OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) — Hundreds of Franklin County residents are expected to receive jury summonses for the capital murder trial of a man accused of killing four people.

Kyle Trevor Flack’s trial is scheduled to begin February 1st, 2016. He’s charged with capital murder in the 2013 slayings of 21-year-old Kaylie Smith Bailey and her daughter, 18-month-old Lana-Leigh Bailey. He’s also charged with premeditated first-degree murder in the deaths of 30-year-old Andrew A. Stout, and 31-year-old Steven White.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that summonses for 600 Franklin County citizens are expected to be mailed next week. Questioning of the possible jurors will start Feb. 1 and is expected to last 12 days.

Also Tuesday, a Franklin County judge granted prosecutors permission to show jurors security video clips depicting three of the victims.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Russia’s airstrikes against moderate opposition groups in Syria are bolstering the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

He’s calling on Russia to play a more constructive role by shifting the focus of its airstrikes to defeating the Islamic State.

Speaking at a joint news conference with French President Francois Hollande after the two met to discuss the global response to the Islamic State group, Obama said IS cannot be tolerated and must be destroyed.

Calling it a “barbaric terrorist group,” he said this is an important moment for the U.S. and France as well as the rest of the world.

Hollande’s trip to Washington is part of a diplomatic push to get the international community to bolster the campaign against the Islamic State extremists. But he’s likely to leave Washington without firm backing for his call to bring Russia into a new coalition to fight the extremists.

French President Francois Hollande says that in a meeting with President Barack Obama the two decided to scale up their efforts in Syria and Iraq.

Hollande says the two countries will strengthen their intelligence-sharing regarding targets.

Obama says the United States will do even more to prevent attacks at home and that there is a growing recognition after the Paris attacks that European countries need to ramp up efforts to stop the flow of terrorists.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A year has passed since parts of Ferguson burned in the rage that followed a grand jury’s decision not to prosecute the police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown.

In that time, signs of hope have emerged.

Some of the nearly two dozen businesses destroyed in the Nov. 24, 2014, riots have reopened. Concrete barricades that protected the police station are gone. The majority-black St. Louis suburb led almost exclusively by whites a year ago now has a black city manager, municipal judge and two new African-American council members.

City leaders take pride in a small net increase in businesses in the past year. The community has also adopted court reforms, and police now try to work alongside residents, rather than simply responding to crimes.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Fifty years after a St. Louis gospel singer says she was told her daughter died at birth, and months after the 76-year-old woman learned that her daughter was still alive, a judge is being asked to restore the birth mother’s parental rights.

Attorney Albert Watkins announced the petition Tuesday in which Melanie Diane Gilmore seeks to invalidate her 1983 adoption and re-establish Zella Jackson Price as her legal mother.

The action would allow Gilmore to be an heir and give Watkins access to more information about the 1965 birth.

Price’s story initially raised concerns that a baby theft ring operated at Homer G. Phillips Hospital, which served black residents until closing in 1979.

Authorities believe the baby was abandoned, not stolen. Watkins says Price stands by her story.

BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey confirmed that it shot down a Russian warplane Tuesday claiming it violated Turkish airspace and ignored warnings.

Russia confirms the plane crashed but insists that it was only flying over Syria.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has convened a security meeting following Turkey’s downing of a Russian plane.

Erdogan is meeting with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu as well as Turkey’s military and intelligence chiefs on Tuesday.

Turkey says the Russian plane violated Turkish airspace and repeatedly ignored Turkish warnings to leave. Moscow says the plane was inside Syria when it was shot down.

Syrian rebels and activists say they have targeted and destroyed a Russian-made helicopter operated by the Syrian army near the area where a Russian warplane was downed by Turkey.

A rebel spokesman, Zakaria al-Ahmad, says the chopper was flying low over mountains in Latakia province, allegedly searching for the missing Russian pilots on Tuesday.

Al-Ahmad says the rebels fired a Tao missile that destroyed the helicopter after it landed and its pilots had left the aircraft.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the chopper made an emergency landing in the area and its pilots ejected before the aircraft was hit. It was not clear why it made an emergency landing.

Turkey’s private Dogan news agency is quoting a Turkmen commander as saying Turkey brought down the Russian plane after it had dropped a bomb in a Turkmen region of Syria and entered Turkish airspace.

The fighter, who was identified as Alpaslan Celik, the second-in-command of the Turkmen Coastal Division, said the Turkmen forces had re-captured a Turkmen mountain region from Syrian forces.

