OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City-area automobile museum is planning to move, and grow.

Kansas City Automotive Museum has outgrown its 10,000-square-foot space in Olathe, Kansas, which holds only about 30 cars. Leaders say they’re considering various locations for the new museum, which could be as large as 80,000 square feet.

Among the possible sites are downtown Kansas City and the West Bottoms or Village West in Kansas City, Kansas.

The museum opened in 2014 as a nod to the region’s rich automotive history.

Museum officials say Henry Ford built his first plant outside of Detroit in Kansas City, where Model T automobiles started rolling off the line in 1912. Also, the nation’s first African-American-owned dealership opened in Kansas City in the 1920s.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will be taking steps toward allowing farmers to grow hemp for industrial use under a measure Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law Monday.

The new law taking effect later this month replaces a state program only for researching hemp and its potential uses with a program for commercial production. Lawmakers authorized the research program last year after federal farm legislation allowed commercial hemp production.

The new law requires the Kansas Department of Agriculture to submit a plan to the federal government for regulating commercial hemp production. The department is required to confer with the governor’s and attorney general’s offices before submitting the plan.

Kelly said in a statement that the new law will help the state’s agricultural economy by giving farmers another crop to grow.

SEDGWICK COUNTY —Law enforcement and school district officials are investigating a student on a weapons charge.

Just after 10:30a.m. Thursday, USD 259 Security staff received an anonymous tip that a student had a handgun on the Wichita North High campus, according to officer Charley Davidson.

Wichita police and a school resource officer followed up on the tip and arrested a 16-year-old student on requested charges of juvenile in possession of a firearm.

Police also recovered a handgun, according to Davidson.

There were no threats made to any students, no threat of violence or disruption to the school and no injuries.  Investigators will present the case to the Sedgwick County District Attorney.

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz launched a heartland tour in reliably GOP Kansas on Tuesday, saying he can win the presidential race as an independent candidate by drawing much of his support from disaffected Republicans.

As we travel, I hear more and more that affordable healthcare and leadership outside of the two parties are what our country is yearning for. Thank you to the people of Overland Park, Kansas for your time and your honesty today. pic.twitter.com/Km7qvwD7qM

— Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) April 9, 2019

Schultz spent part of a town hall meeting on the University of Kansas campus pushing back against Democrats’ arguments that his running as an independent would help President Donald Trump win re-election in 2020 by splitting the anti-Trump vote. He said a campaign would have to get people who haven’t been voting to the polls and tap support from independents, but added that he’d likely take many of his votes from Trump.

The Brooklyn-born billionaire has not formally declared his candidacy and said after the town hall that he expects to decide in early summer. He said if he runs, he expects more than 40 states to be in play in the presidential race, including red bastions like Texas and Kansas, where the GOP nominee has carried the state every presidential election after 1964.

Just visited the Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas. Getting the tour from Jack Rodgers, member of the 1952 National Championship team, was an amazing experience. #RockChalk pic.twitter.com/v7yBezJl4N

— Howard Schultz (@HowardSchultz) April 9, 2019

“I think my potential candidacy will resonate,” Schultz said after the town hall. “I’m very optimistic about and have great confidence in the American people’s understanding of both how bad the political system is and the need for renewal.”

Trump carried Kansas by nearly 21 percentage points in 2016, but during last year’s mid-terms, Democrats won the governor’s race and unseated Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder in a Kansas City-area district where Trump proved to be unpopular. Schultz sees Kansas as in play partly because of Trump’s trade policies, which he criticized strongly.

Schultz’s audience of about two dozen people included students, local business representatives and people interested in independent or third-party politics. Among the latter was Scott Morgan, an ex-local school board member and former moderate Republican who left the GOP to lead an unsuccessful attempt to form a new “Party of the Center” in Kansas ahead of the 2018 elections.

Morgan said Schultz would be a plausible candidate partly because “it’s such a bizarre time” and believes he would appeal to moderate Republicans who would not vote for a liberal Democratic candidate like Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

“If he really catches on and he’s got the resources to do it, the impossible can happen,” Morgan said. “But at a minimum, he’s got the resources to disrupt.”

Kansas Republicans remain confident that Trump will carry the state again no matter how the presidential race shapes up. In 1992, independent candidate Ross Perot received nearly 27 percent of the vote, among his best showings in the nation, but then-President George H.W. Bush still won Kansas.

“We will deliver to our nominee — I mean President Trump and in the future, the Republican nominee — for years to come,” said Kelly Arnold, a former Kansas Republican Party chairman.

NORTON, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a Kansas teen has been killed in a farming accident.

Norton County Sheriff Troy Thompson says his office received a call around 9:25 p.m. Monday from a concerned parent.

The parent said the teen went missing while doing chores. Deputies arrived and found that the teen had involved in an accident involving farming equipment.

He was pronounced dead at the scene. His name wasn’t immediately released.

FORD COUNTY —Law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting and have two suspects in custody.

Just before 2:30p.m. Thursday, police received reports of gunfire in the area of the 1200 to 1100 block of Ave C in Dodge City, according to a media release.

Police arrived immediately in the area and identified a vehicle fleeing the scene.

Before officers got the vehicle stopped, the front passenger fled on foot from the vehicle.

Multiple witnesses reported to other responding officers that they had witnessed one car chasing the other and the passenger of the vehicle officers had stopped reached out of the window with a handgun and began shooting at the subjects in other vehicle.

The victims in the other vehicle also contacted officers and provided statements of what happened.  There were no injuries reported.

The driver of the alleged suspect vehicle was captured with the vehicle but the alleged shooter escaped, until Friday. When officers spotted him and took him into custody without further incident.

The DCPD has filed a case with the Ford County Attorney’s office on the 18-year-old alleged shooter for the charge of attempted 2nd degree murder and on the 19-year-old alleged driver for the charge of aid and abet attempted 2nd degree murder, according to the release.

MARSHALL COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities temporarily closed the Marshall County Clerk’s office, 1201 Broadway Street in Marysville Thursday as they served several search warrants, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

The search warrants are related to an ongoing criminal investigation into alleged conduct by an employee of the Marshall County Clerk’s Office, according to the KBI.

Authorities had not reported an arrest or any possible charges early afternoon Thursday.

Check the Post for additional details as they become available.