A second person involved in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 70 in Kansas City has died.

The Kansas City Star reports 66-year-old Otis Estell of Kansas City, Kan., died Thursday morning. Another Kansas City, Kan., resident, 47-year-old William Jerdee, died at the scene of the accident Wednesday night.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says Estell was driving has 1993 Ford Explorer east in the westbound lanes with his lights off around 8 p.m. when he struck Jerdee’s 1999 Ford Escort.

The crash caused the westbound lanes of the stretch of interstate known as the Lewis and Clark Viaduct, which connects Kansas City, Mo., with Kansas City, Kan., to be shut down for two hours.

A 19-year-old man accused of killing two people at a Wichita Dollar General store could face the death penalty, after being charged with capital murder.

Marquis Marshall was charged Wednesday in the killing of 22-year-old Zachary Hunt, a store employee, and 79-year-old Henry Harvey, who was at the store to buy candy for his grandchildren. Police say both men were shot several times last Friday.

Police have not discussed a possible motive for the shootings.

Marshall’s bond was increased to $5 million from $1 million.

The Wichita Eagle reports an attorney from the Death Penalty Defense Unit declined to comment after the hearing.

The case qualifies as a possible death penalty case because more than one person died in the attack last Friday.

A man and woman are under arrest after ramming three police cars and driving through backyards in Kansas City, Kansas.

Police say in a news release that no officers were injured in the chase Wednesday evening.

Officers were en route to a reported automobile accident when they learned a woman who was injured in the wreck got into a car and left the scene.

Police saw the car and but the driver refused to stop.

Police say during the chase, the car lost at least one tire, left the road and drove through residential backyards before it crashed. The male driver and female passenger were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

A 1st Infantry Division brigade will be conducting a live-fire training exercise in preparation for an upcoming deployment to Africa.

Soldiers with the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team will be conducting a mock assault exercise Thursday on the training grounds at Fort Riley. The soldiers will be using newly issued models of Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Abrams tanks during the exercise. The training will combine the use of ground forces and maneuver equipment from the 4,000-soldier brigade.

The 2013 mission to Africa is the first of any Army unit as part of regionally aligned forces. The soldiers will advise, train and assist soldiers from African nations.

Fort Riley is home to more than 18,000 soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division and is located about 60 miles west of Topeka.

Kansas congressman Mike Pompeo is preparing to discuss the economic consequences of failing to reach a deal on the federal budget and taxes to avoid the fiscal cliff.

The conservative Wichita Republican is planning a Thursday telephone conference call with reporters about negotiations between Congress and President Barack Obama.

Taxes will automatically rise and spending cuts will be imposed without a deal by the end of the year. Many officials and economists worry the economy will suffer.

Pompeo’s comments also will come after U.S. House Speaker John Boehner removed fellow Kansan and conservative GOP congressman Tim Huelskamp of Fowler from the House Budget and Agriculture committees.

Boehner’s spokesman has cited “a range of factors,” but Huelskamp believes he’s being punished for bucking GOP leaders.

Topeka residents soon will be allowed to carry loaded handguns in their vehicles.

The city council and Mayor Bill Bunten voted Tuesday to approve an ordinance that deletes a current ban on loaded handguns in vehicles.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that in exchange for that vote, the governing board will be asked in the near future to make it illegal to possess a firearm while committing more than a dozen specific misdemeanors.

Police Chief Ron Miller says the arrangement is an attempt to allow law-abiding people to carry loaded guns in their vehicles but ban gun possession by those who commit crimes.

Miller says a future proposal would make it illegal to possess a firearm while committing misdemeanors such as assault, battery, stalking and theft.

Gov. Sam Brownback says Kansas lawmakers should take another look at his suggestions to pay for massive income tax cuts he signed into law earlier this year.

The Republican governor told hundreds of people at a forum in Overland Park on Tuesday that he won’t consider restoring tax rates to previous levels.

In January, the state will reduce individual income tax rates, drop the top tax rate to 4.9 percent from 6.45 percent and increase the standard deductions claimed by married couples and heads-of-household. The state also will exempt the owners of 191,000 partnerships, sole proprietorships and other businesses from taxes.

Legislative researchers estimate the cuts will be worth $4.5 billion over the next six years and create collective budget shortfalls approaching $2.5 billion during the same period.

A Salina man was killed in a wreck late Tuesday afternoon in Edwards County.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, a semi driven by 57-year-old Charles Kerth was eastbound on US 56 about 2 miles east of Kinsley, when his truck went off the road for unknown reasons and struck another semi that was parked at a stop sign at an intersection.

The driver of that truck 50-year-old Danial Haynes of Kinsley was taken to St. Francis in Wichita for treatment of injuries.

The wreck occurred just after 5:00pm Tuesday.

A sizable amount of prescription medication was taken in a burglary of a pharmacy in Salina early Monday morning.

Video shows a single male suspect used rocks to break a window on the southside of Jim’s Pharmacy at 582 S. Ohio. $400 in cash was stolen along with 12,000 pills that included Oxycodone, Diazepan, Oxycontin, Fentanyl and Hydrocodone.

Salina Police are expected to release a video showing the suspect, who had on a heavy cammo coat, and was wearing some type of mask and gloves. The suspect is of medium height.

Loss and damage placed at $18,167.

Police believe that it’s possible the suspect may have also broken into Salina Dental Associates at 950 Elmhurst over the weekend.

Nothing was taken but damage to a window was estimated at $200.