Sebelius signs advance voting law

TOPEKA -- Kansas voters in 103 counties could gain an additional voting option in time for the August and November elections under a law signed Friday by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

Sebelius added her signature to a popular bill that gives all county elections offices the ability to offer advance voting at locations other than the main election office. A 1999 law had given the satellite advance voting option only to the state's two largest counties, Johnson and Sedgwick.

So far, Sebelius has signed four bills into law this session.

Woman bound over in child abuse case

Connie Thompson-Dupes was bound over for trial Friday morning on a felony count of child abuse in connection with an incident in which she allegedly shocked her daughter with a cattle prod.

Thompson-Dupes, 52, Gypsum, is alleged to have shocked her daughter six times on the leg, arm and side on the night of Feb. 14.

Saline County District Court Judge Jerome Hellmer set arraignment for 10:30 a.m. March 10.

Two injured in crash in west Salina

Two people suffered possible injuries Thursday afternoon following a two-car crash in west Salina.

Janice K. Stewart, 38, and Taylor Ann Stewart, 8, were taken to Salina Regional Health Center. They were not listed as patients Friday morning. A second passenger in Stewart's car, Chelsea Lynn Stewart, 7, was not injured. All are Salina residents.

Janice Stewart was driving a car east on Franklin at 4:14 p.m. Thursday when her car and a car driven north on Hancock by Teresa L. Stuart, 39, Abilene, collided. Stuart and a passenger, Madelyn Renae Stuart, 7, Abilene, were not injured, according to a Salina police report.

Chelsea Stewart was the only one who was not wearing a seat belt, according to the report.

Soldiers reuniting with medics

WICHITA -- A year after they were wounded in combat in Iraq, some Kansas National Guard soldiers are reuniting with the Minnesota medics who treated their injuries.

The eight wounded soldiers from Battery B, 1st Battalion, 161st Field Artillery are meeting Friday with four medics at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita. The Kansas soldiers were wounded in two attacks Feb. 22 in Iraq, during which Sgt. 1st Class David Russell Berry was killed.

Maj. Gen. Tod Bunting, adjutant general of the Kansas National Guard, said the reunion was a chance for the medics of the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery to follow up on the lives of those they treated.

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