The Army Listening Session at Fort Riley is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, at Geary County Convention Center

The public meeting Monday was called to allow Army officials to hear from the community about how possible troop reductions at Fort Riley would affect them.

Fort Riley employs more than 25,000 people in the Junction City area. In a news release, Fort Riley said as many as 16,000 could be dismissed or redeployed.

The base is one of 30 military installations across the U.S. that could see troop reductions as a result of personnel reductions to the Army.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback also plans to attend.

HUGOTON, Kan. -The Kansas Bureau of Investigation reported in a media release that the Hugoton Police Department was dispatched on Saturday to the report of a domestic disturbance within their city limits. Upon arrival, the officer attempted to stop a subject that was leaving the scene.

That subject was later identified as Homero D. Baeza, 36.

A chase ensued but was later terminated due to the dangerous situation it was creating. Baeza returned to the scene of the original call two additional times and led officers on chases. During the third and final call, it was reported that Baeza attempted to strike one of the responding officers with his car. At approximately 10:15 P.M., after fleeing a third time, officers were led to an area approximately two (2) miles southwest of Moscow, Kansas on U.S. Highway 56 where Baeza eventually stopped. It was at this location that Baeza was shot by officers with the Hugoton Police Department. No additional information is being released at this time on the events surrounding the shooting.

Baeza was airlifted to an area hospital where he is currently in stable condition. The officers involved are on administrative leave as is customary. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation with the help of the Stevens County Sheriff’s Office is leading this investigation. The investigation is on-going, and additional information will be released when available. All parties are presumed innocent pending the conclusion of this investigation and any future legal proceedings. At the conclusion of the investigation, the case will be forwarded to the Stevens County Attorney.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence man was sentenced to two years in federal prison for embezzling more than a half-million dollars from his company and business partners.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says 55-year-old Mark Elzea was sentenced Monday and ordered to pay $619,000 for embezzling from Pur-O-Zone.

He pleaded guilty in September to one count of interstate transportation of stolen funds.

Elzea was controller and part owner of Pur-O-Zone, a Lawrence janitorial and cleaning equipment business.

Prosecutors say he began embezzling in 2004. The scheme was discovered in May 2014 after a vendor complained about not receiving a check. The partners discovered that Elzea had signed several unauthorized checks made payable to Cardmember Service Chase Bank in Illinois.

BELOIT – A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just before 6 a.m. on Monday in Mitchell County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2009 Dodge Ram driven by Monteene J Barth, 21, Beloit, was southbound on 380th Road and Kansas 9.

Due to fog, the driver failed to see and stop at a stop sign.

The truck crossed Kansas 9, entered into ditch on the south side of the highway and continued south into a field.

Barth was transported to Mitchell County Hospital.

She was properly restrained at the time of the accident.

SALINA -A toddler was injured in an accident on Saturday evening in Salina.

Police Captain Mike Sweeny said EMS responded to a home in the 200 block of North Oakdale just before 6:30 p.m.

Valor Damron, 16 months, was trying to climb on a small nightstand with drawers, when a TV, on top of the stand fell.

The child was taken to Salina Regional Health Center with a skull fracture and internal bleeding.

He was later flown to Wesley Medical Center in Wichita and is in the pediatric intensive care unit.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas House committee has drafted a plan for expanding the state’s Medicaid program for the poor and disabled in line with the federal health care overhaul.

The bill introduced Monday in the House by the Vision 2020 Committee would impose a special tax on hospitals and other health care providers to raise any state matching funds required to tap extra federal dollars.

It also would allow the state to require able-bodied Medicaid recipients to work.

Committee Chairman and Lawrence Republican Tom Sloan said the proposal is designed to start a discussion about expanding Medicaid to provide health coverage to as many as 169,000 people.

But many Republicans in the GOP-dominated Legislature are still wary of getting the state involved with the 2010 federal health care law.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Developers and local officials are concerned about how a pending federal decision on the status of a small bat could affect construction projects in eastern Kansas.

The U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife is expected to decide in April whether the northern long-eared bat should be listed as an endangered or threatened species.

The Wichita Eagle reports Kansas is on the periphery of the bat’s range. But last week, Wichita city engineer Gary Janzen told the city council not to delay any decisions on an interchange project for too long because the decision on the bat could affect tree removal at the site.

The bat lives mostly in the eastern U.S. but 66 Kansas counties could be affected if the animal is listed.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas House committee is reviewing Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal to issue $1.5 billion in bonds to help lower the state’s annual costs in funding pensions for teachers and government workers.

The House Pensions and Benefits Committee’s will discuss a bill authorizing the bonds if the state would pay interest of 5 percent or less to bondholders. A meeting scheduled for Monday was postponed so members could attend a funeral.

The Kansas Public Employees Retirement System has a projected long-term funding gap of $9.8 billion, and the state has committed to raising annual contributions to eliminate it by 2033.

The bonds would give KPERS an infusion of cash, boost its investment earnings and allow the state to lower annual contributions of tax dollars.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence police are searching for two men after a shooting injured three people near the University of Kansas campus.

Police spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley says police think the suspects and victims in Sunday’s shooting know each other but a motive for the shooting has not been released.

McKinley says the search for the shooters was continuing Monday morning.

The victims were taken to Kansas City area hospitals with injuries that were considered life threatening. Their identities weren’t released.

The shooting occurred in a residence just south of the University of Kansas campus and a few blocks from Schwegler Elementary School.

The college issued an alert late in the afternoon after authorities said one of the suspects was seen running toward the campus.