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Viktoria Nasyrova was convicted in February and sentenced this week in New York. Her lawyer says she'll eventually likely get deported back to Russia — where she's wanted for a 2014 murder.

Here are the news headlines for our area, mostly from the AP, as compiled by KPR news staffers.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to resentence a Fort Riley soldier who received five life sentences as a habitual sexual offender. In a unanimous decision announced Friday, the high court upheld the Riley County convictions of Tony Tremayne Lewis on several charges, including rape and aggravated criminal sodomy in three attacks in 2009. He was sentenced as a habitual sexual offender based on earlier conviction in Geary County for rape and other charges. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Supreme Court upheld his convictions, but also ruled that the district court erred when it imposed the sentence based on a misinterpretation of state law regarding enhanced sentences for aggravated habitual sexual offenders. The Supreme Court sent the case sent back to Riley County for resentencing.

Less than two months into her study abroad program in Italy, Amanda Knox was accused and eventually convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher. After her conviction was overturned, Knox returned home to Seattle — and now faces a potential retrial. Knox tells her story in a new memoir.

The man who shot and killed Wichita Doctor George Tiller will be resentenced in Sedgwick County. Scott Roeder was convicted of murdering Tiller in 2009 and given a "Hard 50" sentence. But the 56-year-old man was back in court last week, where his attorneys presented his appeal. As KMUW's Aileen LeBlanc reports, Roeder's convictions were upheld but not his sentence.

75 years ago this week, 150,000 Allied troops stormed the German-occupied beaches of Normandy, France. This week on KPR Presents, we mark the 75th anniversary of the largest one-day amphibious operation in U.S. history.

The current health emergency is dubbed “the coronavirus,” but also "COVID-19" or the “SARS coronavirus 2.” What do we call it? How can we protect…

Here's a summary of Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press, compiled by KPR staff.

Here are the latest Kansas headlines from the AP, as compiled by KPR staffers.

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in an Italian prison for a murder she didn't commit. After her exoneration, she reached out to the man who prosecuted her case. Knox's new memoir is Free.