HOLTON- A teenager was injured in an accident just before 6:30 p.m. on Sunday in Jackson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2014 Chevy SNS driven by Rebecca J. Reed, 16, Bellevue, NE., was northbound on U.S. 75 fifteen miles north of Holton.

The road was snow packed. The vehicle left the roadway and struck the ditch.

Reed was transported to Holton Community Hospital. The KHP reported she was properly restrained at the time of the accident.

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A central Kansas community has welcomed home a farmer who suffered severe shocks and burns in a fall harvest accident.

The Salina Journal reports that car and truck horns sounded Saturday afternoon as 24-year-old Zach Short arrived in Assaria. Nearly 300 lined a road on the edge of the tiny town, with some holding “Welcome Home” signs. His 17-month-old daughter, Brynlee, was there proclaiming “Daddy! Daddy!”

Short was helping to harvest a soybean field in October when he tried to help put out a fire coming from a grain cart. Nobody noticed that the auger was in contact with overhead electric lines. When Short touched something metal, he was shocked.

After months in hospitals, including nearly a month on a ventilator, Short says, “It feels good to be home.”

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — One man is dead and another injured after a vehicle went over the side of a bridge in Kansas City, Kansas.

Police said in a news release that officers found the wreck Sunday morning while investigating possible copper thefts. The surviving victim was in critical condition when he was taken to a hospital.

The name of the man who was killed wasn’t immediately released.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Two Kansas State University researchers are developing a type of wheat that will tolerate hotter temperatures as the grain is developing.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that problem is kernels start to shrivel if temperatures are too high as the wheat grains begin to fill out. That happens in May and June in Kansas.

The transgenic wheat contains genetic material into which DNA from an unrelated organism has been artificially introduced. In this case, the researchers added genetic material from rice to wheat.

Professor Harold Trick says wheat is a cool-season grass, and its grain fills out best when temperatures are between 60 and 65 degrees. Potentially, a 3 percent to 4 percent yield loss occurs with every 2- to 3-degree rise in temperature.

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A free two-day dental clinic in Salina served about 1,400 people.

The Salina Journal (https://bit.ly/1vwjh9N ) reports that volunteers gathered Saturday night to celebrate completion of the 14th Kansas Mission of Mercy free dental clinic at the Salina Bicentennial Center.

With $120,000 in donations, volunteers performed $1.2 million in dental work,

A dozen local dentists organized the event, and 133 dentists participated. There also were 103 dental hygienists, 187 dental assistants and 676 volunteers involved.

Dr. Cindy Reed, a Salina orthodontist, says the dental workers extracted 3,118 teeth, did 1,466 fillings and treated 171 children. She says that while some patients were turned away Friday, all patients were seen Saturday.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A First Amendment expert says Kansas State University’s heavily redacted 11-page response to a newspaper’s open records request highlights shortcomings in the state’s open records law.

The Topeka Capital-Journal filed a request seeking more information on the process that went into crafting Gov. Sam Brownback’s budget proposal. The newspaper asked for all emails between Kansas State Institute for Commercialization President Kent Glasscock and state budget director Shawn Sullivan from November through late January.

Kansas State responded with 11 pages, though most of the contents were blacked out. Topeka attorney Mike Merriam has seen similar instances involving heavy redactions, but questioned Kansas State’s justification for them.

Merriam says challenging the redactions is difficult because the requesting party hasn’t seen the documents and it’s tough to argue they shouldn’t be shielded.

NICHOLAS CLAYTON, Associated Press

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some Kansas lawmakers and interest groups see the upheaval in education funding as an opportunity to tweak school curriculums.

Gov. Sam Brownback said he plans to repeal the current school funding formula and instead fund each school district via block grants. Some Republican lawmakers and conservative groups have said they see the shakeup as an opportunity to change school curriculums as well. One measure in the Kansas Legislature would repeal the Common Core guidelines.

Lawmakers have also proposed refocusing classrooms on preparing students for vocational careers.

Democratic Minority Leader and Sen. Anthony Hensley of Topeka said the proposals are out of touch with the way the education system operates.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. prepares to see more drones aloft in coming years, President Barack Obama is taking steps to ensure that the government respects privacy and civil liberties when it uses the unmanned aircraft to collect information.

Obama issued a memorandum to federal agencies Sunday specifying measures to guard against abuse of data collected in drone flights.

Among other steps, the order requires agencies to review privacy and civil rights protections before deploying drone technology and to follow a range of controls.

Personally identifiable information collected in drone flights is to be kept no longer than 180 days, although there are exceptions.

It’s questionable whether such steps will satisfy civil liberties advocates, who’ve objected strongly to the government’s vigorous use of digital surveillance in the name of national security.

LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) — An English mother and daughter who are both past champions of a trans-Atlantic pancake race will be in southwest Kansas for this year’s competition.

The High Plains Daily Leader reports that 21-year-old Devon Byrne won’t be able to compete Tuesday because she won for a third straight time last year.

So she’s doing the next best thing and watching the Liberal leg of the Shrove Tuesday competition in which women from there and Olney, England, run the course with a pancake in their pan, flipping it at the beginning and end.

Her mother, Lesley Byrne, won the international competition in 1988 and 1989. She also won the Olney leg in 1993 on the same she learned she was pregnant with her daughter, Devon Byrne.