A Kansas City teenager is accused of beating a 93-year-old man and raping an 84-year-old woman during a daytime burglary at the couple’s home.

The Jackson County prosecutor’s office announced the charges Tuesday against 18-year-old Tony Putman, who was arrested a day earlier in what police said was the couple’s car.

A phone number for Putman could not be found. Court records did not list a lawyer for him Tuesday.

Police said the husband was napping Monday afternoon when an intruder hit him in the face and tied him with belts. The wife returned home from errands and was also tied.

Investigators say the wife gave the intruder $5 to start, then $400 she had just withdrawn from a bank. Police say the intruder then raped the woman and fled.

Kansas revenue officials say payments of corporate income taxes helped push state revenue above expectations for the first month of the new fiscal year.

The Revenue Department reported Tuesday that overall receipts in July totaled $457.8 million — about $2.7 million better than the official forecast.

Corporations paid nearly $14 million in state income taxes last month, compared with an expected $10 million. Payments of individual income taxes were on the mark at $205 million.

The department says use tax receipts were about $1 million more than expected, suggesting businesses are buying more equipment.

The overall July receipts came in at $20 million more than total revenue in the same month last year.

A southwest Kansas man killed in a rollover accident has been identified as a longtime employee of the state transportation department.

43-year-old Jeffery Harris, of Hugoton, suffered fatal injuries in the crash Monday about 11 miles south of Ulysses.

The Highway Patrol says Harris was driving a Kansas Department of Transportation tractor-trailer when it veered off Kansas 25, overcorrected and rolled over in a ditch. He later died at a Wichita hospital.

KDOT says Harris was a 14-year agency employee. He worked as a senior equipment operator out of the Hugoton office.

By John P. Tretbar ~ St. Joseph Post

A Kansas man was injured in an unusual accident in North Central Kansas Monday afternoon.

The Kansas Highway Patrol report indicates that 55-year-old Clinton Parks was driving his pickup truck on 50th Road south of Glasco, Kansas when a fire broke out in the bed of the truck.

Investigators say the Simpson, Kansas man then jumped out of the truck, but was dragged and then run over by the vehicle. The truck continued off the roadway and burned.

Parks was taken to Cloud County Hospital with what were described as disabling injuries.

The man accused of breaking into at Topeka television station and injuring four employees will stand trial on seven charges.

After a preliminary hearing Monday, 48-year-old Ray Anthony Miles was bound over for trial. He faces three counts of aggravated battery and one count each of aggravated burglary and making a criminal threat, as well as two misdemeanor charges.

The 48-year-old Miles is accused of breaking into the WIBW-TV on May 23 because he was upset that the station would not do a story on problems he was having with the Veterans Administration.

Testimony during the hearing revealed that one station employee suffered an eye injury and two others were stabbed during the attack. Those two employees’ injuries were not life-threatening.

Miles’ trial was set for Sept. 12.

Officials believe extreme heat may have caused part of a Union Pacific coal train to derail in north-central Kansas.

Sparks from Sunday’s derailment touched off a fire that scorched several acres of wheat stubble about six miles west of Salina. No injuries were reported.

KAKE-TV reports (https://bit.ly/OyeQ9y) the 106-car train was traveling from Denver to Kentucky. Twenty-seven cars went off the tracks, which were being replaced Monday.

Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis says extreme heat can cause metal tracks to expand and warp.

Cleanup was expected to be finished by Tuesday. Davis says six trains pass daily between Denver and Kansas City. The trains were being rerouted through Nebraska until the derailed train can be cleared.

A bull rider who suffered fatal injuries at a rodeo in southeastern Kansas has been identified as a 22-year-old Missouri man.

The Iola Register reports that Justin Jeffries died at a hospital after being bucked by a 1,700-pound bull Saturday at the Allen County Fair Rodeo.

Jeffries was a resident of the west-central Missouri town of Cole Camp.

Authorities said Jeffries was wearing a vest and helmet when he was thrown just after leaving the gate to attempt an 8-second ride. The bull’s hind hooves hit Jeffries in the chest and abdomen.

It’s the first fatality in the 27-year history of the Allen County Fair Rodeo. Officials of McKellips Rodeo Co. said Jeffries was in his first year as a member of the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association.

State insurance regulators have started closely reviewing health insurance premiums that increase by 10 percent or more.

In the past, the state insurance department didn’t review rate hike proposals of less than 12 percent.

The change complies with a requirement in the federal health insurance reform law, even though Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration strongly opposes the health care law.

Kansas Department of Insurance is led by an elected commissioner, who is not part of the executive branch.

The provision concerning rate increases in the health care law began in September. Since then, Kansas has received four rate filing requests above 10 percent.

After studying the request, the insurance department drafts an opinion about whether the change is reasonable or unreasonable.

Organizers say they’re close to reaching the required number of signatures for a petition drive aimed at removing a sculpture of a partially clad woman from a suburban Kansas City park.

Phillip Cosby, Missouri and Kansas director of the American Family Association, says the sculpture at the Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens is obscene and should be removed.

Cosby is seeking 4,500 signatures required to empanel a grand jury, which would then investigate a charge of promoting obscenity to a minor.

He said Monday he has about 3,500 signatures and hopes to have the rest by Saturday. He expects to file the petition Sept. 1 with the Johnson County court, which would call the 15-member grand jury.

The sculpture was donated to garden by a group of Chinese artists.

The Douglas County clerk’s office plans to issue its own photo identification cards for voters to use at the polls.

County Clerk Jamie Shew was planning to start issuing the ID cards Monday, the Lawrence Journal-World. The new system will allow voters who don’t have a photo ID to avoid going to the state’s Division of Vehicles to obtain one.

A Kansas law taking effect this year requires voters to show a photo ID at the polls. Its enactment was advocated by Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who says his office is examining Douglas County’s plans.

For voters seeking a card, Shew’s office will accept a current utility bill, bank statement, government check or other government documents that show a name or address.