WICHITA, Kan. - A federal judge is delaying the evidentiary hearing for a Kansas nurse accused of running a "pill mill" with her husband.

Prosecutors are seeking the continued detention of nurse Linda Schneider. On Wednesday, Magistrate Judge Donald Bostwick granted a defense request for an extension of a hearing on prosecutors' claims that she is a flight risk. That hearing is now set for July 17. The hearing had been set for Thursday.

Schneider and her husband, Dr. Stephen Schneider, were arrested in December on a 34-count federal indictment that accuses them of directly causing four deaths and contributing to the deaths of 11 other patients.

The doctor was released in April pending his trial.