STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — The latest on the fatal crash at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade (all times local):

 

7:50 a.m.

Police have released the identities of three adults who were killed when witnesses say a woman drove her car into spectators at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade.

The Stillwater Police Department did not provide the name of a 2-year-old boy also died in the crash Saturday morning.

In a news release early Sunday, Capt. Kyle Gibbs said 23-year-old Nakita Prabhakar of Edmond was killed in the crash. Gibbs says 65-year-old Bonnie Jean Stone and 65-year-old Marvin Lyle Stone, both of Stillwater, also were killed.

Gibbs says another 47 people were injured in the collision, including five who remained in critical condition early Sunday.

Twenty-five-year-old Adacia Chambers has been arrested on a DUI charge in the crash and is jailed. She is scheduled to appear Monday in Payne County District Court.

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7 p.m.

Hospital officials say a 2-year-old has become the fourth person to die after a woman suspected of driving under the influence plowed into an Oklahoma State University homecoming parade crowd.

The child’s death was reported Saturday evening in a news release from OU Medical Center and The Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City. The child died at The Children’s Hospital.

Police have said a car driven by 25-year-old Adacia Chambers struck an unoccupied motorcycle of an officer working security at the parade Saturday in Stillwater. The vehicle then went into the crowd.

In addition to the four deaths, more than 30 were injured. They included eight who were airlifted to hospitals with critical injuries.

Chambers was taken into custody on the DUI charge.

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4:30 p.m.

The father of a woman accused of crashing her car into the crowd attending the Oklahoma State homecoming parade says he can’t believe his daughter could have done it.

Floyd Chambers, of Oologah, told The Oklahoman that he learned through social media that his daughter — Adacia Chambers of Stillwater — was arrested for driving under the influence following the Saturday morning crash that killed three people and injured dozens.

A woman who answered a call to a phone number listed for Floyd Chambers told The Associated Press no one was available to talk.

Chambers said his daughter is timid and that he could not imagine alcohol being involved. Police are awaiting blood tests to determine if Adacia Chambers was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

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4:15 p.m.

University of Oklahoma President David Boren has issued a statement expressing sympathy to those killed and injured when a car crashed into people attending the homecoming parade at Oklahoma State University.

“Our prayers go out to the Cowboy community,” Boren said in the statement issued Saturday afternoon.

A moment of silence for the victims in the crash was held before the Oklahoma-Texas Tech game in Norman.

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3:15 p.m.

Police have updated the number of people injured in the Oklahoma State parade crash to 34 and say eight of them are in critical condition.

Three people were killed when a motorist plowed her car into a crowd of spectators at the homecoming parade. Originally Stillwater police had said 22 others were injured, but they updated that total Saturday afternoon to 34.

The homecoming game was being played Saturday afternoon against Kansas. The crowd observed a moment of silence before kickoff.

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3 p.m.

A football stadium crowd has observed a moment of silence for the victims of a fatal crash hours earlier at Oklahoma State’s annual homecoming parade.

The flag was lowered to half-staff at Boone Pickens Stadium Saturday afternoon before kickoff of the No. 14 Cowboys’ homecoming game against Kansas. Officials had considered postponing the game but decided to play it as scheduled and honor the victims.

After running out onto the field before the game, most of the Oklahoma State players knelt in prayer by the OSU sideline.

Three people were killed and dozens injured when a car careened into a crowd at the homecoming parade. The driver of the car was arrested on a DUI charge.

1:30 p.m.

Police have released the name of the woman arrested on a DUI charge after the crash that killed three people at the Oklahoma State University homecoming game.

Stillwater police say the woman taken into custody is 25-year-old Adacia Chambers. They didn’t identify her hometown.

Three people were killed and 22 injured — eight critically — after the motorist slammed into the parade Saturday morning in Stillwater.

The homecoming game was being played Saturday afternoon against Kansas. University officials said there would be a moment of silence to honor the victims.

