TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration is pleased that the federal government is delaying enforcement of rules extending minimum-wage and overtime protections to home-care workers.

The Republican governor publicly opposed the initiative from Democratic President Barack Obama’s administration set to take effect in January, saying it could increase costs of in-home services for the disabled and force them into institutions.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday that it won’t enforce the new rules against employers for the first six months. Also, from June to December 2015, the agency said, it will consider enforcing the rules on a case-by-case basis.

Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services spokeswoman Angela DeRocha said the concerns of in-home care consumers in Kansas undoubtedly played a key role in the federal agency’s decision.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas district attorney’s office has declined to issue an opinion on whether a local police department is violating the state’s open records law by refusing to release the names of people who kill themselves in public.

The Topeka Police Department says the public doesn’t need to know the identities of people like a woman who stepped in front of a train earlier this year, or a man who ran in front of a semitrailer on Interstate 70. The Shawnee County District Attorney’s Office says that explanation is good enough to exempt the information under the Kansas Open Records Act.

Assistant Shawnee County District Attorney Todd Hiatt tells The Topeka Capital-Journal that if media outlets disagree with the policy, they are free to file a lawsuit to challenge it.

MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer

A study suggests that do-it-yourself flu vaccine might be possible. Researchers found that military folks who squirted a nasal vaccine up their noses were as well-protected as others who got it from health workers.

The study leader says there is no reason that ordinary people could not be taught to give the vaccine, especially for children who might be less scared if they received it from mom or dad.

The study tested FluMist, the nasal vaccine, in more than 1,000 military members and their families over the last two flu seasons. Blood tests showed that immune responses were comparable regardless of who administered the vaccine.

Results will be reported later this week at a meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and several other groups in Philadelphia.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has temporarily blocked an appeals court ruling that declared gay marriage legal in Idaho and Nevada.

The order came minutes after Idaho on Wednesday filed an emergency request for an immediate stay. The state’s request said that without a stay, state and county officials would have been required to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples at 10 a.m. EDT.

Kennedy’s order requested a response from the plaintiffs involved in Idaho’s gay marriage lawsuit by the end of day Thursday.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared gay marriage legal in Idaho and Nevada on Tuesday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage in 30 other states.

The FBI is seeking information on persons who are planning to travel or have traveled to a foreign country for armed combat and/or are being recruited for such activities. The FBI web site is https://tips.fbi.gov/digitalmedia/ISILtips

The FBI is also seeking information about the identity of an English-speaking individual seen in a propaganda video released last month by the group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.

DENVER (AP) — Supporters of same-sex marriage in Colorado are celebrating their legal victory but also trying to help advance their cause elsewhere.

Elected officials, clergy, and others including Tim Gill and representatives of the ACLU and NAACP say they’ll rally at the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Monday at 5:30 p.m.

The gathering is sponsored by Why Marriage Matters Colorado. Director Wendy Howell says they not only want to celebrate marriage equality here but they also want to see same-sex marriage legalized across the country.

Gay marriage is legal in Colorado following 10th Circuit rulings against gay marriage bans in Oklahoma and Utah and a federal court’s ruling against Colorado’s ban.

Kansas and Wyoming, also covered by the 10th Circuit, are so far refusing to marry gay couples.

DETROIT (AP) — A company that makes after-market floor mats for General Motors full-size pickup trucks and SUVs is recalling more than 45,000 of them because they can interfere with the gas pedal.

Omix Ada of Suwannee, Georgia, says the recall covers Cabela’s Custom Fit, Line-X Truck Gear, Rugged Ridge All-Terrain and Tread Lightly mats. They can move forward unintentionally and stop the gas pedal from returning to the idle position. That can increase the risk of a crash.

The mats fit Chevrolet and GMC trucks and SUVs from 1999 through 2014. The mats were made from Nov. 1, 2009 to Aug. 27, 2014. Most were sold at O’Reilly Auto Parts stores.

The company will furnish an anchor and hook system to fix the problem. People with questions can call (844) 642-7625.

Kansas Attorney General

TOPEKA – A long-simmering water dispute between Kansas and Nebraska will reach the U. S. Supreme Court next week, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said.

Schmidt said the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments at 10 a.m. EDT Tuesday, October 14, in Kansas v. Nebraska and Colorado. The case addresses remedies to which Kansas is entitled for Nebraska’s overuse of water in the Republican River basin in 2005 and 2006 and also addresses whether the compact accounting procedures should be reformed to account in the future for groundwater originating in the Platte River basin that migrates into the Republican River basin.

“We are seeking strong incentives for our neighbor to the north to consistently comply with its obligations under the interstate compact governing water use in the Republican River basin,” Schmidt said.

Kansas sought permission from the Supreme Court in 2010 to bring the lawsuit and filed its case in 2011. After a trial, a Special Master appointed by the Supreme Court ruled in 2013 that Nebraska had overused water in 2005 and 2006 by 70,000 acre-feet and recommended Kansas be awarded $3.7 million in actual damages and another $1.8 million in partial disgorgement of Nebraska’s unjust gains. The Special Master also recommended future changes in the formula that accounts for groundwater migrating into the Republican River basin from the Platte River basin.

Schmidt will lead the legal team representing Kansas to the Supreme Court, and the state’s argument will be delivered by Solicitor General Stephen R. McAllister.

The case is State of Kansas v. State of Nebraska and State of Colorado, No. 126, Original.