When Raymond Rosenhagen of Cheney died unexpectedly, he left his family with acres of wheat ready to harvest.

On Tuesday, friends and relatives showed up at Rosenhagen’s farm to help his family bring in the crop.

Rosenhagen died May 15 while getting ready for the upcoming harvest. He had already passed on most of the responsibility for the farm near Cheney to his son, Mark, but still was active in the operation.

Mark Rosenhagen told people he could handle the harvest himself. But the neighbors showed up Tuesday and had four combines working in adjoining fields.

Rosenhagen says the helpers were showing respect for his 76-year-old father, who was a quiet man but built up loyalty

through the years by always helping others.

A southeastern Kansas woman will be sentenced next month for the unattended death of her son within hours of his birth.

The Iola Register reports prosecutors will seek the maximum sentence of slightly more than 13 years in prison for 23-year-old Karen Bailey, of Le Roy.

Bailey was initially charged with first-degree murder in the death of Benjamin Edward Riggs-Geisler. She pleaded no contest last week to second-degree murder. Coffey County Attorney Doug Witteman says the charge reflects that the death resulted from an act of omission.

Investigators said Bailey gave birth on April 2, 2011, while en route from Iola to her home in Le Roy, then left the baby alone in her car for several hours until he died.

Sentencing is scheduled for July 5.

Fort Riley’s 1st Infantry Division, better known as the “Big Red One” for its distinctive patch, is about to turn 95.

The division was formed in 1917 during World War I when it arrived in Europe with Gen. John Pershing and was known as the First American Expeditionary Force. The soldiers began wearing the red patch on their left shoulders to identify them on the battlefield.

Based now at Fort Riley, the division will celebrate its history with a series of events beginning Thursday with a carnival beginning Thursday. The division will participate in a “Victory Run” that starts a week of competitions and ceremonies on the northeast Kansas post.

The division’s headquarters is currently deployed to Afghanistan.

Kansas plans to resubmit a request to the federal government for permission to overhaul the state’s $2.9 billion-a-year Medicaid program.

State officials said Tuesday they want to solicit additional comments about the overhaul from Indian health clinics in Lawrence and White Cloud.

Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration said the move won’t change plans to issue contracts this summer to three private insurers to manage Medicaid, which covers health care for the poor, disabled and elderly. The contracts would start in January.

The state needs the federal government to waive Medicaid rules. Kansas filed a request in April.

Brownback’s administration acknowledged the Indian clinics weren’t formally notified of the state’s plans as it consulted with leaders of the four tribes with Kansas reservations. Two public hearings are planned.

A federal appeals court says the reaction of drivers to phony drug checkpoints set up by law enforcement is not sufficient grounds to justify stopping vehicles.

A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday for a man who was searched and arrested after exiting Interstate 70 after the Kansas Highway Patrol posted signs warning of a drug checkpoint ahead.

Dennis Neff was sentenced to five years after pleading guilty to one count of traveling in interstate commerce with intent to distribute cocaine.

Neff argued the stop was illegal because troopers lacked a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.

The Court of Appeals panel threw out his conviction, ruling the trial judge wrongly rejected Neff’s motion to suppress the evidence.

A paraeducator who worked in the Clearwater school district will serve one year of probation for having sex with a student.

34-year-old Amber Dull was sentenced Tuesday.

The Wichita Eagle reports Dull pleaded guilty last month to one count of unlawful sexual relations with a 17-year-old male student.

Dull worked with special-education students in the high school as an employee of the Sedgwick County Area Educational Services Interlocal Cooperative.

A rural Concordia man died after he was pinned under a riding lawn mower while mowing a neighbor’s lawn.

The Cloud County Sheriff says passing motorists tried to help 63-year-old Bob Johnson, but he died at a hospital after the accident on Saturday.

Johnson was mowing a steep slope near the road when the mower tipped over and rolled, landing on top of him.

Witnesses were able to get the mower off of Johnson but he died at the hospital.

A daylong conference on oil and gas activity in parts of western and south-central Kansas will be held June 19 in Dodge City.

The Kansas Department of Commerce says the region was considered to have been tapped out by vertical drilling. But the agency says hydraulic fracturing – also known as fracking – has the potential to increase oil and gas activity significantly.

The free symposium is intended to bring together people from communities affected by drilling and let them hear from industry experts.

Panel discussions will focus on housing, education and public safety; public infrastructure and health care; and workforce issues. Panelists will include community officials from Oklahoma and North Dakota. An executive of Chesapeake Energy will give an overview of horizontal fracturing.

About 75 percent of incumbent Kansas legislators have filed for re-election, despite uncertainty about boundaries for their districts.

All 40 state Senate seats are up for grabs in November, and the secretary of state’s office reports online that 27 senators have filed to run again. The latest was Dwayne Umbarger, a Thayer Republican.

Ninety-eight of the 125 House members have also filed for re-election. The latest include veteran Republicans Forrest Knox of Altoona and Bill Otto of LeRoy, and longtime Democrat Bill Feuerborn of Garnett.

The filing deadline is noon on June 11.

But candidates don’t yet know how legislative districts will be redrawn to account for population changes over the past decade. Legislators failed to pass any redistricting proposals this year, leaving the job to three federal judges.

Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a Canadian man found in Michigan last week with a 12-year-old Kansas girl he met on the Internet.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says 20-year-old Stewart Kenneth Cody McGill of Bewdley, Ontario, was charged Monday with transporting a minor out of state to have sex.

Authorities say McGill traveled to the south-central Kansas town of El Dorado to meet the girl. Her parents reported her missing Thursday afternoon. They were found Friday near Potterville, Mich., southwest of Lansing.

The girl told authorities she went with McGill willingly. According to court documents, McGill told police he met the girl online playing “World of Warcraft” and loved her.

Prosecutors in Kansas didn’t have information Monday on a lawyer for McGill. He remained held in Michigan.

A legal challenge filed against the state of Kansas over the funding of public schools has reached Shawnee County District Court.

Attorneys are scheduled to present opening arguments Monday before a three-judge panel. The trial is scheduled to last as long as three weeks.

The lawsuit was filed in 2010 by attorneys representing 54 school districts claiming the state is reneging on its promise to maintain suitable levels of funding for education.

It is the second time this decade that the Kansas school finance formula has been under judicial scrutiny. The last dispute resulted in legislators increasing school spending by nearly $1 billion.

The state contends that current funding levels are constitutional and that it is the Legislature’s decision to set funding levels based on available state revenues.