BUFFALO, Mo. (AP) — One of three people charged in the death of a 15-year-old southwest Missouri girl will be sentenced in December for his role in her case.

Dallas County authorities say 40-year-old Larry Warner of Springfield pleaded guilty last Friday to endangerment and conspiracy in Khighla Parks’ death in September 2012. Warner was originally also charged with second-degree murder.

Balbirnie is scheduled for trial in March. Hartley is scheduled for a hearing next week on several charges, including statutory sodomy and abandonment of a corpse.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The owner of restaurants in Kansas City, Missouri and Olathe, Kansas, has pleaded guilty to employing and harboring several illegal workers.

Forty-year-old Wei Liu of Olathe pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens for private financial gain.

Several of his family members, including his wife, 36-year-old Xiang Liu, pleaded guilty to other charges in the case. Liu and his wife owned Wei’s Super Buffet restaurants in Olathe and Kansas City.

Prosecutors say Wei Liu admitted that he employed at least 12 illegal workers in his two restaurants, paid them in cash and provided them with housing without charging for the rooms.

Xiang Liu pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to the Department of Homeland Security

NEW YORK (AP) — Staples says that it is looking into a potential credit card data breach and that it has been in touch with law enforcement officials about the issue.

The office supplier retailer said that if it turns up any data discrepancies during its investigation, customers won’t be responsible for fraudulent activity on their credit cards as long as it is reported in a timely manner.

Spokesman Mark Cautela said in a statement that “we take the protection of customer information very seriously, and are working to resolve the situation.”

Earlier this month Sears Holdings Corp. reported a data breach at its Kmart stores. Other breaches have occurred at retailers including Target, Supervalu and Home Depot.

Shares of Staples Inc., based in Framingham, Massachusetts, slipped in premarket trading Tuesday

ST. MARYS, Kan. (AP) — The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a woman who it says led officers on a slow-speed chase and ran into a police car.

Deputies say the chase began Sunday night after authorities received a call about an unwanted person at a home in Emmett. They say the 43-year-old woman from Topeka left in a van and wouldn’t pull over for authorities. Deputies say she was driving slowly.

The chase ended in St. Marys after city police officers used spike strips on the van. Officers say the woman hit a patrol car directing that was traffic before coming to a stop.

No injuries were reported.

The woman faces charges of criminal damage to property, fleeing and eluding, DUI and transporting an open container.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County police say a Missouri state senator has been arrested during a protest outside of the Ferguson police station.

Sgt. Brian Schellman tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Democratic Sen. Jamilah Nasheed of St. Louis walked in the street on Monday night after police told her she couldn’t protest there. He says Nasheed and an unidentified man were arrested after officers asked them multiple times to leave the street.

The protesters have condemned the early August shooting in Ferguson of 18-year-old Michael Brown and other killings of young black men by white officers.

Police say Nasheed is facing two unspecified charges and is being held at the St. Ann jail.
An attorney for Nasheed says she refused bond. He says the senator was promoting nonviolence.