KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A $25 million donation from a Houston-based foundation helped push fundraising at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus to a record high despite several months of racial unrest.

The university announced on Wednesday that it raised nearly $171 million in fiscal year 2016, which ended June 30. That’s more than $23 million higher than last year’s total and nearly $7 million more than the previous record set in 2014.

Top Mizzou fundraising official Tom Hiles says the school has a generous donor base that stepped up.

Sam Hamacher says he and other donors kept an eye on the university’s reaction to protests that broke out in November over the administration’s handling of racial issues. He says alumni decided that if something needs to be fixed, then it should be.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Des Moines airport officials will have to spend up to $100,000 to build a room for service dogs to relieve themselves inside the terminal.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The family of a Missouri man fatally beaten in 2013 outside of Arrowhead Stadium, home of the Kansas City Chiefs, is suing the NFL franchise.

The Kansas City Star reports the wrongful-death lawsuit was filed Monday in Jackson County on behalf of Kyle Van Winkle’s widow and his son, who was just weeks old when Van Winkle died. Seeking unspecified damages, the lawsuit blames a lack of adequate security in the parking lot at the time Van Winkle was beaten during an altercation.

The law firm behind the lawsuit says the lawsuit’s goal is to make Arrowhead safer for fans. The Chiefs have declined to comment.

Joshua Bradley of Independence has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in Van Winkle’s death and is serving five years of probation.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A 14-year-old Hutchinson boy was sentenced to nearly four years in juvenile detention for his role in a plan to launch a pipe bomb attack on Hutchinson High School.

The teenager was sentenced Tuesday to 45 months in detention, followed by three years of aftercare.

Authorities say he and a 15-year-old Hutchinson boy conspired to kill specific staff at the school with pipe bombs. Court documents allege the pair wrote plans for the bombs and used gunpowder from blasting caps to trigger the bomb.

Another student alerted the high school administration of the alleged plot.

Both teens pleaded no contest to a charge of conspiracy to commit capital murder.

The boy apologized to the school, the court and his family for his actions.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri House Democratic leaders are calling for a GOP lawmaker to step down after he moved out of his district.

Minority Leader Jake Hummel and Assistant Minority Leader Gail McCann Beatty said in a letter dated Monday to Rep. Ron Hicks said he should resign immediately.

Hicks didn’t immediately return an Associated Press request for comment.

Hicks previously told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he moved from his St. Peters home to Dardenne Prairie in June. That means he no longer lives in his House district.

Missouri’s Constitution says if lawmakers don’t live in the district they were elected to serve, their office shall be vacated.

Hicks is not seeking re-election. If he stays in office, he’ll be among lawmakers who in September will consider overriding vetoed bills.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Advocates for people with disabilities are urging the federal government to require Kansas to quickly clear its backlog of Medicaid applications and to resolve problems with its application process as a condition for approving any renewal of its privatized program.

The Disability Rights Center asked the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to force the issue.

They want Kansas to document a “realistic plan” to eliminate the backlog and to notify all applicants of their appeal rights. It also wants Kansas to inform approved applicants they are entitled to retroactive coverage.

The Kansas Department for Health and Environment told The Topeka Capital Journal that the state is not required to inform people of their right to a hearing, but does so anyway if an application takes longer than 45 days to process.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after she tried to hire an undercover officer to kill her husband’s pregnant girlfriend.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 35-year-old Sherri Densing, of St. Charles, was sentenced Monday in St. Charles County Circuit Court for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and distribution of a controlled substance.

Authorities charged her in August after videotaping a meeting between her and the undercover officer. Densing provided the officer with photographs of the woman, keys to her vehicle and what Densing believed was the key to the girlfriend’s residence.

Authorities say Densing also gave the officer $60 to buy a gun and vials of morphine, hyrdomorphone, lorazepam and other illegal narcotics.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected the state’s attempt to block a $1 million settlement between Lancaster County and a man paralyzed in a county jail cell.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services had sought more than half that settlement to recoup Medicaid payments for Arok Atem’s medical bills.

Atem was arrested in April 2011 after police suspected he was drunk at a hospital. He was later found in his cell with spinal cord fractures. He is now a quadriplegic.

In rejecting the state health agency’s attempt to recoup more than $500,000, Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf said Monday that the settlement expressly excluded medical expenses.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa park ranger is being credited for saving two Council Bluffs men whose boat on Lake Manawa filled with water because of high winds.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources says in a news release that 72-year-old William Buchholz and 54-year-old James Tanga were fishing on the western Iowa lake around 10 p.m. Monday when winds kicked up. The men were about 100 yards from a boat ramp when the boat became swamped.

Lake Manawa State Park Ranger Aaron Johnson, who had been monitoring the boat because of the weather, went to the men’s rescue. Johnson and Council Bluffs firefighters were able to pull the men, who were treading water, to safety.

Authorities say there were life jackets on board the boat, but the men were not wearing them.