Celik also said the rebels shot and killed both Russian pilots who parachuted from the plane after it was shot down.

The rebels had previously said they killed one of the two pilots and were searching for the second one. The AP couldn’t immediately confirm the claim that both pilots were dead.

Dogan said Celik spoke to a group of Turkish journalists in the Turkmen region. A group of fighters could be seen in the background shouting “Allahu Akbar” and firing into the sky with machine guns as Celik made the announcement.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has cancelled a planned trip to Turkey in the wake of the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey.

The meeting between Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart had been scheduled for Wednesday.

Lavrov was quoted by news agency Interfax as saying that President Vladimir Putin “directly said that (the downing) cannot but affect Russian-Turkish relations. In this regard, it decided to cancel the meeting, which was planned for tomorrow.”

Syria’s information minister says the shooting down of a Russian warplane is a “new crime” that will be added to the record of insurgent groups fighting in Syria and the countries that finance and arm them.

Omran al-Zoubi specified Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar — countries that have been among the strongest backers of insurgent groups trying to remove President Bashar Assad from power.

Turkey shot down a Russian warplane on Tuesday, accusing it of violating Turkish airspace. Moscow says the plane was inside Syria when it was shot down.

One of Russia’s largest travel agencies says it will suspend selling package tours to Turkey as of Wednesday, citing security concerns.

Natali Tours said in a statement Tuesday its offices in Russia and former Soviet republics would stop sending tourists to Turkey due to “an unstable political situation.”

It also cited Putin’s decree that suspended flights earlier this month to Egypt on security concerns in the aftermath of the Oct. 31 plane crash over the Sinai peninsula.

Nearly 4.5 million Russians visited Turkey last year, 12 percent of all tourists there, second only to Germany.

Czech leaders say a lack of a common strategy and proper cooperation of all the players involved in the Syrian conflict are to blame for the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey.

Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek says: “Because there’s not a clear agreement of the international community on a common strategy and because the enemy is not clearly defined, everyone fights a war in their own interest and we can end up fighting each other.”

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton is the latest recipient of a prize named after the man he defeated in the 1996 election.

Clinton was at the University of Kansas Monday to receive the Dole Leadership Prize, named in honor of the longtime Republican senator from Kansas. Dole was the 1996 GOP presidential nominee who lost when the Democrat Clinton was re-elected.

The award is granted by the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the university.

In accepting his award, Clinton urged people from both parties to be more willing to work together.

In a statement last month, Dole said he and Clinton have become friends over the years. Dole, who is 92, did not attend.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Sen. Marco Rubio has filed for the Kansas Republican President caucus, making him the sixth presidential contender to file in the state.

He joins former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Ben Carson.

The caucus will be held March 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in 95 different locations around Kansas.

All registered Kansas Republican voters are allowed to take part in the caucus.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis Fire Department spokesman says a home where a weekend fire killed three children did not have a smoke detector. Officials say 6-year-old Aniya Calvin and 4-year-old Antonasia Williams died at the scene of the pre-dawn fire Sunday. Ten-month-old Sevon Hutcherson died later at a hospital.

Capt. Gregg Favre of the city’s fire department says there’s no reason to believe the fire was anything but an accident. He says there were no working smoke detectors in the home, even though the department doles them out for free.

One of the residents, 16-year-old Viances Hutcherson Jr., says the gas to the dwelling was off, and that the family was using an electric oven and space heaters to warm the home.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Eudora man who strangled his disabled home-care client to death in September 2014 has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison.

Ronald Eugene Heskett, 49, was accused of asphyxiating 65-year-old Vance Moulton by twisting a towel around his neck.

Heskett was originally charged with first-degree murder. A jury found him guilty of the lesser second-degree murder.

Heskett has said since September 2014 that the killing of Moulton, who had cerebral palsy, was an assisted suicide.

Douglas County District Judge Peggy Kittel sentenced Heskett to 195 months in prison, although his attorney had asked the judge to sentence Heskett to less time than what state guidelines suggested for a defendant with his criminal history.

Heskett was previously convicted of felony criminal damage to property and misdemeanor trespassing in 1986.

LICKING, Mo. (AP) — A man has died after falling from an all-terrain vehicle in south-central Missouri. Theodore R. Johnson, 61, died of injuries suffered in the ATV crash. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the accident occurred Thursday south of Licking.

The patrol says Johnson was trying to climb an embankment in the ATV when the vehicle flipped over, trapping Johnson under it. Johnson was pronounced dead at the scene.