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Century II has released 40 additional tickets for the sold-out Tuesday night Sheryl Crow concert and could release up to 40 more in the next 24 hours, Century II sales and communications manager Jacob House said.

The tickets, which cost $50 and $70, had previously been reserved for patrons who needed handicap accessibility or had been held for the promoter. They are available by calling 316-219-4TIX or at www.wichitatix.com.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

Century II officials also said that no photographs may be taken at the show, per Crow's request, and they will be conducting "camera checks" at the door.

The lawyer for a Haysville doctor said he will not appeal a federal judge's order that will release his client from jail.

Stephen Schneider could get out of jail as early as Thursday to await trial that he and his wife ran a "pill mill."

U.S. Magistrate Don Bostwick set 15 conditions on Schneider's bond.

The Schneiders have been in jail without bond December, when they were arrested and indicted on 34 criminal charges stemming from their practice of prescribing painkillers.

Bostwick set a hearing for Thursday for Schneider to sign the conditions of his bond in open court.

The Sedgwick County Forensic Science Center has confirmed that the body found Saturday in a pond in northeast Wichita is that of Reena Mullick.

The 49-year-old woman, who had been missing since April 8, lived in a northeast Wichita home whose backyard was just a few feet from the pond where she was found in the 8200 block of East Champions Street.

"The cause of death appears to be drowning," police spokesman Gordon Bassham said. "There is no sign of foul play."

Relatives said earlier that Mullick switched medications shortly before she disappeared April 8. Mullick was reported missing by her husband, Deepak Mullick, when he returned to their home near Willowbend Golf Club, just southeast of 45th Street North and Rock Road, and found her missing.

Relatives said her purse and car keys were found inside the home.

Wichita police are looking for a blue Ford Expedition that may have been involved in a drive-by shooting on Sunday morning.

A 43-year-old man reported that someone fired about nine shots into his house shortly before 9 a.m. Sunday in the 2600 block of North Vassar. While the man told police he did not see anyone, he did provide a description of the vehicle.

Police found shell casings in the street. No one inside the house was injured.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoed a bill Monday that would have imposed new restrictions on abortion providers and allowed lawsuits to block late-term procedures, arguing it could deny women lifesaving medical care.

But abortion opponents scoffed at her arguments and said Sebelius' action shows that she holds radical views. Some supporters of the bill predicted an attempt to override Sebelius' veto when the Legislature returns April 30 from its annual spring break.

The measure was partly a response to allegations that Dr. George Tiller has performed illegal late-term abortions at his Wichita clinic. Tiller, among the few U.S. physicians who perform such procedures, has said he follows state law.

Sebelius, an abortion-rights supporter, objected most strongly to provisions allowing a patient's spouse or family members to go to court if they believed a doctor had performed or was about to perform an illegal late-term abortion. The patient herself also could sue, but so could a local prosecutor.

The governor said in her veto message that such a lawsuit could be filed to block a patient's abortion "even where it may be necessary to save her life." She said the bill would encourage litigation and jeopardize patients' privacy.

Kansans will be able to own machine guns, other fully automatic weapons, sawed-off shotguns and silencers starting July 1.

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed a bill Monday to legalize the possession of such weapons. The state banned owning machine guns in 1933, but some legislators said a change was necessary because legal questions threaten to keep dealers from delivering weapons to law enforcement agencies.

Supporters believe the bill will benefit mostly collectors because machine guns typically cost at least $20,000. Also, anyone wanting to own such weapons must undergo two federal background checks.

"I can't even afford them," said Sen. Phil Journey, a Haysville Republican who is a strong gun-rights advocate and championed the bill. "There may be some very happy collectors who have significant disposable income."

The bill had bipartisan support among legislators and passed both chambers with more than the two-thirds majorities necessary to override a veto.

Five people were arrested after a brawl that occurred early Sunday morning in the 1100 block of North Minneapolis, police said.

Officers responding to a report of shots fired in that area at about 1:25 a.m. Sunday found more than 100 people gathered on the street. At least 20 of them were fighting with one another, police said.

When the officers arrived, the crowd rapidly dispersed. But police followed one group to a house and knocked on the door. They were refused entry; officers became concerned that someone inside was hurt and forced their way in.

About 25 people were questioned and five -- two women and three men -- were arrested on a variety of offenses, according to police.

LAWRENCE -- Kansas guard Sherron Collins underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on his left knee this morning.

KU coach Bill Self said Collins should be starting rehab soon and that doctors expect a full recovery.

