TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Residents of the town hit by Oklahoma’s worst earthquake have filed a class-action lawsuit against dozens of energy companies, accusing them of triggering dozens of temblors by injecting wastewater from oil and gas production underground.

Pawnee residents filed the suit Thursday against at least 27 companies, saying they operate wastewater injection wells even though they know the method causes earthquakes. The lawsuit seeks an unidentified amount for property damage and devaluation, plus emotional distress.

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck Pawnee in September. The lawsuit claims 52 more have hit the area since.

Oklahoma has had thousands of earthquakes in recent years. Nearly all have been traced to underground wastewater disposal.

Regulators have asked oil and gas producers to either close injection wells or reduce the volume of fluids they inject.

Mike Pompeo, a conservative congressman from Kansas, says he accepts President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate him to lead the CIA.

In a statement on Friday, the fourth-district Republican said that while he has loved representing Kansans in Congress, the opportunity to lead a top U.S. intelligence agency is a call to service he can’t ignore. Pompeo still must be confirmed by the Senate.

The 52-year-old was elected to Congress during the tea party wave of 2010. Pompeo has been a harsh critic of the Obama administration. He denounced the Iran deal, which granted Tehran sanctions relief for rolling back its nuclear weapons program, and was a member of the congressional committee that blasted Hillary Clinton over the attack on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Libya.

The transition official says Trump was expected to make the Pompeo announcement on Friday morning, along with his nomination of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general and his selection of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to be national security adviser.

The official wasn’t authorized to disclose the decisions ahead of Trump’s announcement and insisted on anonymity.

Congressman Pompeo offered this statement Friday:

“I am honored and humbled to accept the President-elect’s nomination to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. This was a difficult decision. I have genuinely loved representing the people of Kansas in Congress—working to make our community stronger and more prosperous. But ultimately the opportunity to lead the world’s finest intelligence warriors, who labor tirelessly to keep this nation and Kansas safe, is a call to service I cannot ignore.

I want to thank the people of the 4th District who entrusted me over the past six years to be their voice in our nation’s capital. I will continue to represent you in this new post with the highest level of honesty, integrity, and vision.”

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A man accused of killing a Missouri State University professor emeritus and stabbing the victim’s wife has been ordered to stand trial after pleading not guilty to an upgraded murder charge.

Forty-three-year-old Edward Gutting waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday after Greene County prosecutors replaced a second-degree murder count with a first-degree murder charge. He’s also charged with armed criminal action, assault and burglary.

Authorities say Gutting was a suspended Missouri State instructor when he rushed into Marc Cooper’s home and fatally stabbed him Aug. 17. Gutting also is accused of stabbing Cooper’s wife, who escaped and called police.

Investigators haven’t disclosed a possible motive for the attack.

Gutting’s attorneys told reporters after Wednesday’s court appearance that Gutting’s mental health will be a factor in the case.

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 6-year-old Kansas boy has died from injuries sustained in a suspected drunken-driving crash that killed his mother and younger sister.

The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the boy as Jaydon Allan Thompson, of Junction City, who died at a hospital.

Kansas Highway Trooper Ben Gardner says 26-year-old Jessica Michelle Thompson had taken Jaydon and 5-year-old Leah Michelle Thompson out of school Tuesday morning for a medical appointment. They were returning when a Houston man driving a large box truck crossed the median on Interstate 70 and crashed into the family’s vehicle in Geary County.

The truck’s driver is jailed in Geary County on $250,000 bond on suspicion of two counts of involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence and two other counts. No formal charges were immediately filed.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a missing week-old baby after her mother was found fatally shot in Wichita.

The Wichita Eagle reports that a relative found the woman dead Thursday in her apartment. Sgt. Nikki Woodrow says the woman’s daughter, Sofia Victoria Gonzalez Abarca, is “considered missing and endangered.”

Police are seeking to talk to anyone with a relationship to the victim. Police sent out an alert Thursday night saying the driver of a purple Cadillac who had been a person of interest in the case had been found and questioned. He is not considered to be a suspect.

Woodrow says the child’s father also isn’t considered a suspect.

Police didn’t immediately return phone or email messages from The Associated Press.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of sodomy is challenging his commitment to a Missouri sex offender treatment program following a federal ruling that the program is unconstitutional as applied.

Carl Kirk’s public defender Chelsea Mitchell told Missouri Supreme Court judges Wednesday in the capital courthouse that the program is punitive. She says no one’s been released.

At issue is a law allowing a Mental Health Department program to commit offenders to secure confinement.

A federal judge ruled last year in a class-action lawsuit that the law is constitutional, but not as applied.

Mitchell says that also means the commitment process is inadequate and should be revamped.

Assistant Attorney General Gregory Goodwin says the current process protects offenders’ rights. He disputed that the law is punitive, and says there are opportunities for release.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A mumps outbreak at the University of Missouri continues to grow with 31 confirmed cases.

The university also said Wednesday that there are another 27 probable cases of people who have been in close contact with someone with confirmed mumps showing symptoms for at least two days.

Mumps is a viral infection that causes swelling in the salivary glands and cheeks. Anyone with symptoms is asked to stay at home.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s two U.S. senators have been named to top positions in Republican leadership and legislative committees.

Republican Sen. Roy Blunt on Wednesday announced he was re-elected vice chairman of the Senate’s GOP caucus.

He said Republicans want to work with GOP President-elect Donald Trump on issues such as Democratic President Barack Obama’s federal health care law, regulations and vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill also on Wednesday was picked to be the top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The committee oversees the federal government and Department of Homeland Security.

McCaskill previously served as the ranking Democrat on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which delved into how classified advertising website Backpage.com screens ads for possible sex trafficking.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s employment has reached an all-time high.

The state Department of Economic Development on Wednesday said nonfarm payroll employment grew by 9,300 jobs in October. That’s a record high at more than 2.8 million jobs. The state gained close to 51,000 jobs in the past year.

Unemployment also dropped slightly from 5.2 percent to 5.1 percent.

Gov. Jay Nixon praised the employment numbers Wednesday. He also touted Boeing Co.’s Tuesday announcement that the company would move 500 jobs to St. Louis County.

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Texas man has been arrested in a head-on Kansas crash that killed a mother and her 5-year-old daughter and critically injured the woman’s son.

The 42-year-old Houston driver is jailed in Geary County on $250,000 bond on suspicion of two counts of involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence and two other counts. No formal charges have been filed.

Kansas Highway Trooper Ben Gardner says 26-year-old Jessica Michelle Thompson, of Junction City, had taken her children out of school Tuesday for a medical appointment. They were returning when a large box truck crossed the median on Interstate 70 and crashed into the family’s vehicle in Geary County.

The crash killed Thompson and her daughter, Leah Michelle Thompson. Her 6-year-old son was flown to a Wichita hospital in critical condition.