WAYNESVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A south-central Missouri jailer is accused of having a sexual relationship with one of two inmates who bolted last weekend from the lockup and remain missing.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that 22-year-old Angelica Black was charged Sunday with sexual contact with a prisoner by a jail employee.

Authorities say Black was working at the Pulaski County lockup when she had a relationship with 27-year-old Dustin Richardson.

Richardson and 32-year-old James Randall “J.R.” Sherrell escaped from the jail in Waynesville early Sunday. Sherrell was being held on suspicion of drug possession and interfering with an arrest. Richardson had been jailed on a child-molestation charge.

Black as of Monday had not been accused of assisting in the escape. Online court records did not show whether she has an attorney.

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City, Missouri, man has been ordered to spend 45 years in prison for burglarizing homes while their occupants were attending funerals.

The Kansas City Star reports that 36-year-old Dale Lee Parsons of Excelsior Springs was sentenced Monday in Clay County.

Parsons pleaded guilty June 13 to burglary, possession of stolen property, attempted burglary, stealing and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.

Clay County Prosecutor Daniel White says a series of break-ins took place in October and November of last year. He called the case “very troubling” and the break-ins “unconscionable.”

It was not immediately clear how many burglaries have been linked to Parsons.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis-area roofer who died more than a month after falling into a vat of 600-degree tar has been laid to rest. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 66-year-old Daniel Madden of Overland died last Wednesday at a hospital.

He’d been in a medically induced coma since Aug. 6, when he slipped from a one-story University City roof he had been mopping with tar. He fell into a four-wheel tar kettle that can hold 450 gallons of tar.

His son and a co-worker pulled him from the tar and doused him with water.

Madden’s funeral with military honors was held Monday. He was an Army veteran who served in the Rangers in South Vietnam in 1968-69.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An off-duty Omaha police officer needed surgery after being shot in the stomach while visiting a friend’s home on the northwest edge of the city.

Douglas County Sheriff Tim Dunning says the incident that happened Monday morning in a barn near Bennington appears to have been an accident.

The 38-year-old officer’s friend was holding a .357 Magnum that went off and wounded the officer. Authorities didn’t immediately identify the people involved in the incident Monday.

Omaha police said the officer was in stable condition Monday.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Supporters of a proposal to allow medical marijuana in Missouri say thousands of signed petitions to get the measure on the ballot were wrongly tossed out.

A lawyer for the group New Approach Missouri told a circuit judge Monday that enough registered voters signed a petition to get the measure on the Nov. 8 ballot.

Secretary of State Jason Kander’s office says the proposal fell about 2,200 short of signatures needed.

But New Approach Missouri attorney Loretta Haggard says hundreds of signed petitions were thrown out because signatures didn’t match voter records or voters were incorrectly counted as not registered. She says some of those signatures should count.

Assistant Attorney General John Hirth, who represents Kander’s office, disagreed. Even with those signatures, Hirth said New Approach is short 23 signatures.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police say they’ve recovered a stolen handgun used by a man who shot at two vehicles and then was shot by officers on the campus of Creighton University.

Police said in a news release Sunday night the 26-year-old man has been hospitalized for several wounds. He was shot a little after 6 a.m. Sunday after officers confronted him on the campus. Police say the man had shot at two occupied vehicles a few blocks away, striking the vehicles but missing the people inside.

Police say the .22-caliber handgun recovered from the man had been reported stolen Jan. 22.

The officers who fired at the man were identified as Austin Taylor, a veteran of two years on the force, and Aaron Anderson, a 12-year veteran.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Relatives of Dwight D. Eisenhower have dropped their objections to the design of a long-planned memorial for the 34th president in Washington.

The Eisenhower Memorial Commission announced Monday that Ike’s relatives now support the memorial designed by esteemed architect Frank Gehry after negotiations “yielded a compromise on several design elements.” Former Secretary of State James Baker was involved in those negotiations.

The modified design will place more emphasis on Eisenhower’s home state of Kansas and will represent the site of the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, as it exists today.

Congress approved the memorial in 1999 and allocated funding for planning, but the project has bogged down over objections to the design. Supporters are trying to raise $150 million with the goal of completing the memorial by 2019.

HORTON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Indian tribe is celebrating a new water rights agreement that will help it develop a reservoir on its reservation.

The agreement between the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas and the state was approved earlier this month but still must be ratified by Congress.

The deal is the next step toward developing the Plum Creek Project, which has been in the works for decades but slowed by private property owners reluctant to give up land in the watershed.

The agreement quantifies the tribe’s water rights, which was necessary before it could start storing the water once the project is completed.

Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas chairman Lester Randall says in addition to quantity, the agreement also could help improve water quality for the reservation.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A record number of volunteers have turned out to tag monarch butterflies as they make their annual migration to Mexico.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that 617 participants showed up Saturday to help at the annual Monarch Watch project at the Baker Wetlands south of Lawrence.

Insect ecologist Chip Taylor says the number surpassed the previous volunteer high of 551 at the previous tagging site near Clinton Lake.

Taylor is the founder of the University of Kansas’ Monarch Watch. He says the small tags being used have an adhesive used to bond it to the butterflies’ wings for life.

Each has a six-character number/letter combination that will be added to a national database. In the last 24 years, 1.2 million tag numbers have been entered into the database.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An analysis of data from Iowa law enforcement agencies shows they seize cash, vehicles and other private property from at least 1,000 people a year without proof the property was acquired as a result of a crime or was being used to help people commit crimes.

The Des Moines Register reports that the seizures have increased markedly since the 1980s, when state and local governments reported fewer than two dozen such cases annually. The civil forfeiture laws have let helped the agencies pump millions of dollars into their budgets, mostly in uncontested cases.

Iowa County Attorneys Association guidelines say prosecutors are supposed to use forfeiture to deter future criminal activity. But critics of the practice say it has strayed beyond the original intent of the state’s forfeiture laws.