"He has plenty of time to heal," Self said.

So the Jayhawks have to hope since they may be replacing up to eight players before next season. Junior guard Mario Chalmers is still considering whether to declare early for the NBA Draft.

As a sophomore this past season, Collins helped KU to the national championship by averaging 9.3 point and three assists. The 5-11, 200-pounder had trouble with both knees throughout the season, although the left one gave him chronic problems.

Wichita awoke to a humid morning, a foreshadowing of what could be a rainy Monday.

There's a chance of drizzle this morning and a better chance of showers or thunderstorms tonight, forecasters say. Highs under mostly cloudy skies will be in the mid-70s, with light southerly winds.

Those winds will shift to the north tonight, when showers and thunderstorms enter the forecast. While tornadoes are possible in Oklahoma, the Storm Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the most likely threat from whatever storms develop in Kansas will be large hail and damaging winds.

Check Kansas.com for updates.

No one chose the numbers drawn for Saturday's Powerball, so the jackpot will climb to an estimated $125 million for the midweek drawing.

The winning numbers were 13, 19, 24, 33 and 39, with a Powerball of 8. Players were vying for a grand prize of $105 million.

One lottery ticket sold in south-central Kansas is worth $10,000.

Mulvane has decided that its low-key approach to the high-stakes casino battle in Sumner County hasn't been the best strategy.

Its City Council will meet tonight to consider a public relations campaign aimed at convincing lawmakers and lottery officials that its exit on the Kansas Turnpike is the best location for the county's casino.

"We're getting down kind of to the nitty-gritty now and we think it's time to step it up a notch and let Topeka know just what the feelings are down here," said council member Joe Johnson.

"It seems like we're getting all the bad press because a few people have been against it. But a vast majority are for it," said council member Terry Richardson. "We're just trying to get a way for that idea to be known to those who matter."

The council will review written proposals for the campaign from two Wichita agencies, Greteman Group and Sullivan Gang Graphics & Printing, said Kent Hixson, Mulvane city administrator.

Jolene Sanders lives on $650 a month and has trouble making ends meet, but she can't help rescuing homeless cats and dogs that she finds around her Wichita trailer court.

"I have a big heart for animals," said Sanders, 55, who lives with one dog and four cats.

She has three female cats that need to be spayed, but she can't afford the surgeries. "I called around and the cheapest (price) I could find was $120," she said.

A new spay and neuter clinic set to open in Wichita this summer will offer the surgeries for $30 for cats and $40 for dogs for people like Sanders who meet low-income guidelines.

Sanders paid to have her male cat, Rocky, neutered after he fathered a fourth litter of kittens last year.

With his failed legal battle over, Max Ary, founder of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, heads to prison this week and expects to immerse himself in an effort to clear his name.

"We've fought this very hard, with everything we had, for the last four years," Ary said in an interview with the Hutchinson News. "There's so much evidence that's not been looked at by the proper people, so much information."

Ary, who directed Hutchinson's space museum for 26 years, begins serving three years in the minimum-security camp at the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., on Thursday. He was convicted on three counts each of mail fraud and interstate transportation of stolen property and two counts each of wire fraud, theft of government property and money laundering.

"This has been a travesty of justice," Ary said. "I totally profess my innocence to this day. We're going to continue to fight this, even while I'm spending my time in prison camp."

He admits to selling some artifacts that belonged to the National Air and Space Administration and the Kansas Cosmosphere through specialized auctions. He claimed at trial, however, and continues to argue, that it was a mix-up because he was legitimately selling items for both himself and the Cosmosphere at the time.

Mulvane residents have water again but are still being asked to boil it as officials await the results of biological testing on the city's supply.

The tests were needed after a water line break between Augusta and Mulvane left Mulvane without water Saturday evening.

Galen Cummins, Mulvane's utility production director, said Sunday that it would be approximately three days before those results were known.

Cummins added that if no contamination was found, the boiling advisory would be rescinded.

The city asked water customers to:

The Democratic presidential race in Pennsylvania intensified Sunday as Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama traded jabs on the stump and over the broadcast airwaves.

Each campaign accused the other of distorting its candidate's positions in new TV ads launched in advance of Tuesday's Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary.

Clinton unleashed a 30-second commercial taking Obama to task for criticizing her health care plan. The ramped-up back-and-forth comes as polls show Clinton holding a narrow lead in the Keystone State. A McClatchy-MSNBC-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette poll released Sunday put Clinton ahead by 48-43 percent with 8 percent undecided.

