KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man who robbed a Kansas City, Kansas bank because he wanted to return to prison has been ordered to spend 15 years there.

Sixty-three-year-old Sidney Williams was sentenced this week for robbing a Bank Midwest branch in November 2015 while armed with a revolver and wearing a mask. A bank security guard chased down and tackled Williams after the robbery.

Williams told investigators he robbed the bank because he wanted to go back to prison. He said the gun wasn’t loaded.

WABAUNSEE COUNTY – One person was injured in an accident just after 7:30a.m. on Saturday in Wabaunsee County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2015 Subaru WRX driven by Brandon Perque, 32, Marrero, LA., was eastbound on Interstate 70 just west of the Wamego exit.

The driver lost control while passing a semi.

The Subaru spun out in the roadway and was hit head-on by the semi.

Perque was transported to the hospital in Topeka. The semi driver was not injured.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State officials have agreed to sell the investments of the Kansas Bioscience Authority for about $14 million.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Gov. Sam Brownback and leaders on the State Finance Council on Friday agreed to authorize sale of the portfolio to Origami Capital Partners for $14 million to $14.5 million.

The state has invested $232 million in the Bioscience Authority since it was formed in 2004 to accelerate growth in the bioscience sector.

The Legislature and Brownback had previously agreed to sell assets of the KBA to bolster the state budget and built $25 million in anticipated revenue into the current fiscal year’s budget.

The KBA’s building and land are also for sale, and officials say deals for those portions are likely to be completed.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court this week for her role in conspiracies to pass fraudulent prescriptions and to steal thousands of oxycodone pills in a series of pharmacy robberies, according to Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.

Danielle Bradbury, 27, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to five years and 10 months in federal prison without parole.

On May 23, 2016, Bradbury pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone and to participating in a conspiracy to commit robbery. Bradbury admitted that she was involved with others in passing numerous fraudulent prescriptions for oxycodone from May 1, 2013, to July 16, 2015, and either using or distributing those pills for money. Once it became more difficult to fill those fraudulent prescriptions, Bradbury agreed with others to begin robbing pharmacies in the metro area for oxycodone.

Bradbury specifically admitted that she participated in the robbery of a Walgreens pharmacy at 1191 W. Kansas St., Liberty, Mo., on June 9, 2015. In that robbery, a female conspirator loitered briefly in the store, asked where the tampons were located, and then left the store without making a purchase. At approximately 3:49 a.m., Bradbury and a co-conspirator entered the store wearing hooded sweatshirts and hospital surgical-style masks and gloves. They made their way directly to the pharmacy, where they jumped over the pharmacy counter, grabbed the pharmacist by the shirt, and forced him to identify where the oxycodone was stored and unlock the shelf. During this time the pharmacist reported that the male suspect held him by the shirt collar from behind and was holding something in the small of the victim’s back that the victim perceived to be a gun. The pharmacist did not actually see a weapon. The suspects then removed approximately 2,911 oxycodone pills of various strengths from the shelves and placed them into plastic Walgreens shopping bags that they removed from the counter. The suspects then fled the store through a rear exit.

According to court documents, conspirators were also responsible for robing the Walgreens at 2630 N.E. Vivion Rd., Kansas City, Mo., on May 5, 2015, and a Walgreens at 3915 S. Noland Rd., Independence, Mo., on May 16, 2015. Conspirators attempted to rob the Independence Walgreens again on Sept. 9, 2015, but were detained by store personnel until officers arrived and arrested co-defendants Melinda Backhus, 24, of Gladstone, Mo., and Julian King, 22, of Kansas City, Mo. The getaway driver, Aaron Anderson, 26, of Kansas City, Mo., fled the scene before officers arrived.

Bradbury is the third defendant to plead guilty and be sentenced in this case. Anderson was sentenced to four years and three months in federal prison without parole. Backhus was sentenced to three years in federal prison without parole. Co-defendants Austin T. Bradbury (Danielle Bradbury’s husband), 27, Christa M. O’Dell, 21, and Matthew Larson, 25, all of Kansas City, Mo., and Michael C. Bellinghausen, 33, and Tara D Childress, 31, both of Gladstone, have pleaded guilty and await sentencing.

