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2 students shot in Philly school gym; 2 boys held UPDATE

police on the scene of Friday's school shooting in Philadelphia
Police on the scene of Friday’s school shooting in Philadelphia
Philadelphia Police on the scene of the scene of Friday's school shooting
Philadelphia Police make arrest in Fridays’s shooting

7 p.m.  UPDATE(AP) — One of two teenagers wounded in a Philadelphia school shooting is out of the hospital, and another boy who police suspect was involved has turned himself in.

The shooting happened in the gym of the Delaware Valley Charter High School in north Philadelphia on Friday afternoon.

A girl and a boy each suffered a gunshot wound to an arm. Police say the girl was discharged from a hospital Friday night. The boy is in stable condition.

Investigators believe as many as three boys may have been involved in the shooting.

They captured one boy at his home shortly after the shooting. They say a second boy turned himself in with his family Friday night.

Police are trying to determine whether the shooting was accidental or intentional.

Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey says a “breakdown in security” allowed the gun into the school.

 

2:55 p.m. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police say they’ve captured a boy who shot two students at a Philadelphia high school gym.

They say the shooting happened at the Delaware Valley Charter School in north Philadelphia on Friday afternoon.

Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey says the shooter “was captured not too far from his home” but the gun hasn’t been recovered. He says it’s unclear if the shooting was accidental or intentional.

Authorities say a male student and a female student were shot. Each student was shot in an arm.

The students have been taken to a hospital near the school. Police say they’re in stable condition.

A spokesman for the school district hasn’t responded to a call seeking comment.

It’s the second U.S. school shooting this week. Authorities say a seventh-grader opened fire Tuesday in a New Mexico middle school gym, wounding two classmates.

 

Kansas woman sentenced for embezzling research funds

embezzle(AP) — A former employee at Kansas State University’s Biosecurity Research Institute has been sentenced to 60 days in federal prison for embezzling research funds.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says 51-year-old Linda Kay Miller must also pay $14,000 in restitution under the sentence she received Friday. She had pleaded guilty in October.

Miller, of Alma, worked from August 2007 to January 2013 at the institute on the Manhattan campus. The institute receives grants for infectious disease research focused on threats to plant, animal and human health.

In her plea, Miller admitted altering three checks received by the institute and depositing the money into her personal bank account.

Substantial Offering received at Governor’s Prayer Breakfast

Governor's Prayer Breakfast 2014
Governor’s Prayer Breakfast 2014

Gov. Jay Nixon today announced that the freewill offering taken at the conclusion of the Jan. 9 Governor’s Prayer Breakfast raised $4,354 for The Samaritan Center in Jefferson City. The Prayer Breakfast offerings, which began in 2010, have raised $15,739 total for the center, an interfaith social service agency that has worked to meet the emergency and crisis needs of mid-Missourians since 1987. Marylyn DeFeo is the founder and volunteer executive director of the center.

The amount is in addition to the thousands of dollars from the breakfast that benefit the Governor’s Student Leadership Forum on Faith and Values. The entire Prayer Breakfast program, which featured Convoy of Hope founder Hal Donaldson as the keynote speaker, can be viewed online at www.missourigpb.com.

“Organizations like The Samaritan Center are demonstrating faith in action every day by helping Missouri families in need,” Gov. Nixon said. “The generosity of those attending the Prayer Breakfast will help the center in providing for even more Missourians, and is an inspiration for all of us to give generously.”

Monday (Jan. 20) is the National Day of Service, a day set aside to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through volunteer service to the community. The Governor also encouraged Missourians to participate by giving of their time to help their neighbors and their communities.

“The National Day of Service provides an excellent focus on serving others, and the ways we can help our neighbors and our communities are almost endless,” Gov. Nixon said. “Please take a few hours on Monday to donate your time and your talent for this effort, because you will be the one reaping the greatest reward.”

Mo. death-row inmate: State using expired drug

Smulls(AP) — A Missouri death-row inmate scheduled for execution this month says the state prison system is improperly storing expired doses of a new lethal injection drug provided by an Oklahoma pharmacy that’s not licensed to do business in the neighboring state.

