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Jonell K. Lloyd was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder and child abuse in the death last week of 1-year-old Chavira Brown.

The girl's body was found early Friday in the attic of the home where Lloyd was staying in the 1500 block of North Green, authorities have said.

In charging Lloyd, 23, prosecutors alleged that he tortured, beat and shook the child, and she died as a result.

Sedgwick County District Judge Eric Yost set Lloyd's bond at $500,000 and scheduled his preliminary hearing for 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 20.

The toddler's mother had dropped her off with Lloyd last month and asked him to watch her for about a week while she underwent and recovered from minor surgery.

The woman who served as secretary of state for the so-called Kaweah Indian Nation testified Wednesday that she heard the man she knew as "Chief" tell illegal immigrants a membership in his tribe would grant them U.S. citizenship.

Malcolm Webber is standing trial in Wichita this week on seven criminal charges, including harboring illegal immigrants and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Federal prosecutors say Webber made more than $300,000 by selling memberships in the so-called Kaweah tribe to more than 10,000 illegal immigrants in about 15 states under the false pretense that it would grant them legal status in the country.

Webber's defense said he operated a legitimate tribe in good faith, believing that he could one day fulfill those promises, and he didn't seek to get rich off the memberships.

During Webber's trial Wednesday at the federal courthouse in Wichita, Debra Flynn said she met Webber nine years ago, just after she and her husband, Chuck, were married and joined a church on South Broadway where Webber served as pastor.

Frustrated by violence at local nightclubs in recent weeks, police on Tuesday announced plans to toughen ordinances governing club licensing.

Closing time has gotten out of hand at a handful of clubs around town, they say, and it's time to put a stop to that.

"Citizens have had enough of that kind of conduct," Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolz said.

Brandon Moore, 22, was shot to death inside Big Chub's King of Clubs at 31st South and Seneca early July 27.

A man who was shot at a stoplight July 20 after an argument in a club at Broadway and 37th North died Tuesday at a local hospital, police said.

James Ware, whom police shot several times in the parking lot of Max's Club on South Rock Road early Sunday, has been upgraded to serious condition at a local hospital.

Authorities have said three officers shot at Ware, 34, after he refused to put down a rifle and turned to point it in the crowded parking lot shortly after 2 a.m.

Ware's mother and others have claimed he was not armed when he was shot. Police released a photo Tuesday of the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle confiscated from the scene. The rifle, a civilian model of the military's M-16, was loaded and ready for use, officials said.

Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolz called the rifle "a human killing machine."

The three officers were 15 to 30 feet from Ware when they opened fire, officials said.

Jurors deliberated less than an hour before finding Marques Eason not guilty of felony abuse of an animal.

The verdict Tuesday afternoon was the culmination of a daylong trial in the first case tried in Sedgwick County under a 2006 law that makes animal abuse a felony.

Eason had testified that he accidentally dropped a 4-month-old Dachshund mix puppy, fatally injuring it.

Attorney Lawrence Williamson asked the jury to give Eason's testimony the same credence as that of the state's witnesses.

"The family of this puppy allowed him to continue to care for their other dog through May of 2008 -- and this happened in November 2006," Williamson said in his closing arguments, referring to Eason. "Everyone but the state knows this is an accident."

Shawnee County reported problems Wednesday with its election results that could alter vote totals in some races, including a hotly contested Republican primary in the 2nd Congressional District.

Election Commissioner Elizabeth Ensley attributed the problems to human error and said they prevented partial results from 40 precincts from being included in vote totals.

Ensley didn't have an exact number of votes involved but said, "It will be hundreds, yes."

She did not give more details about the problems but planned to discuss them during a news conference Wednesday afternoon.

In the 2nd District race, State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins appeared to win a narrow victory over former Rep. Jim Ryun. They were 1,007 votes apart out of more than 63,000 cast, but Jenkins carried Shawnee County by more than 1,800 votes.

Undersheriff Bob Hinshaw took a major step toward becoming the next Sedgwick County sheriff on Tuesday when he defeated Wichita's Deputy Police Chief Robert Lee and three other candidates in the Republican primary election.

Hinshaw, a 29-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office, finished with a comfortable lead of 41 percent to Lee's 35 percent. Lee is a 27-year Wichita police veteran who has been deputy chief since 2002.

The other three candidates in the race collected 22 percent of the vote.

Hinshaw faces former Wichita police Lt. Walt Kuykendall, the only Democrat in the race, in the November general election.

Hinshaw is expected to be a heavy favorite in that race in a county that has not elected a Democrat to the office in nearly 25 years.

Karl Peterjohn handily defeated Sedgwick County Commissioner Tom Winters on Tuesday in an upset seen by some as a sign taxpayers are fed up.

Peterjohn, who promised to take any new taxes to voters for approval, beat Winters, the commission chairman, by about 1,100 votes for the Republican nomination in District 3.

Peterjohn, who has run for office before, said winning is better than losing.

He will face Democrat Marcey Gregory, Goddard's mayor, in the November general election. She beat Patrick Quaney by more than 400 votes.

District 3 covers much of western Sedgwick County, including some of west Wichita.

The only woman on the Sedgwick County judicial bench held on to a slim lead over her Democratic rival to win her primary race Tuesday night.

