Kansas Killers Death Sentence Upheld:  A Kansas man convicted of murdering multiple women had his death sentence upheld Friday by the Kansas Supreme Court, marking the first time Kansas' high court upheld a death sentence since the state's reinstatement of capital punishment in 1994.  The AP reports that 71-year-old John E. Robinson Sr. is accused of killing seven women and a teenage girl in Kansas and Missouri over the course of several years by using the Internet to lure them with promises of work or sex, and stuffed some of them into barrels on his property.  He raised over 100 issues during his appeal.

Feds Lose Track of Most Border-Surge Teens:  Numerous sources indicate that the unaccompanied alien children (UAC) pouring over the border from Central America are not on the radar of government agencies and NGO contractors, and court records show that about half of them fail to appear for immigration court hearings.  Jessica Vaughan of the Center for Immigration Studies reports that since October 1, 2014, 77,824 UACs have been released into the U.S., discounting the approximately 40,000 who arrived in 2012 and 2013.  Of these thousands, only 35 percent bothered to attend legal orientation programs, 48 percent have skipped out on hearings and 60 percent of those whose cases are completed have been ordered deported, though very few have.  New arrivals accelerated sharply from July through September of this year because, according to Border Patrol agent Chris Cabrera, "Most believe that they will either not be caught, or even if they are caught, they will not be deported."

KY Officer Dies After Being Shot in the Head:  A Kentucky police officer who was shot earlier this week while searching for a robbery suspect died in the hospital Friday morning.  Lindsey Bever of the Washington Post reports that 33-year-old Daniel Ellis, a seven-year veteran of the Richmond Police Department, was shot in the head Wednesday morning when he and another officer went to an apartment to look for 34-year-old Raleigh Sizemore, who was suspected in an armed robbery of a woman at a gas station.  Sizemore was non-fatally wounded in the incident, treated and released into police custody.  He faces charges of attempted murder of a police officer and unlawful imprisonment, which will certainly be elevated now that Ellis has died.  Two other people in the apartment, 25-year-old Gregory Ratliff and 44-year-old Rita Creech, have been charged with complicity to commit murder and first degree robbery, respectively.  Ellis is the second police officer to be killed by gunfire in Kentucky this year, and the 32^nd to be killed on-duty.