MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Officials are making plans to restore the main Kansas State University library after a blaze caused extensive smoke and water damage.

Students were invited Tuesday to offer input on the renderings of the inside of Hale Library. The building was undergoing renovations in May when a fire broke out. Plans calls for renovating all four floors of the building.

The renderings call for an innovation lab on the first and second floors, connected by a staircase, expanded athlete tutoring space in the Student Success Center and new classroom spaces scattered throughout the building.

The dean of libraries, Lori Goetsch, says the biggest change students can expect is the innovation lab and maker space. Those areas will be full of virtual reality and artificial intelligence equipment.

KANSAS CITY — In an effort to help homeowners with package theft prevention, Kansas City  police have posted a video on social media. It shows a man attempting to steal a package from the porch of a Kansas City home until an alarm sounds.

“The homeowner was out of state, but his security camera app notified him of motion, and when he saw the suspect go for the box on the porch, the homeowner set off the alarm. Looks like it worked.”

Police also suggested having the sound on while watching the video makes it more fun to watch.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The locomotive was painted to resemble Air Force One, but George H.W. Bush joked that if it had been around during his presidency, he may have preferred to ride the rails rather than take to the skies.

“I might have left Air Force One behind,” Bush quipped during the 2005 unveiling of 4141, a blue and gray locomotive commissioned in honor of the 41st president and unveiled at Texas A&M University.

On Thursday, that same 4,300-horsepower machine will carry Bush’s casket, along with relatives and close friends, for around 70 miles. The journey through five small Texas towns was expected to take about two and a half hours. It will deliver the casket from suburban Houston to College Station.

There, a motorcade will take Bush to his presidential library at the university, where he will be laid to rest at a private ceremony next to his wife, Barbara, who died in April, and his daughter Robin, who died at age 3 in 1953.

The train’s sixth car, a converted baggage hauler called “Council Bluffs,” has been fitted with transparent sides to allow mourners lining the tracks on Thursday views of Bush’s flag draped coffin.

It will be the eighth funeral train in U.S. history and the first since Dwight D. Eisenhower’s body traveled from the National Cathedral in Washington through seven states to his Kansas hometown of Abilene 49 years ago. Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train was the first, in 1865.

Robert F. Kennedy was never president, but he was running for the White House when he was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968. His body was later transported to New York City for a funeral Mass and then taken by private train to Washington for burial at Arlington National Cemetery. Thousands of mourners lined the tracks for the 200-plus-mile journey.

Union Pacific originally commissioned the Bush locomotive for the opening of an exhibit at his presidential library titled “Trains: Tracks of the Iron Horse.” It was one of the few times the company has painted a locomotive any color other than its traditional yellow. After a brief training session during 4141’s unveiling 13 years ago, Bush took the engineer’s seat and helped take the locomotive for a 2-mile excursion.

“We just rode on the railroads all the time, and I’ve never forgotten it,” Bush said at the time, recalling how he took trains, and often slept on them, during trips as a child with his family. He also called the locomotive “the Air Force One of railroads.”

Bush, who died last week at his Houston home at age 94, was eulogized Wednesday at a funeral service at the National Cathedral. By evening, his casket was at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston.

The funeral train has been part of the official planning for his death for years, Bush spokesman Jim McGrath said.

Union Pacific was contacted by federal officials in early 2009 and asked, at Bush’s request, about providing a funeral train at some point, company spokesman Tom Lange said.

“We said, ‘Of course and also we have this locomotive that we would want to have obviously be part of it,'” Lange said. He noted that trains were the mode of transportation that first carried Bush to his service as a naval aviator in World War II and back home again.

Eisenhower was the last president to travel by train regularly. A key reason was his wife, Mamie, who hated to fly. During the 1952 campaign, Eisenhower traveled more than 51,000 miles and made 252 stops. And while he often flew, his wife rode the train the whole time, Union Pacific said.

Still, when Bush beat Democrat Michael Dukakis and won the presidency in 1988, both candidates used trains to make some campaign stops. Bush also occasionally traveled by train in 1992, when he was defeated by Democrat Bill Clinton, including making Midwest stops aboard a train dubbed “The Spirit of America.”

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a Missouri teenager who took his own life after allegedly being bullied will be heard in Boone County.

Kenneth Suttner’s mother claims in the lawsuit that the Howard County School District didn’t help her 17-year-old son, who she said was repeatedly bullied because of his disabilities.

The lawsuit was originally filed in Howard County but a change of venue to Boone County was granted.

Suttner shot himself on Dec. 21, 2016 outside his family’s home in Glasgow.

