LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 27-year-old Kansas man faces charges after his 9-month-old stepdaughter was abandoned in Lawrence.

The Kansas City Star reports that Marquis Young is charged in Douglas County with attempted first-degree murder and child abuse. He is also accused of violating his probation.

Police said Young was the stepfather of a 9-month-old girl found abandoned the morning of July 7 in an apartment complex  trash receptacle in Lawrence.

The baby spent almost two weeks in the hospital before she was released into state custody.

Young is being held on a $100,000 bond. His next court appearance is Oct. 27.

NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T is buying Time Warner, owner of the Warner Bros. movie studio as well as HBO and CNN, for $85.4 billion in a deal that could shake up the media landscape.

The merger combines a telecom giant that owns a leading cellphone business, DirecTV and internet service with the company behind some of the world’s most popular entertainment. It’s the latest tie-up between the owners of digital distribution networks — think cable and phone companies — and entertainment and news providers, one aimed at shoring up businesses upended by the internet.

The deal would make Time Warner the target of the two largest media-company acquisitions on record, according to Dealogic. The highest was AOL’s disastrous $94 billion acquisition of Time Warner at the end of the dot-com boom.

EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — A former Emporia driving school instructor faces charges accusing him of sexually abusing a teenager.

The Emporia Gazette reports that Robert L. Jones of Emporia was charged this week in Lyon County court with aggravated sexual battery of a 16-year-old. The criminal complaint says the alleged crime occurred in August.

Jones has been fired from his position as director of an Emporia driving school, which was has also been shut down.

Jones’ next court appearance is scheduled for Nov. 14.

A phone number for a lawyer listed for Jones rang unanswered Saturday.

SEDGWICK COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Sedgwick County a case of animal cruelty.

On October 15, Animal Control Officers were dispatched to the area of 9th and Grove in Wichita to pick up a black pit bull that was running at large, according to a social media report.

The dog had open wounds to the back of his neck and was taken to an emergency vet for treatment.

The dog also had several missing teeth and exhibited signs of abuse and mistreatment.

The dog was handed over to a local animal rescue organization, then underwent surgery at a local veterinarian’s office at the organization’s expense.

Investigators believe this dog was used as a “bait dog” for entertainment and gambling.

If you have information about this crime, call Crime Stoppers at 267-2111. You also can submit a tip online at www.WichitaCrimeStoppers.com or from your mobile phone by texting TIP217 then your message to 274637 (crimes).

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Firefighters have rescued seven people, including four children, from a burning apartment building in suburban Kansas City.

The fire at an Overland Park apartment building started early Saturday. The fire department says that when the first crews arrived, residents told them there were residents trapped in the building

The fire department says three adults and four children were rescued from second-story balconies. No injuries were reported.

95th Rosewood Ln apt fire. Rescues made. No injuries. More info later. pic.twitter.com/1rYZlXHX0K

— Overland Park Fire (@OPFDMedia) October 22, 2016

The cause of the fire is under investigation.

KANSAS CITY– A Kansas City man was charged in federal court for enticing an 18-year-old woman across state lines for prostitution, according to acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall.

Derrick D. Horne, 26, was charged with one count of enticing a person to cross state lines to engage in prostitution. A criminal complaint alleged the case grew out of an undercover operation by the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department and the FBI to target individuals who promote prostitution and to recover victims of human trafficking.

On Oct. 15, 2016, an undercover officer responded to an adult website advertisement and arranged to meet a sex worker and to pay for sex, starting at $150 for half an hour. When Horne dropped the sex worker off to meet the officer at a recreational vehicle parked behind a hotel at 1805 N. 110th Street in Kansas City, Kan., both he and the woman were arrested.

Investigators learned Horne had recruited the woman to be a prostitute, saying she could be his “lil business woman/escort” and she would “get money for doing nothing (the) majority of the time.” The first time Horne set up an appointment for the woman, the client paid $170. Horne got $80 and the woman got $90.

If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000. The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Department, Overland Park, Kansas Police Department, and the FBI investigated.