TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Secretary of State Kris Kobach says Kansas set an “all-time record” for registered voters ahead of Tuesday’s primary.

His statement Monday was true for primary elections. But figures posted on Kobach’s own website show the state had more registered voters in October 2012, ahead of that year’s general election.

Kobach said Kansas has 1,750,246 registered voters. That’s 14,851 more than the previous primary record of 1,735,395 in 2014, an increase of 0.9 percent.

But in October 2012, the state had 1,771,252 registered voters. That’s 21,006 more than now, 1.2 percent higher.

Kobach said increased registrations show new voters aren’t hindered by a requirement to document their U.S. citizenship when registering.

Kansas City, Kansas, attorney and proof-of-citizenship critic Mark Johnson says Kobach doesn’t have enough evidence to make such a claim.

NEVADA, Iowa (AP) — A bus driver charged in the hit-and-run death of an Iowa State University student has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge.

KCCI-TV reports 23-year-old Benjamin Clague, of Gilbert, pleaded guilty Monday to failure to report a crash. Prosecutors will recommend he serve 30 days in jail and pay a $100 fine. Police arrested Clague more than a month after Iowa State student Emmalee Jacobs was found in a street bordering campus. She died at a hospital.

Initially it was unclear who hit Jacobs, but police arrested Clague after finding a Cy-Ride bus video that showed the bus he was driving was involved.

Clague initially had pleaded not guilty to leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and failure to obey a traffic control device.

ABILENE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities in Kansas’ Dickinson County say an 18-month-old girl died after being found unresponsive in a sweltering car that the sheriff says she climbed into at the family’s rural home.

Sheriff Gareth Hoffman tells the Topeka Capital-Journal that Olivia Ann Engstrom died Sunday at the family’s home seven miles northeast of Abilene.

Hoffman says the toddler had last been seen a few hours before her body was found, and that the girl had been playing outside with her siblings when she somehow got into a parked car. The sheriff says it’s unclear how she managed to do that.

Hoffman says no foul play is suspected, and he describes the matter as “horrible.”

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have confirmed that a body found in the Arkansas River is that of a missing theology student.

Police said Monday that the body has been identified as that of 24-year-old Brian Bergkamp, a native of Garden Plain. He had been scheduled to enter his third year of theology study at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He studied at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas as well.

He was found last week after being reported missing July 9 when the Arkansas River was swollen by recent rains.

Fire officials say two men and three women in separate kayaks were floating on the river Saturday when they hit churning water.

Officials said one of the women fell into the swirling water, and Bergkamp left his kayak to assist her. She and the other kayakers made it to shore.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Officials have put an Omaha Fire Department battalion chief on paid administrative leave after investigating reports he’d posted inappropriate comments on his personal Facebook page.

The fire department announced Monday that Battalion Chief Joseph Salcedo was placed on leave after an initial review by Dan Olsen, the interim fire chief, as well as the department’s internal affairs office and city human resources department.

The fire department says contractual obligations require that it can’t provide details about the investigation.

KETV reports screenshots of the Facebook page included posts involving President Barack Obama and the Black Lives Matter movement.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials say two Nebraska prison staffers were assaulted by inmates over the weekend.

The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services said in a news release Monday that a caseworker the Nebraska State Penitentiary in Lincoln was attacked Saturday and a lieutenant was attacked Sunday at the Nebraska Correctional Youth Facility in Omaha.

The department says the Lincoln caseworker was punched and the Omaha lieutenant was bitten on a hand. Both were treated at outside medical facilities and released.

The names of those involved have not been released. Findings from the two investigations will be submitted to local prosecutors for consideration of charges.

SAC CITY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a crop-dusting pilot who was killed when his plane crashed in western Iowa.

The plane wreckage was discovered around 9:45 a.m. Friday by a crew responding to a power outage about 3½ miles south of Sac City. The Sac County Sheriff’s Office said Monday that a preliminary investigation shows the plane clipped the static lines on high-voltage lines and came down in a cornfield.

The Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that the pilot has been identified as 44-year-old Mark Watson, who lived in Burlington.

An autopsy has been ordered.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas official says the high number of tornadoes seen in the state in July is unusual.

The Wichita Eagle reports that eight tornadoes touched down in the state in July. Three tornadoes touched down in Greenwood County on July 7, including and EF-2. An EF-3 tornado also hit the county.

One tornado touched down about four miles east of Syracuse in Hamilton County on July 15, but it didn’t do enough damage to warrant a damage survey by the National Weather Service. Jeff Hutton with the Dodge City branch of the weather service says that it was officially recorded as an EF-1.

Jeff Hutton of the National Weather Service’s Dodge City branch says the EF-2 and EF-3 tornadoes in Greenwood County and the one near Syracuse “were definitely stronger than you usually see in July.”

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Machinery located at three oil pipeline construction sites in central Iowa has been extensively damaged by fire.

Jasper County Sheriff John Halferty says it appears the fires were intentionally set along the Dakota Access pipeline.

Halferty says damage to bulldozers and other heavy equipment is estimated at $1 million.

The sheriff’s office was alerted around 6 a.m. Monday to a fire in a farm field west of Newton. Investigators later learned of additional burned equipment at pipeline sites near Reasnor and Oskaloosa.

Texas-based Dakota Access says “it’s a shameful act by a group of people trying to disrupt our energy security and independence.”

The pipeline, which crosses 18 Iowa counties, has received strong opposition from environmental and landowner rights groups.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to sending fake IRS letters to former girlfriends and business partners telling that they were under investigation for tax evasion.

The U.S. attorney’s office says that 56-year-old Jeffrey Nickerson, of Lenexa, Kansas, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of impersonating a federal employee. Nickerson sent letters on IRS letterhead that said the victims were under investigation as a result of reports being filed to the IRS Fraud Investigations Hotline.

He knew a woman who worked at the IRS Service Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and admitted to using information gleaned from the IRS letterhead and publications she brought home with her.

Nickerson faces up to three years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000. The sentencing date hasn’t been set.