TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Bureau of Investigations is revamping its crime data system, which debuted in 1993.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the agency began the revamping process this past fall. It is expected to last through 2021, in time for new federal guidelines on indictment reporting.

The system provides unspecified data like the total number of offenses reported by each agency, but research analyst Bill Reid says the Kansas Bureau of Investigations routinely gets more complex questions from lawmakers and others.

The about 420 law enforcement agencies in Kansas don’t necessarily report statistics the same way, which can affect the way the system provides information.

The first half of the new database is expected to be online by fiscal year 2019, and its costs will be funded by a more than $570,000 U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics grant.

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors will temporarily close five factories next month as it tries to reduce a growing inventory of cars.

Spokeswoman Dayna Hart says the factories will close anywhere from one to three weeks due to the continuing U.S. market shift toward trucks and SUVs. Just over 10,000 workers will be idled.

The company’s Detroit-Hamtramck and Kansas City, Kansas, factories will be shut down for three weeks, while a plant in Lansing, Michigan, will be down for two weeks. Factories in Lordstown, Ohio, and Bowling Green, Kentucky, each will be idled for one week.

The factories make just about every car in the General Motors lineup. Last month, almost 62 percent of all U.S. vehicle sales were trucks and SUVs.

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Salina-area law enforcement recently underwent special training to help them interact with people with disabilities.

The training was prompted by tragic encounters between law enforcement and people with mental and physical disabilities in Kansas and across the nation.

Officials say the goal is to prepare emergency responders to recognize characteristics of people with autism spectrum disorders and other disabilities and learn effective ways to interact with them.

Sheila Mortimer is special education coordinator for Central Kansas Cooperative in Education. She said that during the four training sessions, they discussed several experiences with Salina and Saline County law enforcement officers.

FREMONT COUNTY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a Colorado man whose body was discovered under a highway bridge in southwest Iowa.

The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as 39-year-old Larry Burns II, of Lamar, Colorado. The Sheriff’s Office says Burns fell from the shoulder of the U.S. Highway 2 bridge while walking in the Waubonsie Access Wildlife Management Area. His body was found by hunters on Dec. 11.

The Sheriff’s Office says an autopsy showed Burns died of head injuries and hypothermia. A report on toxicology tests isn’t expected for at least six weeks.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A judge has scheduled a February preliminary hearing for two men charged with kidnapping and raping a Johnson County deputy.

The Kansas City Star reports that 24-year-old William Luth of Blue Springs, and 21-year-old Brady Newman-Caddell, of Independence, are charged in Johnson County District Court with abducting the woman in October from outside a county detention center in Olathe.

Authorities said the deputy was sexually assaulted before her attackers released her in Jackson County, Missouri.

A judge Friday scheduled their preliminary hearing for Feb. 16. The judge will determine after the hearing if there is sufficient evidence to take the case to trial.

Both defendants are being held on $1 million bond.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Temperatures plummeted in Missouri after freezing rain blanketed roads with ice, causing scores of accidents including some fatalities.

At least three deaths in Missouri were blamed on icy roads Friday after a treacherous mix of snow and freezing rain blasted much of the state. Several more accidents were reported Saturday as more icy rain and snow hit the state.

On Sunday, the National Weather Service issued a wind chill advisory for Missouri where wind chill temperatures were forecast as low as 24 below.

Jared Leighton, meteorologist with the weather service in Pleasant Hill, said temperatures Sunday included minus 16 in northern Missouri and minus 9 at Kansas City International Airport.

Leighton says a slight warm up is forecast for Monday, with highs in the 30s.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — All the questions about Cabela’s future in its Western Nebraska hometown after its planned merger with rival Bass Pro Shops next year are taking a toll on the local economy.

Business owners in Sidney are having a difficult time since the sale was announced this fall, and property values have plummeted because so many homes are on the market in the town of roughly 7,000.

Wendy Pemberton, who owns Della’s Cafe in Sidney says the town is on edge.

Bass Pro’s $4.5 billion deal to buy Cabela’s is expected to close sometime next year. The companies have said they plan to keep significant operations in Sidney, but it’s not clear how many of the roughly 2,000 jobs there will be lost.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Temperatures fell well below zero around Kansas, including in Wichita, which hit a record low for the date.

The temperature in Wichita on Sunday dipped to minus 10, a record for Dec. 18. The National Weather Service said the temperature later inched up to minus 5.

Weather service meteorologist Andy Kleinsasser said the former record for Dec. 18 was minus 4, which was recorded in 1983. He also says the Sunday low tied for the third-coldest December day in Wichita.

The frigid weather follows freezing rain that created dangerous road conditions throughout much of Kansas on Saturday.

BENTON, Mo. (AP) — Fast action by two southeast Missouri deputies is credited with averting a potential catastrophe for pulling a man threatening suicide from his burning car before he could drive into a fireworks store.

The Southeast Missourian reports that Scott County deputy Tim Hill began pursuit Wednesday night of a suspect who had driven away without paying for gas earlier in the evening.

The suspect stopped at a gas station near the Boomland fireworks store in Benton. Sheriff Rick Walter says the man had doused himself in gasoline and lit the inside of his car on fire.

Hill and deputy James Britton pulled the man from the burning car and dragged him to safety as firefighters extinguished the car before it or a nearby gas tank exploded.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Documents obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch show that almost half of the 30 fraternities on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus area currently on probation, mostly stemming from incidents involving alcohol.

Fourteen of them are currently on probation, and five of them will be removed from probation effective Friday.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that some of the violations led to suspensions. The Sigma Pi fraternity is no longer recognized by the university after documents say a new member had a blood alcohol level of 0.34 percent and bruising from what was said to be a hazing incident that involved being hit with a paddle.

Sigma Pi national executive director says the organization had imposed corrective sanctions on the university’s chapter.