ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) – A grain elevator official says searchers in Kansas have found the bodies of three more people killed in a weekend explosion.

The Saturday night blast killed six people and injured two others at the Bartlett Grain Co. elevator in Atchison. Three bodies were recovered earlier but unstable concrete, hanging steel beams and other damage forced crews to delay the search for the three found Monday.

Family members have identified one as 21-year-old Curtis Field. They say the other two were state grain inspectors.

Work at grain elevators can be dangerous at the end of the harvest season when the buildings are full of highly combustible grain dust.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A commission examining Kansas’ public pension system still must tackle the daunting issue of closing the system’s long-term funding gap.  The task is likely to prove expensive no matter what emerges
from its discussions.

The pensions study commission plans to consider drafting a proposal to start a 401(k)-style plan for new hires. Yet bolstering the long-term financial security of KPERS will require the commission and legislators to consider other ideas likely to cause heartburn.

The pension system projects a gap of nearly $8.3 billion between its anticipated revenues and the benefits promised to both retirees and current employees, through 2033. The commission plans to discuss committing even more state tax dollars to KPERS and issuing as much as $5 billion in bonds to eliminate the funding gap.

LYNDON, Kan. (AP) – Services have been scheduled for a 13-year-old student who died after sustaining an ankle injury in a football game.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Alec Mounkes, a seventh grade student at Lyndon Middle School, died Thursday as the result of complications from an ankle injury sustained in the Oct. 6 football game.

Brian Spencer, superintendent of Lyndon Unified School District 421, said the injury led to blood clots, which led to cardiac arrest that placed him on a heart and lung machine.

He said doctors then had to amputate one of Alec’s legs at mid-calf and the other at mid-thigh. He said the boy underwent surgery in Kansas City on Thursday to clear his lungs and died shortly after that surgery.

Services will be held today in Lyndon.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Officials plan to disclose details this week about an audit into the finances of a foundation started by the daughter of the lead plaintiff in a famous school desegregation case.

Cheryl Brown Henderson was instrumental in the creation of Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka. She led it for six months last year before returning to an earlier job leading the foundation that is located in the same building. Recently, the foundation was asked to move.

A federal investigation found that Brown Henderson failed to limit her involvement with the foundation while she led the historic site. That involvement was seen as a conflict because the foundation gets most of its funding from the park service and employed her sister and boyfriend.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – A former bookkeeper for a Wichita-based chain of radio stations faces revised federal charges of stealing more than $2 million from his employer.

William H. Nolan has been issued a summons to appear Wednesday in U.S. District Court to answer charges of mail fraud and wire fraud. The charges are outlined in a revised indictment that also seeks a $2 million forfeiture judgment.

Nolan worked at LS Media Inc., which was previously known as Mid-America Ag Network, Broadcast Technical Associates and Steckline Communications.

Prosecutors allege he forged signatures on checks and withdrew electronic transfers from the company’s account, then used the money for personal expenses.

Nolan pleaded not guilty earlier this month to the initial charges.