UPDATE (11:27 a.m.) COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Hospital officials say eight patients they received from the scene of a reported attack at Ohio State University have non-life-threatening injuries.

The university had warned students in a series of tweets earlier Monday that there was an active shooter on campus and that they should run, hide or fight. About an hour and a half later, the university said a shelter-in-place warning had been lifted and the scene was secure.

The fire department had earlier said that seven people had been taken to hospitals.

It wasn’t immediately clear if a suspect or suspects in the attack were among the people sent to the hospitals.

A spokesman for the university says injuries in the attack on campus included stab wounds and being struck by a vehicle.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The fire department says seven people have been sent to the hospital after a shooting at Ohio State University.

The Columbus Fire Department says two of those people are in stable condition. It had no information on the other five people.

Ohio State University warned students in a series of tweets Monday morning that there was an active shooter on campus and that they should run, hide or fight.

One tweet says: “Buckeye Alert: Active Shooter on campus. Run Hide Fight. Watts Hall. 19th and College.” Watts Hall is a materials science and engineering building.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — Council Bluffs officials are trying to determine how far invasive zebra mussels have spread from one of the basins where the city draws drinking water from.

The Daily Nonpareil reports the mussels were found during maintenance this fall, but it’s not clear if they have begun to colonize and clog the pipes leading into the city’s water treatment plant.

Water Works CEO and General Manager Doug Drummey says the zebra mussels don’t threaten water quality, but they can require costly repairs to clear pipes.

The invasive mussels reproduce quickly and then attach themselves to hard surfaces.

Drummey says most of the mussels found in September died because the water level was lowered for maintenance. But the pipes leading into the pond will be inspected this month.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Plans are being made to develop a 4.5-acre tract of land near the southwest Missouri city of Springfield into a community of tiny homes for disabled, chronically homeless people.

The Gathering Tree is developing plans for Eden Village, the site of a former trailer park near U.S. 65. The project will include a community center and 30 homes of about 400 square feet each. The project will cost about $1.8 million.

The organization has raised about $90,000 so far, enough for a down payment on the property. At an event this week, Coldwell Banker Vanguard Realtors owner Judy Huntsman gave Gathering Tree founders Linda and David Brown a check for $30,000 to pay for the first tiny, manufactured home.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Donations have been pouring in for a Wichita baby who was kidnapped after her mother was shot to death.

The Wichita Eagle reports that a GoFundMe account set up to collect money to bury the mother of the kidnapped Wichita infant is close to meeting its $15,000 goal.

Laura Abarca-Nogueda was shot to death in her home last week. Her 6-day-old baby, Sophia, was reported missing and was recovered a couple days later at a home in Dallas. The baby has been reunited with family.

Her family says any money collected through the crowdfunding effort that’s left over after paying for burial expenses will go to help raise the baby.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stores opened their doors Friday for what is still one of the busiest days of the year, even as the start of the holiday season edges ever earlier.

Many stores are offering the same deals as in previous years, like $19.99 boots that remain a big attraction, cashmere sweaters, and sheets. For some shoppers, big discounts on electronics are the draw.

Stores like Macy’s, Walmart, Target and more were open Thursday evening in what they hope will be a new holiday tradition. Several shoppers were out looking for bargains on TVs. Other items that drew crowds were cellphones and Hatchimals — eggs with a small, animated animal inside that hatch when given attention.

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, vies with the Saturday before Christmas as the biggest sales day.

The National Retail Federation says it expects around 137 million shoppers this weekend.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri lawmaker wants ramped-up penalties for those who assault police officers in the wake of what law enforcement officials say is an alarming spike in ambush-style attacks.

Republican state Sen. Doug Libla on Wednesday said he’s drafting legislation for the session that begins in January.

Missouri law currently allows for increased penalties for so-called special victims, including law enforcement. Libla wants to take that further.

Republican Gov.-elect Eric Greitens also says he’ll push for the “strictest possible punishments” for assaulting police.

Libla’s announcement comes after a St. Louis police sergeant was shot twice in the face Sunday evening while he sat in traffic in a marked police vehicle. He was released from a hospital Monday.

The shooting was one of four across the country Sunday involving police officers.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cyber Monday is starting earlier and earlier.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said that it’s kicking off its so-called “Cyber Monday” deals at 12:01 a.m. EST Friday for the first time ever as it aims to grab customers ahead of its competitors.

Last year, the world’s largest retailer pulled up the “Cyber Monday” deals to the Sunday evening after Thanksgiving for the first time.

Cyber Monday, which falls on the Monday after Thanksgiving, is typically the busiest day of the year for online shopping. The phrase was coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation’s online arm, Shop.org, to encourage online buying when people returned to offices where they had high-speed Internet connections. Since then, the proliferation of smart phones has given shoppers constant Web access and now Cyber Monday is being used by retailers to pull in shoppers hungry for deals continually.

The push to start Cyber Monday deals earlier follows what’s been happening with Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, which used to officially kick off the holiday shopping season in stores. Over the past few years, retailers such as Wal-Mart, Macy’s and Target have started the deals earlier into Thanksgiving. And they’re now offering many of the same deals online as they do in stores on Thanksgiving.

This year, Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, is making Thanksgiving deals available online at 12:01 a.m. EST on the holiday, three hours earlier than last year. Wal-Mart is starting its deals at its stores at 6 p.m. on the turkey feast, the same time as last year.

Ravi Jariwala, a Wal-Mart spokesman, told The Associated Press that three out of the four customers it polled said that they wanted to shop Cyber Monday deals earlier — after the kickoff in stores.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A federal court is blocking implementation of a regulation that would make an estimated 4 million more higher-earning workers eligible for overtime pay.

The U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Texas granted a nationwide preliminary injunction Tuesday that prevents the Department of Labor from implementing the changes until the rule’s legality can be further examined. The order comes after 21 states sued to block the rule before it took effect on Dec. 1.

The lead plaintiff was Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, who’s a frequent critic of what he calls Obama Administration overreach.

The regulation would shrink the so-called “white collar exemption” and more than double the salary threshold under which employers must pay overtime to their workers.

Laxalt said the rule would burden private and public sectors.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Dallas woman arrested in the killing of a Kansas mother and the kidnapping of the victim’s newborn daughter was also accused in a kidnapping in July.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Adriana Portillo says Yesenia Sesmas lured her and her children into a basement, and that Sesmas took away her cellphone and ordered her to restrain her 10- and 3-year-old daughters with duct tape.

The 10-year-old managed to snatch back the phone and call police as the two women fought.

Records show Sesmas was then booked into jail on several charges, including kidnapping. The Sedgwick County District Attorney’s office says Sesmas bonded out, but wouldn’t comment on why no charges were filed.

Sesmas was arrested Saturday in the death of 27-year-old Laura Abarca-Nogueda and the kidnapping of her 6-day-old daughter Sophia.