OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A former music instructor in Kansas was sentenced to life in prison for sexually molesting some of his young students.

Sean Andrew Dow, of Overland Park, was sentenced Thursday for one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child younger than 14. Authorities charged Dow last year with sexually abusing two students he gave music lessons to at Funky Munky Music in Shawnee.

Police learned about four other victims when investigating. The prison sentence he received Thursday was for charges involving all six victims.

Dow is also charged in Jackson County, Missouri, with first-degree statutory sodomy, first-degree child molestation, sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of child pornography.

Those allegations involve a 7-year-old girl in Kansas City.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Board of Regents President Blake Flanders says Kansas is facing the prospect of a “brain drain” as fewer people who graduate from a Kansas college or university choose to stay in the state.

It’s unclear whether people are leaving because the higher education system is failing to align itself with the Kansas economy, or whether the local economy is failing to offer the opportunities college graduates seek.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Flanders addressed the board Wednesday during its annual retreat, which was held in Wichita.

Flanders said that from 2010 to 2014 the percentage of Kansas college graduates employed in Kansas within one year of finishing school has remained relatively flat. But he said the number employed here five years after graduating has been declining.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An investigative report from the State Fire Marshal’s Office says Metropolitan Utilities District workers didn’t mark the natural gas line that was breached and sparked a massive fire that destroyed a building in downtown Omaha. The report is the basis of a June 23 letter notifying the district that the Marshal’s Office is preparing to conclude that the utility violated state pipeline-safety regulations.

The report says that the underground excavators who hit the pipe while drilling in the area couldn’t have known of its existence without the markings of nearby gas lines.

The district has previously said that it properly marked the lines.

The “notice of probable violation” letter is marked “draft.” Both the district and the Marshal’s Office say the investigation is continuing.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A proposal to allow casino gambling in Nebraska has failed to qualify for the November general election ballot.

Secretary of State John Gale announced Thursday that organizers of a petition drive didn’t submit enough verified signatures to put the issue before voters.

Gale says organizers turned in 119,666 signatures for the proposed constitutional amendment, but 41,710 were rejected by county election officials who reviewed them. At least 117,188 valid signatures were needed.

Gale says more than 24,000 signatures were rejected because signers weren’t registered in the county indicated on the petition sheet. Nearly 4,600 were rejected as duplicates and more than 3,000 were rejected because signers were not registered voters.

Petition organizers had spent nearly $1.4 million on the campaign as of July 26.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Public health officials are announcing Clay County’s first case of Zika virus.

Officials said Thursday the patient is a male resident who recently traveled outside of the U.S. to an area of the Caribbean area that is experiencing an outbreak.

Zika primarily spreads through bites from a specific species of mosquito. It causes a mild illness in most people but can lead to severe brain-related birth defects if women are infected during pregnancy.

Aaron Smullin with the Clay County Public Health Center said because the case involved travel, residents don’t need to be immediately concerned. But he suggested that people take steps to eliminate places on their property where mosquitoes could breed.

There have been no reports of locally transmitted cases in Missouri.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Schlitterbahn WaterPark in Kansas has reopened except for a sprawling section including the “Verruckt” waterslide, where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated over the weekend.

Although the raft ride where the boy died was not open, its towering profile greeted visitors Wednesday as soon as they drove through the entrance.

Pulling a cooler behind her, 42-year-old Sara Craig said she was looking forward to an afternoon of water fun Wednesday with her 14-year-old son, Cale, and one of his 13-year-old friends.

But she said that she was feeling guilty when a family is hurting so badly.

She said the family rode Verruckt twice in one day a couple of weeks ago

Craig said that during her first trip down the ride with her son and one of his friends, her shoulder restraint came off, something she opted not to report to park workers.

So they rode it again, only to see the restraint on her son’s friend also come loose by the time it was over.

CLAYCOMO, Mo. (AP) — A worker at the Ford assembly plant near Kansas City was shot and killed during a shift change.

Clay County Sheriff’s Capt. Will Akin says the man was found dead in the parking lot about 4 a.m. Thursday.

Akin says investigators think the shooting was an isolated incident and the shooter is not a danger to others.

The suspect got away but Akin says investigators have several leads.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration isn’t going to reclassify marijuana and remove it from the list of the most dangerous drugs.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri high school teacher has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography.

U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson says 26-year-old Stephen Gregory Strobel of Jefferson City was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty April 18 to the charge.

Prosecutors say a woman in Wooster, Ohio, discovered in April 2014 that her 13-year-old daughter had engaged in a sexually explicit Internet chat with Strobel. Investigators contacted Strobel a month later at St. Elizabeth High School in the tiny village of St. Elizabeth southwest of Jefferson City.

Strobel admitted exchanging pornographic photos with girl and sending a video from the girl to another person. He also admitted trading photos of other underage girls with various people online but said he never asked the ages of the depicted children.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Gov. Pete Ricketts says a Nebraska senator who had cybersex on a state computer can no longer effectively advocate for his constituents.

Ricketts on Wednesday renewed his call for state Sen. Bill Kintner to resign from office. Kintner, of Papillion, was fined $1,000 last week and publicly admitted that he had cybersex with a woman he met online. Kintner contacted authorities after the woman tried to extort money.

Ricketts has previously said Kintner should resign if the allegations against him were true. After Kintner acknowledged his actions on Friday, Ricketts says he met with him a second time and again asked him to step down. Ricketts says Kintner listened but was noncommittal.

Senators are now considering options such as impeaching Kintner or expelling him from the Legislature.