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Federal, state and local authorities arrested 125 Kansas fugitives last week.

"These are people who have made an aggressive effort to go underground and avoid the criminal justice system," Walter Bradley, U.S. marshal for Kansas, said at a news conference Friday.

For the third year, U.S. Marshals headed Operation FALCON, which stands for Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally.

They worked with local authorities in the Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City areas to clear 181 warrants and seize 10 firearms.

"Some people have more than one warrant out for them, so one arrest might clear up two or three warrants," said Daryl Ingermanson, chief deputy marshal for Kansas.

The local Better Business Bureau issued a warning Friday to consumers about two financial scams.

The office has received many calls during the past two weeks about the scams. In one, a "foreign lottery," people are told they've won and are mailed checks ranging from $2,430 to $4,560. They are instructed to deposit about half of the check amount and send the remainder back to pay for processing fees and taxes. The deposited check is worthless, the bureau said.

The bureau advised people to pay attention to the envelope's postmark. The scam letters are mailed from Canada or the United Kingdom.

In another scam, people are invited to be "secret shoppers." They are sent a check and asked to purchase items at a store, then send an evaluation of the products -- along with about half of the money they were sent. Again, the check people deposit is worthless.

Wichita police Lt. Russell Leeds, head of the financial crimes section, said the department has heard from one man who was victimized by the foreign lottery scam recently. The letter he received was from Canada.

A federal judge was unmoved by pleas Friday to delay the imprisonment of a hospitalized Oklahoma doctor who was convicted in an Internet pharmacy case of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute prescription drugs.

U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown denied Wilbur Hilst's request for a second medical extension of his prison reporting date, now scheduled for Monday. Hilst, 76, was hospitalized after a pacemaker was put in Thursday.

On Friday, his attorneys were in court asking for more time to allow him to recuperate and to complete other medical testing.

Defense attorney J.W. Coyle III assured the judge that Hilst will willingly report -- after the judge asked whether he would need to send the U.S. Marshals Service to arrest Hilst.

"Of course we are really disappointed," Coyle said after the hearing. "The level of medical care at the federal Bureau of Prisons is terrible. They have ongoing audits that have shown people incarcerated by the government will not receive the medical care needed."

Her abductor leaves her at pastor's house

The doorbell at Steve Sherbenou's southeast Wichita home rang twice at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday. When the Baptist pastor opened the door, he saw the answer to his prayers.

Joyce Patterson had been missing since Monday after disappearing under suspicious circumstances from a Viola-area convenience store where she works. Sherbenou had publicly pleaded for her safe return. Officers had searched for her, mile after mile, not finding a trace. People around Viola feared the worst.

And now the 48-year-old grandmother stood in front of the man who has served as a pastor for her family. She told Sherbenou that her abductor had dropped her off. She asked for a ride home so she could see her husband, Larry. They have been married nearly three decades.

"I would be delighted to take you home," Sherbenou told her.

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday publicly censured Sedgwick County District Judge Rebecca Pilshaw.

It was a rare sanction by the state's highest court, and the first such action against a Kansas district judge since 2005.

The court's move agreed with the recommendation of the state's judicial ethics committee in February, based on Pilshaw's losing her temper at prospective jurors during a murder trial in 2004.

The court ruled that Pilshaw violated standards of courtroom decorum.

A public censure is a published reprimand by the court and, while serious, is the least severe sanction the Supreme Court can impose on judges. The court could have suspended Pilshaw or removed her from office.

The Kansas Supreme Court this morning publicly censured Sedgwick County District Judge Rebecca Pilshaw.

The court's move agrees with the recommendation of the state's judicial ethics committee in February, based on Pilshaw's losing her temper at prospective jurors during a murder trial in 2004.

The court ruled that Pilshaw violated standards of courtroom decorum.

The judge's "failure to control her temper and frustrations and her conduct toward potential members of the jury in open court greatly detracted from the honor and dignity of the judiciary," the court ruled in its decision. "Her actions negatively impacted the proper administration of justice in a felony criminal case over which she presided."

A 15-year veteran of the bench and the only woman serving Sedgwick County, Pilshaw is up for re-election in the fall and faces opposition in the Democratic Primary in August.