HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Two Kansas teenagers have been sentenced to 45 months in a juvenile correctional facility after planning to detonate pipe bombs at their high school. The youths, 14 and 15, were arrested March 8 after Hutchinson High School administrators were tipped off about their bomb plot.

Both were convicted of conspiracy to commit capital murder.

Investigators found what’s been called “detailed plans to harm students and faculty” in the boys’ possession. That included notes and materials for constructing bombs and surveillance logs on staff members.

A Reno County District Court clerk says the 15-year-old was sentenced Tuesday while the 14-year-old was sentenced last month.

Both are subject to three years of aftercare once they have finished their prison sentences.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents is being asked to consider establishing the state’s first school of dentistry.

The proposal was presented during a regents’ meeting on Tuesday. Proponents said the most feasible site for the proposed school would be the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said the university is not pushing the idea and the regents also have not discussed the proposal.

Since 1964, Kansas has had a reciprocal agreement with Missouri to allow Kansas residents to pay in-state tuition to study optometry and dentistry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Regent Daniel Thomas, who led a task force before he was appointed to the board, says Kansas isn’t getting what it needs from that agreement.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal lawsuit accuses 13 north St. Louis County municipalities of a coordinated police and court effort to target poor people, most of them black.

The nonprofit legal organization ArchCity Defenders and the law firm Arnold & Porter announced the suit Wednesday. It alleges that municipalities use fines and fees as a “money-making scheme.”

ArchCity Defenders director Thomas Harvey says the goal of the lawsuit is to end what he calls a “debtors’ prison” system.

The suit was filed Tuesday, the second anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The ensuing protests raised concerns about treatment of blacks in north St. Louis County. Several municipal court reforms have been instituted in the county and statewide following Brown’s death.

Ferguson is not named in the suit

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A group upset over a Kansas Supreme Court ruling involving two Wichita brothers convicted of killing four people has begun a push to oust four of five justices up for retention in November.

Meanwhile the judges and lawyers who took part in a retention survey gave strong backing to four of the justices, but gave only lukewarm support for the lone justice picked by Gov. Sam Brownback.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the group Kansans for Justice is urging voters to cast ballots against retaining Lawton Nuss, Marla Luckert, Carol Beier and Dan Biles. The group supports retaining Gov. Sam Brownback’s only selection, Caleb Stegall, who came onto the court after the Carr brothers ruling.

The nonpartisan Judicial Evaluation Committee released performance assessments that show at least 74 percent of lawyers and 75 percent of judges “strongly” recommended retaining those four justices. Only 39 percent of lawyers and 54 percent of judges strongly supported retention of Justice Caleb Stegal, appointed by Brownback in 2014. Conversely, 31 percent of lawyers and 7 percent of judges felt strongly that he should be voted off the bench.

The Carr brothers were sentenced to death for the December 2000 shootings of five people at a soccer complex, killing four. The Kansas Supreme Court vacated the death sentences in 2014 after ruling their constitutional rights had been infringed upon, but the U.S. Supreme Court later reversed the decision.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Advocates of a transgender soldier imprisoned for sending classified information to an anti-secrecy website say they’ve collected more than 115,000 petition signatures protesting new charges she faces related to her recent suicide attempt.

Activist groups including Demand Progress presented the petitions Wednesday to Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning’s office on Chelsea Manning’s behalf.

Manning was convicted in 2013 in military court of Espionage Act violations and other offenses for giving secret military and State Department documents to WikiLeaks. Manning was an intelligence analyst in Iraq at the time.

Manning has been imprisoned at Kansas’ Fort Leavenworth and tried to kill herself July 5. The ACLU says she now faces administrative charges related to it, and possible punishment could include indefinite solitary confinement.

MARSHALL, Mo. (AP) — Two Missouri police officers have been placed on paid administrative leave after a prosecutor accused them of lying about what happened when they tried to arrest a suspect for a parole violation last year.

Marshall Police Sgt. Roger Gibson said Wednesday that officers Tyler Newell and Josh O’Bryan will remain on leave pending an internal investigation. He says an undetermined outside police agency will also investigate.

The officers claimed in their police report that the suspect, Carl Roettgen, tried to shoot one of them while they were trying to arrest him for a parole violation in a Wal-Mart parking lot in May 2015.

Saline County prosecutor Donald Stouffer announced Monday that he was dropping the three assault charges against Roettgen because video and other evidence contradicted the officers’ accounts. Among other things, he said he found no evidence that Roettgen had a gun.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Corporation Commission has expanded restrictions on the amount of oilfield wastewater that can be injected underground, a practice that has been linked to earthquakes in south central Kansas in recent years.

During a meeting Tuesday, the commission left in place an 8,000-barrel per day limit in five specific areas of Harper and Sumner counties. But it put a 16,000-barrel per day limit on the rest of those two counties and parts of Kingman, Sedgwick and Butler counties.

The Wichita Eagle reports experts the KCC staff said reduced injection rates imposed earlier led to a drop in the magnitude and frequency of earthquakes on the Kansas side of the Oklahoma border.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An internal investigation into a national jackpot-fixing scandal has concluded that a single former lottery employee was responsible for any drawings that were manipulated, but it failed to uncover proof of his guilt.

The report for the Multi-State Lottery Association found that its former security director, Eddie Tipton, had no help from other employees. But investigators said they found no smoking gun proving criminal activity, such as the manipulation of computers that pick numbers.

The April 29 report was obtained by The Associated Press.

Tipton was convicted last year of tampering with a drawing for a $16.5 million jackpot after he was seen on video buying the winning numbers at a Des Moines gas station. He’s awaiting trial on allegations that he conspired with associates to collect jackpots in several states.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A document released by a state agency says all the rides at a Kansas City, Kansas, water park passed private inspections in June, including the waterslide on which a 10-year-old boy died.

The Kansas Department of Labor provided to The Associated Press on Wednesday a copy of an insurance company inspector’s June 7 letter saying inspections had been completed at Schlitterbahn Waterpark. The letter said all rides met guidelines for being insured with “no disqualifying conditions noted.”

Deputy Secretary and Chief Attorney Brad Burke said the department obtained the letter following Sunday’s death of Caleb Schwab on the “Verruckt” waterslide.

Kansas law requires permanent rides to be inspected annually by their parks, and the state randomly audits the records. The last records audit for Schlitterbahn was in June 2012.

HACKETT, Ark. (AP) — A sheriff’s office spokesman says two law enforcement officers have been shot in western Arkansas.

Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Philip Pevehouse says the shooting happened Wednesday morning near the town of Hackett, about 170 miles west of Little Rock.

Pevehouse tells Fort Smith television station KHBS that officers are still searching for the shooter. No details about the officers’ conditions have been released.

Pevehouse tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that one sheriff’s deputy and one Hackett Police Department officer were shot.

Pevehouse could not immediately be reached for more information, and the Sebastian County sheriff’s dispatch hung up on a reporter’s call. Arkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler said his agency is assisting but he referred all questions to Sebastian County authorities.