Attorneys for Herbert Smulls filed a complaint with the Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy on Friday. They want the board to recall an “expired, unsafe” batch of the sedative pentobarbital provided to Missouri by an unidentified Oklahoma compounding pharmacy. The complaint says the pharmacy gave erroneous instructions to store the drug at room temperature.

Missouri switched to its one-drug execution method late last year and has since killed two inmates. The complaint includes Missouri state records showing the pentobarbital given to both inmates had expired eight to 10 days earlier.

 

Cerner describes new campus as largest in Missouri

Cerner(AP)  Cerner Corp. says a $4.3 billion campus that will be built over the next decade on the site of a former Kansas City shopping center will be the largest in Missouri.

North Kansas City-based medical records maker described the project Friday at a news conference attended by Gov. Jay Nixon and Kansas City Mayor Sly James.

Cerner executives say they expect the first building will be completed and 1,500 people working at the site in about 30 months. Eventually, as many as 15,000 are expected to work at the 4.5 million square-foot campus.

Cerner currently employs more than 9,000 people in the metropolitan area, with many of them based at an office complex in western Wyandotte County, Kan.

 

Body found at Mo. Garbage business

Police LIne Do Not Cross(AP)  Springfield police are investigating after a body was found at a garbage collection business.

Police Lt. Brian Phillips says the body was found early Friday at a collection site in southwest Springfield by an employee for WCA Waste Corp. He says the body came from a truck that collects trash from large containers in the area.

Phillips says the gender of the body has not been officially determined.

The site is a transfer station for WCA, a commercial and residential waste management company.

Charges Filed After Baby Dies In Crash

MSHP patchA 24-year-old Easton woman is charged with felony child endangerment for a crash that killed her one-year-old son.

The charges against Alicca Williams stem from a crash January 6 in which her vehicle crossed the center line along Route C and crashed into a snow plow.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that young Kaiber Williams was not wearing the required restraints during the crash. The toddler was taken to Heartland and later Children’s Mercy Hospital where he died.

A judge set bond in the case at $30,000. Formal arraignment is scheduled January 21.

New Details In Assault & Abduction

Buchanan County Sheriff sealThe Buchanan County Sheriff’s Department continues to investigate the assault and abduction of James Hann from the St. Joseph area.

During the abduction, Mr. Hann was involved in a motor vehicle crash near the Sun Bridge Conservation area on Huntoon Road. The suspect fled the scene on Huntoon after the crash. Mr. Hann was treated for his injuries and released.

Anyone with any information about this case is asked to call Investigator Cates at the Buchanan County Sheriff’s Department or the Tips Hotline at 816-238-TIPS (8477).

Western Mo. Plant cited for Violations

Osha (AP) – Federal investigators found several safety violations at a southwest Missouri milling plant where a worker was fatally injured last summer.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said in a release Thursday that the worker died after falling about 40 feet from a lift used to transport materials at MFA Inc.’s milling facility in Aurora. The accident occurred Aug. 26.

Barbara Theriot, OSHA’s Kansas City director, said the accident was preventable.

OSHA says its inspectors cited MFA for 13 serious safety violations, including failing to guard open-sided floors, creating potential falls up to 20 feet and failing to inspect man lifts every 30 days.

The Springfield News-Leader reports OSHA also proposed $91,000 in fines. MFA has about two weeks to contest the citations.

MFA didn’t immediately return calls seeking comment.

Obama: NSA collection of phone records needs to change

Obama(AP) — President Barack Obama is ordering changes to the government’s massive collection of phone records that he says will end the program “as it currently exists.”

Obama says in a speech prepared for delivery at the Justice Department Wednesday that intelligence officials have not intentionally abused the program to invade privacy.

But he also says he believes critics of the program have been right to argue that without proper safeguards, the collection could be used to obtain more information about American’s private lives and open the door to more intrusive programs.

Obama announced the changes after a months-long review spurred by former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden’s leaks about secret surveillance programs.

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