The school district’s attorney, Tom Mickes, has said the district was innocent in Suttner’s death.

The case has received attention because the manager of a Dairy Queen where Suttner worked is facing charges, including assault in his death.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Incoming Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said she is “stunned” by a state agency’s lack of response to a shortage of residential psychiatric beds for children needing care in the state.

During a meeting Tuesday of a task force studying the state’s child welfare system, Kelly suggested she wants significant changes after she takes office in January, The Wichita Eagle reported .

“I’m stunned, honestly, that your agency has not done anything concrete to deal with that issue,” Kelly told Susan Fout, deputy secretary of the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services.

About 140 Kansas children are on waiting lists to receive care at the residential centers, which are known as PRTFs.

Fout acknowledged the agency is having difficulty finding available residential beds.

“We know we’re not doing the service we need to for the youngsters. … Kids are getting lost,” Fout said.

The psychiatric residential centers are privately owned and Fout said the agency can ask them to provide more beds but can’t force them to do so.

The number of centers, which can treat children for weeks or months, has dropped from 17 to 8 since 2011, with the number of beds reduced to 280 from 780.

Fout said the agency has requested funds for a 24-7 crisis hotline. But when Kelly asked specifically what the agency had done about the lack of treatment facilities, Fout said “the beds are another story.”

She said she couldn’t recall the agency’s budget request of the centers, which annoyed Kelly.

“That has been the topic of conversation for 18 months. We have known prior to that, but certainly 18 months ago, that PRTF beds were a very high priority, that the lack of them is probably what’s creating a lot of the kids in offices, kids in one-night stands — you know, we don’t have any place to put them. We need those PRTF beds,” Kelly said.

Other task force members echoed Kelly’s frustration.

Sen. Vicki Schmidt, a Topeka Republican who will become the state insurance commissioner in January, said the agency’s lack of action was “a failure of government.”

“You’re giving us the same statistics only with increased numbers, and you’re not offering any solutions to us,” she said.

Kelly has not said who she will choose as secretary of the agency and the current secretary, Gina Meier-Hummel, has declined to say whether she wants to remain in the position.

___

ST. LOUIS (AP) – The long-futile effort seeking a statewide prescription drug monitoring program in Missouri now has a prominent advocate – Gov. Mike Parson.

The Republican governor met Wednesday with St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, doctors and other health leaders to discuss ways to combat the lingering opioid epidemic. Parson made it clear at a news conference that high on his priority list is ending Missouri’s status as the only state without a prescription drug monitoring program.

Parson says he hopes to have a bill on his desk by the end of next year’s legislative session.

Prescription drug monitoring programs allow doctors and pharmacists to track a patient’s prescription history. The goal is to prevent “doctor shopping,” where opioid abusers go from doctor to doctor to get new drugs to feed their addictions.

COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who is accused of fatally burning a woman and injuring two police officers has been ordered to stand trial.

The preliminary trial for 50-year-old Harvey Raymond Ortberg, of Baxter Springs, ended Tuesday with a judge finding sufficient evidence for him to be tried on a first-degree murder charge and six other felonies.

Body camera video showed two officers running inside 65-year-old Sharon Horn’ trailer, where Horn’s 15-year-old granddaughter was crying.

The officers entered the bathroom, where Ortberg was seen with a gas can and lighter in his hands. One officer wrestled with Ortberg, who then doused himself and the two officers with gasoline before flicking the lighter to start the fire.

Horn later died at a Springfield, Missouri, hospital.

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A 67-year-old Leavenworth man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for soliciting a 13-year-old girl on Facebook.

Raymond Soden was sentenced Tuesday after pleading no contest in August to solicitation. He admitted in his plea that he knew the girl was 13 when he began exchanging messages with her offering to pay for nude photos of her and her friends as well a sex acts.

Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson said in a news release that Soden had prior convictions for battery and for sexual battery.

Prosecutors argued for a sentence of more than 13 years but Soden’s attorney asked for probation.

SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) – A 43-year-old woman has been charged with driving drunk and in the wrong direction on a Missouri highway before causing a deadly crash.

Dolores Letourneau, of Sedalia, is jailed on $50,000 bond. She was charged Tuesday with a felony in the wreck that killed 76-year-old Myrtle Argie. No attorney is listed for Letourneau in online court records.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says she was driving north in the southbound lane of U.S. 65 on Monday afternoon when she collided with another vehicle, killing Argie, who was a passenger. Letourneau and the driver of the other vehicle suffered only minor injuries.

The arrest report indicated that Letourneau had a blood alcohol content of at least .18.