Cleanup is under way after a Union Pacific coal train derailed in northeast Kansas.

Jefferson County authorities say 23 coal cars derailed just north of Grantville Monday night. Grantville is a few miles east of Topeka and 25 miles west of Lawrence.

Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Herrig says no one was injured. But one house was damaged when a piece of rail landed inside. He says the piece of rail landed on the bottom bunk of a bunk bed, and a child was sleeping on the top bunk.

The cause of the derailment is under investigation

Two young adults were taken to Colby Medical Center  after a rollover five miles north of Rexford around 12:50 a.m. Monday.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Tyleen Jensen, 19, of Stratton, Colorado was southbound in a 2002 Chrysler minivan on Thomas County Road 37 when she traveled into the east ditch, where she rolled the van once, with it coming to rest on its wheels facing southeast.

Jensen and a passenger, Kelly Basnett,21 of Colby, were transported to Colby Medical Center with possible injuries.  Two other occupants were not injured in the accident. All were wearing their seat belts.

Two teens were injured in single vehicle rollover crash in Clay County around 7:45 pm Sunday.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, 15-year-old Ryan T. Affolter and 15-year-old Ian M. Roetman were southbound on Elk Road when Affolter lost control, driving into the east field embankment and rolled several times.

Affolter was transported to Stormont Vail in Topeka with injuries. Roetman was also injured, and was transported to Clay County Medical Center.

The state still has not paid the final $2 million it owes to 3M Co. for a new motor vehicle system that created long delays after it was introduced in May.

As of Friday, the last payment on the $25 million contract is six months overdue.

Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan has said the state won’t make the last payment until all the problems with the system are fixed.

The revenue department says the program is no longer experiencing statewide problems that occurred during the summer. But spokeswoman Jeannine Koranda says some local issues have not been resolved.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the state sent a total of $560,000 to counties to help pay overtime costs incurred by employees when the system was introduced.

Dozens of hunters have signed up to join Gov. Sam Brownback in Oakley this week for a four-day event spotlighting pheasant hunting in northwestern Kansas.

The 2nd annual Governor’s Ringneck Classic will benefit four nonprofit organizations. They include the Logan County Health Care Foundation and the Buffalo Bill Cultural Center, which will serve as headquarters for the gathering.

The invitational event will feature trap and sporting clay shootings on Thursday and Friday. A seven-hour hunt takes place on Saturday, with an extra hunt on Sunday.

Brownback’s office says four soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade at Fort Riley will be special guests of the governor.

The Kansas Department of Education is asking school districts how extensively they’re teaching cursive handwriting.

Results of a survey will be presented to the state Board of Education at a meeting this week in Topeka.

Schools around the country are spending less time on handwriting instruction as students do more of their work on computers. Experts say students accustomed to writing on computers at home have a hard time seeing the relevance of spending hours practicing handwriting.

But the National Association of State Boards of Education wrote in a September policy update that there are benefits. The association says handwriting is a basic skill that can help students in reading, writing, language use and critical thinking.

A man placed in the Boy Scouts’ so-called “perversion files” in 1968 went on to sexually assault a 6-year-old in 1992. The next year, Gerald V. Ashworth raped a mentally disabled woman and fondled another disabled woman.

The mother of the raped woman says she wonders now whether her daughter might have avoided becoming a victim if the file had been public.

The Wichita Eagle isn’t naming the mother to protect her daughter’s identity. Ashworth used his access as a volunteer and Sunday school teacher to drive the woman’s daughter from a church to a vacant home and rape her.

Now 50, her daughter no longer goes to church and always travels with a trusted adult. The earliest the 74-year-old Ashworth could be released from prison is in 2014.

A Wichita man has been found guilty of raping two Kansas City, Kan., girls whose mother brought them to a motel to have sex with him.

The Wichita Eagle reports 49-year-old James Lamont Brown is facing a mandatory sentence of life without parole because of his extensive criminal record.

Brown was charged with 10 counts each of rape and aggravated human trafficking for having sex with the girls at a Wichita hotel in 2010 and 2011. He was convicted Friday on 17 of those counts.

The girls’ mother pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated human trafficking. She testified that she sat on a motel bed and watched Brown have sex with her daughters on at least five occasions.

Brown denied ever meeting the girls.

Storms that rolled through Central Kansas Saturday night caused damage in a few rural areas, but brought little relief in the way of rain for the Salina area.

The official rainfall report at the Salina Regional Airport was .32″, according to the National Weather Service.

Along with minor wind damages reported across Central Kansas, a senior center in Radium, KS (23 miles SW of Great Bend) suffered major damages.