TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the primary election in Kansas (all times local):

10:30 p.m.

Rep. Kevin Yoder has won an easy victory in the Republican primary in Kansas and heads into a competitive race in his swing congressional district in the Kansas City area.

Yoder defeated two underfunded rivals Tuesday in the 3rd District. Lenexa information technology consultant Trevor Keegan ran as a moderate but raised little money. Joe Myers of Overland Park didn’t mount a campaign.

The four-term congressman’s big battle will be in November. Six Democrats sought to challenge him.

Yoder has been targeted since fall 2016, when Democrat Hillary Clinton narrowly carried the district over Donald Trump in the presidential race. Yoder won a closer-than-expected race against an unknown Democrat.

Trump tweeted his “full and total endorsement” of Yoder last month.

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James Thompson has won the Democratic nomination for a congressional seat in Kansas that he first sought last year in a special election after now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined the Trump administration.

The Wichita Democrat advances to a November matchup with Republican Rep. Ron Estes.

Thompson, a Wichita civil rights attorney, held Estes to a single-digit victory in the nation’s first congressional special election last year after President Donald Trump took office. Thompson defeated Laura Lombard in the Democratic primary.

Democratic socialist rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez traveled to Wichita during the race to join Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign event for Thompson as Democrats look to flip a congressional seat once considered safely Republican.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City Mayor Sly James is calling for gun reform after six people died and 22 were wounded in the first several days of August.

The Kansas City Star reports that James expressed frustration with the city’s gun violence in a press conference Monday with Police Chief Rick Smith.

This little girl was in a car tonight with her mother and another woman; officers comforted her after both women were shot tonight near 43rd and Bellefontaine. Her mother has life threatening injuries. Someone saw something #474-TIPS pic.twitter.com/xBo2H7UiPw

— Kansas City Police (@kcpolice) August 3, 2018

The 74 homicides so far put Kansas City on pace for about 120 killings this year. The projection is under the 150 people killed in 2017, which was the city’s most violent year since the early 1990s.

James says he’s pressed lawmakers for gun reform many times, but there’s no progress because of political ideology. He says he’s considering making another attempt at passing local gun legislation, even though it would be pre-empted by state law and possibly antagonize rural legislators.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A southwest Missouri couple who illegally bought ginseng from Arkansas has been sentenced to a year of probation.

77-year-old Kermit Schofield and his wife, 73-year-old Sandy Schofield were sentenced Tuesday in a courtroom packed with supporters from their hometown.

The couple farms and sells herbs in Theodosia, a town of about 250 people near the Missouri-Arkansas border.

Federal prosecutors say that between June 2013 and August 2015 the Schofields illegally bought more than 100 pounds of ginseng in Arkansas. Prosecutors say the couple bought the ginseng outside the permitted time frame for purchasing ginseng in Missouri, and they knew it was illegal transport ginseng out of Arkansas without a state certification.

As part of the sentence, the Schofields agreed to pay $65,000 in restitution and a $5,000 fine.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A woman charged with intentionally driving into the Kansas River, killing one of her children and injuring another, will undergo a mental evaluation.

An attorney for 26-year-old Scharron Dingledine, of Columbia, Missouri, said during a brief court hearing Tuesday that she wants an evaluation of Dingledine’s competency.

Dingledine is charged with first-degree murder after her car went into the river near Lawrence on Friday. She and her 1-year-old son survived but the body of her 5-year-old daughter, Amiyah Bradley, was pulled from the river on Saturday. Dingledine is also charged with attempted first-degree murder for injuring her son, who remains in intensive care.

Dingledine’s next hearing was scheduled for Aug. 28 to allow time for an evaluation.

Dingledine is being held on $1 million bond.

KANSAS CITY- A Mexican man was sentenced Monday to 12 years in federal prison for his role in smuggling more than 1,000 pounds of liquid methamphetamine into Kansas, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister.

Fernando Chavez-Rodriguez, 43, a citizen of Mexico, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.

He was arrested Jan. 13, 2017. Federal agents watched him and others at a business in Kansas City, Kan., unload liquid methamphetamine from a fuel tank on a semi-truck into five-gallon buckets. They loaded the buckets into a white Dodge Caravan.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) – A southwest Missouri man is charged with sexually abusing three boys he met through an Oklahoma church.