"He couldn't answer tough questions in the debate. So Barack Obama is making false charges against Hillary's health care plan," a voiceover says in the ad. "There are more and more questions about Barack Obama. Instead of attacking, maybe he should answer them."

Obama's camp released a 30-second ad of its own, blasting Clinton's claim that Obama is misleading voters when he says he doesn't take campaign contributions from special interest groups.

The sniffles and high fever bothering Maria and Francisco Salazar's 2-year-old daughter, Vivian, weren't from a common cold. It was leukemia, a blood and bone marrow disease.

Anger and denial followed the May 2007 diagnosis. Hospital and doctors' visits have cost about $108,000 -- much of which was covered by Francisco Salazar's medical benefits from his aviation-industry employer.

But the Salazars credit the Kansas chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for treating them as family; staff members volunteered to stay with Vivian at the hospital so her parents could take a nap, shower, or just vent.

"It's been a blessing having them," said Maria Salazar. "I thought I was by myself, but now I know they're there."

The society wants other families, particularly minorities, to benefit from its services. Staff members are trying to find ways to better connect.

Young area artists will soon be banding together to help keep the arts flourishing in Greensburg USD 422 schools.

Heart of Art: Next Generation will hold a benefit concert titled "Inspired" for the schools' music and art program at 7 p.m. Friday in Century II Concert Hall.

Walter Girton, event coordinator, said organizers saw an area in the rebuilding efforts that still needed help.

"I always tell people how the arts are overlooked," Girton said.

He said the proceeds from the event would go to the Greensburg school district to help buy new musical instruments and other art supplies.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Baghdad on Sunday for an unannounced visit one day after the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr threatened an all-out war against the Iraqi government.

Rice called al-Sadr a coward hiding in Iran while praising Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for his recent offensive in the southern port city of Basra that sparked an uprising by al-Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army.

"I know he's sitting in Iran," Rice said dismissively, when asked about al-Sadr's latest threat to lift a self-imposed cease-fire with government and U.S. forces. "I guess it's all-out war for anybody but him," Rice said. "I guess that's the message; his followers can go to their deaths and he's in Iran."

Since the March 25 government offensive in Basra, where the Mahdi Army dominates, the Sadrists and their militia have angrily accused the government of trying to undercut their movement prior to October provincial elections, when they will likely win many of the Shiite southern provinces from their Shiite rivals in the government.

If al-Sadr's militia, conservatively estimated at some 60,000 men, were to rise up, it could mean the end of the drop in violence in Iraq and an inter-sectarian war. Already thousands of government soldiers have deserted in both Basra and Sadr City, refusing to fight the Shiite militia. Some deserted because of threats to their families, others from a moral objection by the mostly Shiite Iraqi security forces to fight their Shiite brothers.

Wichita police officers are investigating a non-injury shooting that occurred around 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the 300 block of Spruce.

Sgt. Bart Brunscheen said officers received a report that a man stopped his vehicle to confront a group he had been in an altercation with the previous night.

Witnesses said he then fired several shots.

Brunscheen said it was unclear whether the shots were fired into the air or at the group of people.

Four individuals were being detained for questioning by detectives Sunday night.

Mulvane residents now have water again, but are still being asked to boil it as officials await the results of biological testing on the city's supply.

The tests were needed after a water line break between Augusta and Mulvane left Mulvane without water Saturday evening.

Galen Cummins, Mulvane's utility production director, said it would be approximately three days before those results were known.

Cummins added that if no contamination was found, the boiling advisory would be rescinded.

The city asked water customers to:

They gather on prairie ridges while most of us are still asleep, humming a haunting three-note song that carries for miles in the pre-dawn stillness. Orange air sacs rise and fall in their necks as male greater prairie chickens begin their ancient dance. They stomp, cackle and woo. The female prairie chickens seem unimpressed. But eventually, they acquiesce. Then it's over, and the hens are off to lay the eggs that hold future generations. Those future generations are a question mark, though.

Once billed the "Prairie Chicken Capital of the World," the Flint Hills now hold dwindling numbers of the birds. In three decades, the population has dropped almost 90 percent on the area's eastern edge and 50 percent in the rest of the Flint Hills, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks studies show.

"Prairie chickens are right at the top of our list for species we're concerned about," said Ron Manes of the Nature Conservancy of Kansas. "They are an excellent indicator of the health of the prairie."

If the prairie chickens are in trouble, other prairie birds also are in trouble, wildlife biologists say. The chickens' decline can start a domino-like fall, cascading toward the eastern meadowlark, Henslow's sparrows, grasshopper sparrows and others.