CARTER COUNTY, MO- A Kansas teen was injured in an accident just before 4p.m. on Friday in a Missouri crash.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2008 Mercury driven by Jacob D. Banks 19, Jefferson City, TN, was traveling on U.S. 60 one mile west of Freemont.

The vehicle ran off the road, overturned and ejected the passenger Kaitlynn M. Gilpin, 18, Wichita.

Banks and Gilpin were transported to Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center.

She was listed in serious condition, according to the MSHP.

By Dan Margolies

A new federal rule barring states from withholding federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood could prove to be a short-term victory for the organization.

Congressional Republicans have already put the rule on their hit list and it may not survive the first 100 days of a Donald Trump administration.

The rule, posted Wednesday on the website of the Federal Register, is slated to take effect Jan. 18, two days before Inauguration Day.

The rule makes clear that states can’t block Title X family planning funding “for reasons other than its ability to provide Title X services.” Those reasons include Planned Parenthood’s provision of abortions.

Federal law already prohibits Planned Parenthood from using Title X funds for abortions. The money is used to fund family planning services such as birth control, treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, prenatal care and cancer screenings for low-income people.

Since 2014, when a federal appeals court upheld it, Kansas law has barred Planned Parenthood from receiving Title X funds. The law provides that only full-service medical facilities are eligible for the money. Elise Higgins, a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood, says the law has cost the organization about $370,000 annually.

Kansas’ cutoff of the funds also has led to the closing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Hays and an unaffiliated clinic in Dodge City. And while the state promised to use the funds at other medical facilities that offer family planning services, it has instead lost the money, according to the Associated Press.

“Actually now, the state of Kansas just doesn’t get that money,” Higgins says.

State officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on how they intend to comply with the new Title X rule once it takes effect.

Whether Planned Parenthood will be able to take immediate advantage of the rule is open to question. Laura McQuade, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Plains, which operates clinics in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas, says the deadline for applying for Title X funds for the fiscal year that runs from April 1 through March 31 was Oct. 31.

“So we have to do our own research now that this (rule) has been passed,” she says, “which is an incredible victory for access to sexual and reproductive health care, let me just say that. It’s a question of how we could make this a reality for our patients and the other three states in which we operate.”

But even if Planned Parenthood were able to skirt the October deadline, McQuade acknowledges the rule may not be on the books for long.

“That’s the weak point, as you’ve seen on so many other issues around these executive decisions,” she says. “We feel strongly that we can continue to lobby in Washington for the importance of these funds. But we are concerned that the Trump administration does not champion women’s reproductive health and certainly does not champion Planned Parenthood at this point, and that they would be at risk once the new administration comes in.”

Trump has given mixed signals about Planned Parenthood, but Vice President-elect Mike Pence led the charge to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funds when he was a congressman.

Kansas has also tried to strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid reimbursements, its other source of federal funds. Earlier this year, the state notified Planned Parenthood that it would cut off its participation in the program, citing its supposed refusal to comply with an inspection and highly edited videos released in July 2015 by an anti-abortion group purporting to show that Planned Parenthood illegally sold fetal tissue for profit. A federal court blocked the state’s effort and Kansas has appealed.

Unlike Kansas, Title X funds continue to flow to Planned Parenthood in Missouri because the Missouri Family Health Council, not the state, is the recipient of the funds.

McQuade says Planned Parenthood Great Plains, which also operates clinics in Kansas City, Gladstone, Independence and Columbia, receives about $700,000 annually in Title X funds, equal to less than 5 percent of its budget.

Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, another Planned Parenthood affiliate operating in Missouri, receives about $450,000 a year in Title X money, according to Mary Kogut, its president and CEO.

Dan Margolies, editor of the Heartland Health Monitor team, is based at KCUR. You can reach him on Twitter @DanMargolies.

HARPER COUNTY — An earthquake shook south central Kansas late Friday.

The quake just after 11 p.m. measured a magnitude 2.8, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and was centered approximately 13 miles southeast of Harper.

There were no reports of damage early Saturday, according to the Harper County Sheriff’s Office.