BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say an eastern Kansas nuclear power plant has reopened after a fire.

A Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation spokesman says the fire broke out Monday in one of two emergency diesel generator rooms. Employees extinguished the flames before the Coffey County Fire Department arrived. The plant was evacuated for about two hours.

It’s unclear what started the fire or what was damaged.

The spokesman says no injuries were reported and no radiation was released. He says federal law requires that the generator is operational within 72 hours or the plant will have to be taken offline.

ROLLA, Mo. (AP) — Engineering students at Missouri University of Science and Technology will begin haunting visitors to their underground lair next week.

Students have been spooking Halloween-season visitors to the school’s Experimental Mine since 1997. The site near the Rolla campus includes an underground mine, quarry, classrooms and labs.

Proceeds benefit mining engineering activities and student organizations.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State Fair manager Denny Stoecklein is crediting good weather and enticing entertainment for a boost in attendance at this year’s fair.

The Hutchinson News reports audited numbers announced Monday show 355,329 visitors attended the fair, which ran Sept. 5-14.

This year’s gate was up by about 15,000 people from 2013 and the highest in 16 years.

Stoecklein says it was also the fourth-highest attendance of all time — although that statistic is unofficial, because audited attendance only began in 1978.

The fair’s highest attendance was 361,647 in 1995. The lowest was about 283,000 in 2011, when the fair took place shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it’s launching a makeover for Nursing Home Compare, the government website consumers can turn to when a loved one needs long-term care.

Officials said Monday a key improvement will involve a new electronic reporting system to gather details on nurse and aide staffing directly from payroll records.

Staff-to-patient ratios are one of the most important predictors of quality, and currently the government relies on data reported by the facilities themselves.

Required by legislation, the payroll reporting system will take at least a year to implement. Meantime, more focused inspections and new quality measures will be incorporated into the nursing home ratings.

Separately, the administration proposed an update to regulations for home health agencies, the first major rules change since 1989. Improved quality is the goal.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge in St. Louis has ordered Ferguson police to stop forcing peaceful protesters to “keep moving” or face arrest.
Police have used what some call the “five-second” rule to enforce a nighttime curfew during protests over the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old, Michael Brown, by a white Ferguson officer. The practice prompted a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry issued a preliminary injunction Monday halting the tactic. Perry said the practice violates protesters’ constitutional rights to free speech and due process.

But the judge also said Ferguson police may enforce Missouri’s refusal-to-disperse law, which makes it a misdemeanor to refuse an officer’s command to leave the scene of an illegal assembly or riot.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Customers of the Kansas Department of Revenue are gaining access this week to a new online customer service center where they can access their accounts and make payments.

The department says the Kansas Customer Service Center will be accessible starting Tuesday from the Online Services link on the department’s website.

Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan says the change means customers will need to remember only one email address and password combination to access their accounts.

Because of the conversion all Department of Revenue accounts were offline on Monday so data could be moved to the new site. The accounts will be available again at 7 a.m. on Tuesday.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Sedgwick County Courthouse is turning away same-sex couples seeking to get a marriage license in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that clears the way for such unions.

Kerry Wilks and Donna Ditrani, along with their minister, went to the Wichita courthouse Monday to get a marriage license. After the clerk refused to give them paperwork to get a license, the couple said they would be happy to “join the cause” as plaintiffs in a lawsuit expected to be filed by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging the Kansas ban.

Aimee McCarter and Jennifer Kozushko say they’re disappointed after being refused a marriage license, although McCarter said they didn’t expect anything different. They walked away from the courthouse, holding hands.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt in a document dispute tied to a failed law enforcement program called Operation Fast and Furious.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in an order Monday that the effort from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was “entirely unnecessary.”

The committee sought a contempt sanction against Holder, saying the Justice Department had failed to comply with an August order directing it to provide Congress certain documents that are at the center of the dispute.

Jackson denied the request but did order the Justice Department to produce to the committee “non-privileged” documents by Nov. 3.

Justice Department spokesman Brian Fallon said the department was “pleased that the court had rejected the committee’s latest stunt.”

KANSAS CITY (AP) – Same-sex marriage advocates hope Missouri will stop fighting the unions after the Supreme Court cleared the way for their expansion.

An order issued Monday turned away appeals from five states seeking to prohibit gay and lesbian marriages, effectively making gay marriage legal in 30 states.

Although Missouri isn’t among those states, it has been moving in that direction. On Friday, a circuit judge ordered the state to recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other states.

Two pending Missouri cases focus on the legality of issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

American Civil Liberties Union Attorney Tony Rothert said the state should stop defending its same-sex marriage ban after the recent court actions. His organization reached out to Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, who didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A North Carolina drugmaker says it is providing an experimental antiviral drug for patients with Ebola, an emergency step authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.

Chimerix Inc. says physicians sought federal permission to use company’s drug, called brincidofovir, which is in late-stage testing for other types of viruses. The company did not identify the physicians making the request.

Last Tuesday doctors in Dallas diagnosed the first U.S. case of Ebola in a man who recently arrived from Liberia.

Brincidofovir is an oral antiviral drug being tested to fight more common viruses, including one that infects patients undergoing bone marrow transplants. Laboratory tests suggested it might also fight Ebola.

Two other experimental drugs developed specifically for Ebola have been used in American patients. None have been approved by the FDA.