TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has been killed in a Topeka house fire.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that city workers noticed smoke coming from the home early Monday while passing by the area. When fire crews arrived, flames were coming from the roof.

Firefighters found an unresponsive woman inside the house. She was rushed to a Topeka hospital, where she died. Her name wasn’t immediately released.

Topeka Fire Marshal Mike Martin says the cause of the fire hasn’t been determined.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A 29-year-old man faces at least 50 years in prison for the stabbing deaths of two Lenexa men.

Alex Brune pleaded guilty in February to two counts of first-degree murder in the July 2014 deaths of 47-year-old Brian Baskind and his stepfather, 79-year-old Clifford Preston at the men’s home in Lenexa.

Their bodies were found in the basement.

Brune was sentenced Monday in Johnson County court to a life prison term. He will have to serve 50 years in prison before being eligible for parole.

Brune was shot by one of the men during the altercation and initially told officers that he was kidnapped from his home and taken to the house, where he found a knife and stabbed both men during an escape attempt.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors are moving forward with a case against 23 clergy members arrested after participating in a Missouri Senate protest.

A few dozen faith leaders sang and prayed outside before jury selected was set to begin Monday at Cole County Circuit Court. Arguments are expected Tuesday.

Authorities charged the clergy with obstructing government operations and first-degree trespassing after they and a few hundred others in 2014 protested lawmakers’ refusal to accept federal dollars to expand the state’s Medicaid program.

Protesters filled the Senate’s public galleries, chanted and sang before police arrested 23 clergy members.

Senate GOP leaders paused work for about an hour as Capitol Police cleared the galleries.

The case involves lawmakers in other ways. Missouri GOP House Rep. Jay Barnes is one of the attorneys representing protesters.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 17-month-old boy was injured in an Omaha shooting on Sunday, but police say he is expected to survive the incident.

Omaha Police say the shooting was reported around 4:39 a.m. Sunday in northeast Omaha.

Police say the boy was being placed into a car by his father when a suspect in another vehicle driving by opened fire.

The boy’s injuries were likely caused by broken glass or shrapnel. Police are looking for a Jeep Liberty SUV that may have been involved.

The incident was one of several shootings reported in Omaha.

Four other women were also injured in two separate overnight shootings in Omaha. None of those injuries are believed to be life threatening.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A 26-year-old southwest Missouri man is charged in two counties with shooting at two vehicles and wounding six people, including one man who was in critical condition.

Prosecutors in Jasper and Newton counties on Saturday charged Tom S. Mourning II of Joplin with multiple counts of armed criminal action, first-degree felony assault and unlawful use of a weapon.

Police spokesman Capt. Bob Higginbotham says four people in a church van were wounded around 5:10 a.m. Saturday when Mourning opened fire on their vehicle at a Joplin intersection. Police say Mourning then drove 10 blocks and shot at a pickup truck stopped at another intersection, wounding two people.

The incident ended at 5:22 a.m. when Mourning stopped and surrendered to police.

It was unclear if Mourning had obtained an attorney overnight.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police say they are making multiple arrests in Milwaukee after a second night of unrest over the police killing of a black man.

The arrests follow skirmishes between protesters and police but without the widespread destruction of property that marked the first night after the man’s death.

Protesters earlier threw rocks and other objects at officers and police say shots were fired in a handful of locations. One person was injured by gunfire.

The number of arrests was not immediately known.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has sided with the maker of Schlafly beer in its trademark dispute with conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly.

Phyllis Schlafly sought to block St. Louis Brewery’s effort to trademark the brand’s name, an effort that began in 2012 as its sales outside Missouri began to grow.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported earlier this month that the Patent and Trademark Office dismissed opposition filed by the St. Louis native and her son, Bruce Schlafly, rejecting the argument that a trademark shouldn’t be allowed because it’s primarily a surname.

The brewery was co-founded in 1991 by Tom Schlafly, who is Phyllis Schlafly’s nephew by marriage.

Phyllis Schlafly’s attorney, another of her sons, says an appeal is likely.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police are investigating the shooting deaths of two children.

Police said in a statement that officers were called early Saturday to a home on a reported shooting and found three juvenile victims. The victims were taken to a hospital, where one was declared dead.

The Kansas City Star reports that a second victim suffered critical injuries and died at the hospital. The third victim, who is 16 years old, had non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to recover.

One of the deceased victims was 8 years old, and the other was 9.

SHATTUCK, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a Kansas man was killed when he crashed a stolen sport utility vehicle he was driving while leading police on a high speed chase in northwestern Oklahoma.

The OHP says 30-year-old Zachary Ramos of Liberal, Kansas, was dead at the scene of the crash Friday on a county road near Shattuck.

A police report says Ramos was leading Shattuck police and Ellis County deputies on a chase on U.S. Highway 283, then onto a county road. The report says Ramos lost control of the SUV and it overturned several times and crashed into a tree.

Ramos was thrown about 30 feet from the vehicle.

The OHP says the SUV had been reported stolen to Woodward police.

SALEM, Neb. (AP) — Pavement work is scheduled to begin this week on Nebraska Highway 8 in southeast Nebraska.

About 18 miles stretching from Dubois to Salem will be milled and resurfaced. The Nebraska Roads Department says traffic in the one-lane work zones will be controlled by a pilot car and flaggers.

The project is expected to be finished later this summer.