WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Colorado man who flew a plane loaded with marijuana to Iola, Kansas, was sentenced to a year in federal prison.

Federal prosecutors say 59-year-old Kenneth E. Weaver, of Denver, was sentenced Monday for one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. He admitted in his plea that he flew a plane carrying 207 pounds of medical grade marijuana into the Iola airport on July 11, 2014.

In addition to his prison sentence, Weaver’s plane, more than $450,000 in cash, a 2007 Bentley Continental and a 2010 BMW X were forfeited to the federal government.

After his prison term, Weaver will be on one year of supervised release.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 29-year-old Topeka man accused of supplying crack cocaine to drug traffickers in Junction City and Manhattan, Kansas, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.

According to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, Johnny Lee Ivory III was sentenced Monday. He had been found guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, one count of possession with intent to distribute and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Prosecutors said that in late 2012 and early 2013, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Junction City Police Department investigated a large trafficking ring. Authorities say Ivory supplied drugs to two men who sold the drugs to distributors who would then resell them on the street.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge plans to have a telephone conference call with attorneys to discuss the schedule for a lawsuit challenging Kansas voter registration policies.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson in Kansas City, Kansas, scheduled the call for Wednesday afternoon.

Democratic attorneys filed the lawsuit last week for two northeast Kansas residents against Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

They want to prevent the state from enforcing a 2013 law requiring new voters to provide papers documenting their U.S. citizenship when registering. They’re also challenging a rule from Kobach that requires counties to cancel incomplete registrations that are more than 90 days old.

Robinson’s notice for the teleconference said she plans to set a hearing on a request from the northeast Kansas residents to block both policies as the lawsuit proceeds.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas metal finishing business and its owner have struck a deal with the north-central community of Minneapolis to pay for illegally discharging untreated wastewater into the city sewer.

C&R Plating and its owner, Kevin L. Cline told a federal court Monday they had reached a settlement agreement to pay a lump sum of $225,000 in restitution, plus return some industrial land at no cost to the city. The defendants asked the court to adopt the restitution deal.

Cline was sentenced in July to four months in prison for violating the federal Clean Water Act. He admitted submitting fraudulent samples and reports to conceal the dumping.

The court ordered him to pay $281,503 in restitution, but allowed an alternate amount so long as it was acceptable to the city.

BELVUE, Kan. (AP) — A man accused of killing his uncle in Belvue has pleaded guilty.

WIBW-TV  reports Christopher Arand pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Monday just before jury selection was set to begin in his trial. He faces life in prison.

Authorities say 70-year-old Larry Arand was found dead in his Belvue home in November.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka man who has been convicted twice of fatally shooting an unarmed patron at a local bar seven years ago has been sentenced to life for premeditated first-degree murder.

James Arthur Qualls III killed 30-year-old Joseph “Joe Bob” Beier Jr. of Topeka in the early morning hours of July 16, 2008, at the Whiplash Bar.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the dispute was caused by a disagreement over a pool game between Qualls and Beier’s girlfriend.

Qualls has had 11 defense attorneys since his case started in 2008. He tried to fire his 11th attorney during Monday’s sentencing but a Shawnee County district court judge denied that request.

He was given a “Hard 25” sentence, meaning he won’t be eligible for parole until he serves at least 25 years.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas farmers are nearing the halfway point for planting of the 2016 winter wheat crop.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that 46 percent of the state’s winter wheat crop has been seeded. That is slightly behind the 49 percent average for this date.

The agency also provided its weekly snapshot of the progress of the fall harvest for other major crops in the state.

About 62 percent of the corn in Kansas has now been cut, along with 25 percent of the sorghum and 15 percent of the soybeans. Fourth cutting of alfalfa is 88 percent complete.

Cotton growers have harvested about 4 percent of their crop in the state.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some Kansas election officials expect to take weeks to cancel incomplete voter registrations even with a new rule for culling records from Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

And county election officials said Monday that even when the job is done, electronic records for such residents still will be accessible, not deleted.

A new rule from the Republican secretary of state took effect Friday and directed counties to cancel registrations incomplete for more than 90 days.

Most of the 31,000 affected registrations are for residents who haven’t complied with a 2013 law requiring new voters to produce papers documenting their U.S. citizenship.

Sedgwick County Election Commissioner Tabitha Lehman said her office will first go through a list of 1,700 people who were on the incomplete list but have Kansas birth certificates.