Terrible scene at OSU Homecoming parade as several people hit by car. pic.twitter.com/7VDJKofhff

— geoff (@geoff_eaton) October 24, 2015

1:15 p.m.

Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis says OSU’s game against Kansas will still be played Saturday despite a crash involving a motorist who plowed into the school’s homecoming parade, killing three people and injuring 22 others.

Hargis’ comments came in a news conference hours after the Saturday morning crash. Police have arrested the woman who was driving the car on a charge of driving under the influence.

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12:55 p.m.

Police say the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a crowd of spectators at the Oklahoma State homecoming parade has been arrested on a charge of driving under the influence.

Stillwater police Capt. Kyle Gibbs said the woman’s sedan crashed into the unoccupied motorcycle of an officer who was working security at the route, then into the crowd of people.

Gibbs says three people were killed and nearly two dozen injured during the crash Saturday morning. He says eight of the injured were airlifted to hospitals with critical injuries.

DENVER (AP) — A federal investigation has determined that a Colorado livestock hauler sent about 1,700 wild horses to slaughterhouses after buying them through a Bureau of Land Management program that’s supposed to provide the animals with good homes.

The Department of the Interior’s Office of Inspector General released a report Friday saying that between 2008 and 2012, La Jara rancher and livestock hauler Tom Davis bought 1,794 horses from the BLM’s Wild Horse and Burro Program, which manages tens of thousands of mustangs that roam the West.

The Denver Post reports  that when investigators asked Davis how many of the horses he bought had been re-sold for slaughter, he told them, “Probably close to all of them.”

Wild horses are protected under federal law, and selling them for slaughter is illegal.

MULBERRY, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas State Fire Marshal is investing after firefighters found a woman’s body during a fire at her southeast Kansas home.

Crawford County Sheriff Dan Peak says the body of 59-year-old Susan E. Montanye was found Friday in Mulberry.

Peak said Saturday the cause of death has not been determined. He says he doesn’t expect the results of autopsy reports to be available until next week.

The Joplin Globe reports firefighters found Montanye’s body after fighting the fire for several hours.

No one else was in the home at the time and no other injuries were reported.

The cause of the fire has not been determined.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka man is upset that a ghost tour charged people to enter a site where his grandfather was shot to death while working as a police officer.

Ghost Tours of Kansas hosted an event at Topeka’s Moose Lodge earlier this month. The lodge is where Clarence Shields, a police officer, was shot to death in April 1955 when he surprised two burglars.

The Wichita Eagle reports  Shields’ grandson, Joey Little, says his family is bothered because charging admission made the site an entertainment venue.

Cathy Ramirez, owner of Ghost Tours of Kansas, says she charges admission for all of her tours. She says three quarters of the proceeds went to the Moose Lodge for maintenance, with the rest going to her and her team.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A judge rejected a motion filed by Wichita abortion provider George Tiller’s killer, who contended he should not receive a Hard 50 prison term when he is resentenced for the crime.

Scott Roeder’s attorney argued in Sedgwick County court Friday that a change in state law concerning how Hard 50 sentences are imposed should not be retroactively applied to Scott Roeder, who shot Tiller in January 2010.

The Wichita Eagle reports  Roeder’s sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for 50 years was vacated by a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that juries, not judges, must impose Hard 50 sentences. Roeder’s original sentence was imposed by a judge and was thrown out last year. No resentencing date has been set.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County authorities say a man suspected of an armed robbery fatally shot himself after trying to elude officers.

Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Sgt. Lanon Thompson says the man held up a poker room early Saturday.

A witness followed him until officers arrived. A short chase ended when the man’s vehicle crashed.

Thompson says the suspect was found dead in the vehicle with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

KFDI reports it’s unclear if the suspect shot himself before or after the crash.

No one else was injured.

The man’s identity has not been released.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials are considering tougher penalties for people who chronically exceed water supply consumption limits or don’t report how much water is pumped from wells.

Susan Metzger, assistant secretary of the state Department of Agriculture, talked about changing penalties Thursday before an interim legislative committee. She said the $250 fine for not reporting water use wasn’t much of a deterrent. She said overdrawing water for a year gets a written notice.

