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A man was arrested and booked on three counts of aggravated assault with a gun after a 3 a.m. Sunday incident in the 3600 block of West Kellogg.

According to police, the man got into a fight with an acquaintance, then brandished a shotgun. Two other men trying to calm the situation were also threatened.

The man was eventually arrested by police. There were no injuries.

--Dan Voorhis

A man was arrested and booked on one count of aggravated battery Saturday morning.

A man got into a fight at a bar in the 2200 block of South Broadway. Another man intervened in the fight, then left on foot down Broadway. About 1 a.m., a vehicle pulled up beside the second man, a man in the car punched him, knocking him unconscious.

--Dan Voorhis

Wichita police have booked two men each on three counts of burglary for break-ins that took place in the 100 and 200 block of South Kansas Saturday afternoon.

Police were called at 5:45 p.m. when the burglaries were discovered. One of the men was arrested after a foot chase. The suspect led police to another location where police arrested a second man and found all of the items taken, according to police.

--Dan Voorhis

A federal jury has decided not to impose the death sentence on the second of two men convicted of the racially motivated murder of a pedestrian.

The Kansas City Star reported Saturday that Steven Sandstrom, 22, will spend life in prison with no chance of parole. Federal jurors declined to sentence him to death, just as they had done in the case of co-defendant Gary Eye, 21, earlier in the week.

Eye also will spend life in prison for the March 2005 death of William McCay, who was black. Both Eye and Sandstrom are white.

"We are relieved there was no death verdict," said Charles Rogers, a lawyer who led the effort to avoid a death sentence.

U.S. Attorney John F. Wood said justice had been served even without the death penalty.

A man who was convicted of killing a rural Goddard couple and faced execution is getting another chance to convince jurors that he shouldn't be sentenced to die.

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday overturned the death sentence of Gavin D. Scott, based on arguments raised by his attorneys. The justices returned the case to Sedgwick County District Court for a new sentencing hearing.

But in its unanimous ruling, the court upheld his capital murder conviction, concluding that the evidence against him was of "a direct and overwhelming nature." The justices also rejected the challenges of Scott's attorneys to the state's 1994 capital punishment law.

Scott was sentenced to die by injection for the shootings of Doug and Beth Brittain in their rural Goddard farmhouse in September 1996. Prosecutors said he and an accomplice ransacked the home after the killings, and the accomplice was sentenced to 80 years in prison.

The court ordered a new sentencing hearing for Scott primarily over two issues.

A 14-year-old boy admitted to police Thursday that he wrote two letters threatening to shoot police officers because he thought it would be funny and he was angry with his parents, police said Friday.

The letters were found in an apartment building at Windsor Park at Cedarbrooke, 8406 E. Harry, Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolz said. The first was found May 8, the second Thursday morning.

While the first letter claimed responsibility for shooting an off-duty police officer in downtown Wichita on March 25, Stolz said police do not believe the teen did it.

"We believe we still have a suspect at large regarding that crime," Stolz said of the shooting in an alley next to the downtown campus of the Wichita Area Technical College, 324 N. Emporia.

A resident found the second threatening letter early Thursday in an envelope on steps leading to upper-level apartments at the complex, Stolz said. The resident gave it to a manager at the complex, who contacted police.

Criminal charges were dropped Friday against a Wichita man who was jailed when he walked into City Hall after forgetting he had a kitchen knife in his briefcase.

John Forrest, who spent six hours in the Sedgwick County Jail after his arrest Jan. 18, was scheduled to stand trial May 30 on a misdemeanor count of possession of a concealed weapon.

His lawyer, Carl Maughan, said someone in the city prosecutor's office called him Thursday to say the charge was being dismissed.

"I think it's just that somebody upstairs decided this was the right thing to do," Maughan said.

Forrest, a 64-year-old retired business executive who is visiting relatives in Michigan, said Maughan called him Friday.

In a speech mixing politics, wry wit and sentiment for the World War II generation, former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole told a Republican group Friday that tax hikes are on the way if businesses and taxpayers don't come to the aid of their party.

"Let's be very realistic, this could be a tough year for Republicans... if the business community and others who work for a living don't come to the party pretty soon," Dole told a packed-house meeting of the Wichita Pachyderm Club.

Dole, the longest-serving Senate majority leader in U.S. history, retired from national politics after losing the 1996 presidential race to Bill Clinton.

Now 84, Dole appeared physically fragile, but his intellect and trademark dry humor seemed sharp.

While Dole did not mention presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain by name, he took a few shots at the Democratic presidential hopefuls, Sens. Barack Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York.