KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man has been charged in a shooting that injured seven people in Kansas City’s Westport entertainment district.

Twenty-nine-year-old Kelvin Clark, of Kansas City, Kansas, faces seven counts each of assault and armed criminal action. His bond is set at $250,000.

No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

Court documents say a man was knocked down by a vehicle early Sunday. Surveillance video from after the collision shows two people inside of the vehicle shooting toward the downed man and a crowd.

Police said in a news release that the suspects’ vehicle then drove at responding officers before crashing. The release says an officer fired at the vehicle, but no one was struck by that gunfire. Police said the most seriously wounded victim was in critical condition.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Missouri State University is dealing with two sightings of bats in preschool classrooms.

The university says in a release a bat initially spotted inside the university library flew through two preschool classrooms on campus before it was caught.

On another day, a bat was seen hanging off a backpack in a preschool classroom at the Child Development Center. The university says one sighting was in August, and the other was in September.

The incidents were reported to the health department.

The Springfield News-Leader reports no bites have been reported. But “out of an abundance of caution” the health department is advising parents of the children who attend the center to consult their doctor regarding preventive medical treatment for rabies.

The university’s working to ensure all bats have been removed.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Four months after the federal government gave up a court fight to keep the lesser prairie chicken on the endangered species list, environmentalists say there’s new evidence that warrants listing the bird again.

A coalition of environmental groups has filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

They argue that key populations are in danger of extinction as climate change exacerbates problems caused by energy development, farming and other infrastructure such as roads and power lines.

The groups say emergency protections are needed for isolated populations along the Texas-New Mexico border, in Colorado and in western Kansas.

Following court rulings in Texas that stripped the bird of protection, federal officials moved in July to formally remove it from the list. The agency has said the bird’s status would be re-evaluated.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — State and federal regulators say 32 disposal wells in northeastern Oklahoma must shut down because they are too near a newly discovered fault line that produced the state’s strongest earthquake on record.

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission said Monday that 27 wells under its jurisdiction would cease operations, along with five wells in Osage County, which is covered by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules.

A magnitude 5.8 quake at Pawnee, Oklahoma, on Sept. 3 shook several states, including Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. The quake was felt by dozens of people here in St Joseph. Shortly afterward, geologists speculated on whether the temblor occurred on a previously unknown fault.

In a standard energy field practice, wastewater from oil and gas production is injected deep into the earth. The increase in what’s called “pore pressure” has been blamed for triggering an increase in earthquakes.

Regulators shuttered wells within 10 miles of the new fault.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are attempting to expand Gov. Jay Nixon’s already historic status at the state’s most overridden governor.

Since Nixon took office in 2009, the Republican-led Legislature has overridden 83 vetoes of bills and budget expenditures by the Democratic governor.

That’s nearly four times the combined total of all other governors’ overrides dating back to the early 1800s.

The high number of overrides is partly because of Republicans’ virtually unchecked control of the Legislature.

If GOP members stick together, they have the numbers to override Nixon without help from Democrats.

It’s unknown where Nixon ranks on the charts of American’s most overridden governors in history. But he appears unusual among contemporaries in states with similar political dynamics.

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prisons officials are reporting another attack on prison staff by an inmate. The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services says an inmate hit three staff members at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution on Friday as they tried to restrain him.

Officials say all three staff members were treated for minor injuries and released from the Johnson County Hospital.

A week earlier, on Sept. 2, the prison was placed on lockdown after officials received information that violent attacks on staff members had been planned.

There has been a rash of attacks on corrections officers and staff at various Nebraska prisons over several months, including one last month in Lincoln that officials say was carried about by a dozen inmates and left nine officers injured.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Fire officials in Tennessee say nine people — four adults and five children — have died after a blaze burned a home in Memphis. Family members told reporters that 11 people perished.

Fire Department Lt. Wayne Cook said the first firefighters who arrived at the scene about 1:30 a.m. saw smoking coming out of the one-story home where a family lived. He said it took about 15 minutes for firefighters to extinguish the blaze.

Officials are trying to determine what caused the fire. Sweat said it’s the most deaths in a single fire in the city since the 1920s.

(staff and wire reports)

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A man has been arrested in the death of a Johnson County Sheriff’s deputy after crashing into his stopped patrol car.

Overland Park Police spokesman, Officer John Lacy, says the 38-year-old suspect is jailed on suspicion of reckless second-degree murder in the death of Master Deputy Brandon Collins.

The crash happened Sunday after the 45-year-old Collins stopped a driver for a traffic infraction on U.S. 69. Lacy says Collins had made contact with the driver and returned to his vehicle when it was rear-ended. Collins died at the scene. No one else was hurt.

Lacy says the suspect fled on foot and was captured in the area.

The results of a drug and alcohol tests are pending. Lacy said he didn’t know if the suspect had an attorney.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police say one person was critically injured and five others were wounded after a shooting at the city’s Westport entertainment district.

Police spokeswoman Capt. Stacey Graves says officers saw a man shooting into a crowd early Sunday.

The gunman fled and then drove his vehicle toward responding officers, causing one officer to fire at the vehicle.

The driver eventually crashed his car and police arrested two people. Police say no one was struck by police gunfire.

An investigation is continuing. No information on a possible motive for the shooting has been released.

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — Two people were critically injured and a good Samaritan killed a suspect during a confrontation in the parking lot of a suburban Kansas City Wal-Mart.

Police said the incident Sunday afternoon in Shawnee began when two suspects hit a woman in the head from behind as she was putting her child in her car.

Shawnee police Maj. Dan Tennis says a person in the parking lot who tried to help was shot several times. Another good Samaritan then shot one of the suspects, who died at the scene.

The second suspect fled but was caught near the store.

The female victim and the other person who was shot were both hospitalized in critical condition.

Tennis said a motive for the initial attack on the woman is not yet clear.