Kansas Highway Patrol

A Butler County Dispatcher says the driver hurt in a rollover accident has died. The accident happened just after one o'clock Wednesday morning on Highway 54 and River Road.  That's just east of El Dorado. The dispatcher tells Eyewitness News the driver was coming off the highway and somehow rolled the vehicle. The accident is under investigation by the Butler County Sheriff. Kansas Highway Patrol is assisting in the accident.

The girl who died after being hit by a Wichita police car will be laid to rest Thursday. Twelve year-old Suhani Bhakta died Sunday night while crossing the street in the 1600 block of south Broadway.  The accident is under investigation, but Wichita police say the officer's vision may have been blocked by another car when the accident happened. Bhakta's funeral will be held Thursday at one o'clock at the Broadway Mortuary.  Bhakta was a 7th grader at Mayberry Middle School in Wichita.

A man dies in Lyon County after a train hits his tractor Tuesday morning. The accident happened around 11:00 a.m. Tuesday on Road 240, west of Road X near the town of Reading. The Kansas Highway Patrol says 72-year-old Floyd Charles Becker was driving west on Road 240 and collided with the train. Becker was taken to a hospital where he died. Becker was from Neosho Rapids. No one on the train was hurt.

Authorities in Rawlins County investigate a possible suspicious device. Around 11:00 Monday night, Rawlins County Emergency Management says it was notified by the county's sheriff's department of a suspicious device found at a home in McDonald. Emergency Management director Ryan Murray says deputies secured the area and requested additional resources through the Kansas Highway Patrol. After a KHP team arrived, officials searched the area and found a device. Murray says the device was rendered safe around 4:45 Tuesday morning.

A man the Kansas Highway Patrol says was fleeing from police was hurt in a crash in southwest Kansas. The accident happened just before 10:00 Tuesday night in Stevens County near the intersection of C Road and 26 Road. That location is about 10 miles west of Liberal. The Kansas Highway Patrol says a 56-year-old man from Liberal was fleeing from police and driving west on C Road when his truck rolled. He was taken to a hospital with injuries. Investigators say he was not wearing a seat belt.

The Kansas Attorney General's office announced expansion of an state advisory board Wednesday  that recommends improvements to Kansas laws and policies to combat human trafficking. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt made the announcement on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, which has been designated by the United States Senate as part of the global effort to raise awareness of human trafficking and the need to combat it. “The buying and selling of human beings, whether for sex or for labor, is a reprehensible form of modern-day slavery that is unacceptable in the 21 st Century,” Schmidt said.

Getting drunk drivers off the road is one of the main missions for the Kansas Highway Patrol. "We spend a great deal of time in that area," said LT David Hundley with the Kansas Highway Patrol. That's why when the latest numbers of alcohol related fatalities came out, they were surprised. "Obviously it's frustrating for us being as how it's one of our largest focuses," Hundley said. While nationally, the number drunk driving fatalities fell almost 5% in 2010, they actually increased in Kansas by about 36% and according to Federal Transportation officials that's the Country's second biggest increase behind New York.

Two people are dead and two others injured in a head on car crash in Harvey County. It happened just before 2am on I-135 near Newton. The Harvey County sheriff says a 4-door vehicle heading south on I-135 crossed the center lane and hit a van head on. The driver and passenger in the car were killed on scene. Both are believed to be from Wichita. A passenger in the van was critically injured, and taken to a Wichita hospital. The driver of the van was also injured, but not as severely.

A Kansas state trooper goes to the hospital, after he is hurt by a firearm during a training exercise in Salina. The incident happened Tuesday morning at the patrol training range in Salina. An official with the Kansas Highway Patrol tells our news partners at The Salina Journal that the trooper was injured during special response training. He told the Journal that the injuries were not life-threatening. Officials will not say if the trooper shot himself or was hurt by another trooper.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation released the name of the man killed during a confrontation with a trooper in Ottwa County earlier this week.  The KBI says fingerprints confirmed the man was 56-year-old Larry Dean Smith. At nine o'clock Wednesday morning, Delphos co-op employees spotted a Smith walking along the railroad tracks directly behind the co-op. When employees tried to confront the man, he ran into the woods. The employees then called 911. When Kansas Highway Patrol troopers got to the scene, they spotted the Smith.