KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a driver found dead in a vehicle after crashing on a Kansas City highway apparently had been shot.

Police said in a news release that the crash happened shortly after 3 p.m. Thursday. Witness told police that the man’s vehicle bounced off a concrete barrier on the right shoulder of U.S. 71 before crossing lanes of traffic and hitting the steel wires on the left shoulder.

Police say it’s unclear where the shooting happened. Police are urging anyone with information to call a tips hotline.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas hit its new, more pessimistic revenue projections for November, with tax collections exceeding estimates by $1.4 million.

But the report Thursday from the state Department of Revenue did not significantly alter the state’s gloomy budget picture. It still faces a projected shortfall of more than $345 million for the current fiscal year that began July 1.

The state expected to collect $399.9 million in taxes in November and collected $401.3 million. The surplus was 0.3 percent.

It was the first monthly report on tax collections since officials slashed the state’s official revenue projections three weeks ago to reflect their pessimism about the economy.

Tax collections last met expectations in April after forecasters issued the previous revenue projections. They’ve fallen short of expectations 10 of the past 12 months.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri is urging student groups to halt some social events as the number of mumps cases continues to rise.

The Student Health Center said Wednesday that there are 128 confirmed and probable cases. The outbreak began in early November with four confirmed cases.

Most of them are linked to students in fraternities and sororities. Besides urging student groups to curtail events, steps to control the outbreak also include canceling a late night breakfast during exam week.

Mumps is a viral infection that causes swelling in the salivary glands and cheeks. All infected students received the required two doses of a vaccine that protects against mumps, as well as measles and rubella. But the vaccine doesn’t prevent all infections.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the insurance carrier for Nebraska’s most populous county to pay more than $5 million to two men wrongfully jailed for murder because a crime lab chief planted evidence against them.

Nick Sampson and Matthew Livers were jailed for months but were later exonerated. They will split the award.

Livers is developmentally disabled. He falsely confessed to murdering his aunt and uncle, but recanted the next day.

Several months later a man and woman from Wisconsin pleaded guilty to murdering Wayne and Sharmon Stock at their farmhouse. The pair are serving life prison terms.

The judgment is the maximum under the St. Paul Travelers Cos. policy for former CSI chief David Kofoed’s conduct.

Kofoed was the former chief crime scene investigator of Nebraska’s most populous county. He was convicted and sentenced to prison for planting blood evidence in the 2006 murder investigation.

In 2014, a U.S. Judge ordered Kofoed to pay the men $6.4 million.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been sentenced for killing his girlfriend’s dog.

Online court records say 48-year-old Francisco Rodriguez pleaded no contest Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge of animal cruelty after prosecutors lowered the original felony charge of intentional animal cruelty. The judge sentenced Rodriguez to a year in jail and credited him with 139 days already served.

A court document says Rodriguez’s girlfriend reported that when she and her daughter returned from a store May 21 she found her 12-year-old dog, Maggie, dead. She told a Lincoln police officer that Rodriguez probably killed the dog because he had expressed his dislike for Maggie and had kicked her before.

A necropsy showed the dog died from internal bleeding because of external trauma.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for raping a 15-year-old he met online, a girl held captive in his home for about a month.

State charges of statutory rape are still pending.

A U.S. judge in St. Louis on Thursday sentenced 42-year-old Christopher Schroeder of Marthasville for his plea in July to one count of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.

Court documents say Schroeder met the girl from the Cleveland suburb of Brooklyn, Ohio, through an internet chat forum in November 2015. He drove to Ohio and picked her up, then took her back to his home.

Authorities say Schroeder destroyed the girl’s cellphone and told her to change her appearance and use a different name.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Officials say close to 2 million gallons of raw sewage overflowed from a manhole in south Lawrence, prompting a health and stream advisory.

The overflow happened after a bypass pump failed Monday evening. Officials say sewage overflowed the manhole for about 12 hours and went into the nearby Naismith Creek. The city wasn’t aware of the overflow until Tuesday morning, and the flow of sewage was stopped about an hour after it was reported.

Officials say the sewage could result in elevated levels of bacteria and contaminants in the creek, which is bordered by a city bike and walking trail. Residents are advised to not enter the stream.

City spokeswoman Megan Gilliland says the city has reported the incident to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.