WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita-based nonprofit is trying to raise $300,000 to send eight solar-powered clinics to western Africa in response to the Ebola crisis.

The Wichita Eagle reports Clinic in a Can also will be collecting food locally and money for food to be purchased by aid organizations in Africa.

Clinic in a Can was founded by Mike Wawrzewski, a physician assistant, converting shipping containers into medical clinics. The eight clinics to be sent to Liberia are the first to be completely solar powered, which Wawrzewski says is necessary because of the country’s weak power system.

He says the clinics will be ready to ship in about three weeks if funding is in place. The containers will be packed with personal protective equipment for medical personnel who are treating Ebola patients.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The mayors of Kansas City and San Francisco have a bet riding on the outcome of the World Series.

If the Royals take the crown, San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee will travel to Kansas City to read to students. If the Giants prevail, Kansas City Mayor Sly James will serve meals to the homeless in San Francisco and sing with a church musical group.

James says that Kansas City has waited 29 years for a World Series championship team and that “not even a Giant can stand in our way.” But Lee says that although Kansas City has been playing well, the Royals are no match for the Giants.

FORT SCOTT, Kan. (AP) — A former payroll clerk for a southeast Kansas county will be sentenced in November for stealing nearly $24,000 in public funds.

The Fort Scott Tribune reports 29-year-old Angela Timi faces up to 29 months behind bars at her sentencing Nov. 10 in Bourbon County District Court. She must also pay full restitution.

Timi worked in the county clerk’s office from August 2011 until she was fired in January 2013, when officials announced an employee was being investigated for theft.

Timi initially faced 59 charges. Most were dismissed last month when Timi pleaded guilty to misusing public funds and two counts of criminal use of a county credit card.

Agents from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation found numerous instances of a county credit card being used for Timi’s personal expenses.

ALLEN, Kan. (AP) — An eastern Kansas school district has fired a bus driver following his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.

KWCH-TV reports the 57-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon after pulling up to Northern Heights High School in Allen, about 20 miles north of Emporia.

An employee of the North Lyon County School District notified the sheriff’s office that a driver appeared to be driving under the influence. No students were on the bus.

The North Lyon County superintendent said the driver had worked for the district for eight years without any previous problems.

The sheriff’s office declined to comment about the driver’s blood-alcohol level. Charges were pending Tuesday.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Retiring Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger grew up in a Republican family and won’t drop her GOP affiliation even after the party moved well to her right.

But Praeger is breaking with the GOP by publicly opposing the re-election of Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts and Gov. Sam Brownback.

She’s also endorsed Democrat Dennis Anderson for insurance commissioner.

Praeger said Tuesday that she’s backing Democrat Paul Davis in the governor’s race and independent candidate Greg Orman in the U.S. Senate race because she wants to move the GOP back toward the center.

She’s finishing her third, four-year term as insurance commissioner after deciding not to seek re-election this year. She turned 70 on Tuesday.

Kansas GOP Executive Director Clay Barker doubts her endorsements will carry much weight.

HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Military personnel have converged at a southeast Kansas pasture where an Oklahoma Air National Guard fighter jet tumbled to the ground and burned after colliding with another F-16 during a training exercise.

One pilot ejected after the Monday afternoon crash about three miles northeast of the Elk County town of Moline. The Oklahoma Guard’s Col. Max Moss has said neither pilot was seriously injured.

Moss said one of the F-16s remained airborne and returned safely to its base in Tulsa. Moss said the pilot of the crashed plane was taken to McConnell Air Force Base hospital in Wichita for evaluation, but was not believed to be seriously injured.

A McConnell Air Force Base spokesman said Tuesday that the Oklahoma Air National Guard would release more details in the afternoon.

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — One member of the Raymore-Peculiar High School girls volleyball team remained hospitalized after the team bus collided with a truck on the way to a match.

Thirteen students were taken to hospitals after the accident in Lee’s Summit Monday. Police say the bus driver tried to make a U-turn when the truck hit the bus.

Police say the team was on its way to a tournament at Lee’s Summit West High School when the driver missed a turn and tried to make the U-turn.

ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department is requiring that anyone coming to the United States from one of three West African countries reporting an Ebola outbreak must enter the country through one of five airports screening passengers for the deadly disease.

Customs and Border Protection officers earlier this month started screening passengers from West Africa who arrived at New York’s Kennedy, Newark Liberty, Washington’s Dulles, Chicago’s O’Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta airports. There are no direct flights from West Africa to the United States and about 94 percent of the estimated 150 daily passengers from the region pass through those five airports.

The new requirement means that people traveling from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea who were not originally passing through one of those five airports will have to rebook their flights.