PLEASANTON, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say two bodies found buried in eastern Kansas are believed to be those of two homicide victims.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said Wednesday in a news release that the bodies were found late Tuesday on a rural property west of Pittsburg. The release says the remains are believed to be those of 65-year-old Kenneth Mcnabb and his mother, 87-year-old Betty Mcnabb. They were reported missing Friday.

A relative, 31-year-old David McNabb of Pittsburg was arrested Monday on suspicion of second-degree murder, criminal desecration of a body, and interference with a law enforcement officer in the killings.

KBI spokeswoman Melissa Underwood said she couldn’t discuss specifics about why the bodies are believed to be those of the victims. She says autopsies are pending. She also couldn’t discuss who owned the property.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The man who took the NFL out of St. Louis won’t be pursuing a mega-development in the St. Louis suburbs after all.

Officials in Maryland Heights, Missouri, said Wednesday that billionaire real estate developer Stan Kroenke and St. Louis attorney Alan Bornstein have ended plans to develop 1,800 acres near the Missouri River.

Maryland Heights officials blamed the struggling retail economy, saying the developers couldn’t find enough stores for the project.

Messages seeking comment from Kroenke and Bornstein were not returned.

Kroenke remains an unpopular figure in the St. Louis region after moving the Rams to Los Angeles this season. As part of his application to move, Kroenke was critical of the St. Louis region’s economic viability, so critics found irony in his interest in Maryland Heights.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri appellate court has ruled that a divorced man and woman must have the other’s consent before using embryos they had frozen and stored when they were married.

The Missouri Court of Appeals’ ruling Tuesday, by a 2-1 decision, upholds a St. Louis County judge’s 2015 conclusion that Jalesia McQueen and Justin Gadberry maintain joint custody of the embryos. The appellate court found that the embryos frozen since 2007 are marital property and not human beings with constitutional rights.

Forty-four-year-old McQueen sued to be able to use the embryos to have more children. Thirty-four-year-old Gadberry doesn’t want to have any more children with McQueen and doesn’t believe he should be required to reproduce.

Messages left Wednesday with attorneys for McQueen and Gadberry were not immediately returned.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Republican lawmaker in Iowa says he’ll introduce legislation that would cut the budgets of state universities that spend money on students upset about the presidential election.

Rep. Bobby Kaufmann calls the planned legislation the “suck it up, buttercup bill.” It would target state universities that use taxpayer dollars to fund election-related sit-ins and grief counseling above and beyond what is normally available to students.

Iowa’s public four-year universities say no such money has been spent.

University of Northern Iowa students and faculty gathered at three sessions to discuss the election and their fears. Iowa State University students and faculty held a rally, and University of Iowa student groups held events. The schools say no extra funds were spent on the events.

UPDATE (11:03 a.m.): OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police say the man accused of fatally shooting an Oklahoma City airport employee used to work for Southwest Airlines and that the attack was likely in retaliation for circumstances that led to the attacker’s 2015 resignation.

Capt. Paco Balderrama identified the shooter as Lloyd Dean Buie, of Oklahoma City.

He says Buie resigned from Southwest Airlines in April 2015 and that investigators believe he shot and killed 52-year-old Michael Winchester on Tuesday in retaliation for circumstances that led to Buie leaving the job.

Balderrama says he doesn’t know what Buie did for Southwest or why he resigned. He says Winchester was not Buie’s immediate supervisor.

Buie was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound shortly after Tuesday afternoon’s shooting.

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The father of Chiefs long snapper James Winchester was shot and killed Tuesday in what police are calling a premeditated attack at Oklahoma City’s Will Rogers World Airport.

Michael Winchester was shot while walking between a terminal and the airport employee parking area. The 52-year-old Winchester was a Southwest Airlines employee and a former University of Oklahoma football player.

The unidentified suspect was later found dead in a pickup truck at a public parking garage overlooking the scene.

Airport spokeswoman Karen Carney says air traffic control implemented a ground stop after the shooting. The ground stop was lifted at about 6 p.m. Tuesday and flight operations resumed, though 25 flights were canceled because of the incident.

Fifteen of the canceled flights were operated by Southwest Airlines. The company’s CEO, Gary Kelly, said on Twitter that the airline “will do everything we can to support Mike’s family.”

 

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Budget uncertainties have forced the Kansas Department of Transportation to postpone two dozen road projects that were scheduled to start next summer.

An estimated $32 million in projects were to be put up for bid in December before KDOT learned last week that the state faces a $350 million budget gap.

The 24 projects now are delayed indefinitely.

Transportation Department spokesman Steve Swartz says the affected paving and resurfacing projects were not emergencies, adding that some could still be done if funds are available.

Gov. Sam Brownback has swept more than $1 billion from the state’s highway fund since 2011 to make up for budget shortfalls. KDOT announced in April the delay of 24 projects that were set to begin this or next fiscal year.

NEW YORK (AP) — Shareholders of Carmike Cinemas approved the movie theater operator’s sale to Chinese-owned AMC Theatres, cementing the buyer’s stature as the largest movie theater operator in the world.

The deal includes $585 million in cash and $250 million in AMC’s Class A common stock. AMC is also assuming about $367 million in debt in the deal.

Carmike shareholders can take $33.06 per share or 1.0819 AMC shares for each share of Carmike. The cash offer is $3.06 more per share than AMC’s prior bid in March.

AMC, based in Leawood, Kansas, was bought by Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group in 2012. AMC bought European movie theater operator Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group in July, making it the world’s largest movie theater operator.

Carmike, based in Columbus, Georgia, expects the deal to close late this year or early next year.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has agreed to spend 50 years in prison after pleading no contest to charges that he fatally stabbed a 6-year-old girl, critically injured her sister and raped their mother.

The 47-year-old man, who is related to the mother, entered no contest pleas Tuesday in Sedgwick County. The pleas mean he neither admits nor disputes the crimes with which he was charged.

The Associated Press is withholding his name to prevent potentially identifying a sexual assault victim.

Wichita police responding to a vehicle accident on Nov. 4 found the 6-year-old and her 24-year-old mother stabbed inside a Jeep in a strip mall’s parking lot. The girl died at a hospital.

Her 4-year-old sister, who was also stabbed, was found miles away wandering in a field.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway says most audited local governments didn’t fully comply with open-records requests and about 16 percent didn’t respond at all.

Galloway’s office released findings Tuesday from a sampling of Missouri’s more than 4,100 local governments.

Her office in August sent Sunshine Law requests to more than 300 cities, villages, school districts and other entities. Auditors asked for meeting minutes and agendas.

About 37 percent of entities who received requests blew the three-day deadline to respond as required by law. About 16 percent still had not responded as of mid-September, roughly six weeks later.

Only about 30 percent of local government entities fully complied with Sunshine Law requests.

The report says poor compliance with the Sunshine Law could mean fines, lawsuits and loss of credibility.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The number of confirmed mumps cases at the University of Missouri is growing amid a national rise in cases.

The university plans to provide an update each Wednesday. As of Nov. 9, the university had recorded 17 cases since the beginning of the fall semester. The school says all the students received the required two doses of a vaccine that protects against mumps, as well as measles and rubella.

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 2,345 mumps cases had been reported nationwide as of last month. That’s more than twice as many as in all of 2015.

Other universities also have reported cases, including Harvard.