WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts is bringing in another Republican heavy-hitter to help bolster his troubled campaign for re-election.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will be in Wichita on Monday for a fundraising event for the Kansas senator.

His visit on the campaign trial comes just days after former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin campaigned with Roberts in southeast Kansas. Two former presidential nominees, U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, joined Roberts on the campaign trail last week. Another potential 2016 White House candidate, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, is also expected to help him campaign.

Roberts once was considered a near lock for re-election but now faces a tough battle from independent businessman Greg Orman after the Democratic candidate withdrew.

PAOLA- A Kansas teenager was injured in an accident just after 3 p.m. on Sunday in Miami County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Chevy passenger car driven by Caspian O. Tressin, 16, Paola, was westbound on Kansas 68 one mile west of the roundabout on Old Kansas City Road.

The driver fell asleep, woke up and overcorrected, striking a guardrail and the vehicle rolled onto its top.

Tressin was transported to Miami County Medical Center.
The KHP reported she was properly restrained at the time of the accident.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The undead have taken to Topeka streets to fight hunger and poverty.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that hundreds of people with rotting faces and severed limbs participated in the Saturday night fundraiser.

The participants were accompanied by members of the Capital City Reapers Zombie Response Team, who donned black uniforms and combat gear. The group of undead impersonators ended their march on the Statehouse steps, where they posed as victims of the vigilant zombie fighters.

The annual event attracted zombie hunters as young as age 5. Participants were asked to bring canned goods or make a $5 donation to Let’s Help, a community nonprofit that seeks to break the cycle of poverty.

Zombie walk organizer Louie Creek says the event is a “way to give.”

JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s Democratic challenger is on the defensive over disclosures that he was inside a southeast Kansas strip club during a 1998 drug raid and was found in a back room with a nearly naked woman.

The GOP says the incident raises questions about Davis’ character, while Davis supporters say Republicans are desperate over a potential Brownback loss.

Democrat Paul Davis was 26, single and a young attorney in a firm representing the owner of the club near Coffeyville. The owner spent six years in federal prison, but Davis was not arrested.

Davis is now 42, and says he was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” He released a statement from a participant in the raid saying Davis was not involved in any wrongdoing.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas is receiving more sexual assault reports from students after the school’s handling of an alleged on-campus rape set off protests.

The Kansas City Star reports that the recent complaints include two reports of stalking, seven of sexual harassment, one of sexual assault, one of date violence, one of domestic violence and seven so recent the office had not yet categorized them.

The reports began rolling in after a student who said she was raped in 2013 complained of her attacker’s lenient punishment. The university has declined to comment on the case. Other women have come forward to say the school didn’t take sexual violence seriously.

The university is among 76 schools being investigated by the federal government for their handling of sexual assault cases.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A marijuana giveaway for veterans attracted about 1,000 people to a Colorado Springs hotel.

The “Grow 4 Vets” giveaway aimed to bring cannabis-based treatments to veterans with service-related conditions as an alternative to pain medications.

The Gazette reports that veterans were given a bag of items that included cannabis oil, an edible chocolate bar and seeds to grow plants.

Marijuana activists have tried unsuccessfully to have post-traumatic stress disorder added to the Colorado list of medical conditions that qualify for joining the medical marijuana registry. Now that pot is legal for all adults over 21, organizers are free to give away marijuana.

Not all who received the bags were veterans. A $20 dollar donation for nonveterans was encouraged.

DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the mistrust of law enforcement that was exposed after the fatal police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, has a corrosive effect on all of America, not just on black communities.

He says that mistrust harms places that need law enforcement the most.

He also says it makes people reluctant to go to the police and scars the hearts of all children.

The fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in August sparked days of violent protests and racial unrest in predominantly black Ferguson. Brown was black and unarmed. The police officer who shot him was white.

Obama commented Saturday at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual awards dinner in Washington.

He announced the expansion of a program launched this year to help make young minority men’s lives better.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson is recalling more than 105,000 motorcycles from the 2014 model year because their clutches may fail, causing stopped bikes to creep forward and potentially crash.

The Milwaukee company also is recalling 1,384 motorcycles made earlier this year to test for possible fuel tank leaks.

For the clutch issue, Harley-Davidson says dealers will rebuild affected clutch master cylinders for free. The company knows of 19 low-speed tip-over crashes tied to the problem, with three minor injuries reported. Bikes named in that recall include the Electra Glide Ultra Classic and the CVO Road King.

Dealers also will test fuel tanks subject to that recall and replace them for free if any leak from under their caps. No injuries, accidents or fires have been tied to that problem.