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

A jury in Ottawa has convicted 30-year-old Kyle Flack of capital murder in the fatal shootings of three adults and a toddler in 2013. That means Flack could be facing the death penalty when he's sentenced next week.

President Obama says his administration seeks to deport immigrant "felons, not families." But some immigrants with criminal records may still have a strong case for remaining in the United States.

The Maryland Supreme Court upheld a decision to reinstate Syed's murder conviction and ordered a redo hearing. It comes just two years since Syed was freed from prison.

A federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kansas has convicted two Lawrence men on charges of counterfeiting, identity theft and drug trafficking. KPR's J. Schafer reports.

Dana Chandler was convicted in 2012 of killing Mike Sisco and Karen Harkness ten years earlier.

The trial and subsequent conviction mark the first time a former U.S. president has been tried or convicted in a criminal case.

Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, convicted of killing four members of the Herb Clutter family in southwest Kansas in November, 1959.OSPREY, Fla. (AP) — A Florida detective wants to exhume the bodies of two Kansas murderers who were featured in the iconic true crime book "In Cold Blood." Sarasota County Sheriff's detective Kimberly McGath says she believes there is evidence linking Perry Smith and Richard Hickock to the 1959 murders of a family of four in a rural community south of Sarasota. Smith and Hickock were convicted in Kansas of murdering Herb Clutter, his wife and their two daughters, also in 1959. The murders were the subject of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood." McGath says the Walker family's killer left behind his DNA on a preserved piece of clothing. Officials say if Smith and Hickock are exhumed, the DNA can be compared. Smith and Hickock visited Florida after the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas.

The court declared as unconstitutionally vague a clause in the Immigration and Naturalization Act that mandated the deportation of immigrants convicted of some crimes.

Shawnee Woman Hospitalized in KC Bus AccidentKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A northeast Kansas woman is hospitalized after being struck and dragged nearly a block by a bus in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. KCTV reports the 68-year-old Shawnee woman suffered what police Sergeant Bill Mahoney described as life-threatening injuries shortly yesterday (FRI) morning.===========Salina Man Convicted in Child's DeathMANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A Salina man has been convicted of first-degree murder and other charges in the abuse death of his girlfriend's 14-month-old son. The Salina Journal reports a jury returned the verdict against 35-year-old Antonio Brown yesterday (FRI) — two years to the day after Clayden Urbanek died of what doctors at a Wichita hospital called some of the worst abuse they had seen. Brown will be sentenced October 25th in Saline County.