The Kansas Highway Patrol says four people who died Tuesday in an accident in Ellsworth County were from Colorado.

The patrol identified the victims Wednesday as 54-year-old Kevin J. Dorrell; 51-year-old Debra M. Dorrell; 15-year-old Justin Turner; and 11-year-old Joe Turner, all of Aurora, Colo.

Nine-year-old Jonah Turner survived the crash when an Ellsworth man pulled him from the wreckage.

He is hospitalized in Wichita. The relationship of the victims was not released.

The patrol says the accident happened when a Cadillac Escalade driven by Kevin Dorrell hit a disabled semi-trailer that had parked along Interstate 70 about eight miles north of Ellsworth.

The truck driver was not injured.

A man described by authorities as a serial bank robber has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Prosecutors say 39-year-old Timothy Shaw admitted robbing five St. Louis banks between September 2010 and March 2011. He used a BB gun in the crimes and got away with a total of about $15,000.

Shaw was suspected of robbing more than 20 banks. He pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree robbery and four counts of armed criminal action in February, and was sentenced Friday.

The Missouri Highway Patrol says a 64-year-old man has died after falling from his boat in a fishing lake in southeast Missouri.

Sikeston resident Oscar Shannon was pronounced dead around 2 p.m. Monday by the Mississippi County coroner.

Authorities say Shannon had been fishing on Upper Big Lake in the Robert Delay Conservation Area.

He lost his balance and fell overboard while trying to tie a rope to a tree.  The body was recovered near a cluster of trees in the lake.

An Iowa bar’s plan to host a wrestling show that will include two dwarfs has drawn some complaints.

The show would be presented as thousands of bicyclists roll through town in July during RAGBRAI, or the Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa.

Brian Filloon owns the Longest Yard Sports Grill in Dallas Center, Iowa.

Filloon says he was “just looking for something different for entertainment.”

Filloon says he’s been invited to attend a meeting with the Dallas Center City Council on Tuesday night to discuss his bar’s plans.

City Councilman Terry Gibson says the dwarf wrestling could cast Dallas Center in a negative light. He says it sounds “more like a carnival event – not an afternoon, evening community event.”

Authorities Kansas county planned damage assessments Tuesday after twisters touched down over the Memorial Day weekend.

In Marysville, a tornado damaged two businesses and some homes but there are no early reports of fatalities or serious injuries.

Marshall County emergency management director Bill Schwindamann says the tornado was reported about 9:30 p.m. Monday in Marysville, about 150 miles northwest of Kansas City near the Nebraska border.

Schwindamann says one business was destroyed and another was seriously damaged. He says about 25 homes suffered damage ranging from minor to substantial. Some livestock also was reported missing at a farm where a barn was destroyed.

Crews were out assessing the damage and working to restore power lines early Tuesday.

The video above shows what happens when storm chasers get inside a wedge tornado near Smith Center.

Missouri conservation officials want help from anglers who catch smallmouth bass in certain Ozark streams.

The Conservation Department said in a release that people who fish selected Ozark streams can help with a research project by reporting their catches of tagged smallmouth bass.

Bass season for Ozark streams opened Friday and runs through Feb. 28.

The department will use the project information to help manage bass habitat and harvest. The tagging effort involves MDC staff catching and tagging wild smallmouth bass to learn more about angler catch rates and fish movement in the Black River, Castor River, Courtois Creek, Current River and the North Fork of the White River.

Each tag has a phone number that anglers are asked to call and provide the information about the catch.

(AP) – Some Kansas lawmakers have decided to turn down additional pay as the Legislature heads past its 90-day session limit.

Day 90 was Thursday, which means legislators will go past their limit, as they have in 32 of the past 40 years. Last year’s session went 99 days. But each extra day of the session is estimated to cost taxpayers $45,000.

A list provided by Legislative Administrative Services shows that five of 40 senators and 17 of 125 House members have declined their legislative salaries after 90 days. Two Republican lawmakers – Senator Vicki Schmidt and Representative Shanti Gandhi, both of Topeka – have also declined their per diem.

Representative Brandon Whipple, a Wichita Democrats, tells constituents he’d donate the rest of his salary to charity.