OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Bob Dole says he thinks former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney should run for the office again in 2016.

The 91-year-old former Senate majority leader made the comment Monday during a campaign rally for Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts, who’s in a tight race for re-election against independent candidate Greg Orman. Romney spoke at the event in the Kansas City surburb of Overland Park.

Romney was the GOP nominee in 2012, when Democratic President Barack Obama won re-election. Dole was the 1996 presidential nominee.

Dole drew loud applause from the crowd of several hundred people when he introduced Romney, saying “I want him to run again.”

As Romney worked the crowd afterward, he ignored a reporter’s question about whether he’d run in 2016. He’s said previously that he won’t.

MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Monday recommended little more than voluntary, at-home quarantine for travelers from West Africa who are at highest risk for coming down with Ebola, and symptom monitoring for those at lower risk.

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TOPEKA, KAN. – A man pleaded guilty Monday to stealing public funds from the Army’s family and morale fund at Ft. Riley, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

Michael Steffens, 59, Junction City, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of stealing public money. In his plea, he admitted the crime occurred while he was a business manager at Ft. Riley for the U.S. Army’s Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation program (MWR). The fund provides programs and services to soldiers and their families.

Steffens managed the change fund, which consisted of non-appropriated funds generated from MWR sponsored programs and activities. From August 2013 through August 2014, he stole approximately $62,000 in cash and coins.

Sentencing is set for Feb. 9. Both parties have agreed to recommend two years’ probation and restitution in an amount yet to be determined. Grissom commended the FBI and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jared Maag for their work on the case.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two married gay couples suing for the right to file joint Kansas income tax returns have filed a brief weighing in on another gay marriage case.

Attorney David Brown says the tax case pending in Shawnee County District Court is affected by a case before the Kansas Supreme Court. Earlier this month, the Kansas’ attorney general asked the Supreme Court to block same-sex marriage licenses after the state’s most populous county issued one.

The Kansas Constitution bans gay marriage. But Johnson County Chief Judge Kevin Moriarty noted in ordering licenses to be issued to same-sex couples that the U.S. Supreme Court had cleared the way for an expansion of the unions.

Brown says that if Kansas’ same-sex marriage ban is overturned, the state would have to recognize his clients’ marriages.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A felony drug case involving the Ferguson police officer who killed an unarmed 18-year-old in a separate incident has been dismissed after the officer twice failed to appear in court.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a St. Louis County judge on Monday dismissed a felony marijuana possession charge against 28-year-old Christopher A. Brooks. The judge had agreed to put the case on hold after officer Darren Wilson missed a late September preliminary hearing.

Wilson also didn’t appear before a grand jury in the Brooks case, an alternative that Associate Circuit Judge Mary Bruntrager Schroder signed off on at the previous hearing.

Wilson received a Ferguson City Council commendation in February for his role in Brooks’ arrest one year earlier

DETROIT (AP) — Toyota continues its winning streak atop Consumer Reports’ annual reliability rankings.

The company’s Toyota and Lexus brands top the survey, and its Scion brand is in the top ten.

A Toyota brand has now led the rankings for eight years in a row.

Consumer Reports says Toyota’s strategy of slowly introducing new features emphasizes reliability over excitement. Many brands with glitchy new electronics, including Infiniti and Mercedes-Benz, fell in the rankings.

The survey predicts the reliability of 2015 model year cars and trucks based on responses from the magazine’s subscribers. This year’s survey collected data on 1.1 million vehicles.

Mazda, Honda and Subaru joined Toyota in the top ten. Audi was the highest scoring non-Japanese brand, while Buick was the only domestic brand in the top ten.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Wichita say a man killed in a weekend shootout with officers was associated with a local gang and had outstanding warrants in a neighboring county.

Authorities on Monday identified the man as 18-year-old Jeffery Holden. The Wichita Eagle reports he had been listed as a missing person in the Kansas City area.

The shootout occurred shortly after 6:30 a.m. Sunday as police responded to multiple reports of a man firing at houses and passers-by.

Police said Holden pinned one officer in his car with continuous gunfire, then shot at other officers as they arrived. Authorities said Holden fired simultaneously with two handguns.

He was ultimately shot and killed outside a house.

Police said Holden was the subject of outstanding warrants in Cowley County.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican Gov. Sam Brownback says his tough race for re-election is swinging back his way because Democratic challenger Paul Davis hasn’t been visible enough to Kansas voters.

But Davis announced Monday that he’ll make a 30-stop bus tour of the state this week.

Brownback and his wife voted in advance Monday at the Shawnee County Election Commissioner’s office. He told reporters afterward that voters’ doubts about his tenure as governor are easing.

He said part of the reason is that Davis hasn’t defined his views clearly for some voters, and he suggested that Davis has been avoiding public events.

But Davis spokesman Chris Pumpelly said voters remain concerned about Brownback’s fiscal policies and noted that Davis is beginning his bus tour Tuesday.

LARNED, Kan. (AP) — A man who leases his land in Pawnee County so children with life-threatening illnesses can hunt says some of the deer are being poached.

Tim Schaller says he was upset earlier this month when he found a poached buck with meat, head and antlers intact. It was at least the fourth deer he’s found poached on the property.

Schaller, of Larned, says the poaching is especially upsetting because the land is used for Life Hunts, which provides the hunts every year for ill children, and the loss of four trophy bucks could hurt the children’s chances of success.

The Wichita Eagle reports  this year’s hunt will host a 13-year-old Pennsylvania girl with an inoperable brain tumor and a 13-year-old boy from North Carolina who is fighting cancer.