TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An 87-year-old Kansas man who has donated 32 gallons of blood over more than six decades credits his father for his award-winning generosity.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Harold Facklam Jr. of Topeka recently was recognized by the Kansas Health Care Association and the Kansas Center for Assisted Living for the 259 pints he has donated through the American Red Cross.

Facklam donated until April 2015, when health reasons caused him stop.

He tells the newspaper that he doesn’t think about how his donations have affected others or even saved lives.

But he gives a nod to his late father, who he says encouraged him to donate when the younger Facklam was almost 21 in 1951. Facklam’s father gave blood for about 11 years, stopping at age 60.

Deputies and @kcpolice still working methodically through each classroom to check & evacuate students to Staley. Safety is our 1st priority.

— Clay County Sheriff (@SheriffClayCo) March 27, 2017

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities have found nothing suspicious after searching a Kansas City-area high school where threats forced evacuations.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Department said Monday afternoon in a tweet that all roads also have been reopened.

As a precaution, authorities evacuated nearly 1,500 students and 130 staff member from Oak Park High School and took them in buses to another school.

Police have detained four to five students. Clay County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Jon Bazzano says one student was tackled during the evacuation when he bolted. The student injured his arm during the process. It was unclear if the student’s escape attempt was related to the threats.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who for more than a decade envisioned crisscrossing the United States by bicycle is about to try to make the trek a reality.

The Kansas City Star reports that 26-year-old Richie Wolfe of Kansas City expects to launch his 7,000-mile journey next Saturday 30 miles east of San Diego in Escondido, California.

Wolfe’s five-month Journey Towards Hope ride is a fundraiser for Restoration House. That’s a Greenwood, Missouri-based residential recovery program for victims of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation.

Wolfe plans to cycle from California to Georgia, then north to Maine before visiting the Great Lakes states and heading west to Washington state and Oregon. He hopes to finish up by late September in San Francisco.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Lottery players soon might be able to buy tickets from vending machines.

The House voted last week in support of the move.

Lottery spokeswoman Sally Lunsford said the measure would increase lottery revenue and cut labor costs for retailers, where ticket buyers could bypass clerks and use the self-service machines. She said 37 other states, including Missouri, Colorado and Oklahoma, use the machines. The Kansas lottery has sought the bill for three years.

Lunsford said vending machines have increased lottery sales by up to 50 percent in other states. Kansas is counting on $12 million in growth over two years. The money would be used for mental health services.

Lottery revenue hit a record last year at $78 million.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former southwestern Missouri high school teacher has admitted in federal court that he downloaded child pornography on a school computer.

Forty-two-year-old Evert Henry of Lebanon, Missouri, pleaded guilty Thursday in Springfield to a child pornography count.

Authorities say Henry was a Lebanon junior high school teacher when he admittedly received child pornography over the internet from January 2011 through mid-January of last year.

A sentencing date was not immediately set.

FORISTELL, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say two New York women who were arrested in eastern Missouri after jumping out a second-story motel window and running half-naked across Interstate 70 are suspected in a black market cigarette scheme.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 160 cartons of cigarettes and about two dozen fake credit cards were found after the women’s arrest Thursday in the town of Foristell. Police say the women admitted they had driven around the nearby St. Louis area in a rented car buying them up, with plans to sell them back in New York, which has the nation’s highest cigarette tax. Missouri’s is the lowest.

Because of the different tax rates, a pack of cigarettes that costs a little over $5 in St. Louis can fetch more than $12 in Manhattan.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders have abruptly pulled their troubled health care overhaul bill off the House floor, short of votes and eager to avoid a humiliating defeat for President Donald Trump and GOP leaders.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., withdrew the legislation after Trump called him and asked him to halt debate without a vote, according to Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong. Just a day earlier, Trump had demanded a House vote and said if the measure lost, he would move on to other issues.

Ryan says the nation will be ‘living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future’

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A suburban St. Louis mother has been convicted of poisoning her son with prescription medications and keeping him gravely ill for nearly a year.

Jurors found 36-year-old Rachel Kinsella guilty Thursday of charges of first-degree assault and child endangerment, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The state removed the then-9-year-old from her care in early 2015.

Prosecutors told jurors Kinsella sought treatment for Patrick at St. Louis and Kansas City hospitals to get anti-seizure medications from both sites, never telling doctors at either hospital.

The prosecution suggested she could receive inheritance payments from the estate of the boy’s late father to care for the child by keeping him sick.

But her attorneys said the presence of various drugs in the boy’s system didn’t prove she was poisoning him.

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — A Missouri man charged in the 1996 slaying of a 15-year-old Maryland girl will remain behind bars, despite his request for release.

53-year-old Lloyd Harris has been jailed since his January 2016 arrest in Stacey Lynn Hoffmaster’s strangulation death.

Court records show his trial has been postponed twice and is currently scheduled to begin Oct. 23.

Harris’ attorney Matthew Frawley argued Thursday that the delays should allow his client to be released on bail.

A Frederick County judge disagreed, citing the “heinous” nature of the charges and Harris’ lack of roots in the county.

Harris lived out of state for several years after Hoffmaster’s death. Her body was found in December 1996 in Frederick, nearly three months after she was reported missing.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Police say a man arrived at a Missouri hospital with his lips apparently glued together after coming under attack from several people in an ongoing dispute.

Lt. Tad Peters says the man showed up Thursday at a hospital the Springfield, Missouri, suffering from injuries consistent with having his mouth glued shut. Peters says the man had also been struck with some type of object.

Peters says no one has been arrested in the attack.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that the man’s injuries are non-life threatening.