Kansas won’t be able to issue driver’s licenses or non-driver identification cards for at least several hours because of a computer problem.

The state Division of Vehicles said Tuesday that a problem with a vendor’s server took down the computer system issuing licenses and ID cards at all 111 offices statewide. The division said the vendor expected to replace a part in its server by mid-afternoon.

The division is in the midst of a $40 million upgrade of its computers.

About 3,000 people visit driver’s license offices each Tuesday, which is typically a busy day because the offices are closed Monday.

Division Director Donna Shelite said the agency recognizes that the computer problem is inconveniencing Kansans and is working to get it fixed as quickly as possible.

At least two people remained in critical condition Tuesday after a recreational vehicle crashed in northeast Kansas, killing five family members from Minnesota.

The accident on Sunday injured 13 people. The crash happened as the family returned from an annual motocross vacation in Texas. Their Freightliner cab and Haulmark trailer broke through a guardrail on Interstate 35 outside Williamsburg, Kan., and plunged into a ravine.

The injured ranged in age from 2 to 30 and were taken to various hospitals. Several had been released by Tuesday. The critically injured include an 18-year-old and an 8-year-old boy, who are being treated at two Kansas City area hospitals.

The National Transportation Safety Board also said Tuesday it will be looking into licensing issues involved in the crash.

A Great Bend man was sentenced to five years in prison in the death of a girl he injected with morphine last July.

31-year-old Joseph Jeffrey Rykiel was sentenced Monday for the death of 15-year-old Jessica Shearer of Garden City.

Rykiel entered an Alford plea in February to involuntary manslaughter.

The Garden City Telegram reports that Shearer was reported missing from the Barton County Youth Care Home three days before her death. She was found dead last July 4th in a basement room Rykiel was renting in Great Bend.

Barton County Attorney Doug Matthews says Rykiel used a morphine prescription for 1 of the home’s occupants to inject Shearer at least twice. She died from an overdose.

Hutchinson Regional Medical Center has laid off 55 employees, effective immediately.

Hospital officials announced Monday that 44 full-time and 11 part-time employees were laid off. The hospital also eliminated the equivalent of 45.3 full-time positions through attrition since January.

Hospital president Kevin Miller says the combined job reductions will save the hospital between $3 million to $4 million this fiscal year. He says that savings, combined with other expense reductions, could reverse a $5.5 million operating loss the hospital reported in the fiscal year that ended last June.

The hospital’s interim head of human relations said Monday’s layoffs hit 16 departments. Nurses on patient floors generally were not affected, although a few were laid off in the surgical department.

Riley County police say a 22-year-old Manhattan man is dead after a standoff with police.

A Riley County news release says Derrick Outten shot himself after a standoff at a Manhattan apartment complex that lasted several hours Monday.

The standoff began when Outten’s wife called police to say her husband was in the apartment with a handgun and threatening to harm himself. She was not in the apartment.

The tenants of the apartment complex were evacuated during the ensuing standoff. When officers could not establish contact with Outten, tear gas was shot into the apartment. Police say a shot was heard shortly after that and officers found Outten’s body inside the apartment.

The federal government has taken another step toward wide distribution of gasoline mixed with 15% ethanol by allowing manufacturers to register as suppliers.

While the EPA is moving the process forward by allowing the registration, E15 still has to clear another set of federal tests and become a registered fuel in individual states. Ethanol makers then must convince petroleum marketers to sell it at gas stations.

Most ethanol fuel sold for passenger cars and pickups today is 10% ethanol and 90% gas. The new blend boosts ethanol to 15%. It would only be used in 2001 and newer vehicles.

Twenty ethanol makers that have registered to sell E15 are based in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin.

A former Washburn University football player and a Topeka woman have been sentenced for bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.

Vershon Moore, 21, Topeka, Kan., was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery. Co-defendant Tracie Bacon, 22, Topeka, also was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison. She pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery.

In their pleas, Moore admitted that on Aug. 9, 2011, he robbed the Envista Credit Union at 2015 SW10th in Topeka. Bacon, who was an employee of the bank, admitted she helped Moore plan the robbery.

Moore admitted he held up two bank employees when they stepped outside the bank carrying cash to refill the ATM machine. He pulled up to them driving a white SUV, wearing a mask to cover his face and brandishing a handgun. Investigators learned that Bacon provided Moore with information about the schedule for putting cash in the ATM and she sent a text to Moore shortly before the robbery. Investigators recovered the stolen money and a gun from the basement of Bacon’s home.

Kansas Lottery officials say the holder of the state’s winning Mega Millions ticket has not come forward to claim a share of the $656 million jackpot.

Lottery spokeswoman Cara Sloan-Ramos said Monday that no one has contacted the lottery about the prize from Friday’s drawing. The winning ticket was purchased in northeast Kansas, though lottery officials don’t plan to identify the store until the winner comes forward.

Winning tickets also were sold in Illinois and Maryland, making the Kansas ticket worth about $218 million.

Kansas law gives a prize winner a year to claim a jackpot, and it allows winners to remain anonymous.

The prize must be claimed either at the Kansas Lottery’s headquarters in Topeka or at its regional office in Great Bend.

Video surveillance at a convenience store shows a man accused of killing a Great Bend teen and burning her body bought $1.32 in gas about an hour after the girl was last seen alive.

The testimony from Denton Doze of the Great Bend Police Department came Monday as the prosecution resumed in the capital murder case of against Adam Longoria. The 38-year-old man is charged in the August 2010 death of 14-year-old Alicia DeBolt.

Gas was found on the girl’s body and surrounding soil. She was last seen at 11 p.m. and the surveillance shows DeBolt buying gas at 12:07 a.m.

Detective Heather Smith also testified about recovering pieces of a T-shirt. Longoria allegedly shredded the T-shirt before asking his girlfriend to dispose of it.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating a fatal shooting involving Wichita police.

Police say the confrontation began early Sunday when they got a call of shots fired. When they intercepted the car, four suspects ran away.

Police say shots were fired by an officer who confronted 1 of the suspects. That suspect was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead. 1 of the other three suspects was captured.