KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City animal control officers removed 25 pets from a home, adding to already severely overcrowded conditions at the city animal shelter.

Tori Fugate, spokeswoman for the KC Pet Project shelter, described the home as having poor living conditions. Animal control was told about the situation earlier this week.

The animals included two cats and 23 dogs, including a female with puppies. Most of the adults were Chihuahua mixes.

The Kansas City Star reports the KC Pet Project had already taken in more than 270 cats in July.

The shelter is asking for donations, particularly of food, for the animals.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — After-school clubs appear to be the next venture of a national group that sought to install a statue of Satan outside two state capitols to protest Christian monuments on public grounds.

The Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple sent emails this week seeking to start clubs in nine school districts where religious groups offer after-school programs, most by the Child Evangelism Fellowship.

Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves says the program would show “that people can be of different religious opinions and still be moral, upright people.”

Several districts said they were reviewing the group’s request. They noted their facilities were available to community groups.

A Christian legal aid group that has represented the Child Evangelism Fellowship says Greaves’ group is an “atheist group masquerading” as religious.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office says a routine traffic stop on Interstate 80 near Lincoln turned up close to 50 pounds of marijuana in a pickup.

The sheriff’s office says the stop occurred around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, and deputies conducted a probable-cause search.

Deputies say they found 49 one-pound bags of marijuana packed into totes in the bed of the pickup. Authorities estimate the street value of the marijuana at $250,000. The search also turned up hash oils and a handgun.

Two men in the truck were arrested on suspicion of possessing marijuana with intent to deliver and other counts.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has proposed new daily catch limits and a harvest season for commercial turtle trapping.

Earlier this year, the state Legislature passed a bill requiring the DNR to set a harvest season and daily catch limits for turtles to more closely regulate the practice.

The Des Moines Register reports that the proposal limits the daily catch to 14 snapping turtles, one softshell turtle and three painted turtles. Trappers have been allowed to catch an unlimited amount of certain turtles year-round.

The DNR also proposed a commercial trapping season that begins July 1 and runs through Dec. 31 to protect turtles during their nesting season.

The latest data from the DNR shows that more than 17,500 turtles were caught statewide in 2014 worth a wholesale value of nearly $273,000.

WAKARUSA, Kan. (AP) — Investigators have cleared three Kansas sheriff’s deputies in connection with the 2015 death of a man who collapsed after the deputies shocked him with stun guns during a domestic dispute.

Osage County Attorney Brandon Jones released on Wednesday the findings of the probe by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Osage County Sheriff’s Office in the death of 47-year-old Kenneth Schick.

Authorities have said deputies who responded to a reported domestic dispute in October of last year used stun guns and pepper spray to gain control of Schick.

Schick later died at a Topeka hospital.

Wednesday’s report says the investigation of the confrontation found no credible evidence the deputies used unreasonable force on Schick.

The report also says Schick placed two deputies in potentially life-threatening situations.

MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 40-year-old man accused of killing a Missouri man and four Kansas residents earlier this year will get a new judge in his Missouri trial.

Pablo Serrano-Vitorino has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the March 8 shooting death of Randy Nordman in New Florence.

Missouri prosecutors have announced plans to seek the death penalty in the case.

Serrano-Vitorino also is charged in Kansas with killing a Kansas City, Kansas, neighbor and three other men at the neighbor’s home on March 7.

KOMU reports that at a hearing Wednesday, a Montgomery County judge granted Serrano-Vitorino’s request for a new judge.

Serrano-Vitorino also asked for a change of venue, but that request will be taken up by the new judge, who has not been assigned yet.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police say no one was injured when a police helicopter made an emergency landing in a city intersection.

Police spokeswoman Kari Thompson said in a statement that the pilots landed the helicopter upright just before 8:30 p.m. at Independence Avenue and Elmwood after it experienced a mechanical problem.

There were no injuries reported, although many residents in that neighborhood were startled to see the chopper on the ground in the middle of the intersection.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Prisons officials say staff members at the Nebraska State Penitentiary have regained control of a group of inmates who refused orders to return to their living quarters. A statement from the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services says the prison is on lockdown status after the incident Tuesday evening.

According to the statement, a group of inmates who had been ordered to return to their housing unit from the dining hall refused to leave a yard. A group of inmates “converged on staff” and inmates throughout the facility “became defiant” and “verbally aggressive.”

A warning shot was fired from a guard tower in an effort to bring the detainees in line. Warden Rich Cruickshank says staff regained control and secured the facility. The statement says no staff or inmates were injured.

The facility will be on lockdown status while the incident is investigated.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka woman has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison in a deadly stabbing.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 36-year-old Kizzey Lynn Carter was sentenced Monday for voluntary manslaughter in the death of 33-year-old Siobohn McClelland, of Topeka. Officers found McClelland suffering from a life-threatening stab wound in November when they responded to a loud disturbance at an apartment. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Carter was arrested at the scene and originally charged with second-degree murder. The count later was reduced to voluntary manslaughter upon sudden quarrel or in the heat of passion.

Carter also was ordered to pay restitution $12,690 in the case.