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A man denied a drink at a Kansas City, Kan., bar opened fire in the tavern, fatally wounding the bartender early Saturday morning.

According to authorities, the man tried to order a drink at the Gossip Inn Bar at 24th and Park Drive about 1:30 a.m. Saturday. The bartender, identified only as a woman in her 40s, asked him for identification first.

The man said he didn’t have any on him, and the bartender refused to serve him.

The man then started shooting, striking the bartender. He also fired at the remaining patrons in the bar before fleeing the scene.

The bartender was taken to an area hospital where she was pronounced dead. Her name was not released Saturday.

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.

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."

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.