TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas law requiring a public entity to run underground utility notifications remains in flux six years after its passage.

The Topeka Capital-Journal  reports that a private-sector nonprofit called Kansas One Call has been responsible for running a call center and educating people about the need to call before digging since the 1980s. But a 2008 law required a public notification entity. After the Kansas Supreme Court determined that Kansas One Call isn’t a public, the state created a new entity called the Kansas Underground Utility Notification Center to oversee the notification center.

The Kansas Corporation Commission appointed Kansas One Call as the interim operator of the notification center so there wouldn’t be any disruption in services. The eventual plan is to seek bids for running the notification center.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — More than 1,000 farmers are expected to gather in Manhattan next week to layout the roadmap for public policy issues the Kansas Farm Bureau members consider of importance to agriculture.

Among the featured speakers for the two-day event that begins Monday is American Farm Bureau Federation President Bob Stallman.

Workshop topics include succession planning, advocating for agriculture, the 2014 farm bill, and water and agriculture technology.

This year’s convention marks the end of the 12-year tenure of retiring Kansas Farm Bureau President Steve Baccus.

A celebration of his service will be held at Monday evening’s banquet, which will be attended by Gov. Sam Brownback and U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts.

The convention ends Tuesday with the election of a new president to replace Baccus.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A mother is pleading for the driver who struck and injured her 2-year-old son to come forward.

The Kansas City Star  reports that Eduardo Lopez Martinez was critically injured in Monday’s crash in Kansas City, Kansas. The driver didn’t stop, but the boy’s mother, Teresa Martinez, said Wednesday through an interpreter that the person had to have felt the crash.

Police said an older, white, four-door Chrysler sped off after striking the boy.

The director of the University of Kansas Hospital pediatric intensive care unit says Eduardo was breathing with the assistance of a ventilator. The child also suffered rib fractures, but there is no apparent brain damage. Eduardo is expected to survive.

Police are asking anyone with information to come forward.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A man has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after a deadly crash at a northeast Kansas intersection.

The Kansas City Star reports that a vehicle headed west on an Olathe street collided around 3 a.m. Thursday with car going north on U.S. 56. The driver of the northbound vehicle was taken to a hospital, where he died.

The 32-year-old driver of the westbound vehicle wasn’t injured, and police arrested him. The news release says “driving under the influence is being investigated as a possible contributing factor in this accident.” No other details were immediately released.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has taken disciplinary action against three lawyers from the northeast part of the state.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the high court ordered the indefinite suspension of Mindy Lynn Miller, of Topeka, and Karen Eager, of Lawrence. The court also placed Andrew Delaney, of Hiawatha, on two years of probation and ordered him to pay a client $2,000.

Accusation against Miller included that she failed to make court appearances. She is a former in-house counsel for Midwest Health Management.

Eager was accused of multiple violations of professional standards, most occurring while she worked for the Disability Rights Center in Topeka.

Delaney was placed on probation for professional misconduct in cases involving a divorce, the dissolution of a partnership and a child in need of care.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are considering where to place the state’s pension obligations to more than 2,000 state correction employees.

The issue is whether to keep the corrections employees in a distinct group within the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System or to move their pensions to a division of the system serving police officers and firefighters.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the 2013 Legislature studied the issue last year but left the decision to an interim committee that will consider the issue in December.

Members of KPERS’ correctional fund have the same benefit formula as other KPERS members. But corrections employees can retire at a young age than others — 55 or 60 — with 10 years of service.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka police are looking for a man accused of stabbing an auto dealership employee and fleeing in the car he was test driving.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 65-year-old Kenneth Gorman was attacked Wednesday night in a bank parking lot in Topeka. Police say the suspect then fled in the 2014 Chevy Malibu he was test-driving. The Malibu was recovered less than an hour later.

Gorman was in critical condition when he was transported to a Topeka hospital. But Topeka Police Lt. Ash Kaboudan says Gorman is improving and is expected to survive. Gorman worked for Doug Richert Cadillac.

JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Many immigrants in the United States illegally who apply for work permits under President Barack Obama’s new executive actions would be eligible for Social Security and Medicare benefits upon reaching retirement age, according to the White House.

Under Obama’s actions, immigrants who are spared deportation would be eligible to obtain work permits and a Social Security number. As a result, they would pay into the Social Security system through payroll taxes.

Not all such immigrants would be entitled to the benefits, however, because like all Social Security and Medicare recipients they would have to work 10 years to become eligible for retirement payments and health care.

BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press

SEVERN, Md. (AP) — Alyssa Riggan hasn’t dwelled on being the nation’s first successful recipient of a liver from a living donor.

As she marks the 25th anniversary of her successful surgery Thursday, she says its success has enabled her to live a normal life almost completely untouched by what was an often-fatal disorder.

Riggan was 21 months old when her mother, Teri Smith, donated more than a third of her liver to save her daughter from a disorder called biliary atresia.

The procedure helped pave the way for routine live-donor transplants. It expanded the options for children with liver disorders, many of whom died while waiting for a liver from a deceased donor. It was first used only in small children. It’s now used for older children, and at some transplant centers, for adults.