WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Local Republican leaders called Friday for a GOP legislator from Wichita to resign after a newspaper investigation linked him to an ad that falsely suggested that a Democratic colleague running for mayor had been accused of sexual harassment at the Statehouse.

The demand from the Sedgwick County GOP's top officers came a little more than a year after a previous call from Republicans for Rep. Michael Capps to step down over a woman's allegations that he kissed and hugged two young boys in her foster home and allowed them to sit in his lap and rub his chest. He called those...