LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — University of Kansas’s Student Rights Committee has approved a resolution encouraging the Kansas Board of Regents to adopt a policy that ensures that students expelled for sexual misconduct at one state school cannot enroll at another one without the new school being notified of their past.

The Lawrence Journal World reports that the committee suggested to the Regents that nonacademic misconduct should be added to the transcripts of expelled or suspended students. The resolution also calls for those students to be prohibited from enrolling at another Regents school until the chief of student affairs officers at both schools approve the enrollment in writing.

Under the current policy when university students are expelled for nonacademic misconduct, it is noted on their transcript. There is no specification of what kind of misconduct occurred.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sheriff’s Office has identified a 56-year-old man whose body was found near Wichita as a man wanted in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the shooting deaths of two women.

The sheriff’s office says the body found Sunday is that of Dale Childress of Tulsa and that a preliminary autopsy report says Childress died of a gunshot wound. The sheriff’s office says it appears Childress was shot at the spot where he was found.

Childress was named in a search warrant last month in connection with the shooting deaths of 37-year-old Jennifer Sudar and 26-year-old Amanda Douglas, 26 outside an east Tulsa apartment complex.

The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Wednesday that investigators are trying to determine how Childress got to the Wichita area.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas district court judge is challenging a law passed last year that moved authority to administer district courts away from the Kansas Supreme Court.

The Brennan Center for Justice filed the lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of Kingman County District Judge Larry Solomon over a law that stripped the Supreme Court of its authority to appoint the chief judges in all the state’s district courts. The chief judge now is selected by a vote of the judges within each judicial district.

The lawsuit contends the new law violates a 1972 constitutional amendment that gives the state Supreme Court administrative authority over all courts in the state. Former Gov. John Carlin says the 2014 law was designed to weaken the judiciary.

TONGANOXIE, Kan. (AP) — Police say a male driver was found dead inside a burning pickup truck in Leavenworth County.

Tongonoxie officials said witnesses reported two vehicles were speeding down a county road early Thursday when the truck driver lost control and it slammed into concrete highway pillars. The truck burst into flames and the man was dead when emergency crews arrived.

The second car left the scene. Police do not have a description and are asking the public for help locating the driver.

The man was from Tonganoxie but his name has not been released.

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – An investigation that began with a traffic stop in Utah led to a federal indictment in Kansas City, Kan., Wednesday charging five people with drug trafficking according to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.

Ana Claudia Rodriguez-Rodriguez, 39; Sergio Lopez, 41; Migel Lopez-Lopez, 22; Daniel Rivera, 32; and Andres Marquez, 22, are charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.

According to court documents, Rodriguez-Rodriguez was stopped by the Utah Highway Patrol Jan. 21, 2015, driving a red 1991 Jeep Cherokee. Troopers found approximately 10 pounds of methamphetamine in the car. Investigators determined that she was headed to the Kansas City area to deliver the drugs. In Kansas City, Kan., officers set up a sting operation and arrested the other defendants when they attempted to take delivery of the drugs.

If convicted, they face a penalty of not less than 10 years and a fine up to $10 million. The Utah Highway Patrol and the Drug Enforcement Administration investigated. Assistant U.S. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Tomasic is prosecuting.

OTHER INDICTMENTS

Derick Allen Spicer, 34, is charged with failing to register as required by the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. The crime is alleged to have occurred Dec. 12, 2014.

If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000. The U.S. Marshals Service investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kim Martin is prosecuting.

Andrew J. Denning, 23, Wichita, Kan., and Tyler W. Lewis, 22, Wichita, Kan., are charged with one count of distributing marijuana and one count each of unlawfully possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The crimes are alleged to have occurred Feb. 3, 2015, in Sedgwick County, Kan.

If convicted, they face a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on the marijuana count and a penalty of not less than five years on the gun charges. The Wichita Police Department investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mona Furst is prosecuting.

In all cases, defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. The indictments merely contain allegations of criminal conduct.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The state of Kansas plans to change the way it notifies motorists that they need to renew vehicle tags.

Residents will receive postcards, rather than letters, from the Kansas Division of Vehicles. The move is designed to save the state money.

The Hutchinson News reports  the state estimates the change will save nearly $562,000 a year.

Reno County Treasurer Jan Hull says the state is giving counties the option to send the traditional letters. But Hull estimated that would cost her county $35,000 a year, so she will use the state’s postcards.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Federal officials say four American Indian tribes in northeast Kansas will split $1.7 million in funds for affordable housing.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Wednesday the money for Kansas tribes is part of a $651 million allocation of Indian Housing Block Grants to 636 Native American tribes in the U.S.

The Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas will receive $846,597, The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska will get $426,141, Prairie Band of Potawatomi Nation gets $249,430 and the Sac and Fox Nation will receive $212,772.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the department says the funds can be used for housing development, assistance to existing housing, housing management and crime prevention and safety.