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After plea negotiations stalled, a federal judge on Friday set a trial date for a former Nebraska teacher accused of fleeing to Mexico with a middle school student.

The case of 26-year-old Kelsey Peterson -- who disappeared with her former student in October after school officials told her they were investigating their relationship -- is scheduled to go to trial July 8.

Her lawyer, James Martin Davis, had hoped to reach a plea deal that would allow her to face state, rather than federal, charges.

Peterson is facing federal charges of crossing the border to have sex with a minor, which carries a minimum sentence of 10 years. Davis argued that's too much time.

"That's totally inappropriate," Davis said after a hearing. "They (prosecutors) want to be judge, jury and executioner."

Stephen Schneider's lawyer is trying to stop a subpoena from federal prosecutors to obtain confidential settlements in medical malpractice cases against the indicted Haysville doctor.

Lawrence Williamson of Kansas City filed a motion Friday to quash the subpoena and find out what similar information the government is trying to obtain about Schneider's civil lawsuits and other "administrative actions."

Williamson's brief includes a copy of a subpoena sent by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tanya Treadway to lawyers involved in at least five medical malpractice lawsuits against Schneider. All were settled out of court, and the terms of the agreements were confidential.

Treadway, however, has ordered lawyers for Schneider, his clinic and the former patients suing him to turn over the settlement documents by Monday.

Malpractice defense lawyers have objected to the subpoena, and Williamson argues that prosecutors are illegally intruding on Schneider's right to privacy.

A man was shot in the face and neck at Club Rodeo early Friday, the latest in a series of clashes at the east Wichita nightclub.

Because of those persistent problems on Thursday nights, police were monitoring the parking lot at 10001 E. Kellogg, near Webb Road, when they heard a single gunshot at 1:48 a.m. as the club prepared to close, authorities said.

Hundreds of people were milling around in the parking lot at the time, Capt. Brent Allred said, and a witness gave a description of the vehicle used by a suspect.

Police pulled over the car a short time later in the 200 block of South Hillside and took four people to City Hall for questioning. Two were subsequently released, Allred said, while a third was arrested on an outstanding warrant and a 22-year-old man was arrested in connection with the shooting.

The 25-year-old victim was taken to Wesley Medical Center, where he was treated and released for what turned out to be minor injuries, police spokesman Gordon Bassham said.

Russell Barrett said he knew trouble was coming last June when some gang members tried to force their way into the Half-Time Sports Bar at 3120 E. Harry.

He said it started when a man who'd been kicked out tried to come back in.

"He walked back in the bar and it was total mayhem," Barrett told a Sedgwick County district judge Wednesday. "It was just total chaos. Bars and chairs and glass busting.... I had no idea who was fighting who."

Barrett's testimony came during a preliminary hearing for Donovan Thompson, 21, who was ordered to stand trial on charges of first-degree murder in the shooting death of bar owner Teresa Hastings.

Barrett, who described himself as a close friend of Hastings, testified that when the fight began, Hastings and some of her employees pushed the fighting patrons outside.

A Sedgwick County judge has dismissed a racial profiling claim filed by a Wichita man whose case became the first test of the state's 2005 profiling law.

District Judge David Kaufman said Wichita police were engaging in valid law enforcement practices when they stopped and searched Aaron Patterson on Aug. 24, 2005, at 21st and Minnesota. Patterson was cited for failing to use a turn signal, but the charge was later dropped.

The Kansas Human Rights Commission ruled in April 2006 that Patterson was the victim of profiling. That ruling, under the new law, gave him the right to sue the city for damages.

Although Kaufman's ruling dismissed Patterson's lawsuit, both sides said they expected the case to end up before the Kansas Court of Appeals.

City Attorney Gary Rebenstorf said Kaufman's ruling came as welcome news for police.

A 21-year-old man was ordered today to stand trail for first-degree murder in the June shooting death of a Wichita bar owner.

Donovan Thompson is charged in the death of Half-Time Sports Bar owner Teresa Hastings and the wounding of one of her employees.

Wichita police said the shooting occurred as Thompson and some fellow gang members were engaged in a disturbance at the bar at 3120 E. Harry.

Twice before, legal delays forced prosecutors to dismiss and refile charges against Thompson. District Judge Ben Burgess tentatively scheduled his trial for June 2.

Two other men have pleaded guilty to less serious charges for their role in the disturbance.

A Wichita day care provider has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the March 25 death of a 1-year-old girl who was left in a car seat, officials say.

The charge, filed Tuesday in Sedgwick County District Court, accuses Jessica D. Cummings of unintentionally causing Kailee Hundley to become asphyxiated.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, which licenses day care homes, knows of no other day care provider facing such a serious death-related charge in at least the past five years, agency spokesman Joe Blubaugh said Wednesday.

Kailee died at Cummings' day care home after being partly strapped into an infant car seat that was too small and left for about 2 ½ hours in a laundry bathroom, KDHE has said.

Cummings found the girl slumped over, her lips blue, and called 911, the agency said.

Criminal complaints from police beats in Wichita. Missing dates indicate days where no reports were filed.

Beat 11

Burglary

3700 block of W. 15th, April 4.

700 block of Woodrow, April 7.

Wichita police arrested 22 people during a 16-hour prostitution sting Tuesday and Wednesday on South Broadway.

"I wanted to get our officers out there and send a message early, as warm weather sets in for spring and summer months," said Capt. John Speer, commander of the Patrol South Bureau.

The sting was conducted between 9 a.m. Tuesday and 1 a.m. Wednesday along Broadway from Kellogg to 47th Street South.

Eighteen women and four men were arrested on various offenses -- most of them related to prostitution.

A 37-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of being a pimp, Speer said. That's just the second time in his three years at Patrol South that such an arrest has been made, he said.

Amick, Ryan Z. and Woods, Rachel L., both of Wichita.

Benson, Freddie R. and Dupree, Crystal L., both of Wichita.

Bista, Rajesh, and Luhellier, Hollie M., both of Wichita.

Booker, Derrill D., Valley Center, and Terry, Nicki D., Wichita.

Booker, Gary T. and Utting, Mary M., both of Bel Aire.

Evidence about Justin Thurber's behavior toward young women can be presented by prosecutors during his trial, a judge ruled this week.

Thurber could receive the death penalty if convicted of the abduction, rape and killing of 19-year-old Jodi Sanderholm on Jan. 5, 2007.

Cowley County District Judge Jim Pringle based his ruling on evidence in three pretrial hearings that included the testimony of 13 women of similar size and appearance to Sanderholm. They said Thurber had pursued, stalked or sexually assaulted them in the days, months and years before Sanderholm's killing.

Under Kansas law, such behavior can be used to show a pattern of behavior consistent with that of Sanderholm's attacker, Pringle said in his ruling Monday.

Thurber is scheduled to stand trial this summer, although the defense has asked for more time to prepare and will argue to move the trial out of Cowley County. Those issues will be discussed at a hearing next week in Winfield.