KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say two firefighters were taken to a hospital with minor injuries after a roof collapsed as they battled a fire in a Kansas City home.

The Kansas City Star reports that a third firefighter was treated at the scene Friday morning. The firefighters were in the final stages of putting out the fire when the roof of the two-story house gave way.

Kansas City Fire Department spokesman James Garrett says a team rushed into the structure and retrieved the firefighters within three minutes.

No one was in the home at the time of the fire, but it appeared that the home was occupied.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A retired Catholic priest in western Iowa has been found guilty of five misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy over an incident at a high school track meet in April.

The Daily Nonpareil says the Rev. Paul Monahan was found guilty Friday by an associate judge in Council Bluffs. In the Friday ruling, the judge said he found credible the testimony of five male high school students who said Monahan repeatedly entered the high school restroom and looked at their genitals at an open urinal.

The 83-year-old Monahan was suspended in July after the Diocese of Des Moines learned of the investigation.

Monahan faces up to two year in prison on each count when he’s sentenced on Jan. 18.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The parents of a 13-year-old Kansas girl who died of viral meningitis are suing a Lincoln hospital, alleging that doctors there were negligent when they treated her in 2014.

Terrisa and Scott Waters filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday in district court in Omaha.

The lawsuit says their daughter, Brandi Waters, had complications during a surgery elsewhere to have a benign tumor near her pituitary gland removed. According to the lawsuit, those complications resulted in her being a quadriplegic.

Brandi was admitted to Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital in November 2014. The lawsuit says Brandi started hallucinating and became confused in December 2014, but doctors held off doing a procedure to look for signs of viral meningitis. She was treated with antiviral medications, but died later that month.

The hospital says it will investigate the allegations.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Shawnee County authorities say a driver was critically injured after she swerved to avoid a bag of duck decoys on a highway and was ejected from her vehicle.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the rollover crash happened early Thursday morning on the US-75 highway, south of Topeka. Lt. K.D. Lewis says the woman’s vehicle entered the median and rolled after she attempted to avoid the bag that was in the roadway.

Lewis says the bag appears to have fallen out of another vehicle prior to the crash.

The unidentified woman was taken to a hospital with what were considered to be life-threatening injuries.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the Missouri Department of Corrections alleging inmates did not receive proper hepatitis C treatment.

The ACLU and the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center in St. Louis filed the federal lawsuit for the inmates Thursday.

Inmates in the lawsuit claim they didn’t receive treatment for hepatitis C, which can cause liver damage. The lawsuit says that’s discriminatory and unconstitutional.

A spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office says that office has not yet received the lawsuit.

The lawsuit cites a survey published by Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Project HOPE. The survey says Missouri’s Corrections Department in January 2015 reported treating .11 percent of inmates with the illness.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — An anonymous couple has spent about $30,000 to pay for more than 200 layaway purchases at a Missouri Kmart.

Amanda Winchel, apparel manager at the Springfield store, told The Springfield News-Leader that the couple contacted the store recently inquiring about paying for children’s clothes and toys, and wound up paying off 203 layaways that included such things as dolls and bicycles.

Winchel says she’s been calling customers to inform them about their “secret Santa,” and many don’t believe her.

She says everyone has been “extremely thankful,” including one person she notified about the purchases who had recently lost their home to a house fire.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A circus has agreed to pay a $7,000 fine to settle alleged federal animal-welfare violations involving Missouri and Pennsylvania shows where elephants were allowed to get loose or too close to circus-goers.

Florida-based Royal Hanneford Circus’ resolution of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2015 complaint came six months after the Carson & Barnes circus agreed to a $16,000 fine for its alleged role. Royal Hanneford had hired Carson & Barnes, based in Oklahoma, to exhibit the elephants.

The USDA alleged that during a 2014 fundraiser circus in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles, three elephants briefly got loose on the arena’s lot. Three weeks later in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the USDA said, elephant handlers wrongly stopped to water the animals in a publicly accessible area.

Neither circus admits any wrongdoing.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man who robbed a Kansas City bank because he wanted to return to prison has been ordered to spend 15 years there.

Sixty-three-year-old Sidney Williams was sentenced Wednesday for robbing a Bank Midwest branch in November 2015 while armed with a revolver and wearing a mask. A bank security guard chased down and tackled Williams after the robbery.

Williams told investigators he robbed the bank because he wanted to go back to prison. He said the gun wasn’t loaded.

SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (AP) — A worker at a northeast Nebraska energy plant is recovering after being exposed to hydrogen sulfide.

The Sioux City Journal reports the worker’s injury was reported around 7 p.m. Wednesday. It’s the second time this fall that a Big Ox Energy was hospitalized after exposure to hydrogen sulfide.

Big Ox spokesman Kevin Bradley says the worker hurt Wednesday was installing a new pipe. He was in stable condition at the hospital.

Bradley says the company is working to determine how the gas leaked out. Regulators at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration will be notified of the incident.

Some residents near the plant have been forced to leave their homes because of odors emanating from the plant. The city is working to resolve the odor problem.

SKOWHEGAN, Maine (AP) — The director of manufacturing at New Balance says a made-in-USA provision for athletic footwear for military recruits could mean an additional 250,000 sneakers a year.

The Morning Sentinel reports Brendan Melley touted the figure Wednesday as three members of Maine’s congressional delegation visited a factory in Skowhegan.

Republican Bruce Poliquin marshaled the made-in-USA provision effort with Massachusetts Democrat Niki Tsongas (SAWN’-guhs) in the House. Republican Susan Collins and independent Angus King did likewise in the Senate.

The provision applies the Berry Amendment to athletic shoes. The amendment requires the Department of Defense to give preference to homegrown products.

Massachusetts-based New Balance is the only major athletic shoe company making its footwear in the United States. It employs 900 people at Maine factories in Skowhegan, Norridgewock and Norway.

Democratic President Barack Obama’s signature is required and expected.