WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Law enforcement agencies throughout Kansas are turning to videos in their increasingly difficult challenge of recruiting new officers.

The Wichita Eagle reports that the Hutchinson Police Department and the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office have both rolled out commercials or longer videos in recent weeks and months targeting potential recruits.

The Wichita Police Department has been following a recruit class through the training academy with a video camera, posting weekly clips online showing what and how they’re doing. Officer Paul Cruz says the department’s videos emphasize recruiting minority and women officers to “represent or reflect the community that it serves.”

Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center Director Ed Pavey says that difficulties like low starting pay, night and weekend shifts, and negative views of law enforcement remain significant obstacles.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City man was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for 50 years for a man’s death outside an Overland Park nightclub.

James Willis was sentenced Wednesday for first-degree murder in the September 2015 death of 24-year-old Jurl Carter of Olathe. Willis’ brother, Dale Willis, was previously sentenced to life in prison in the case.

Carter was a rapper called “Bo Boogy.” Dale Willis also was a rapper and owned a Kansas City record company.

Carter was killed outside Jim Kilroy’s Roxy Bar after an altercation with Dale Willis.

The Kansas City Star reports witnesses said Carter was in a vehicle when he was shot several times. Prosecutors said Dale Willis told his brother to shoot Carter.

James Willis testified he shot Carter in self-defense.

MCCOOK, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a 10-year-old Kansas boy died after the bicycle he was riding collided with a pickup truck in southwest Nebraska.

The accident occurred around 1:20 p.m. Tuesday on the southwest side of McCook. The Nebraska State Patrol says the boy rode his bike from a private driveway onto a roadway, where it was struck by the pickup.

The patrol says the boy was pronounced dead later at Community Hospital in McCook. He was identified as Peyton Fife, who lived in Oberlin, Kansas.

The pickup driver was identified as 37-year-old Jason Stephens, of McCook. He was not injured.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities say an off-duty police officer has been shot in the arm and a suspect in the ankle in an exchange of gunfire in St. Louis.

The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that the shooting happened Wednesday night after officers started following a stolen car. Interim Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole says gunfire rang out after tire-flattening device was used on the suspect’s car and again when the vehicle stopped less than a mile later.

The off-duty officer was wounded when he came out of his house to help. He was in good condition at a hospital. It’s not clear if he was hit by the officers’ or the suspects’ gunfire.

Two suspects, including the wounded one, were taken into custody. Police say a third suspect remains on the loose.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri church youth leader has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor for illicit sex.

The U.S. attorney’s office said in a news release that 46-year-old Jamey Lee Becker, of Iberia, was sentenced Wednesday.

Becker initially faced state charges before the case was moved to federal court. Court documents in the state case say the investigation began when the parents of a 16-year-old youth group participant reported that the teen was receiving Facebook messages on his cell phone from Becker.

A Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper posed as the teen and exchanged hundreds of messages over a nine-day period with Becker. The statement says Becker was arrested after going to a church where he’d arranged to pay the teen for sex.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department plans to offer extra visas for temporary, seasonal workers.

DHS spokesman David Lapan says the department hasn’t decided how many visas will be offered. But it expects to set that number soon and start issuing visas as soon as late July.

The H-2B visas are used for temporary, non-agriculture workers at a variety of businesses, including resorts. The government offers 66,000 such visas a year, and the extra visas will be available to companies that show they’d be harmed significantly if they aren’t able to temporarily hire foreign workers. The Trump Organization is among the businesses that have utilized the visas.

The decision to add visas comes amid a Trump administration crackdown on illegal immigration and promises to bring back American jobs.

BOSTON (AP) -A consumer watchdog group is warning parents to reconsider buying their children fidget spinners.

Boston-based World Against Toys Causing Harm said Wednesday in unveiling its summer safety report that the ubiquitous spinners, already banned in many schools, can fall apart and the small pieces can create a choking hazard

W.A.T.C.H. said children in Texas and Oregon have been taken to hospitals recently after choking on fidget spinner pieces.

W.A.T.C.H. President Joan Siff says just because a toy is popular does not mean it is safe.

The group also warned about the fire dangers posed by lithium batteries in hoverboards; the potential for blunt force injuries from plastic weapons based on superhero movies; and impact injuries from non-motorized scooters.

LONDON (AP) – Oil prices fell further to a new 7 month low today, with the international benchmark for crude sliding below $46 a barrel.

That is just below the price seen in November, when OPEC and 10 other oil-producing countries agreed to cut their production to combat a growing supply glut.

While Russia, Saudi Arabia and other nations involved in the deal have met their targeted cuts, an unforeseen increase in U.S. supply countered those efforts.

With the glut persisting, the outlook for oil prices has been dampened.

Analysts at Commerzbank predict that persistent negative investor sentiment about oil prices could push the international benchmark, Brent, below $45 per barrel.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Civil rights advocates say a Kansas election official is trying to hide materials that undercut his public claim that substantial numbers of noncitizens have registered to vote.

The American Civil Liberties Union obtained the documents as part of its federal civil lawsuit in Kansas challenging the state’s proof-of-citizenship document requirement.

It wants to court to remove the confidential designation Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach placed on the materials.

He was photographed taking them into a November meeting with then President-elect Donald Trump, along with a separate draft amendment to the National Voter Registration Act.

Kobach, a gubernatorial candidate, has argued in a court filing that the ACLU’s efforts to publicize them are meant “to annoy, harass and embarrass” him.

Trump named Kobach vice chairman of a national election fraud commission.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is suing three large pharmaceutical companies, saying their “campaign of deception” led to a startling opioid crisis in the state.

Hawley, a Republican, spoke Wednesday at a news conference in St. Louis, where the suit is being filed. The suit seeks hundreds of millions of dollars in both damages and civil penalties. It names Endo Pharmaceuticals, Purdue Pharma, and Janssen Pharmaceuticals.

The complaint says the companies violated state consumer protection laws, misleading doctors and consumers by fraudulently misrepresenting risks posed by the drugs that they make and sell.

Other states have also sued pharmaceutical companies over the opioid crisis, starting with Mississippi in 2015.