DENVER (AP) — Kansas is asking the federal appeals court in Denver to keep thousands of people who haven’t yet provided documents showing they are U.S. citizens from voting in November.

Judges are set to hear arguments Tuesday over how the state enforces proof-of-citizenship requirements for voters who register at motor vehicle offices.

A federal judge in May temporarily blocked Kansas from disenfranchising about 18,000 people who registered at motor vehicle offices without paperwork such as birth certificates or naturalization papers. The state wants the court to overturn that order, which it says could affect as many as 50,000 potential voters by this fall.

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says it doesn’t make sense to hold people registering at motor vehicle offices to a different standard than those registering elsewhere.

HALSTEAD, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say an investigation of the 2,100-resident southern Kansas town of Halstead has resulted in the arrests of the city administrator and former police chief. City administrator James Hatfield is charged with one count of felony perjury. Former police chief Steven Lewis is charged with a felony count of misuse of public funds and two misdemeanor theft counts.

Authorities say the arrests resulted from investigations by Harvey County’s prosecutor and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

No additional details were immediately available.

Hatfield and Lewis do not have listed home telephone numbers and could not be reached Monday for comment.

MISSOURI VALLEY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a Missouri Valley man has died in a tractor accident.

The Harrison County Sheriff’s Office says 53-year-old Daniel Zaiser was pronounced dead at an Omaha, Nebraska, hospital, after Saturday afternoon’s accident.

The office says Zaiser was driving the tractor with an attached loader down a hill when the tractor rolled. Zaiser was president of the Missouri Valley school board.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — This season’s grapes from Kansas vineyards will soon be pressed, fermented and aged, but the bottles they’ll be poured into won’t have a key designation on the label that other wines in the country boast.

Wine producing regions are granted a government designation known as an American Viticultural Area designation. The wine industry in Kansas is still seeking its first designation.

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department awards the AVA designations to applicants, recognizing wines made from grapes grown in a particular soil, climate, elevation and other factors.

In the spring, Democratic state Sen. Tom Holland co-sponsored a resolution in the Legislature, encouraging the state’s Congressional delegation work with Kansas grape growers and winemakers petitioning for AVAs.

Holland says there are no active applications at this time.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration is working to overhaul Kansas employee layoff and rehiring protocol.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Officials at the University of Missouri have projected that about 1,400 fewer first-time freshmen have enrolled at the school compared to last year.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In some parts of the U.S., the thrill rides that whirl kids around are checked by state inspectors before customers climb on. But in other places, they aren’t required to get the once-over.

A boy’s death on a Kansas water slide and a Ferris wheel accident that injured three girls in Tennessee have focused attention on what experts call an alarming truth: Regulation varies greatly by state.

The industry has lobbied against federal oversight for decades. The Consumer Product Safety Commission doesn’t regulate rides at permanent parks. It oversees only traveling carnival rides. Even then, federal investigators respond only after accidents.

Whether a ride has to be inspected before thrill-seekers hop on depends on what state it’s in. Mississippi, Alabama, Nevada, South Dakota, Wyoming and Utah have no laws at all requiring inspections.

CULVER, Kan. (AP) — After dealing with dirty tap water for years, residents of a tiny town in north-central Kansas have a new water treatment system thanks to some state and federal grants and thousands of hours of volunteer labor.

Residents of Culver, a town of about 120 residents in Ottawa County, have long had to deal with murky water that didn’t taste good. Tests revealed there was no health issue, just a lot of manganese and iron in Culver’s two city wells.

Culver now has a new water treatment plant and a delivery system after residents put in more than a mile of water line and also helped with other water line projects.

City Clerk Lou Ann Inscho says volunteers put in about $157,000 in labor hours.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The police chief in Kansas City, Missouri, says he’s having all of his officers actively involved in the city’s communities rather than just six designated officers.

KMBC-TV reports that Chief Daryl Forte wrote in an internal letter accidentally given to some community leaders that it’s time to reform the 25-year-old program under which a handful of officers make key connections in the community.

Forte says he hopes the change reduces crime and the number of police calls by getting to what he calls the “root causes of some of these problems.”

But some leaders of neighborhood associations, while hoping the change works, worry that police department turnover and burdened officers could cut into the time police spend in the communities.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man and his girlfriend are accused of endangering children during a suspected drug-related gunfight in Kansas City.

Jackson County prosecutors have charged 28-year-old Darrell Roberson of Belton and 25-year-old Roselynn Kuntz with child abuse and endangerment.

Authorities say the shooting Thursday night killed one man and wounded three other people, including a 2-year-old child who was with Roberson and Kuntz.

Prosecutors say Roberson told investigators he had set up a drug deal and fired a gun from his vehicle, near the two children he says he brought along because no baby-sitter was available. Kuntz told police she also shot.

Police say the shooting killed a 19-year-old man who’d been part of the suspected drug deal.

Court records don’t show if Roberson and Kuntz have attorneys.