Prairie chickens require open prairie and tall grass to nest. Annual prairie burning, close grazing, invasive trees and the encroachment of civilization all are factors in their decline in the Flint Hills, biologists say.

In the months and weeks before 2-year-old Daytona Robertson became a homicide victim, her divorced parents, her day-care provider, a judge and SRS suspected she was being abused.

Some of them thought there was clear evidence -- pictures of extensive bruising.

And yet no one prevented her death.

To the parents, who had been in a custody battle over Daytona, it shows a failure by the judge and the state's system for protecting children.

To the judge, it illustrates how family disputes can be difficult to sort out, with competing and limited information to act on.

John Forrest figures he did three good deeds on Jan. 18.

He took a kitchen knife over to a neighbor's to help her carve a pork roast.

Then he took his wife's car to a downtown repair shop to get the heater fixed.

Then he stopped by City Hall to answer the mayor's call for mentors for at-risk kids. Forrest wanted to share his plan for a youth rugby league.

"For all my good deeds I spent six hours in the Sedgwick County Jail, which is not one of the loveliest places to be," Forrest said. "I'm very bitter about it."

City officials predict improvement

City officials lauded an agreement that brought the Diamond W Wranglers to Old Cowtown Museum last fall as a high-profile boost that could help turn around the struggling museum.

They estimated the cowboy musicians could generate up to $64,800 a year for Cowtown.

So far, in six and a half months, the Wranglers have sold 7,518 tickets, which translates to $15,036 for Cowtown, according to figures obtained from the city through an open records request.

City officials say the group's performance thus far isn't an indication of how it will do in the future. They point to the crowds who paid to see Wranglers when they performed in past years as the Prairie Rose Wranglers in Benton.

A water line break between Augusta and Mulvane left Mulvane residents without water Saturday, but officials predicted that pressure would be restored by this morning.

The city late Saturday asked residents to conserve water until noon today and to boil drinking water as a precaution until testing determines there is no risk of contamination.

Residents were asked to watch cable Channel 7 for updates.

Because of the water problem, the Pizza Hut in Mulvane closed its dine-in service but was doing a busy carry-out and delivery business, shift manager Arlie Thompson said Saturday evening. The restaurant had very little water pressure.

It was staying open mainly to handle prom night orders, said store manager Rainy Graham.

On one level, the cleanup Saturday in Matlock Heights was about helping residents save money and about helping a neighborhood stay blight-free.

On another level, it was about helping troubled men find their self-worth.

Residents from 21st Street to 27th Street North and from Grove to Estelle brought out bulky trash for several homeless men from Union Rescue Mission who loaded debris onto disposal trucks.

"It gives you a strength and a hope" to help the residents, said Charles, a 42-year-old homeless man from the Rescue Mission.

"I have a substance abuse problem, and I want to get my family back," said Charles, his muscular arms covered in faded tattoos.

The 12-day search for a woman who mysteriously disappeared from her northeast Wichita home this month apparently ended Saturday when a body was pulled from a pond just a few feet from her back yard.

Wichita police said they could not confirm that the body was that of Reena Mullick, 49. But Sgt. Brad Agnew said officers were working on the assumption that it was.

Lt. Ken Landwehr said an autopsy would be conducted Monday to identify the body and determine a cause of death.

Relatives said earlier that Mullick switched medications shortly before she disappeared April 8. Police said that they did not suspect foul play.

Mullick was reported missing by her husband, Deepak Mullick, when he returned to their home in the 8200 block of Champions and found her missing.

Concerned about zoning changes near his home, Robert Timmons filed his first-ever open records request with the City of Wichita.

He and other residents of Bradford Addition wanted to know about commercial rezoning near their property in the 29th and Maize area. So last year, Timmons, on behalf of the Bradford Homeowners Association, began a search for what he believed should be public information.

It left him frustrated.

"The city did not assist me," Timmons said about his requests. "They don't lend themselves to openness."

The city says it strictly adheres to open records laws. And city records show it responded differently to Timmons than he recalled.

When Bridget McFall's daughter said she would be performing today for Pope Benedict XVI, McFall's reaction was an excited: "Are you kidding me?"

The answer: No.

Danielle McFall, 30, a Wichita native and professional modern dancer in New York, will perform at the Papal Mass at Yankee Stadium.

