(AP) – A northeastern Kansas man will spend 27 months in federal prison for selling $1 million worth of counterfeit Cisco computer equipment.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says 29-year-old Timothy Weatherly was sentenced Monday in court in Kansas City, Kan. He pleaded guilty last year to one count of conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit goods and making false statements to smuggle them into the U.S.

Weatherly admitted operating a business called Deals Direct Inc. from his home in Overland Park and a warehouse in Merriam. Prosecutors say that in 2005 and 2006, the company imported computer equipment from China and put counterfeit Cisco labels on it, then put it in Cisco boxes with counterfeit manuals.

A co-defendant was sentenced earlier this year to 33 months in prison.

(AP) – Kansas is launching an effort to increase the number of children adopted through the state system.

Social and Rehabilitation Services Secretary Rob Siedlecki says his agency is starting a $300,000 marketing campaign to find adoptive homes for 420 children who don’t have other prospects, such as adoption by relatives. The funds for the campaign announced Monday come from a federal program.

Siedlecki says the effort will focus on who are 8 years old and older, who may belong to a minority group, have a disability or belong to a sibling group that wants to stay together.

Siedlecki said 761 adoptions were finalized through the state in the fiscal year that ended June 30. He said 178 adoptions have been finalized through the state so far in the current fiscal year.

(AP) – Federal authorities have seized more than $1.76 million plus other property from northeastern Kansas doctor under investigation for allegedly selling prescriptions for controlled substances.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a civil lawsuit Friday seeking forfeiture of the money plus seven vehicles, eight guns, a house in Parkville, Mo., and a commercial building in Shawnee, Kan.

The Drug Enforcement Agency says in an affidavit that it has been investigating Dr. James R. Webb Jr., of Lenexa, since 2010. Webb has not been criminally charged.

Agents raided his Lenexa medical office, Sports Medicine Consultants, last month. About $1.6 million in cash was also seized from a safe at his parent’s home. DEA says the cash included bills used in an undercover buy.

Webb’s phones were disconnected and a message left at a relative’s house was not immediately returned.

(AP) – Authorities say an award-winning Kansas teacher died after she fell from a zipline at a private home in Reno County.

The woman, 39-year-old Jeanie Weve of Pretty Prairie, died Sunday when she fell 20 feet from the zipline.

Weve was on maternity leave after giving birth to her third child five weeks ago.

Last fall, she was named a Milken National Educator for her work as a fourth-grade teacher at Maize Central Elementary School. She was the only Kansas teacher to receive the national award last year.

The Reno County Sheriff’s office said that Weve appeared to freeze on the ride, causing her to let go of the handles and fall. She died at a Wichita hospital.

(AP) – A Lawrence man is suing Washburn University and a health care contractor at a Kansas prison over his dismissal from a graduate program that he says was caused by his attention deficit disorder.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports 30-year-old Ryan Talley alleges that he was dismissed from the clinical psychology graduate program because he needed medication to treat his ADHD.

Talley was working as an intern at the Topeka Correctional Facility in 2010 who needed a daily dose of Aderall to treat his ADHD. He says six months into his internship, a guard made him take his medication before he went into the prison.

Shortly after that, Talley was dismissed from the program.

Washburn spokesman Amanda Hughes said the university would have no comment.

(AP) – A 28-year-old Salina man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading no contest to charges accusing him of raping a 12-year-old girl.

The Salina Journal reports that Eric T. Taylor pleaded no contest to one count of rape. He was sentenced Thursday.

Saline County District Court Judge Jerome Hellmer also ordered Taylor to register as a sex offender for life and be subject to lifetime post-release supervision.

(AP) – The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded 10 aftershocks following a 5.6 magnitude earthquake that shook central Oklahoma.

The USGS says aftershocks ranging from a preliminary magnitude of 2.7 to 4.0 have been recorded in the same area near Prague, about 45 miles east of Oklahoma City.

Two aftershocks of magnitude 4.0 were recorded at 3:39 a.m. and 9:07 a.m. Sunday.

USGS seismologist Paul Earle in Golden, Colo., said the aftershocks will likely continue for several days and could continue for months.

The first aftershock was a magnitude 3.0 recorded at 11:54 p.m. Saturday – one hour after the 5.6 magnitude quake toppled a tower at the St. Gregory’s University campus in Shawnee.

There were no reports of injury or additional damage from the aftershocks.

A train hit a car this weekend in southeast Kansas, killing a 21-year-old Parsons man died and injuring another person.

The Wichita Eagle reports that the accident occurred Saturday in Neosho County.

Zachary Scott Harding was killed. The Kansas Highway Patrol said the car Harding was in failed to stop at a railroad crossing.

Another 21-year-old man in the car was hospitalized.

State budget cuts have led to fewer teachers in Kansas schools, but student enrollment continues to increase.

The Lawrence Journal World reports that state budget cuts to public schools have resulted in fewer teachers and more crowded classrooms.

The Kansas Department of Education says the total number of teacher positions statewide in the current school year is 34,075. That’s down 256 from last year, and down 1,363 since the 2008-09 school year.

But student enrollment is up from more than 473,000 in 2008-09 to nearly 483,000 in the current school year. That’s an increase of about 9,700 students.

(AP) – A growing movement of grandparents seeking more rights for visitation with their grandchildren is exposing wide variations among states on the subject.

All states’ laws and court precedents must meet a standard that was set in 2000 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The court said competent parents have the constitutional right to decide who spends time with their children, and that courts can overrule those wishes only in very narrow circumstances.

Grandparents in many states say it’s unfair because those circumstances are far more restrictive in some states than others.

Many parents’ groups are alarmed, though, by the possibility of courts loosening the standards and overriding their judgment calls – and they say people rarely know the full story that compelled them to shield their children from those grandparents.