Rebecca Pilshaw, a judge since 1993, won by 248 votes in the unofficial count -- a slim 3 percent margin over challenger Ross Alexander.

It marked the third time in four years an incumbent judge faced primary opposition in a Sedgwick County election; Pilshaw was the first to win.

Pilshaw must now beat Republican J. Patrick Walters in November's general election to retain the office.

"I knew it would be a close race," Alexander said. "But apparently the Democratic voters in Sedgwick County want to keep her as a judge."

State Reps. Oletha Faust-Goudeau and Ty Masterson will be continuing their bids to switch chambers in November as both appeared to win their primaries Tuesday.

Wichitan Faust-Goudeau won the Democratic primary by a wide margin for the 29th Senate District, while Masterson, an Andover Republican running in Senate District 16, was leading in incomplete results late Tuesday.

Faust-Goudeau, who also celebrated her 49th birthday Tuesday, defeated challenger Kelechi "KC" Ohaebosim, 29.

Faust-Goudeau, who was appointed to the House of Representatives in 2004, will face Wichita Republican Kenya Cox in the November general election. Both women are black.

Regardless of the outcome in November, history was made on Tuesday night. No matter who wins, the Kansas Senate will seat its first black female senator when the 2009 session opens.

Former Rep. Jim Ryun's attempt at a political comeback was in trouble Tuesday as he trailed in the 2nd Congressional District GOP primary to State Treasurer Lynn Jenkins.

The winner will face incumbent Democrat Nancy Boyda, who defeated Ryun two years ago after he served five terms in Washington.

The district covers all or part of 26 counties in eastern Kansas.

Ryun and Jenkins continued to campaign throughout the day, calling voters and visiting with them during the lunch hour. Turnout was expected to be sparse in the 2nd District, but those who ventured out in the summer heat cited high energy prices and low performance from the economy as key issues.

Democrats said they were supporting Boyda, and if they had to choose between Jenkins and Ryun, would support Jenkins.

Gail Finney, a marketing consultant and vice chair of the Sedgwick County Democrat Party, beat out medical assistant Inga Taylor for the 84th District House seat.

It was one of the more clear-cut victories in primaries in the Wichita area for three open House seats.

Finney won the 84th seat despite Taylor raising roughly $10,000 more, some of which was due to an influx of donations from Victory Fund and an affiliate, Kansas for a Diverse Voice at the Table, which supports openly lesbian and gay people running for public office.

Taylor, who has run for office before, said the financial support was about making sure she had enough money to get her message out.

"I wasn't running on, 'Hey, I'm gay,' " said Taylor."... It always has been about the issues."

It was a typical primary election scene at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex near 29th North and Oliver -- no lines, no waiting, only two of eight voting machines occupied.

And Erma Markham didn't like it.

"It's a mediocre turnout," said Markham, supervising judge for the location. "I don't think we have educated the public enough. They don't know how important the primaries are."

Voters in Sedgwick County chose nominees for sheriff, county commission, and several legislative and judicial seats.

Election Commissioner Bill Gale said turnout for Tuesday's primary was "on the lighter side," with just 15 percent of the county's 241,052 registered voters casting a ballot.

Former Rep. Jim Slattery had little trouble winning the Democratic Senate nomination in Tuesday's primary.

But his race this fall against Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is likely to give Slattery fits.

With 11 percent of the state's precincts reporting, Slattery had 70 percent of the vote against Lee Jones, an Overland Park railroad engineer.

Roberts had no primary opponent and figures to be a prohibitive favorite for re-election this fall. Kansas traditionally leans GOP, and no Democrat has won a Senate race since 1932.

Roberts is seeking his third term in the Senate. Slattery represented the 2nd District, in eastern Kansas, in the House from 1983 to 1994 before becoming a Washington lobbyist.

The race for Sedgwick County clerk that pitted two of the county's top Republican activists against each other turned out not to be much of a contest in the end.

Kelly Arnold, county Republican Party chairman, won easily over Sarah Skelton, former Wichita school board member and vice president of the Wichita Pachyderm Club.

Arnold, 30, took about a 60 percent lead in the early returns and held it through the night.

Arnold said his ground game -- platoons of volunteers working targeted precincts -- was what gave him the margin of victory.

"I really relied on my grassroots supporters to get my message out," he said.

U.S. SENATE RACE

• Jim Slattery, D-Topeka

• Pat Roberts (i), R-Dodge City

U.S. HOUSE

4TH DISTRICT

Harvey County voters on Tuesday ousted Sheriff Arlis "A.J." Wuthnow, who was involved in a controversy over no-bid work his family's electrical business did for the office he oversees.

With all ballots counted, challenger Bruce Jolliff defeated Wuthnow in the Republican primary. Jolliff had about 55 percent of the vote, said Harvey County Clerk Joyce Truskett. Turnout was low.

Wuthnow declined to comment Tuesday night.

Jolliff said he didn't know what voters based their decision on but said he would continue to focus on his experience in the general election. He is a former Newton police lieutenant and now is a trainer with the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center in Hutchinson.

Jolliff said Harvey County has a strong Republican base, which would help him in the November election. He will face Democrat T. Walton, a Newton police lieutenant.