29-year-old Matthew Galati, of Joplin, Missouri, was arrested last week. He is jailed on a $150,000 cash only bond on four counts of statutory sodomy with a child under 12 years old and two counts of second-degree statutory sodomy.

The charges stems from allegations made by three male members of a youth group at the New Beginnings Life Church In Miami, Oklahoma. The affidavit indicates that most of the alleged abuse of the boys took place in Joplin.

Joplin police Capt. Trevor Duncan says three other alleged victims have been identified and that more charges are anticipated. No attorney is listed for Galati in online court records.

WASHINGTON – Adam W. Purinton, of Olathe, Kansas, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the February 2017 killing of Indian national Srinivas Kuchibhotla, and shooting of two other men – Indian national Alok Madasani and Kansas resident Ian Grillot – at Austins Bar & Grill in Olathe, according to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Stephen R. McAllister of the District of Kansas, and FBI Kansas City Special Agent in Charge Darrin Jones.

In March, Purinton pleaded guilty in federal court to hate crime and firearm offenses arising out of the shooting. At his federal guilty-plea hearing, Purinton admitted in open court that he targeted and shot Kuchibhotla and Madasani because of their race, color, and national origin, and that he shot Grillot during an attempt to flee the scene of the crime. Purinton has also pleaded guilty in state court to charges of murder and attempted murder, and has been sentenced to a term of life imprisonment in state prison.

Sunayana Dumala, the widow of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, addressed Purinton in her victim-impact statement: “My husband was more than what you chose to address him as. Always kind, caring, and respectful to others. Srinu and I came to the United States of America full of dreams and aspirations. . . . Now, my American Dream – and that of Srinu’s – is broken. If you could have kept your anger inside and spoke to my husband softly, Srinu would have been more than happy to share his background and help you understand that not every brown skinned person is suspicious or evil, but kind, smart and contributing to America. Instead you chose to rage and bully in anger and when you were stopped, you decided to take their lives. . . . [U]se the time that is being given to you to educate yourself and inform others who are still out in the open and stop them from killing innocent people as you did – choosing violence over kindness.”

“The crimes at issue in this case are detestable,” Attorney General Sessions said. “The defendant acted with clear premeditation in murdering one man, and attempting to murder a second man, simply because of their race, religion, and national origin. As a result, a promising young life has been tragically cut short, and other lives have been filled with suffering. Securing this sentence is important not only to the victims and their loved ones, but also to our justice system and our nation as a whole. I want to thank the FBI, our fabulous DOJ attorneys Tris Hunt, David Zabel, and Christopher Perras, as well as our partners at the Olathe Police Department for their hard work on this case. While we cannot undo the irreparable harm that this defendant has done, some measure of justice for the victims’ families has been achieved. Such hateful crimes will remain a priority for the Department of Justice.”

“No matter who you are, what you believe, or how you worship, you should be able to live without fear of becoming a victim of hate crimes. We hope today’s sentencing brings some closure for the victims and their families,” said U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister for the District of Kansas.

“Today’s sentencing speaks to the gravity of this senseless crime and reaffirms the FBI’s continued commitment to bring those responsible to justice,” said FBI Kansas City Special Agent in Charge Darrin Jones.

ST. LOUIS, MO- The National Transportation Safety Board Tuesday released a preliminary report on the Thursday, July 19, fatal duck boat accident.

NTSB issues preliminary report on the July 19, Duck Boat accident near Branson, MO: https://t.co/wbdqU1dweC

— NTSB_Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) August 7, 2018

Seventeen people died including 9 from one family when the boat sank.

The tourist boat was on the lake despite wind speeds far exceeding allowable limits, according to a Coast Guard report issued last week.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City police say an officer fatally shot an armed man who’d issued threats.

Officer Darin Snapp says officers were sent to a residence around 10:20 p.m. Monday on a report that a man with a handgun was threatening to harm himself. Snapp says the man threatened them while they were talking to him, causing one officer to fire.

The man was pronounced dead later at a hospital. No officers were injured.

The man’s name and other details haven’t been released