WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas dad’s touching gesture of getting a tattoo to match a scar his young son was left with following brain cancer surgery is winning kudos on the internet.

Josh Marshall tells ABC News his 8-year-old son Gabriel was left bald with a large horseshoe scar after surgery.

Gabriel was left with the scar on the right side of his head after undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor. Marshall says Gabriel was so self-conscious that “he felt like a monster.”

Last August, Marshall got a tattoo to match, telling his son, “if people want to stare at you, then they can stare at both of us.”

A photo of the pair took first place in the St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s #BestBaldDad competition on Father’s Day and has since gone viral.

Marshall says Gabriel is doing well and has another MRI scheduled next week.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A competency evaluation has been ordered for a 17-year-old Lawrence boy accused of killing his grandmother.

Court proceedings against the teen have been suspended pending the results.

The teen was 16 in December when police found his 67-year-old grandmother, Deborah Bretthauer, dead in the apartment they shared. The teen is charged in juvenile court, but prosecutors have filed a motion to try the teen as an adult.

If the boy is convicted of the juvenile first-degree murder charge, he could face up to 60 months in prison, or to the age of 22. In adult court, he could face more than 40 years in prison.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court says a Harvey County sheriff’s deputy accused of entering a family’s front yard without a warrant and killing their dog must face trial in the lawsuit brought by its owners.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided Monday with Kent and Tonya Mayfield in ruling that the Halstead couple asserted sufficient facts to show a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights.

The appeals court found a district judge properly denied Deputy Jim Bethards’ request to dismiss the lawsuit against him.

Their lawsuit claims the deputy and his partner entered their property in July 2014 with the intention of killing their two dogs, firing upon both dogs and killing their Malamute Husky, Majka.

Their complaint cites a witness who said neither dog acted aggressively.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Education officials say Missouri schools experience widespread chronic absenteeism with more than 40,000 students in the St. Louis region and nine area counties who have missed 15 or more days of school during the 2013-14 school year.

Attendance data was released this month by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office For Civil Rights and St. Louis Public Schools. According to the data, close to half of those students were in high school.

Chronic absenteeism includes truancy as well as excused absences. More than 6.5 million students nationwide were considered chronically absent in 2013-14. Of those 6.5 million student, 18 percent were in high school.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 29-year-old Kansas City man accused of intentionally running over a transgender woman several times and leaving her to die remains jailed in Colorado awaiting extradition.

Luis M. Sanchez was charged Monday with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the August death of 36-year-old Tamara Dominguez. Charges were unsealed Friday after Sanchez was arrested in Colorado, where he fled after Dominguez’s death.

Court records say a witness told police he saw the driver of a black SUV hit the victim, back over her then run over her again. Authorities have not released a possible motive in the case.

The suspect has not been charged with a hate crime. Mike Mansur, spokesman for Jackson County prosecutor’s office, said the charges could be changed if new evidence is found.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The former operator of several homes for the mentally and physically disabled in Kansas City will serve two years without parole in federal prison for a tax-evasion scheme.

Dedree Carlisle, of Kansas City, was sentenced Tuesday for attempting to evade taxes and ordered to pay $397,213 in restitution.

Carlisle owned and operated a group home health care business at several locations in Kansas City. The business leased several houses in residential neighborhoods, under contracts with the Missouri Department of Social Services. It had 12 to 20 employees.

She admitted that used money she withheld from her employees’ paychecks for her own benefit. She also didn’t pay the business portion of employment taxes or pay taxes on her own income. Carlisle admitted that she gambled heavily at Kansas City-area casinos.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The interim president of the University of Missouri system says the school could be a national example in how it responds to racial unrest that rocked the Columbia campus last fall.

Michael Middleton told the National Press Club Tuesday that he expects to keep the job until at least the end of the year while a search for a permanent president continues.

Middleton defended the firing of assistant professor Melissa Click. And he said he expects a $30 million drop in tuition because of a steep decline in freshmen enrollment in the fall.

Middleton said he understood why some parents would hesitate to send their children to Columbia after last fall’s disruptions but he said the campus is safe.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has cleared the way for routine commercial use of small drones. The decision comes after years of struggling to write rules that would both protect public safety and free the benefits of a new technology.

The Federal Aviation Administration has created a new category of rules for drones weighing less than 55 pounds. The long-anticipated rules would mean drone operators would be able to fly without special permission.

Currently, they have to apply for a waiver from rules that govern manned aircraft, a process that can be time-consuming and expensive.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nearly $18,000 worth of snakes and feeding rats have been stolen from an exotic pet store in Omaha.

The Omaha World-Herald reports that surveillance video shows a burglary being committed at Bart’s Exotic Pets early Friday. The intruder collected eight ball pythons, including one valued at $5,000, in a little more than a minute and a half.

The suspect also stole $1,500 in frozen rats.

Store owner Don Everson says he believes the thief is a former customer. He intends to press charges.

Everson says the ball python is a constrictor snake found in sub-Saharan Africa. Growing from 3 to 5 feet, it’s the smallest of the African pythons and is popular in the pet trade because of its typically docile temperament.