BARTON COUNTY- Law enforcement authorities in Barton County are investigating a shooting.

Just after 10p.m. on Friday, the Great Bend Police Department was dispatched to the 200 block of Baker Street in reference to a subject with a gunshot wound, according to a media release.

Upon arrival, officers discovered that a 39-year-old white male had been shot.

Upon investigation, officers learned that a 65-year-old white male was staying at the residence with an elderly man who lives there.

The 65-year-old claimed that he heard noise outside and walked around the house to investigate.

When he came back inside, he allegedly saw the younger man, who was apparently burglarizing the house, wrestling with the elderly resident.

He then shot the alleged burglar.

The burglary suspect was treated by Great Bend Fire/ EMS and transported to Great Bend Regional Hospital. He was later sent to a hospital in Wichita for in serious but stable condition, according to police.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A prayer gathering has kicked off a week of anti-abortion activities planned to observe the 25th anniversary of the “Summer of Mercy” protests in Wichita.

The weeklong event is in observance of the 1991 Summer of Mercy when thousands of anti-abortion activists gathered in Wichita, sparking protests that led to nearly 2,700 arrests outside local clinics.

About 10 members of Operation Save America gathered Saturday at a prayer tent near the Wichita convention center. Operation Save America, based in Texas, is a successor organization to the original Operation Rescue, which led the 1991 demonstrations.

The Wichita Eagle reports essentially no activity Saturday around the South Wind clinic, which provides abortions and is the primary focus of anti-abortion activism in Wichita.

Operation Save America’s first mass meeting was scheduled for Saturday evening.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Three Kansans who are superdelegates to the upcoming Democratic Party’s National Convention are endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.

The Kansas Democratic Party said in a release Saturday that superdelegates Lee Kinch, chairman of the Kansas Democratic Party; Melody Miller, vice chair of the Kansas Democratic Party, and Bill Roy, national committeeman, have endorsed Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

The state party says the three superdelegates also applaud Clinton’s opponent in the primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders, for “raising critically important issues,” including climate change, fair trade agreements and campaign finance.

Their endorsements come a few days after Sanders also endorsed Clinton.

The Democratic Party’s convention is later this month in Philadelphia.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas foster care system is among the topics that legislative committees plan to study before the start of the 2017 session.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the Larned and Osawatomie State Hospitals also will be studied. The review will include the Sexual Predator Treatment Program at Larned. A group called the Legislative Coordinating Council, which is made up of the top Republican and Democratic leaders from both chambers, approved the list of study topics Monday.

School funding isn’t on the list, although an interim committee could be approved to examine the issue later.

The panel also approved a three-year, $271,070 contract to move the Legislature’s public website and backup data center to a third-party web hosting company. Currently, the website is hosted in-house.

WICHITA- A Kansas man was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison in a massage parlor prostitution case, according to acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall.

In April, a federal jury found defendant Kay Tee, 51, Wichita,guilty on one count of attempting to entice a person to cross state lines to engage in prostitution, one count of using a telephone in furtherance of prostitution and one count of money laundering.

During trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Tee was arrested May 28, 2015, at the airport in Wichita when he drove there to pick up a person he believed was buying a Wichita massage parlor that was a front for prostitution. In fact, the person Tee had talked with several times on the phone was one of two undercover informants working with federal investigators. In recorded conversations, Tee identified the extent of sexual services various parlors were performing and explained how he had helped other individuals establish parlors in Wichita.

Tee tried to collect fees from both undercover informants – one posing as a buyer and the other as a seller – in return for helping to arrange the sale. He also offered to provide additional services in exchange for additional compensation, including advertising on Backpage.com, filing city paperwork and doing taxes for the massage parlor. Examples of Tee’s advertisements on Backpage.com were presented at trial.

Beall commended the Wichita Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hart for their work on the case.

RENO COUNTY– Law enforcement authorities in Reno County are investigating a hit and run accident.

Just after 2:30 a.m. on Saturday first responders were dispatched to the 400 block of North Plum for a single vehicle collision involving a utility pole, according to a media release.

Preliminary investigation by police indicates a black 1997 Lexus was traveling southbound on Plum at a high rate of speed and struck the east curb line.

The vehicle continued into two utility poles and struck a building in the same block.

One occupant was located in the vehicle and was transported by medical helicopter to Via-Christi St. Francis Regional Medical Center in critical condition.

Witnesses reported possibly two white males including the driver of the vehicle fled the scene on foot.

The identity of the passenger transported to St. Francis is being withheld pending notification of the family.

Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call either Reno County Crime Stoppers at 620-694-2666 or the Hutchinson Police Department at 620-694-2816.