A collision between a trash truck and a passenger car has left a baby dead and two people hospitalized in south-central Kansas.

Sumner County Sheriff Darren Chambers tells KWCH-TV that the car was eastbound on a road in Oxford. That’s when it collided with a northbound trash truck. The sheriff says there are no stop signs or yield signs at the intersection where the crash occurred around 11:30 a-m, Friday.

Authorities say the infant in the car was killed on impact. A man and woman in the car were flown to a Wichita hospital with what were described as critical injuries.

The 73-year-old driver of the truck was not hurt.

Oxford is located about 30 miles south of Wichita.

Saturday’s threat of powerful tornadoes has administrators at some Kansas high schools taking no chances with student safety.

KSNW-TV reports at least three high schools in south-central Kansas are moving their Saturday night proms to safer locations.

Goddard High School’s prom had been planned for a hall in Wichita. But principal Doug Birdwell says administrators decided Friday to hold it in the school itself, where students can take shelter in safe rooms if needed.

Maize and Valley Center high schools are also moving their proms to buildings with FEMA storm shelters.

Kansas officials have raised their forecast of state revenue through the middle of next year by $252 million.

Economists and state officials had predicted last November that revenue would total $6.2 billion both in the current budget year, which ends June 30, and in the following fiscal year.

On Friday, they raised those projections to slightly less than $6.4 billion this year and more than $6.4 billion in the 2013 fiscal year, which starts July 1.

Steve Anderson, Gov. Sam Brownback’s budget director, said the new numbers reflect that the economy continues to grow.

Amtrak officials say if money isn’t found by the end of 2014 to fix railroad lines it uses in Kansas, the rail service will likely move one of its routes out of the state by 2016.

The track Amtrak uses for its Southwest Chief route is owned by BNSF Railway. The rail line between Hutchinson and Garden City is in such bad shape that Amtrak is forced to slow down its trains in Kansas.

The Hutchinson News reports  Amtrak officials said Thursday in Garden City that the rail service would need some assurance by 2014 that funds will be found to upgrade the line, or Amtrak will start the process of moving the route.

Officials in Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico are working to find funding.

Wichita police say three men are hospitalized after being shot by officers responding to a report of a robbery.

The shooting occurred early Friday at a home in southwest Wichita.

Police say three men in the mid-20s were taken to Via Christi Hospital in critical condition.

Wichita media reports say police went to the home to investigate a report of a residential robbery.

No police officers were wounded.

No other details were immediately available.

A trucker who led police on a chase through three northeast Kansas counties last year has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison.

55-year-old Robert Smith was sentenced Thursday to two years and eight months in prison. He will serve the sentence in Pottawatomie County. He will also be on probation for two years after his release.

KMAN reports Smith entered a no contest plea last month to attempted aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer and aggravated battery.

He was originally charged with several other counts, including attempted second-degree homicide.

Police chased Smith’s 18-wheeler from Shawnee County to just north of Wamego. Four people were hospitalized after their vehicles were run off the road.

A single-car accident 20 miles south of Oakley injured a 91-year-old Colby man Thursday afternoon.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, around 1:38 p.m. James Merica was northbound on US Highway 83 in a 1994 Chrysler Concorde when he entered the east ditch then crossed the highway and entered the west ditch where he struck a culvert, sending his car airborne then landing upright in the west ditch facing north.

Merica was transported to Logan County Hospital with disabling injuries.

Merica was not wearing his seat belt.

The Hutchinson City Council will consider a proposal to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance.

The Hutchinson Human Relations Committee voted Wednesday to recommend the change to the ordinance. The city council will consider the issue in early May.

If the council approves the change, sexual orientation and gender identity could not be the basis for discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations.

The Hutchinson chapter of the Kansas Equality Coalition asked the council last November to amend the ordinace.

The Hutchinson News reports that people who opposed the change said it would have a negative impact on businesses, religious liberty, and churches.

Governor Sam Brownback and top officials in his administration are preparing to reorganize three departments as part of an overhaul of the Medicaid program.

Brownback scheduled a Thursday morning news conference to discuss the project. The governor was being joined by Lt. Governor Jeff Colyer, who led the team that drafted the Medicaid overhaul plan, and secretaries of the departments of Aging, Health, and Environment and Social and Rehabilitation Services.

Brownback issued an order in February to reorganize those agencies. The order takes effect in July because lawmakers didn’t attempt to block it.

The administration plans to turn management of Medicaid over to three private companies next year. The $2.9 billion-a-year program covers medical services for the poor, elderly, and disabled.