ST. MARYS, Kan. (AP) — The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs has requested medical records from the Department of Veterans Affairs for the former Marine who killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Florida Rep. Jeff Miller sent a letter dated July 21 to the VA requesting all medical records for Gavin Long, an Iraq war veteran. The Republican also asked for a briefing from VA staff on the VA services Long received.

Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a committee member, confirmed Monday the letter was sent last week.

Long’s mother, Corine Woodley, told PBS’ Tavis Smiley that her son had post-traumatic stress disorder and unsuccessfully sought the VA’s help.

Woodley says the VA denied her son’s request in 2013, on grounds that the disorder wasn’t related to military service.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man is critically injured after driving a go-kart into the side of a St. Louis police cruiser.

KMOV-TV reports that the accident happened Saturday night when the go-kart driver ran a red light and drove onto Kingshighway and struck the side of a Chevrolet Tahoe police cruiser.

The go-kart driver was taken to a hospital. The officer was unhurt.

CUSHING, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say they have found the body of a Kansas woman who went missing Sunday after skydiving in northern Oklahoma.

Lincoln County Emergency Management Director Wendi Marcy on Monday said authorities have alerted the Kansas woman’s family they found the body, but referred The Associated Press to county Sheriff Charlie Dougherty for other details.

Marcy said she did not know the name of the woman. Dougherty could not be immediately reached by phone or email.

Television station KFOR reports multiple law enforcement agencies had been searching for the woman after her parachute was found in a wooded area near Cushing, Oklahoma.

Marcy says she does not know how authorities identified the woman’s body.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Texas man whose life was ruined by a convicted child sex offender who stole his identity has seen his impostor sentenced in a federal courtroom in Kansas.

Marcus Calvillo of Grand Prairie, Texas, can now begin to repair the havoc left from a decades-long ordeal that prosecutors call one of the most devastating identity theft cases they’ve seen.

Fernando Neave-Ceniceros was sentenced Monday to a year and a day for misusing a Social Security number. His plea deal will help prosecutors clear his victim’s name more quickly.

Neave-Ceniceros says he feels bad and is sorry. He says he never meant to hurt anybody.

Calvillo told the court he is now 45 years old and would like to have what’s left of his life solely to himself.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a woman fatally injured in an Omaha house explosion was a property inspector sent to check its condition after a tenant was evicted.

Police say 30-year-old Clara Bender died after being taken to Nebraska Medical Center. The blast occurred around 12:15 p.m. Monday in Omaha’s Benson neighborhood. A 46-year-old woman who lives next door and a 14-year-old boy also were hospitalized.

The explosion leveled the house and heavily damaged four adjacent homes.

Authorities say Bender worked for Certified Property Management. Company President Jeremy Aspen says Bender was married to another of his employees.

Police and fire investigators are trying to find out what caused the explosion.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials say a campaign to prevent teen smoking in Kansas City is progressing faster than expected.

A local campaign called Tobacco 21 began in October, and nearly half the residents in the metro area now must be 21 to buy tobacco products.

Organizers say the progress is due to a partnership between public health advocates and the business community.

Implementing ordinances to increase the minimum age of sale and purchase of tobacco products is being discussed in the Missouri cities of Liberty and Lee’s Summit, as well as Tonganoxie, Kansas.

A report from the Institute of Medicine says if all states raised the legal age for tobacco purchase to 21, there would be a 12 percent drop in teen and young adult smokers.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Some St. Louis-area officers say they are concerned that their body armor is not strong enough in the wake of police killings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Jeff Roorda, business manager for the St. Louis Police Officers Association and St. Louis County Police Association, tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the union has met with city police leaders to discuss more protective ballistic vests and other ways to protect officers.

St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson says the city’s ballistic vests last about five years and that the department is seeking bids for new ones, with input from the union.

Roorda says some officers have bought rifle-resistant vests with their own money.

Some departments, including St. Louis County police, already have rifle-resistant vests due to donations.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri prosecutor has determined that a Springfield man used an officer’s gun to kill himself last year while resisting arrest.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that the shooting happened in November while Officer Kolby Helms was attempting to arrest 23-year-old Magnum Phillips and take a knife away from him at a mobile home park. A Greene County news release says Phillips grabbed Helms’ handgun, and the pair struggled over it before Phillips shot himself in the head.

The release says prosecuting attorney Dan Patterson’s investigation affirms the officer’s account. Patterson also said in a letter to the Springfield police chief that Phillips said he wanted to die.

Patterson described the case in a news release as a “stark reminder of the dangers faced by police officers.”

MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — The new drone Kossuth County invested in helped authorities rescue a man and his granddaughter from the Upper Des Moines River earlier this month.

The Mason City Globe Gazette reports the remote-control aircraft helped authorities quickly locate Thomas Fitzpatrick of Algona and his granddaughter on July 13.

Deputy Josh Missman says he had just recently finished training on flying the drone aircraft before the rescue. He was able to find Fitzpatrick in less than 5 minutes that day, which enabled rescuers to reach him before nightfall.

That time proved important because Fitzpatrick had had a heart attack and needed medical attention.

GLENWOOD, Iowa (AP) — A bicyclist participating in the annual ride across Iowa was killed Sunday after colliding with a pickup truck near Glenwood.

The Iowa State Patrol says the collision happened on U.S. Highway 34 Sunday morning.

Seventy-two-year-old Wayne Ezell of Jacksonville, Florida, was hit by the truck from behind while he was riding west.

The State Patrol will investigate whether any charges will be filed against the 34-year-old truck driver.

The Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa set out from Glenwood on Sunday and Ezell was participating.

Organizers say that about 30 people have died in the event’s 44 year history, but most deaths are linked to medical problems.