A graduate of Wichita East High School who also attended Catholic schools, Danielle McFall will be among 20 artists dancing under choreographer Daniel Ezralow, who worked on the film "Across the Universe" as well as several Cirque du Soleil shows.

Ezralow had worked with dancers from her company, Momix, before, Danielle McFall said, and she was referred to him.

A water line break between Augusta and Mulvane left Mulvane residents without water Saturday.

In a news release, the city said it didn't know when service would be restored and asked residents to watch cable Channel 7 for updates.

The break resulted in a loss of pressure in the Mulvane system.

The city advised Mulvane water customers to boil water as a precaution. The advisory will remain in effect until testing determines there is no risk of contamination.

Because of the water problem, the Pizza Hut in Mulvane closed its dine-in service but was doing a busy carry-out and delivery business, shift manager Arlie Thompson said Saturday evening. The restaurant had very little water pressure.

The annual prairie chicken mating dance, called booming, will continue through April around Kansas. Here are some places you can go to watch.

• Dexter: The leks, or dancing grounds, are open for viewing each Friday and Saturday. Overnight accommodations are available -- bunkhouse rooms with shower/bath facilities or bed and breakfast rooms with private bath. Prices include transportation to the lek and a country breakfast afterward.

Bed and breakfast rooms, $65; dorm rooms, $30; drive in (morning only) $20; children under 12, free.

For more information: Call 620-876-5700 or e-mail mbmassey@sktc.net for reservations, information, and directions.

• Near Barton and Stafford counties: Make anappointment by calling Cris Collier, executive director of the Great Bend Convention and Visitors Bureau, 620-792-2750. Cost varies.

First, workers will give the exterior stone of the Statehouse a good scrubbing and then they'll repair it.

It's hard to miss the signs that the 3 1/2-year project is getting started.

The south wing of the Capitol is surrounded by scaffolding.

The state has hired a Chicago company to restore the stone as part of a $285 million renovation of the entire Statehouse.

That restoration project began in 2001 and won't be finished until the stone work is done - sometime in the last quarter of 2011.

Searchers plan to continue looking in the Kansas River Monday morning where a man has been missing since his canoe flipped over during a weekend outing with friends.

Authorities say 26-year-old Shaun Shaw of De Soto, Kan., was canoeing with two friends near Eudora Saturday when his canoe overturned at around 6 p.m. His companions ran to a nearby home to summon help.

By Sunday afternoon, Douglas County sheriff's deputies said it appeared the operation had become a recovery instead of a rescue. Searchers walked the shoreline while rescuers in helicopters and boats also tried to find the canoeist.

Shaw disappeared in eight to 10 feet of water about 1 mile from the Johnson and Leavenworth county lines.

The U.S. Geological Survey says it has recorded one of the strongest aftershock so far from Friday’s Illinois earthquake.

Geologists say the temblor just before 12:40 a.m. today, registered at 4.5 magnitude at its epicenter about 5 miles northwest of Mount Carmel. The location is in the same area as Friday’s early-morning 5.2-magnitude earthquake, which was followed by a 4.5 magnitude aftershock about 5 1/2 hours later.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the quake was felt in Missouri, in the St. Louis area as far west as O’Fallon.

The Monday morning aftershock was at least the 15th since Friday’s quake.

Wichita police responded to a drive-by shooting early Sunday morning in the 4000 block of East Ross Parkway.

The incident happened around 1 a.m. when someone fired a single bullet into a house, said Sgt. Steven Hiser from Patrol West Bureau.

There was damage to a window and a bullet was recovered inside the home, Hiser said.

Wichita State's men's bowling team won the USBC Intercollegiate Team Championship after defeateing UNLV 2-0 in the best-of-3 finals Saturday at Northrock Lanes.

The Shocker men fought back through the losers bracket to defeat Saginaw Valley State in two best-of-7 series Saturday morning. After winning the first match 4-3, the Shockers eliminated two-time defending champion Saginaw Valley 4-1 in the second semifinal match.

In the final, WSU won the first game 202-171 and took the second 203-169.

Pikeville defeated the WSU women 2-0 in their final, winning by scores of 184-171 and 183-158.

The Shocker women won the title last year.

Mulvane's water pressure should be restored by about 1 a.m. Sunday, city officials said this evening.

A water line break between Augusta and Mulvane left the city without water about 2 p.m. today.

Once the water pressure is restored, city officials ask residents to continue conserving water until about noon Sunday.

The city advised water customers to boil water as a precaution. The advisory will remain in effect until testing determines there is no sign or risk of contamination.

The city asked water customers to: