JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Federal tax documents show that Eric Greitens, the Republican candidate for Missouri governor, was paid $700,000 over a five-year period by a charity he founded to help veterans.

Democratic candidate Chris Koster is criticizing the payments in new ads launched Wednesday. One accuses Greitens of diverting money intended to help veterans to instead promote himself.

Greitens’ campaign responded with a fundraising email saying Koster “should be ashamed” for the attack while asking supporters to give money to fight it.

Greitens is a former Navy SEAL officer who used part of his combat pay to help found The Mission Continues in 2007.

Internal Revenue Service records show he initially worked without pay but eventually received a salary of $175,000 annually. Greitens stepped down as CEO of The Mission Continues in 2014.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Democratic Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says he’s “optimistic” some of his vetoes will be sustained when the Republican-led Legislature considers overrides next week.

Nixon made his case against more than 20 vetoed bills to reporters Wednesday at the Capitol in advance of the annual veto session.

Republicans have enough members in both chambers to override vetoes.

Nixon’s vetoes of a sweeping guns bill and a photo identification requirement for voters at the polls have gotten the most attention.

Nixon focused Wednesday on some of the lesser-known vetoed bills. He slammed legislation to allow license offices to charge more fees. He also criticized a bill to take away a current requirement that certain businesses use a federal E-verify system to check if job applicants are authorized to work in the U.S.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A male inmate at a Missouri jail has been charged with raping a female inmate after another inmate freed him using a key that a guard left in a door.

The Jackson County prosecutor’s office said Wednesday that 29-year-old Dontae Jefferson of Kansas City is also charged with burglary and sexual abuse in the incident at the Jackson County Regional Correctional Center.

It’s unclear how Jefferson got inside the woman’s cell.

Online court records don’t list Jefferson’s attorney. Bond is set at $1 million.

Another female inmate last month alleged she was assaulted in her cell, prompting an investigation into reports that three inmates were wandering freely in the jail. That investigation continues. An independent audit also was ordered.

Authorities subsequently removed nearly two dozen female inmates from the facility.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel has opened a preliminary investigation into why the price of lifesaving EpiPens has skyrocketed. The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Homeland’s investigations subcommittee said in a statement Wednesday that they began an inquiry into Mylan Pharmaceuticals’ pricing and competition practices.

Mylan has been sharply criticized for its steep price increases for the emergency allergy treatment EpiPen.

The price has grown to $608 for a two-pack, up more than 500 percent since 2007. The drugmaker has announced it will launch a generic version that will cost $300 in the next several weeks.

GOP Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio and Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri head the panel.

Heather Bresch, CEO of the pharmaceutical company, is the daughter of Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A transgender woman is suing the Greene County sheriff and three jailers after she says her civil rights were violated during a strip search.

The lawsuit says the woman, identified as J.G., was booked into the Greene County Jail and a female member jail staff member performed a strip search before assigning J.G. to a cell in the jail’s female section, where she spent the night.

The lawsuit alleges the arresting officer questioned the next day why J.G. was being held in the female wing of the jail, and another strip search was conducted, observed by a male and female jailer. Once identified as transgender, the woman says she was placed in protective custody and isolated from the other inmates.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that an attorney for the sheriff and jailers says no constitutional violations occurred.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge says she’ll appoint an expert to determine the scope of Sixth Amendment violations she says have been committed against inmates at a private federal prison in Kansas. U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson on Wednesday questioned federal prosecutors about how much they knew about the Corrections Corporation of America prison in Leavenworth taking silent recordings of inmate-attorney meetings and phone calls.

Federal defense attorneys say such recordings violate attorney-client privilege guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

The judge later told the courtroom that an assistant prosecutor had entered her chambers Aug. 25 while she was on vacation. That’s where some evidence taken from the prison was being held.

The judge stopped short of calling the prosecutor’s actions sinister but said she felt everyone needed to know what had happened.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 70-year-old man accused of robbing a bank in Kansas told investigators he would rather be imprisoned than live with his wife.

Court documents say Lawrence John Ripple gave a note to a bank teller in Kansas City on Friday, demanding cash and warning he had a gun. Ripple took the money and went to sit in the lobby where he told a guard he was the “guy he was looking for.”

Officers arrived quickly. An FBI agent wrote in the affidavit that Ripple had earlier been arguing with his wife. He told investigators he wrote the note in front of his wife, telling her he would “rather be in jail than at home.”

Ripple was charged with bank robbery Tuesday.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Ripple.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Officials say this fall’s enrollment has set a record for the University of Nebraska system.

The office of university President Hank Bounds says enrollment at the four campuses and the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis is 52,515. That’s a 1.3 percent increase over fall 2015. The new figure surpasses the system’s previous high of 52,108, set in 1992.

The Lincoln campus reported enrollment of 25,897 — a 2.5 percent increase. The Omaha campus reported enrollment of 15,627 — an increase of 0.7 percent. The Medical Center in Omaha reported enrollment of 3,861 for an increase of 1.9 percent. The Kearney campus reported enrollment of 6,788 — an increase of 0.6 percent. The College of Technical Agriculture reported enrollment of 342 — a decrease of 33.2 percent.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita City Council has approved a new ordinance that will separate the offense of biking under the influence from driving a motor vehicle under the influence.

The ordinance was approved Tuesday. Under current city ordinances, drunken bicycle riding and drunken driving are treated the same. That poses a conflict with state law, which doesn’t have a crime for operating a human-powered vehicle under the influence.

A staff report by the city attorney’s office says the legal difference has caused some problems in calculating penalties for drunken drivers in court.

The new ordinance will make it a crime to operate a human-powered vehicle drunk if the rider causes a traffic or safety hazard. The penalty for a BUI would be $500 maximum and six months in jail.