Metzger said the department hasn’t determined how much penalties would rise, or when it would take effect.

The Topeka Capital-Journal  reports talk of harsher penalties comes as western Kansas continues to deplete the underground Ogallala Aquifer. The agriculture department says irrigation accounts for 85 percent of water consumed in Kansas on average.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Royals earned another champagne shower at Kauffman Stadium late Friday night and a second straight trip to the World Series. Many of the state’s elected officials are showing their support for the American League Champs.

 

 

Congratulations @Royals and all their fans. Great game and World Series bound for the second year in a row #ForeverRoyal #Royals

— Sam Brownback (@govsambrownback) October 24, 2015

Royals are in the World Series!! Let’s #takethecrown #WS #goroyals #ALCSGame6

— Cong. Tim Huelskamp (@CongHuelskamp) October 24, 2015

Moooooose!

— Pat Roberts (@SenPatRoberts) October 24, 2015

Congrats @Royals! #TakeTheCrown https://t.co/vL4t8p5SNW

— Jerry Moran (@JerryMoran) October 24, 2015

Go @Royals!! #TakeTheCrown

— Mike Pompeo (@RepMikePompeo) October 24, 2015

WABAUNSEE COUNTY- A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 1a.m. on Saturday in Wabaunsee County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2006 Chevy pickup driven by Tyler J. Frank, 21, McFarland, was eastbound on Interstate 70 at Wabaunsee Road six miles north of Alma. The pickup left the roadway on south side.

It then traveled back across the eastbound lanes into the median, rolled and came to rest in the westbound lanes.

Frank was transported to Stormont Vail. He was wearing a seatbelt, according to the KHP.

By ALEX SMITH

Growing up in foster care can be challenging, but many of the biggest problems foster children face occur after they age out of the system.

Among the sobering statistics: More than one in five become homeless, nearly three out of four girls become pregnant by age 21 and only half are gainfully employed at age 24, according to the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, a national foundation that assists young people leaving foster care.

Two local chapters of the national nonprofit Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASA, on Wednesday announced the creation of a program to help foster children prepare for the time when they’re too old to qualify for foster care.

Jackson County CASA Executive Director Martha Gershun described it as similar to the mentoring and life preparation children receive from parents in traditional families.

“These are youth who often have been in multiple foster homes,” Gershun said. “They have been moved around a great deal, and they haven’t had that consistent adult looking out for them.”

The CASA Transition Program for Older Foster Young will employ a case manager to help them find medical, educational and therapeutic services they can use as adults.

Children will begin working with the case managers starting at age 15. In Kansas, foster care services end when children turn 18. In Missouri, they end between the ages of 18 and 21.

Organizers say the program will serve about 75 foster children in Jackson County, Missouri, and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas in the first year. About 1,640 children are currently under court protection in the three counties.

The new program will also provide volunteer mentors to help aged-out foster youths through age 26.

Gershun said that she and Lois Rice, executive director of CASA of Johnson & Wyandotte Counties, have already received positive feedback from the teenagers who will get the additional help.

“What we’ve found is that they are greatly relieved that someone is saying, at the age of 15, ‘I’m gonna stay with you for the next three years to get you ready,” Gershun said.

 

Alex Smith is a reporter for Heartland Health Monitor, a news collaboration focusing on health issues and their impact in Missouri and Kansas.

LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer

CHICAGO (AP) — Marijuana use among U.S. adults doubled over a decade. That’s according to government surveys showing that almost 10 percent of adults use the drug, or more than 22 million people.

Most of that is recreational use.

The researchers say the trend reflects a cultural shift and increasingly permissive views about the drug. Recreational use is now legal in four states.

Almost 1 in 3 users had signs of marijuana dependence or abuse. That’s a slight decline from a decade ago.

The results come from a comparison of health surveys from 2001-02 and 2012-13 sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

Results were published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Psychiatry.