EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) — A sheriff in southern Kansas says calm has been restored after dozens of inmates created a disturbance that included overturning tables and breaking security cameras.

Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet says the incident began after lunch Sunday when 57 inmates complained about the food and refused to return to their cells.

Herzet says the inmates overturned tables, broke security cameras, televisions and sprinklers, and barricaded a door.

The sheriff says officials, including a SWAT team, were able to make entry. He said Sunday evening that the situation was under control and no one was injured.

Herzet says an investigation is ongoing and charges will be filed against the inmates who destroyed property.

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EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) — A sheriff in southern Kansas says several inmates created a disturbance that included overturning tables and breaking security cameras.

Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet says the disturbance began after lunch Sunday when more than 30 inmates complained about the food and refused to return to their cells.

Herzet told KWCH that the inmates overturned tables, broke security cameras and televisions and flooded the pod. He says most police agencies from the county and the local fire department responded to the jail.

There were no reports of injuries.

Herzet says the situation was under control by Sunday evening, and the inmates had returned to their cells.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Wyandotte County has lost about 7,000 registered voters over the last two years while the state has added more than 10,000 voters to its registration rolls.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports Kansas has added 10,591 more voters since July 2014. But Wyandotte County, a traditional Democratic stronghold and the third largest county in the state, has lost 7,009 registered voters.

The decline in registered voters in Wyandotte County has occurred even as the population of the county has been growing, and nearly all of it has been among registered Democrats and unaffiliated voters.

Wyandotte County Election Commissioner Bruce Newby says the decline was due in part to routine maintenance of voter registration rolls that involves purging the names of voters who have moved away.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Crews in Wichita have been searching for a man who was reported missing while kayaking in the Arkansas River.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Wichita Fire Department crews spent Saturday searching for the man, identified as 24-year-old Brian Bergkamp, a native of Garden Plain. He had been scheduled to enter his third year of theology study at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

He was reported missing Saturday when the Arkansas River was swollen by recent rains.

Fire officials say two men and three women in separate kayaks were floating on the river Saturday when they hit churning water.

Officials said one of the women fell into the swirling water, and Bergkamp left his kayak to assist her. She and the other kayakers made it to shore.

ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Twenty-five years ago mass protests led to nearly 2,700 arrests outside Wichita abortion clinics. Now that city is bracing for a Summer of Mercy anniversary that its supporters hope will draw hundreds of activists.

The Wichita Police Department has spent months putting together a 60-page plan that aims to ensure everyone’s rights are protected and everyone is safe. The department has assigned about 100 to 150 police officers to the operation.

Police Capt. Brian White says police aren’t anticipating an event like the 1991 Summer of Mercy, but they have to be prepared for all possibilities.

The protest, slated for July 16-23, is being organized by the Christian fundamentalist group Operation Save America.

RENO COUNTY — A Reno County jury found a Kansas woman guilty of aggravated battery on Friday and Judge Tim Chambers ordered her to jail for one year.

Sarah Alcorn, 29, was found guilty of attacking her boyfriend after the two had an argument in November of 2014

The case involved her swinging a knife and cutting two of the victim’s fingers.

The jury didn’t agree the contention that Alcorn struck the victim in the face or that there was an actual criminal threat made where she allegedly threatened to kill him, so found her “not guilty” of battery and criminal threat.

The judge did set an appeal bond of $10,000.

Kansas Water Office

The Kansas Water Office’s Smoky Hill-Saline Regional Advisory Committee will hold a meeting to discuss current water issues affecting the region as well as the state.

The meeting will be held Tuesday, July 19 at 10 a.m. in the Hays City Commission Chambers, 1507 Main, Hays, Kansas. The main focus of the meeting will be continued regional action plan discussion and development within the Smoky Hill-Saline Region for the Vision of Future Water Supply in Kansas.

The agenda and meeting materials will be available at www.kwo.org or you may request copies by calling (785) 296-3185 or toll-free at (888) KAN-WATER (526-9283).

If accommodations are needed for a person with disabilities, please notify the Kansas Water Office at 900 SW Jackson Street, Suite 404, Topeka, KS 66611-1249 or call (785) 296-3185 at least five working days prior to the meeting.

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As the state’s water office, KWO conducts water planning, policy coordination and water marketing as well as facilitates public input throughout the state.

The agency prepares the KANSAS WATER PLAN, a plan for water resources development, management and conservation. KWO also reviews all water laws and makes recommendations to the Governor and Legislature for needed legislation.