Tea Party challenger Milton Wolf confronted U.S. Senator Pat Roberts as he campaigned in downtown Emporia. Their brief meeting Wednesday took place at an intersection as Roberts walked from business to business to talk with merchants. The two are squaring off in Tuesday’s Republican primary.

Performers and animals from the UniverSoul Circus paraded north on Prospect Avenue from 39th Street to a rally that filled the parking lot of the Linwood Shopping Center. The guest of honor was Ka’Vyea Tyson-Curry, the 10-year-old boy who was paralyzed from the waist down in a shooting that killed his father earlier this year. But the event had to be stopped by organizers after multiple fights broke out.

Officials in Los Angles say it could take several days to repair a water pipe that broke Tuesday, leaking some 8 million gallons and inundating UCLA campus. The photos on Twitter were amazing.

The Motor City Madman takes time to plug a program in which hunters donate meals to food kitchens and gives a veteran the keys to a car. But for most of his nearly 90-minute set, he and his band focused on the task at hand: issuing hard rock at a high volume.

Late last year, the Robertson family of the cable TV smash “Duck Dynasty” waded into a treacherous swamp. Outrage exploded after Phil Robertson, the show’s long-bearded patriarch, called homosexuality a sin and denied seeing black people mistreated in the pre-civil rights Deep South.