OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Two women who are seeking the first same-sex marriage license in the most populous county in Kansas say they already feel married because they’ve been together nine years.

Angela and Jennifer Schaefer, of Gardner, went to the Johnson County Courthouse in Olathe (oh-LAY’-thuh) on Wednesday to sign up for a marriage license.

They did so shortly after Johnson County Chief District Judge Kevin Moriarty ordered court clerks to issue licenses to same-sex couples. They were the only couple to do so.

The couple has a 9-month-old son. Angela Schaefer is 31 and Jennifer Schaefer is 28 and took Angela’s last name in 2012.

Angela Schaefer said she believes getting married will ensure that she has full parental rights to their son.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic challenger Paul Davis is proposing to reverse a piece of Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s overhaul of the Kansas Medicaid program opposed by some advocates for the mentally disabled.

The plan Davis outlined Wednesday during a Statehouse news conference would end three private health insurance companies’ management of in-home support services for the mentally disabled.

Brownback’s administration turned over management of Medicaid to the private insurers in 2013. But it delayed the inclusion of support services for about 8,500 mentally disabled Kansans in the overhaul until February following vocal protests by advocates.

The $3 billion-a-year Medicaid program covers medical services for the poor and disabled and services designed to allow the disabled to continue living in their homes.

Officials in Brownback’s administration rejected Davis’ criticism that the overhaul has been harmful.

KANSAS CITY- The first same sex marriage licenses in Kansas are being released in northeast Kansas.

Equality Kansas reported that Kevin Moriarty, the chief judge of the 10th Judicial District in Johnson County, issued an order giving the go-ahead for same sex marriage. A court document released Wednesday afternoon says:

In the interest of justice and to avoid the uncertainty that has arisen in light of recent federal court rulings about the constitutionality of state constitutional and/or statutory prohibitions against marriage by same-sex individuals, the clerk of the district court is hereby directed to issue marriage licenses to all individuals, including same-sex individuals.

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear appeals from five states seeking to preserve their bans on gay marriage. One of them was Utah, which is in the same federal appeals court circuit as Kansas.

The Kansas Constitution has banned gay marriage since 2005.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Police in Springfield say the suspects in the city’s ninth homicide of the year have been arrested about 40 miles away.

The Springfield News-Leader reports a 39-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman were booked Wednesday into the Greene County Jail on suspicion of second-degree murder.

The two are suspected in the Monday night’s fatal shooting of 21-year-old Charles Cortez. Police spokeswoman Lisa Cox said investigators believe Cortez was dumped in a street after being shot several times inside a vehicle.

A tip led to a search for the suspects in Lebanon, where police spotted their car early Tuesday at a McDonald’s restaurant. The two ran after crashing their car following a chase.

The male suspect was apprehended Tuesday afternoon on a Lebanon street. The woman was captured early Wednesday.

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A judge has found enough evidence to try a man in the deaths of a woman and her three children last November in southeast Kansas.

KOAM reports that 23-year-old David Bennett Jr. was bound over for trial Wednesday. He is charged with threatening, raping and killing 29-year-old Cami Umbarger, along with killing the children.

Kansas Bureau of Investigation agents and forensic specialists testified at the preliminary hearing that the body of Umbarger and her 9-year-old daughter were found under different beds in the same bedroom of their Parsons home. The body of Umbarger’s 6-year-old son was found beneath clothes in a utility room. Her 4-year-old daughter’s body was stuffed into a clothes dryer, buried under clothes.

Bennett was arrested in Independence after a massive manhunt.

EUDORA, Kan.- A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 12-noon in Douglas County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2009 Harley Davidson driven by Alastair Fraser III, 38, Lenexa, was eastbound on Kansas 10 in Eudora. A dog entered the highway from the north.

The motorcycle went down while attempting to avoid the dog.

Fraser III was transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

The KHP reported he was wearing a helmet.

BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — Workers at an eastern Kansas nuclear power plant are working to repair fire-damaged equipment and avoid a shutdown.

The damage occurred Monday when a fire broke out in a room that houses a backup generator. Federal law requires that the generator is operational within 72 hours or the Wolf Creek plant will have to be taken offline.

Shutting down the plant would cost the utilities that own it — and eventually their customers — more than $300,000 per day.

Plant spokesman Terry Young says workers were spending Wednesday conducting testing on a transformer and cabling that were replaced after the fire.

Young says the backup generator is used only when the plant shuts down and stops making its own energy. The plant has other backup energy sources.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An 8-month-old Kansas City boy has died a day after a television set fell on him.

Emergency crews were called at 11:10 a.m. Tuesday in response to the accident and took the baby to a hospital in critical condition. A police spokesman issued a news release Wednesday morning saying the boy later died.

Neighbors say they are saddened by the news of the infant’s death, and that it should serve as a reminder to other parents to keep a close eye on their children.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says a child dies every two weeks when a TV or piece of furniture calls onto him or her.

Officials say tip-over accidents are tragic and 100 percent preventable.