TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas legislative committee is asking the state’s education department to reconsider a plan to fingerprint public school teachers.

During a committee meeting Monday, Rep. Jim Ward said he was concerned that the proposal would violate the privacy rights of the 33,000 longtime teachers who would be fingerprinted. He also objected to a plan to require the teachers to pay $50 for the fingerprinting.

Education department attorney Scott Gordon said the state wants to take advantage of new legal software that would notify the department when the fingerprinting shows a teacher had been arrested.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports some committee members supported the fingerprinting as a way to protect students.

The state is not required to follow the committee’s recommendation that the fingerprinting be reconsidered.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kansas City, Kansas, officials say a contractor for BNSF Railway died after he fell into a train car full of grain.

Fire department officials say 48-year-old James Breedlove died in the accident Monday at railroad yards in Kansas City, Kansas. Authorities did not release his hometown.

Fire department deputy chief Craig Duke says Breedlove fell into the train car while grain was being transferred from the car to a semi-trailer truck.

KCTV5 reports that when firefighters arrived, rail crews were trying to remove the grain from the train car. They found Breedlove’s body near the bottom of the car.

No other injuries were reported.

The Peterson Brothers from Assaria, Kansas have a new parody video! All I do is farm, farm, farm no matter what.

OLATHE, KAN. (AP) — A slip by a Kansas Republican Party official in introducing U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts at a political rally prompted the senator to jokingly describe the chamber as an “assisted living home.”

Roberts participated Monday in a rally for Gov. Sam Brownback at a car dealership in Olathe.

In introducing Roberts, Johnson County GOP Chairman Ronnie Metsker inadvertently referred to Roberts as the state’s “senior citizen.”

Metsker caught himself and corrected the phrase to “senior senator,” but the mistake broke up the crowd and the dignitaries.

When Roberts had the podium for his own remarks, he joked, “Well, they don’t call the Senate the assisted living home for nothing.”

The 78-year-old, three-term senator is facing a spirited challenge in the Aug. 5 Republican primary from 43-year-old Leawood radiologist Milton Wolf.

KANSAS CITY (AP) – The Kansas City Health Department says the Jackson County medical examiner’s office is investigating the area’s first suspected heat-related death.

The department said Monday that the victim was a man in his late 70s.

No other details were released.

Today is the last day to register to vote in the Kansas primary election on August 5.

Anyone registering for the first time will need to provide proof of citizenship. Those who have already registered will not. Voters using the national registration form without proof of citizenship will only be allowed to vote in the U.S. House and Senate races.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Two bills that Gov. Jay Nixon declined to sign but also chose not to veto have now become laws.

The Democratic governor vetoed a record 33 bills this year, the most in a 12-month span since he took office in 2009.

But even though he rejected a similar measure last year, Nixon declined to veto a Senate bill on Monday making it more difficult for people fired for misconduct to collect unemployment benefits.

Nixon also opted to not take a stance on a second Senate bill allowing casinos to provide interest-free lines of credits of $10,000 or more to high rollers who don’t want to carry large amounts of cash when they gamble.

The governor offered no explanation for his decisions on the final day to approve or veto bills.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY- One person died in an accident in an accident just before 7:30 p.m. on Monday in Montgomery County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Toyota Prius driven by Jeanne M. Bressie, 73 Overland Park was on exit ramp from U.S. 400 to

U.S. 169 eastbound. The vehicle failed to stop at the stop sign and was struck by a southbound semi.

Bressie was transported to Labette Health where she died.

The semi driver Gerald L. David, 48, Tulsa, OK., was transported to Independence hospital.

The KHP reported both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A conservative group with ties to billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch is spending big money to thank U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo for his work in Congress amid a bitter race for his seat.

Americans for Prosperity says it’s spending $409,225 for radio and television ads that begin Tuesday and run until the day before the Aug. 5th Republican primary.

AFP state director Jeff Glendening says the group likes to show its appreciation to those who share its values. He cites Pompeo’s efforts to eliminate the wind production tax credit and control spending, as well as his opposition to earmarks.

Former Congressman Todd Tiahrt is challenging Pompeo in the 4th District. Tiahrt has criticized Pompeo for pursuing special interest agendas that have hurt the local economy.