TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the Kansas Legislature’s debate on increasing income taxes to fix the state budget and provide additional funds for public schools (all times local):

Kansas legislators disagree about their next step after the Senate rejected a plan for fixing the state budget with a big income tax increase.

The Senate voted 22-18 on Wednesday against a bill that would have rolled back past income tax cuts championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. It would have raised more than $1 billion over two years.

Senate Vice President and Emporia Republican Jeff Longbine said lawmakers must consider smaller proposals and work toward a plan that Brownback would sign rather than toward a bigger tax hike with veto-proof support.

Several Democrats rejected the idea and said a plan must provide additional funds for public schools.

Kansas faces projected budget shortfalls totaling $887 million through June 2017 and the state Supreme Court has said education funding is inadequate.

BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — A southeast Kansas mother and son still being sought for questioning in the killing of a 64-year-old man now are charged in the death.

The Joplin Globe  reports that Cherokee County prosecutors have charged 55-year-old Diana Bohlander and 21-year-old Ty Bohlander with first-degree murder in the April death of James McFarland.

Investigators have said McFarland’s body was found April 30 along a road near Baxter Springs, and that Diana Bohlander is believed to have had a romantic relationship with him.

Authorities say they believe McFarland and the Bohlanders were homeless, and the three of them were last seen in mid-April at a campground in Pawnee, Oklahoma.

A cause of McFarland’s death has not been released.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — United Airlines is denying that its staff told a woman to urinate in a cup rather than leave her seat to use the restroom on a flight from Houston.

Nichole Harper told KCTV she had a sudden urge to urinate because of her overactive bladder on the flight last month to Kansas City.

She says a flight attendant told her she wasn’t allowed to stand up because the pilot was expecting turbulence. Harper responded by saying she was going to need a cup.

She says flight crew reprimanded her after she filled two cups.

Harper says it happened less than 30 minutes into the flight. United says it was during descent.

United said in a statement it has reached out to Harper to “better understand what occurred.”

TOPEKA- Law enforcement authorities are investigating a Tuesday night murder and have arrested a suspect.

Police said in a news release that the 40-year-old Michael Stephen Murphy of Topeka was booked into jail on suspicion of second-degree murder and a weapons violation.

The release says the 39-year -old  victim was suffering from head trauma when officers responded just after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday to a disturbance call in the 2700 Block of South Indiana Street.

The victim was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries. The victim’s name wasn’t immediately released.

The homicide is the 12th of the year in Topeka.

RENO COUNTY- Law enforcement authorities in Reno County are investigating a shooting and searching for a suspect.
Just before 1:30a.m. Wednesday, police were dispatched to the 700 block E 7th Street in Hutchinson after report of a shooting, according to a media release.

When officers arrived they contacted the victim, Jesus Faudoa, who had multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported to a Wichita hospital with critical injuries.

Detectives are looking for a Hispanic male identified 26-year-old Maique Rodriguez, AKA Miguel Rodriguez Faudoa in connection with the shooting..

Rodriguez was last seen driving a blue single cab 2008 GMC Sierra with Kansas Sedgwick County tag 934JZL

Police advised the public if Rodriguez is located, do not approach him, and please call 911.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A judge has told Kansas’ top elections official to disclose proposed changes to federal voting laws that he took to a meeting with President Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson says she reviewed the materials and found no error in the magistrate’s earlier ruling that required Secretary of State Kris Kobach to turn over the documents.

Robinson ordered Kobach to produce them by Friday to the American Civil Liberties Union in a lawsuit challenging a state law requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship when voting.

An Associated Press photo of that November meeting showed Kobach holding a paper outlining homeland security issues. The order also requires him to produce a related internal document about proposed changes to the National Voter Registration Act.

ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) A linebacker in the NFL who starred at Rutgers University has been charged in connection with a shooting in New Jersey.

A grand jury indicted Khaseem Greene for weapon possession on Tuesday in a December shooting in Elizabeth, where Greene is from.

The Kansas City Chiefs released the linebacker on Tuesday. Greene signed with the team in January. His lawyer wasn’t immediately available for comment.

NJ.com reports a criminal complaint says Greene was seen on camera handing a gun to another man who fired into a crowd. His co-defendant was charged with aggravated assault, but the extent of the victim’s injuries wasn’t immediately known.

Greene last played a game in 2014 for the Chicago Bears, who drafted him in 2013.

POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY- A Kansas woman died in an accident just after 6:30a.m. Wednesday in Pottawatomie County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1997 Dodge Ram driven by Nicole Lynn Chilcott, 34, Westmoreland, was southbound on Kansas 99 just south of Marten Road.

The truck went left of center into the northbound lane and left the roadway with no sign of braking or evasive maneuver.

The truck jumped a culvert and struck a tree.

Chilcott was transported to a hospital in Topeka where she died.
She was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A man is under arrest after a shooting victim summoned police to a Kansas home where three bodies were found.

City police said in a news release that the surviving victim was “struck in the head” and shot in the back late Tuesday at the home in Kansas City. Officers found two men and one woman who had been shot to death.

Police say officers found the suspect at an address about 7 miles (11 kilometers) from the shooting scene. He was taken into custody but no charges have been filed.

Officer Patrick McCallop says the suspect and victims knew each other, but he had no details about how.

The names of the victims haven’t been released. McCallop says the injuries of the man who survived aren’t life threatening.

SEDGWICK COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities continue the investigating into the cause of Tuesday’s fatal accident in Sedgwick County.

A GMC Sierra pickup driven by 58-year-old Gary Wolf Wichita, was southbound in the 600 Block of north Rock Road in Wichita, according to Sgt. Nikki Woodrow during Wednesday’s police briefing.

The vehicle crossed over to the opposite lanes of traffic, left the road and hit a tree.

Wolf was the only occupant of the pickup. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Woodrow.