TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican congressman Tim Huelskamp has won re-election in the sprawling 1st District of western and central Kansas despite angering some farmers.

Huelskamp defeated Democrat Jim Sherow in Tuesday’s election. The Republican incumbent has become a tea party favorite and won his third term.

Sherow is a Kansas State University history professor and a former Manhattan mayor who hoped to capitalize on anger among moderate Republicans. But Huelskamp has among the safest GOP districts in the nation, with 53 percent of the voters registered Republican.

The Democrat raised less than $139,000 for his campaign, while Huelskamp raised $797,000.

Huelskamp frustrated farmers by getting ousted from the state’s near-automatic seat on the Agriculture Committee through a conflict with House Speaker John Boehner. He also voted against this year’s farm bill.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A nurse at a northeast Kansas hospital has been charged with sexually assaulting three patients.

Forty-seven-year-old Dennis Clark was charged last month in Wyandotte County District Court with three counts of aggravated sexual battery. The Kansas City Star  reports that the alleged assaults occurred while Clark was a staff nurse in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit at Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas.

His attorney didn’t immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press seeking comment.

The hospital said in a written statement that it was “cooperating fully with law enforcement” and that Clark no longer works there.

State records show that Clark has been licensed as a registered nurse in Kansas since 2001. Prosecutors are urging anyone with information about other possible victims to call police.

WICHITA- Two adults and a child were injured in an accident during a police pursuit of a stolen car just after 8 a.m. on Tuesday in Sedgwick County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Toyota passenger car driven by Kenneth Wade Libich, 22, Wichita, was northbound on George Washington Blvd approaching Pawnee in Wichita during a police chase.

The vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed, ran a red light and struck another Toyota passenger car driven by Rodelio Macuse Gales, 34, Wichita, that was eastbound on Pawnee

Libich, a passenger in his car Destiny Nichole Brown, 32, Wichita and a child in Gales’ car were transported to Wesley Medical Center. Gales was not injured.

The KHP reported Libich and Brown were not wearing seat belts.

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OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas massage therapist has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman.

The Kansas City Star  reports that 47-year-old Freddy Perez-Cartagena, of Olathe, was arrested Tuesday on a Johnson County warrant charging him with rape and aggravated criminal sodomy. Court documents say the alleged sexual assault occurred on Aug. 13 in Shawnee.

Perez-Cartagena was released from custody later Tuesday after posting a $100,000 bond. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

Court records show Perez-Cartagena was previously charged in Johnson County with three misdemeanor counts of sexual battery. But he later pleaded guilty to amended charges of battery and was placed on probation. He was required to register as a sex offender until his probation was completed in 2010.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Regional Forensic Science Center has positively identified three of the four people killed when a small plane crashed into a flight safety training facility last week at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport.

KWCH-TV reports the victims are 48-year-old Nataliya Menestrina, 78-year-old Jay Ferguson, and the pilot of the plane, 53-year-old Mark Goldstein. The identity of the fourth victim had not been confirmed as of Tuesday.

The twin-engine Beechcraft King Air drifted left of the runway after taking off Thursday, then made a steep left bank before plunging into the Flight Safety International Learning Center at the airport.

Goldstein and three people inside flight simulators in the building were killed. Five others were injured.