EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) — Law enforcement officials have seized 10 gaming machines from two El Dorado businesses.

KAKE-TV reports Butler County Sheriff’s officers and the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission seized the machines last week after a two-month investigation.

Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet the machines aren’t allowed in businesses because gambling is not legal in Kansas anywhere but in casinos.

Four machines and $4,200 were seized from the True Lies Bar & Grill. Six machines and $6,800 were seized from the Jump Star Convenience Store.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who leaked classified documents to WikiLeaks, won’t have to serve a 35-year-sentence after all.

President Barack Obama has commuted Manning’s sentence after six years in prison.

Obama also pardoned 64 others people, including retired Gen. James Cartwright. He was charged with making false statements during a probe into disclosure of classified information.

Obama’s term in office set to end on Friday. He has now commuted the sentences of 1,385 people and granted a total of 212 pardons.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City man accused of participating in animal cruelty and a string of armed robberies this summer in Lawrence is currently being held at Douglas County Jail.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports 19-year-old Pierre Percy Walker was booked Friday on suspicion of one felony count of cruelty to animals and three felony counts of aggravated robbery.

Police say three armed men approached three unrelated victims in separate locations on June 6 and robbed them. All suspects used a shotgun, and a dog was shot to death in one incident while on a walk with its owner.

Walker was initially at Wyandotte County Jail after being arrested a month after the incidents, on suspicion of what police say was an unrelated aggravated robbery. He was later transferred to Douglas County to face

SHAWNEE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Shawnee County are investigating a shooting.

Just before 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, police were dispatched to the intersection of Southeast 7th and Southeast Brookside Drive in Topeka, according to a media release.

First responders found two white, male subjects suffering from gunshot wounds. One man’s wounds appeared to be life-threatening.

Both victims were transported to a local hospital.

No additional details were released.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Several Kansas lawmakers are seeking to weaken a law that will allow concealed guns on state college campuses starting this summer.

A bill introduced Tuesday would permanently exempt several types of health care facilities and colleges from the law that allows guns in public buildings. That exemption will otherwise expire July 1.

One of the bill’s backers, Overland Park Republican Rep. Stephanie Clayton, says lawmakers have heard from constituents who want campus carry stopped.

But Rep. John Whitmer says the bill is “dead on arrival” and possibly won’t even get a committee hearing.

Governor Sam Brownback signed the original measure. He has said through a spokeswoman that he supports the Second Amendment, but will give “due consideration to any bill that reaches his desk.”

SALINE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Saline County are investigating a suspect for aggravated battery after a weekend altercation.

Just before 6 p.m. on Sunday, police were sent to Salina Regional Health Center after a woman being treated for a cut to her head and a broken finger told hospital staff she had been assaulted by an acquaintance, according to Police Sergeant James Feldman.

Officers located the acquaintance Travis Lawson, 38, Salina, at a motel in the 2400 Block of South 9th Street in Salina.

He tried to avoid officers by climbing out a window. He was captured and booked into the Saline County jail on requested charges of aggravated domestic battery and obstruction.

SHAWNEE COUNTY – A Kansas teen died in an accident just before 8 a.m. on Tuesday in Shawnee County.

The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Department reported a Pontiac passenger vehicle driven by Andrew Green, 16, Topeka, was eastbound on Northwest 46th Street between Button and Green Hills, north of Topeka.

The vehicle traveled into the westbound lane and hit a truck head-on.

Green was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver and a passenger in the truck were not transported for treatment.

Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the sheriff’s department.

The crash remains under investigation, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol.

NEW YORK (AP) — Even as the election outcome intensifies America’s abortion debate, a comprehensive new survey finds the annual number of abortions in the U.S has dropped to well under 1 million, the lowest level since 1974.

The report, which counted 926,200 abortions in 2014, was released Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a research group which supports abortion rights. It is the only entity which strives to count all abortions in the U.S.; the latest federal survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacks data from California, Maryland and New Hampshire.

The total from 2014 represented a drop of 12.5 percent from Guttmacher’s previous survey, which tallied 1.06 million abortions in 2011. The decrease was spread nationwide; in only six states did abortions increase over the three-year span.

By JEREMY BERNFELD  
And then there was Agriculture.

Agriculture Secretary is the only post in President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet without a nominee, mystifying many in rural America and spurring worries that agriculture and rural issues will land near the end of the line among the new president’s priorities.

Former Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue is among the latest mentioned as a leading candidate for the post.

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, who served for all 8 years of Barack Obama’s presidency, left off last Friday.

The Agriculture Department employs nearly 100,000 people spread out over 29 agencies. It deals with everything from food stamps, to farm loans, to food safety, and administers programs in rural areas, which largely supported president-elect Trump.

