COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri won’t adopt policies on free speech and protests until at least the fall to allow enough time to gather public comment.

A committee issued a draft in late May of policies designed to regulate public spaces on campus while also respecting free-speech rights. The committee, composed of 13 faculty, staff and students also was asked to determine how the university can best resolve conflicts over use of public spaces.

The committee was formed after protests rocked the Columbia campus last fall.

Suggestions on the policy can be emailed to the university’s website. A public meeting will be held in the fall. Faculty Council Chairman Ben Trachtenberg said he expects the draft policies to change before they are implemented.

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after one man was killed and another injured in a shooting at south-central Missouri home.

The Springfield News-Leader reports the shooting occurred early Sunday in rural Pulaski County.

Sheriff Ron Long said in a release no arrests had been made, but there are at least two suspects in the shooting.

Sheriff Long says he’s activated the Lake of the Ozarks Major Case Squad to assist in the investigation and is also getting help from the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

The identities of the victims have not been released. Long says the injured person is in fair condition and is expected to survive.

He says several other people in the home at the time weren’t injured in the shooting.

 

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha will receive a collection of nearly 600 original Currier and Ives prints from ConAgra.

The prints represent an expansive pictorial documentation of the post-Civil War republic before photography was widely used.

ConAgra obtained the works in the late 1980s when the company acquired Beatrice Foods, the collection’s former owner. Although portions of the collection were on display over the years at ConAgra’s Omaha campus, public viewing opportunities were limited and most of the prints remained in storage.

Josyln Art Museum Executive Director Jack Becker says the museum is grateful for the gift, which will ensure that visitors can still see them in Omaha.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) — A former Hasting police detective has been charged with using a fundraising site to raise money for fraudulent medical expenses.

The Grand Island Independent reports that 46-year-old Jerry Esch is charged with theft by deception involving more than $5,000.

Ecsh told authorities he raised more than $30,000 after posting the GoFundMe page.

Court documents say he told co-workers he needed to cover medical expenses not covered by his insurance provider, Blue Cross and Blue Shield. The affidavit also says that Blue Cross Blue Shield records from October 2014 to November 2015 show that Ecsh didn’t have any out-of-network services and that he had no denied claims in 2015.

Hastings Police Chief Pete Kortum didn’t confirm if Esch’s departure from the department was connected to the financial issue.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Ecsh has an attorney.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — After struggling through major droughts and legal battles over water rights, Nebraska is moving forward with an effort to keep the state’s water drinkable and abundant.

The Nebraska Natural Resources Commission tapped the state’s new water sustainability fund for the first time in April, awarding nearly $11.5 million to 16 projects throughout the state. The next round of applications runs July 16 through 31.

Lawmakers created the fund in 2014 and approved an initial $29 million investment, followed by $11 million a year. The money helps local governments deal with floods, water shortages and water quality issues. Senators also expanded the Nebraska Natural Resources Commission from 16 to 27 members.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A national group of professors has voted unanimously to sanction the University of Iowa for the way the school hired its new president.

The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that the century-old American Association of University Professors voted Saturday to sanction UI for “substantial non-compliance with standards of academic government.”

According to the group, the non-compliance occurred during the process that led to last year’s hiring of former IBM executive Bruce Harreld as president of the university.

In December, the group’s investigating committee found that instead of involving faculty fully in the presidential search, the Iowa Board of Regents engineered a search to identify a figure from the business world. Once the regents identified such a person, the report said, “what followed was at best an illusion of an open, honest search.”

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Police have arrested a Sioux City teen they say stole a Coca-Cola delivery truck, then gave away the goods inside.

The Sioux City Journal reports that police believe the 18-year-old stole the truck as the driver was inside a business making a delivery Monday.

Police say the teen then drove to a construction site in the Dakota Dune and gave away $1,000 in merchandise from the truck.

Police say he then came back to Sioux City in the truck and fled on foot when officers attempted to stop him.

Police say that upon his arrest, he was found with prescription pills that were not in his name.

The teen has been charged with theft, drug possession, reckless driving and other counts.

SAC CITY, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of people converged on the western Iowa town of Sac City this weekend to construct the world’s largest popcorn ball.

The Sioux City Journal reports a ball of popcorn estimated to weigh 10,000 pounds was constructed Saturday at the Noble Popcorn plant.

Sac City first claimed the largest popcorn ball in 1995, when people came together to make one weighing in at 2,225 pounds. The enormous treat traveled all over the Midwest and to the Iowa State Fair to promote Sac County’s claim as the “Popcorn Capital.”

But as the record was defeated in following years, Sac City kept building bigger popcorn balls, its last one coming in at 5,000 pounds in 2009.

Saturday’s effort is intended to be noted in the Guinness Book of World Records.

PERRY, Kan. (AP) — Four people were killed when two vehicles collided head-on in eastern Kansas.

The crash occurred Sunday afternoon on U.S. Highway 24 near Perry.

Casey Quigley, fire chief of Perry and Kentucky Township in Jefferson County, said the four people killed were in a pickup and SUV that collided head-on. He says two other people were injured.

He says one of the vehicles was on fire when emergency responders arrived.

Quigley says the cause of the crash is under investigation.

NEOSHO, Mo. (AP) — Restoration work has begun on the 140-year-old Missouri schoolhouse attended by George Washington Carver, one of the 20th century’s most important scientists.

The small, run-down house in Neosho was built in 1872 and is now one of the oldest surviving schoolhouses built for African-American students in Missouri.

HistoriCorps, a nonprofit organization that puts students and volunteers to work saving historic places, started work recently to restore the school to its 1872 appearance.

The schoolhouse is owned by the nonprofit Carver Birthplace Association. It was the first school attended by Carver, who was born near Diamond and later taught people how to make peanut butter and rotate crops.

The association hopes the exterior restoration will get the schoolhouse on the National Register of Historic Places.