OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Newly released court documents show that a Facebook post first led police to investigate a suburban Kansas City woman charged with stealing more than $100,000 worth of “high-end” clothing.

The Kansas City Star reports that 45-year-old Kelli Jo Bauer is accused in court documents of using social media to advertise the sale of more than 1,000 items of women’s clothing. The documents say she was arrested this month after undercover detectives posing as customers went to her $900,000 home in an upscale Overland Park development.

Bauer told the police that she was selling the items because she was a “compulsive shopper” and had lost weight.

She is on house arrest as a condition of bond. Defense attorney Scott Gyllenborg didn’t immediately return a phone call fromThe Associated Press.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Police at the U.S. Capitol aren’t yet identifying the man who steered a tiny, one-person helicopter onto the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol today.

But a Florida postal carrier named Doug Hughes is taking responsibility for the stunt on a website, where he said he was delivering letters to all 535 members of Congress in order to draw attention to campaign finance corruption.

Hughes wrote that he has “no violent inclinations or intent.” He says the small aircraft “poses no major physical threat” — but that it “may present a political threat to graft.”

The chairman of the House Homeland Security committee, Michael McCaul of Texas, says the pilot landed on his own — but that if he had gone much closer to the Capitol, authorities were prepared to shoot him down.

Witnesses said the craft approached the Capitol from the west, flying low over the National Mall and the Capitol reflecting pool across the street from the building. It barely cleared a row of trees and a statue of Gen. Ulysses Grant.

A tourist says the craft landed hard and bounced — and that an officer was already there with a gun drawn. He says the man was quickly led away by police.

KANSAS CITY, KAN. – An Kansas man pleaded guilty Monday to his role in a scheme to launder profits from marijuana trafficking through a casino in Kansas City, Kan., according to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.

Christopher Anderson, 31, Olathe, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute marijuana and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. In his plea, he admitted he and other conspirators inserted more than $470,000 in proceeds of drug trafficking into slot machines at the Hollywood Casino in Kansas City, Kan. Then they cashed out at an ATM machine in the casino without playing. Their purpose was to convert small denomination bills into large denomination bills that were easier to transport from Kansas to California.

Anderson also admitted the following:

The trafficking organization to which he belonged cultivated marijuana in California and transported it to the Kansas City area for distribution.
During the early days of the organization, traffickers mailed Home Depot buckets and basketballs containing marijuana from California to Kansas. Over time, they began to drive cars carrying marijuana from California to Kansas, and money from Kansas to California.
The conspirators also used Money Grams to send cash from Kansas to California.
Sentencing will be scheduled at a later time. Anderson faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to $500,000 on the money laundering charge and a maximum penalty of five years and a fine up to $250,000 on the drug distribution charge. Grissom commended the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, the U.S. Secret Service and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Tomasic for their work on the case.

By Mary Agnes Carey, KAISER HEALTH NEWS

Medicare’s troubled physician payment formula will soon be history. As expected, the Senate on Tuesday night easily passed legislation to scrap the formula, accepting a bipartisan plan muscled through the House last month by Speaker John Boehner and Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.

The Senate vote came just hours before doctors faced a 21 percent Medicare pay cut. Under the bill, the current reimbursement schedule would be replaced with payment increases for doctors for the next five years as Medicare transitions to a new system focused “on quality, value and accountability.”

Existing payment incentive programs would be combined into a new “Merit-Based Incentive Payment System” while other alternative payment models also would be created.

“Passage of this historic legislation finally brings an end to an era of uncertainty for Medicare beneficiaries and their physicians — facilitating the implementation of innovative care models that will improve care quality and lower costs,” said Dr. James L. Madara, chief executive officer of the American Medical Association. “Patients will be able to get the care they need and deserve.”

The Senate voted 92-8 to approve the legislation, which the House passed 392-37. It now moves to President Barack Obama, who — shortly after the Senate vote — said he would sign the bill, calling it “a milestone for physicians, and for the seniors and people with disabilities who rely on Medicare for their health care needs.”

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., was among those voting for the bill. He recently spoke on the Senate floor about the urgent need to permanently repeal and replace the “sustainable growth rate” (SGR) formula used to set physician payment rates.

“For more than a decade, the broken SGR formula has frustrated health care providers, threatened access for Medicare beneficiaries and created budgetary dilemmas for Congress,” Moran said Tuesday.

“This especially jeopardizes patients’ access to health care in Kansas where our hospitals, physicians, and other medical professionals care for an increasingly aging population across a wide area. The reality is patient care suffers when providers are forced to endure an exasperating wait-and-see game every few months to find out what amount they will be reimbursed for the care they provide.

It is good that Congress has finally come together permanently address this issue.” There’s enough in the wide-ranging measure for both sides to love or hate. “Like any large bill, it’s a mixed bag in some respects. But I think on the whole it’s a bill well worth supporting,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday.

The bill includes two years of funding for an unrelated program, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. GOP conservatives and Democrats are unhappy that the package isn’t fully paid for, with policy changes governing Medicare beneficiaries and providers paying for only about $70 billion of the approximately $210 billion package.

The Congressional Budget Office has said the bill would add $141 billion to the federal deficit. Consumer and aging organizations also have expressed concerns that beneficiaries will face greater out-of-pocket expenses on top of higher Part B premiums to help finance the way Medicare pays physicians.

But lawmakers said they had struck a good balance in their quest to get rid of the old system. “I think tonight is a milestone for the Medicare program, a lifeline for millions of older people,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. “That’s because tonight the Senate is voting to retire the outdated, inefficiency rewarding, common sense-defying Medicare reimbursement system.” For doctors, the passage is an end to a familiar but frustrating rite.

Lawmakers have invariably deferred the cuts prescribed by a 1997 reimbursement formula, which everyone agreed was broken beyond repair. But the deferrals have always been temporary because Congress has not agreed to offsetting cuts to pay for a permanent fix. In 2010, Congress delayed scheduled cuts five times. Here are some answers to frequently asked questions about the legislation and the congressional ritual known as the doc fix.

SALINA – Following information from the State Department of Children and Families, law enforcement authorities in Salina are investigating a report of a suspect accused of having sexual relations with a girl under the age of 10.

Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney said Michael J. Turner, 28, Salina, was arrested on a warrant and booked into the Saline County Jail on Tuesday.

Turner faces requested charges of rape, aggravated indecent liberties, and aggravated criminal sodomy.

The sexual contact reportedly took place between July of 2011, and July of 2013 at a central Salina home. Turner is an acquaintance of the victim.

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JUNCTION CITY – Law enforcement authorities in Riley County arrested a suspect on Junction City’s most wanted list.

Police reported they arrested Robert Burks, 25, of Junction City, on April 14, 2015 at approximately 10:50 a.m.

Burks was taken into custody while in the 200 block of 10th Street in Ogden, Kansas for two counts of failure to appear and motion to revoke probation.

These offenses listed on three warrants from the Junction City and Geary County area carried a total bond of $12,000.00

Burks was originally arrested on December 24, 2014 for the sale/distribution of hallucinogenic drugs and felony possession of drug paraphernalia