“I find it, frankly, astounding that we’ve waited so long to get an Agriculture pick,” says Dan Glickman, a former Agriculture Secretary under President Bill Clinton and a former congressman from Kansas.

The next Agriculture Secretary will be charged with shepherding a new Farm Bill through Congress. Work on the law, which sets both farm and nutrition policy, is slated to begin almost immediately.

Secretary Vilsack criticized the incoming Trump administration for acting slowly and said it will be difficult for the new USDA head to hit the ground running. While recognizing that it’s not yet a crisis, Glickman echoes that sentiment.

“Without leadership from the top there won’t be strategic planning, there won’t be setting new objectives of what’s happening,” Glickman says. “It’s very difficult to deal with Congress when you don’t have political leadership on top.”

The Secretary of Agriculture generally has a wide-ranging portfolio. Many expect the new secretary to be on the front lines of Trump’s trade policy, as agriculture exports generate billions annually. Immigration issues, central to the Trump campaign, are also central to the agriculture industry. Often, rural issues fall to agriculture; Vilsack worked to slow the opioid epidemic, which has an outsized effect in rural areas, for instance.

A cavalcade of names have been put forward as possibilities for Trump’s first Agriculture Secretary. Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue has been mentioned by many news outlets as a front runner. As late as Thursday, however, members of the president-elect’s agriculture advisory team were seen at Trump Tower in New York, possibly meeting about the USDA.

Jeremy Bernfeld is the editor of Harvest Public Media, based at KCUR 89.3. Find him on Twitter @JeremyHPM.

JACKSON COUNTY – Four suspects arrested on drug and weapons charges remain jailed in Jackson County.

On January 12, The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and the Holton Police Department served a search warrant at a home in the 400 Block of Wisconsin in Holton, according to a media release.

Deputies arrested Jordan Monaghan, 31, of Holton, Tamatha Hearn, 25, of Holton, Waymon Parsons, 30, of Topeka and Dustin Montgomery, 27, of Osage City, Kansas.

They were booked into the Jackson County Jail on charges of distribution of methamphetamine,

possession of methamphetamine, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, two counts of possession of controlled substance and criminal use of weapons.

Waymon Parsons also faces a charge of felon in possession of a firearm, possession of stolen property and felony interference with law enforcement. Parsons is also believed to be a parole absconder from Missouri.

They remain jailed in Jackson County and could make court appearances this week.

FORD COUNTY -Crews continue working around the clock to restore power to thousands of residents in central and western Kansas.

Energy companies estimate some 16,000 customers are still without electricity due to the ice storm that brought down trees, damaged homes and snapped power lines.

In addition to 29 linemen, an additional 40 linemen and tree trimmers are on site and helping to restore power for Victory Electric, according to a social media report.

At 6 a.m. Tuesday, crews came in for a hot breakfast and returned to work.

Officials opened the Dodge City Community College Dome on Monday as a warming station. The Red Cross is assisting residents there.

Late Monday, Power was restored in the Hodgeman County community of Hanston, according to the sheriff’s department.  Officials were checking the water well to confirm it was working correctly. Power had been off to the entire community.

Stafford County Emergency Management opened up a temporary shelter at the First Christian Church, 100 block of North Boston in Stafford. They encouraged residents to bring blankets and snacks.

Victory Electric serves Ford and Gray Counties and parts of seven other counties, Kiowa, Edwards, Hodgeman, Finney, Haskell, Meade, and Clark.

NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart plans to add about 10,000 retail jobs in the U.S. as it opens new stores and expands existing locations.

The world’s biggest retailer said Tuesday that there will also be about 24,000 construction jobs as well.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. says there will be 59 new, expanded and relocated Walmart and Sam’s Clubs facilities.

The chain is planning $6.8 billion in capital investments in the U.S. in the coming fiscal year, which starts on Feb. 1. The investments include construction and remodeling of stores, clubs and distribution centers, and the expansion of new services such as online grocery pickup.

Last week Amazon announced that it would add 100,000 full-time jobs over the next 18 months.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The family of a Topeka man who died while under supervision of the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth contends in a federal lawsuit that he died because of improper medical care.

The lawsuit says Otis Bradley collapsed in his cell in December 2014 and died in February 2015. Bradley was serving a nearly five-year sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the family alleges that after Bradley collapsed, doctors at a Leavenworth hospital said he needed further evaluation.

It alleges a physician working for the prison said no further intervention was needed but Bradley’s condition continued to deteriorate before he was hospitalized again and eventually died.

Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesman Justin Long said the agency doesn’t comment on ongoing litigation.