WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police say a 2-year-old boy who had an octopus stuck in his throat is out of the hospital, and prosecutors are mulling whether charges are merited.

Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office spokesman Dan Dillon says police presented their case to prosecutors Friday. He says the case is “under consideration,” though it’s unclear how quickly prosecutors might decide the matter.

Police say the boy was taken to the hospital Tuesday night after the child’s 21-year-old mother returned home from work and found her boyfriend performing CPR on her son.

Police say doctors found and removed the dead octopus, which had a head about 2 inches in diameter, from the boy’s throat.

Police said the octopus was likely to be used for sushi.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Wichita say a man was arrested after attacking and injuring his roommate with a machete after being asked about his job.

Police say the 46-year-old suspect was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and property destruction related to the Thursday night confrontation.

The 28-year-old victim was treated at the scene for cuts on his neck and hands.

There was no immediate word Friday about formal charges.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas attorney general and two professional trucking associations have announced a program to prevent sex trafficking on state highways.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that on Thursday, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, Truckers Against Trafficking and the Kansas Motor Carriers Association discussed their partnership to fight sex trafficking and to support victims.

They hope to educate people about human trafficking through a mobile exhibit called the Freedom Drivers Project.

Schmidt says the program focuses on monitoring the state’s highways where some sex trafficking occurs. The attorney general’s office helped two victims of sex trafficking in 2009. By 2015, the number escalated to more than 400 victims.

Motor Carriers executive director Tom Whitaker says observant truck drivers watch out for such crimes and inform law enforcement of problems.

RILEY COUNTY – A fire at a home in Riley County rekindled overnight Thursday and burned, according to Riley County Emergency Management Director Pat Collins.

Fire crews originally responded to the blaze at a rural home at 3090 Keats just before 8:30 a.m. on Thursday.

They opened the ceiling in the living room to expose the attic fire and extinguish it.

The fire appeared to have started around an electrical junction box in the attic.

Just before 5:30 a.m. on Friday, the Riley County Fire responded to a second fire at the residence.
“We arrived and the home was fully engulfed,” said Collins.

“My guess is there was some kind of spark got into the cellulose insulation Thursday during that part of the fire. It laid unnoticed until some time in the middle of the night.”

The estimated damage was around $80,000.
The house was not occupied and had been in renovation. No one was injured.

SALINA -A Salina man was sentenced on Friday to more than 21 years in prison for a fatal stabbing.

Saline County Judge Jared Johnson on Friday sentenced 28-year-old Ivan Huizar Alvarez for the murder of 50-year-old Scott Johnson.

Alvarez, who was originally charged with first-degree murder in the case, had previously entered a no-contest plea to 2nd degree murder.

Alvarez was convicted of chasing Johnson and stabbing him numerous times in the back and upper chest in the yard of a residence in the 1400 block of Arapahoe Street in Salina shortly before 10 p.m. in March of 2015.

Johnson was transported to Salina Regional Health Center where he died.

Alvarez is also required to serve three years of post-release supervision and register as a violent offender.

NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Kirk Schulz has been confirmed as the 11th president of Washington State University and will receive a five-year contract with a base salary of $625,000 per year.

The WSU Board of Regents made those decisions at a meeting on Friday.

The regents also decided that Schulz will receive an additional retention incentive of $25,000 per year.

Schulz is currently president of Kansas State University. He was paid just over $465,000 last year.

He was chosen last month to replace Elson Floyd, who died of complications from cancer last year.

Schulz will take over as president on June 13.

The contract also stipulates that Schulz and his family will be provided the use of a house in Pullman and a condominium in the Seattle area.

Schulz’s contract also includes an appointment to the WSU faculty as an engineering professor.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The top prosecutor in Sedgwick County says he plans no charges against a Wichita police officer who fatally shot a man during a confrontation last year.

District Attorney Marc Bennett says the investigation of John Paul Quintero’s January 2015 death found that the officer who shot him acted in self-defense.

Bennett says that officers responding to reported disturbance confronted an intoxicated 23-year-old Quintero, and that Quintero failed to fall when he initially was shot with a stun gun. Bennett says that Quintero didn’t comply with the officers’ demands, and that the officer who shot Quintero believed he was armed with a knife.

Authorities have said an autopsy showed Quintero had marijuana, alcohol and meth in his system.

Quintero’s family has filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man who admitted in court nine years ago that he sexually assaulted his adopted daughter has been resentenced to more than half of his original prison term.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports a Shawnee County judge on Friday sentenced Michael Walter Hines Sr. to 23 years and nine months in prison.

He originally had been ordered in 2007 to spend 48 years and 10 months behind bars, but an appellate court ruling that reduced his criminal history required the resentencing.

Hines pleaded guilty in 2007 to one count of rape of a child younger than 14.

The victim, Chloe Howey, on Friday referred to Hines as a “monster.”

The Associated Press doesn’t name sexual assault victims without their consent. But Howey spoke publicly to media outlets after Friday’s sentencing.

PAWNEE COUNTY – A semi driver was injured in an accident just after 5 a.m. on Friday in Pawnee County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2016 Freightliner semi driven by David H. Sparks, 61, Shepherd, TX, was eastbound on Kansas 156 just west of Rozell.

The truck traveled into the south ditch. The driver attempted to drive back onto the highway when the vehicle lay over on the passenger side.

Sparks was transported to the hospital in Larned. He was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on whether a new education funding law is constitutional on May 10.

The court on Friday set the hearing date and ordered attorneys to file all briefs in the case by April 28.

Gov. Sam Brownback signed a school funding bill Wednesday that redistributes $83 million in aid for the state’s 286 school districts for the next school year. That law was in response to an earlier Supreme Court ruling that Kansas’ education funding was unfair to poorer districts. Justices threatened to close state schools if lawmakers didn’t address the problem by June 30.

The justices want attorneys to address whether the new law satisfies the earlier ruling, and what action should be ordered if the court finds the new law unconstitutional.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Wichita school safety supervisor accused of molesting boys in Kansas has been sentenced for similar offenses in Colorado.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Alex Robinson was sentenced Tuesday in El Paso County, Colorado, to 16 years in prison for two counts of sexual assault of a child, age 15 to 18, by a person in a position of trust.

Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett says he expects the Kansas case to resume soon. Robinson is facing eight child sexual assault charges in Wichita, where he previously worked as a police officer and school employee.

The case has been on hold since July, when a judge issued a warrant for Robinson’s arrest after he didn’t show up for his jury trial because he was in Colorado’s custody.

SALINA – Law enforcement authorities in Saline County are investigating a Publisher’s Clearing House Scam.

Authorities reported a 76-year-old Salina woman lost nearly $9,000 after receiving a letter in the mail in March claiming she won $5 million and a Mercedes.

She called a phone number in the letter and was instructed to send money to pay fees and taxes.

Between March 21st and March 31st, the woman sent a total of $8,799 via Western Union and MoneyGram five different times to cover the fees.

Police were contacted after her daughter discovered what had happened.

The Saline County Sheriff reported a 38-year-old woman, who lives in northeast Saline County, loses nearly a thousand dollars after getting a call saying she had won $250,000, a Mercedes, and a $25,000 cash prize from Publisher’s Clearing House

To claim her prize all she had to do was pay fees and taxes.

Between April 5th and 7th, the woman sent $980 via Western Union, before she read a news account about another similar scam.

The Saline County Sheriff’s Office and Salina Police Department reminded residents who are contacted about winning a large cash prize not to send any money to cover fees and taxes.

If it is too good to be true, it probably is.