WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A retired Wichita police lieutenant has admitted fabricating documents and agreed to forfeit the $56,400 he unlawfully received under a contract to train law enforcement agencies on responses to armed engagement.

Kevin P. Vaughn pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of embezzlement of public funds and one count of mail fraud. The 51-year-old Wichita man acknowledged he falsified reports to make it look like his company, Red Mist Tactical, had completed 15 eight-hour classes the company agreed to provide last year.

He also admitted he fabricated student sign-up sheets for the classes and forged signatures of officers.

Vaughn retired in March 2015 after 28 years with the Wichita Police Department.

Sentencing is set for Nov. 16.

MULVANE, Kan. (AP) — Southern Kansas flooding victims are cleaning up the mess torrential rains left behind.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Mulvane city administrator Kent Hixson says 44 homes and five businesses inside the city limits saw some sort of flooding damage from Friday’s deluge. The National Weather Service says between 6 and 7 inches of rain fell in about two hours.

As of Monday, damage estimates in Mulvane had already reached about $1 million. And they could rise as homeowners, insurance companies and inspectors get a closer look at the losses.

Hixson says the heavy rains “just overwhelmed our drainage systems” and sewer system.

Nadine Sanchez says she “wouldn’t wish this on anybody.” Her losses included letters she exchanged with her husband while he was away on military duty in Germany.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Testimony is underway in the southern Kansas trial of teenager charged as an adult in the killing of his mother and 11-year-old sister in a 2013 house fire.

Samuel Vonachen is being tried in Reno County on two counts of premeditated first-degree murder.

Vonachen was 14 in September 2013 when he allegedly used gasoline to ignite his family’s Hutchinson home. The blaze killed 11-year-old Audrey Vonachen and their mother, 47-year-old Karla Jo Vonachen. His father escaped.

A prosecutor told jurors Tuesday during opening statements that Vonachen was a compassionless psychopath who wanted his family to die. A defense attorney countered that his client has a dissociative disorder and didn’t know what he was doing.

O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A key figure in a previous murder case is now charged with killing a man she claimed was an intruder.

Pamela Hupp of O’Fallon, Missouri, was arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder. Police say she is hospitalized in stable condition after repeatedly stabbing herself with a pen in a women’s restroom while in custody. Bond is set at $2 million.

Hupp fatally shot Louis Gumpenberger Aug. 16. She told police Gumpenberger was a stranger who confronted her on her driveway then followed her into the home.

But St. Charles County prosecutor Tim Lohmar says Hupp set up Gumpenberger and killed him without provocation.

Hupp was a witness against Russell Faria, convicted of fatally stabbing his wife, Betsy Faria, near Troy in 2011.

The conviction was reversed and Faria was acquitted in 2015, partly on claims that he should have been able to argue in the first trial that Hupp had motive to kill Betsy Faria.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa lawyer is suing police and prosecutors whom he claims falsely accused him of threatening jurors and witnesses.  Kalona defense attorney Raymond Tinnian filed the lawsuit Monday against Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness, a Lyness assistant and two Coralville police officers.

Tinnian alleges that he was framed by a longtime enemy, and that police and prosecutors were fooled into arresting and charging the wrong man. A judge has already ruled that the state acted recklessly in providing false information about Tinnian in a search warrant application.

Tinnian was acquitted last year on accusations that he left a note threatening to kill a juror who had found him guilty in a misdemeanor disorderly conduct case. He says he spent 16 days in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters will have some additional choices on the Nov. 8 ballot.

The Green Party received approval Tuesday to appear on the ballot after turning in more than 23,000 valid petition signatures of registered voters. The secretary of state’s office also certified a dozen independent candidates.

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein will join Democrat Hillary Clinton, Republican Donald Trump, Libertarian Gary Johnson and Constitution Party candidate Darrell Castle.

The governor’s race has two new additions — independent candidate Lester Turilli Jr. and Green Party candidate Don Fitz. They join Democrat Chris Koster, Republican Eric Greitens and Libertarian Cisse Spragins.

For U.S. Senate, Green Party candidate Johnathan McFarland was certified to appear alongside Republican Roy Blunt, Democrat Jason Kander, Libertarian Jonathan Dine and Constitution Party candidate Fred Ryman.

ROSE HILL, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas mother who was caught in flash flooding says she is “blessed” after she and her 3-year-old son were rescued from a tree. The Wichita Eagle reports that 32-year-old Cassandra Phillips of Burlington pulled her toddler, Ethan, from his car seat Friday night after floodwaters rose around her minivan in rural Rose Hill, Kan.

She spent an hour clinging to the tree limb with one leg while holding her son in the crook of her arm and talking to emergency dispatchers on her cellphone.

The National Guard soldier and mother of three says she didn’t mean to drive into a flood. She says the light was dim and that she was focusing on the “white lines of the road” when the van began floating.

KINGSVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri mother and her young daughter are dead after a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 50 near Kingsville in Johnson County, Missouri.

The Kansas City Star reports the victims were 47-year-old Alicia McGinnis and 8-year-old Kacee McGinnis of Blairstown.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the accident happened around 7:30 a.m. Monday as Alicia McGinnis was driving her daughter to school. Investigators say the victims were northbound at a crossover when their vehicle traveled into the path of a westbound SUV. The impact of the crash pushed both vehicles off the north side of the highway.

The two victims died at the scene, while two women in the SUV sustained minor injuries and were treated at a nearby hospital.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say three people have died and another person has been hurt in a Topeka apartment fire.

Topeka Fire Department Fire Marshal Mike Martin says the fire was reported around 8:20 a.m. Monday at the three-story apartment building in the central part of the city. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the fire was under control by around 9:30 a.m. Fire officials didn’t immediately confirm any additional details.

Most of the damage is on the backside of the building.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Five legal groups are supporting a Missouri death row inmate whose execution was halted hours before it was to be carried out in 2014, saying that he can’t receive an adequate defense with the money allocated.

Three national criminal defense associations, a civil rights law firm and the American Bar Association made court filings last week to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis on behalf of Mark Christeson

Mr Christeson was convicted of the 1998 killings of a Missouri woman and her two children.

The U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution because Christeson’s original trial attorneys missed the federal appeal deadline. Virtually all capital cases are appealed through the federal courts.

New lawyers were appointed, but a district court provided only $10,000 of the $161,000 sought.