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A retired Oklahoma doctor pleaded guilty in an Internet pharmacy case because he was guilty, and not because the government was threatening to prosecute his cancer-stricken wife, a federal judge in Wichita ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown denied Wilbur Hilst's request to remain free on bond while he appeals the 33-month sentence imposed last month after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a scheme to unlawfully distribute controlled substances.

In his ruling, Brown said Hilst was an educated man who knew what he was doing when he entered his plea and knowingly waived any right to appeal a sentence imposed within the guideline range.

Hilst's attorneys argued in court documents that the government put Hilst, 76, in an "untenable position" by prosecuting his 77-year-old wife, Margaret, along with him for operating Red Mesa Pharmacy in Wichita.

"In making this argument, defendant's brief fails to mention that it was apparently counsel for the defendants who first suggested this 'package deal' to the Government, not the other way around," Brown wrote.

Kansas Supreme Court justices on Thursday questioned how a prosecutor handled abortion patients' records that were part of a criminal investigation.

Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri is trying to force Johnson County prosecutor Phill Kline to return patient files that are part of his case accusing an Overland Park clinic of performing illegal abortions and falsifying documents.

Kline had access to the records as part of an investigation he undertook when he was Kansas attorney general. He transferred them to Johnson County as he left the attorney general's office in January 2007.

During a nearly two-hour hearing before the Supreme Court, Kline and his attorney, Caleb Stegall, argued that the prosecutor's office did nothing wrong.

However, Planned Parenthood lawyer Bob Eye told the justices that Kline didn't have the right to the copies of 29 patient records and that patients' privacy was violated when a former Kline investigator kept them at his apartment. Eye said unauthorized people could have read or altered the files.

Citing a concern for her safety after she tried to kill herself, a judge ruled Thursday that Katie Robertson should stay in jail as she faces a murder charge in the death of her 2-year-old stepdaughter.

District Judge Clark Owens also found that Robertson violated an order not to have contact with witnesses in the case.

After hearing arguments about whether she should remain in jail under a temporary revocation of her bond, Owens said his main concern was that she be healthy as she faces the murder charge.

"We need to get to the bottom of these allegations" in the murder case, Owens said.

Robertson, 27, is accused of killing her 2-year-old stepdaughter, Daytona Robertson, in February. Police said the girl died from head injuries.

Amber Goff received a five-year federal prison sentence Wednesday for helping two inmates escape from a state prison.

U.S. Senior District Judge Wesley Brown followed the plea agreement Goff signed in April for her part in helping Steven Ford and Jesse Bell escape from the El Dorado Correctional Facility on Oct. 28.

As part of the sentence, Brown also ordered Goff to pay the prison $11,000 in restitution.

The Kansas Department of Corrections said that the restitution includes $10,355.93 in overtime involved in the search for the escapees and $659.90 in repairs to damaged fencing.

In her plea, Goff admitted that she provided bolt cutters, a wire cutter and three handguns to aid the inmates in their escape. She said she cut fence wire and drove the men out of the state. They were eventually arrested in New Mexico.

Wichita police are looking for a suspect in a pair of daytime sexual assaults on East Douglas downtown.

A man attacked a woman at about 1:15 p.m. Friday in the 700 block of East Douglas, Lt. Troy Livingston said.

"He approached her from behind, grabbed her and fondled her," Livingston said.

He then ran off laughing.

A second victim was assaulted at about 8 a.m. Monday in the 100 block of East Douglas, Livingston said. A man came up to a woman from behind and fondled her before running away.

Adams, Michael G. and Perkins, Stephanie L., both of Kansas City, Mo.

Ades, Anthony J. and Shupert, Robin L., both of Andover.

Anderson, Brian L. and Noeller, Charlotte M., both of Wichita.

Anderson, Bruce L. and Ramirez, Janet L., both of Wichita.

Armstrong, Richard C., Derby, and McFerson, Mary A., Wichita.

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

Beat 11

Burglary

3600 block of W. 13th, May 30.

2600 block of W. Ninth, June 3.

The Butler County sheriff is still trying to sort out what led to a deadly shoot-out at a rural home late Monday night.

At the end of the day Tuesday, Sheriff Craig Murphy said he had no new details on how one man was shot to death in an altercation with another man.

Here's what the investigation turned up Tuesday:

A motorist saw two men standing in the road at Southeast 30th Street, east of Bluestem Road, and asked if they were all right. They said they were.

The men went to a house in the 4000 block of East Munson Hill Road after 11:40 p.m. One of them took a shotgun into the house. The other picked up a handgun.

A local anti-abortion activist lost a small-claims lawsuit Tuesday when a judge ruled he was not damaged when a security officer used a "stink bomb" to ward anti-abortion volunteers away from a Wichita abortion clinic.

Mark Gietzen chairman of the Kansas Coalition for Life, sought $4,000 in damages from John Rayburn and his company, Diamond Security, for the Sept. 20 incident.

But Judge Steven Woodring ruled that Gietzen failed to show that he suffered any damages because of the incident outside George Tiller's Women's Health Care Services clinic.

"The judge ruled that Tiller has the right to stink bomb us if he wants to as long as the stink bomb is on his property," Gietzen said. "I fully expect it to be used on us again."

Rayburn declined to comment on the case, but evidence at the trial showed that the "stink bomb" consisted of foul-smelling catfish bait.

The first defendant in the case of the so-called Kaweah Indian Tribe of Wichita was sentenced Tuesday to time already served in a county jail.

Federal prosecutors expect more defendants to follow former Wichita pastor Jamie Cervantes, in concluding their cases as the August trial of Kaweah leader Malcolm Webber approaches.

The scope of the case, meanwhile, keeps growing.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Wichita has received dozens of calls from at least 15 states reporting memberships sold to the fake Indian tribe.

Senior Special Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Robert Visnau has verified 10,000 to 15,000 people who have been affected by the case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Anderson said Tuesday.

A resurgent Democratic Party and intramural skirmishes between Republicans are combining to make 2008 one of the most spirited local campaign seasons in years.

While the early line favors Kansas staying Republican in national politics -- the state hasn't voted Democratic for president since Lyndon Johnson buried Barry Goldwater in 1964 -- Democrats made inroads in down-the-ballot races two years ago and hope for a repeat performance.

In the state Legislature, several slots have opened for political newcomers.

There's a scramble for Sedgwick County offices as well, with some long-established political figures facing their first challenges in years.

The filing period for local races ended Tuesday, with competitive races up and down the ballot from county clerk to the state Senate.