Linda Dickens, was thrown out last year.

TOPEKA -Jerry Moran has filed for re-election to the U.S. Senate.

Moran filed the paperwork for his re-election campaign on Monday in Topeka, according to a media release.

“I’ll be clear about this. We don’t do this for a title. We don’t do this about a sign on the door that says U.S. Senator, rather it’s for a belief that we can and must return America to a country different and better than it is today.”

Moran stated in a video release that Americans have been asked to jdo something with our lives that makes a difference, “To rise to a higher calling. We know this calling. It’s something we feel deep down inside of us. It is the demand that is on us as American citizens as conservatives. Can’t look the other way, to not turn it over to somebody else or to quit.”

Moran added, “So today I’m asking you to stand with me, to not quit and to redouble those efforts…not just merely to continue the fight but to win it.” He will be seeking his second six-year term in the U.S. Senate. Prior to his service in the Senate Moran served 14 years in the U.S. House.

He is the only Republican candidate to file so far for the Senate seat. Patrick Wiesner, a Lawrence attorney, and Monique Singh-Bey of Kansas City, Kansas have filed for the Democratic nomination.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The latest weekly snapshot of Kansas crop conditions shows the state’s winter wheat crop is mostly holding its own with recent rains bringing much needed moisture to parched farm fields.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 49 percent of the crop is in good to excellent condition, with 39 percent rated as fair. The agency says 12 percent of the crop is in poor to very poor shape.

Wheat in Kansas is also maturing faster than usual, with 77 percent now jointed. That compares to an average of 55 percent at that stage normally at this point in the season.

Corn planting is also progressing with 35 percent of fields in the state already planted, well ahead of the 16 percent that would be average by this date.

SALINA – A man who police say stole one big screen TV from Walmart Thursday night, is caught in the act of trying to steal a second one from the store on Friday night.

Logan Jones, 24, Salina had allegedly taken a 50″ Samsung TV valued at $698 just before 11 p.m. Thursday night, according to Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney.

After checking store surveillance video, Walmart officials reported the theft to police late Friday morning.

Jones returned to the store at about 9:45 p.m. Friday evening, according to Sweeney.

Alert employees noticed him and called police.

Officers were waiting for him as he walked out of the store with another 50″ TV.

Jones was arrested on a requested charge of felony theft.

The first TV has not been recovered.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Amtrak says it will use buses to connect people in Wichita with its trains in Oklahoma City and Newton.

Several state and local officials announced the bus connection Monday, providing the first Amtrak service in Wichita since 1979.

The Wichita Eagle reports one bus route will connect with Amtrak’s Southwest Chief in Newton while another route will connect with the Heartland Eagle in Oklahoma City. The Amtrak connection will run daily out of the Greyhound station in downtown Wichita.

Kansas Secretary of Transportation Mike King says the bus service opens a new transportation option along the Interstate 35 corridor. And several officials said young people in particular had pushed for a way to connect to Amtrak, which provides routes to cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and Dallas/Fort Worth.

MERIDEN, Kan. (AP) — A man has died after he climbed a high tension line and was electrocuted.

Jefferson Co. Sheriff Jeff Herrig told WIBW that 21-year-old Nathan Robertson of Valley Falls died Saturday in Meriden.

Herrig says the Rock Creek Fire Dept. and Jefferson County crews responded to calls Saturday night of a man on the ground.

Robertson was reported to be climbing the high tension line of the tower and was electrocuted. He then fell several stories, landing on the ground.

He was transported to St. Francis Hospital, but declared deceased almost immediately after his fall.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas University fraternity has raised about $30,000 for students with disabilities in honor of one of its members who was paralyzed while swimming in the ocean in Hawaii over winter break.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the Beta Theta Pi chapter will host a 5k run this weekend in honor of fraternity member Tom Babb, a quadriplegic. Nearly 500 participants were registered as of Friday. See more on the event here.

Proceeds from the “TomSTRONG 5k Run/Walk/Roll” will go toward the newly established Tom Babb Student Accessibility Scholarship, which will give funds to Kansas University students who require full-time, professional care.

The fraternity also traveled to Colorado to initiate Babb, who was a pledge at the time of the accident. It has also been renovating its chapter house to accommodate Babb.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man has admitted firing a shot that killed a Kansas education official who was not the intended victim.

Prosecutors say 35-year-old Calah D. Johnson pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The Kansas City Star reports court records indicate Johnson was shooting at someone in another car when a bullet hit 45-year-old Deanna Lieber in July 2009. Lieber and her 13-year-old daughter were returning to their home near Lawrence from Starlight Theater in Kansas City when she was shot.

Lieber was an attorney for the Kansas Department of Education.

Johnson already is serving 20 years in federal prison for trafficking in cocaine. His state sentence for second-degree murder will run concurrently with the federal sentence.