FALLS CITY, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says a 34-year-old man suspected in a Falls City shooting has been captured in Kansas.

The patrol says Desiderio Hernandez was taken into custody after a nearly seven-hour standoff with officers at a residence in Horton, Kansas. He was being held in Brown County Jail to await his return to Richardson County in Nebraska, where he’s charged with attempted murder.

Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could be contacted to comment on Hernandez’s behalf.

The patrol says Hernandez is suspected of shooting 31-year-old Joseph Debella Jr. early Wednesday morning. A warrant affidavit says Hernandez told his sister and brother that he’d shot Debella, who’s been hospitalized in Lincoln.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) released the following video in reaction to Senate Finance Committee’s report finding that the Obama Administration used the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to intimidate Americans who disagreed with the administration’s policies.

To watch the video, click here.

The full text of the senator’s remarks is below:

As a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, I am outraged.

The committee has just completed a two year investigation of the Internal Revenue Service’s unconstitutional targeting of American citizens.  Our worst fears have been confirmed.

We have proof that the IRS was and is complicit in successful efforts to deny free speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment.

We have learned that this targeting was systemic.

We also have proof the IRS then misled the Congress about their activities.  The IRS also deliberately withheld information relevant to this targeting. They lied.

After two years, like so many others, I am fed up with scandal after scandal with no accountability.  Kansans are fed up and many have lost trust in the IRS and our government.

This is a clear abuse of power by the IRS and those within the Obama Administration who are responsible. To date, there have been no consequences, no accountability – but this report is just the beginning. We will introduce further legislation to make sure we live in an open and free society where first amendment rights are protected.

I already have long standing legislation that prevents the IRS from this unlawful targeting and the trampling of free speech.  This is America, not Soviet Russia.

KANSAS CITY – A prison guard was indicted Wednesday on a federal charge of accepting bribes to smuggle tobacco to inmates at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, according to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.

Michael Harston, 52, Kansas City, Mo., was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and four counts of accepting bribes. The indictment alleges that from October 2013 to August 2014 Harston took bribes to carry tobacco, which is contraband, into the penitentiary.

The indictment alleges payment was made via wire transfers from inmates’ relatives. Harston was caught on video surveillance in the process of distributing tobacco to inmates.

If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000 on the conspiracy charge, and a maximum penalty of 15 years and a fine up to $250,000 on each of the bribery counts.

The FBI investigated. Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Leena Ramana is prosecuting.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The father of a 9-year-old batboy who died after being accidentally struck by a follow-through swing in Wichita says the batboy tradition should continue.

Kaiser Carlile was struck Saturday by a warm-up swing by a Liberal Bee Jays player near the on-deck circle during a National Baseball Congress World Series game. Kaiser died Sunday.

The National Baseball Congress suspended using batboys and girls during its World Series games in Kansas after Kaiser’s death.

Kaiser’s father, Chad Carlile, said on NBC’s Today show Thursday while there “might be a better way of doing things,” the batboy tradition should continue because it’s “tremendous for kids.”

Carlile also said the family donated organs from Kaiser.

The Wichita Eagle reports Kaiser’s funeral is Aug. 11 at the Seward County Community College in Liberal.

SALINA – A teenager missing since July 31, has been located.

Law enforcement officers located 13-year-old Colten Miller at the Tri-Rivers Fair Wednesday evening.

He was transported to the Saline County Law Enforcement Center and his parents were notified. No additional details were released.

He was reported missing on Monday

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HUTCHINSON – A Reno County Jury on Wednesday found a Kansas man guilty on two counts of abuse of a child and two counts of aggravated endangerment of a child. The case involved two children, ages five and two and half.

However, Brent Burton, 29, Hutchinson, will only be sentenced on the abuse counts, because the two aggravated endangerment counts were alternate counts to the abuse charges.

Authorities say Burton was left in charge of the kids while the mother was away.

He apparently fell asleep and the two kids left the home and were across the street in a park near a busy city street.

Burton woke up and could not find the kids. He then went looking for them and after finding them in the park apparently punished them to the point, that the state alleges abuse.

In closing arguments, the defense contended that he was doing his job as a parent. “Letting them run around would be wrong.” said Defense Attorney Bonnie Corrado. She says her client had fallen asleep after working an all night shift. She says when he found the kids were gone, he was panicked and after finding them, he spanked them and sent them to their room.

She also told the jury that the state didn’t have any doctor testify or and expert witness testimony over the bruising. She says she doesn’t believe the state proved their case.

District Attorney Keith Schroeder argued to the jury that they don’t need a doctor to know if its abuse. He told them to look at the pictures and use their common sense. He believes they did prove the case.

Burton’s sentencing is scheduled for September 11.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The number of cattle on Kansas feedlots is up this year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service says the number of cattle on Kansas feedlots has risen 2 percent in the past year to about 1.94 million. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports USDA statistics also show that overall cattle inventories across the state have grown.

Drought conditions had dried up ponds and pushed up prices for feed, which prompted Kansas farmers to sell off cattle or send them to packing plants.

But as of Jan. 1 this year, total cattle inventories in Kansas, which includes all cattle and calves, not just those on feedlots, hit 6 million, an increase of 200,000 from a year earlier and a sign of recovery after three years of decreases