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Platte County commission demands treasurer repay money lost in scam

Platte county logoPLATTE CITY, Mo. (AP) — Platte County commissioners are demanding that the county’s treasurer personally repay more than $20,000 lost after he fell victim to an email scam.

The three commissioners signed a letter Tuesday also demanding Treasurer Rob Willard pay more than $1,900 in attorney fees and gave him a week to come up with the money.

Willard received an email last month that he thought was from presiding commissioner Ron Schieber instructing him to send $48,000 to a Florida bank to pay for a tax consultant.

Schieber, however, didn’t make the request. Instead, Willard was spoofed as part of an internet scam that has victimized several other counties in Missouri and Kansas.

Wells Fargo has returned about $28,000 to the county’s general fund.

BMW recalls some SUVs to reinforce child seat anchors

bmw logoDETROIT (AP) — BMW is recalling nearly 189,000 SUVs in the U.S. because the child seat anchors may become damaged and won’t hold the seat properly.

The recall covers certain X3 SUVs from the 2011 to 2017 model years, as well as some X4s from 2015 through 2017.

BMW says in documents filed with safety regulators that the SUVs have anchor bars for child seats that can be damaged when people use European-style child seats. BMW says most child seats in the U.S. have flexible Latch connectors and do not cause the problem.

BMW discovered the problem in March when a customer in Europe reported a damaged anchor.

Dealers will weld a reinforcing bracket to the lower anchor bars at no cost to owners. The recall is expected to start July 12.

3-year-old grazed by bullet in apparent road rage incident

PoliceST. LOUIS (AP) — A 3-year-old girl is recovering after being grazed by a bullet in what St. Louis police say was a road rage incident.

The shooting happened about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the city’s Mark Twain neighborhood, near Interstate 70. The girl is expected to make a full recovery.

The child was in the back seat of her parents’ car as they were returning home from dinner. The father honked at a pickup truck that swerved into his lane.

Police say that as the family drove ahead the man driving the pickup fired two shots at the car, then sped away. No arrests have been made.

Missouri man accused of drunken mowing charged with felony

mowerJACKSON, Mo. (AP) — A man accused of racing a riding lawn mower while drunk has been charged with a felony.

Thirty-five-year-old Jeremy Tyson Cook, of Jackson, is free on bond after he was charged over the weekend with felony driving while intoxicated as a chronic offender. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

The Southeast Missourian reports that Cook tested positive for alcohol after two riding mowers crashed. The probable cause statement says the drivers reported the crash happened when one of the mowers they were racing stopped working and they attempted to move it.

The statement says Cook’s driving status was revoked in December 2006, one month after he pleaded guilty to drunken driving. He also was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in a fatal 2000 crash.

Kansas regents weigh higher college tuition increases

kansas board of regents logoTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ governing board of the state’s universities is weighing requests to raise tuition higher than first proposed by many of the campuses.

The Kansas Board of Regents takes up the matter Wednesday in Topeka, weeks after Republican Gov. Sam Brownback cut higher education spending by 4 percent. That was one percent more than the state’s universities had expected.

Many of the campuses responded by pushing their tuition requests upward.

The University of Kansas wants tuition increased by 5 percent. That’s one percent higher than the school sought last month.

The state’s other universities propose tuition boosts ranging from 4.9 percent at Emporia State to 6 percent at Fort Hays State. Only the University of Kansas’ medical center and Wichita State didn’t increase their rate requests. They remain at 5 percent.

Escapee still at large, believed to be in Omaha area

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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say they are confident an escaped inmate is in the Omaha area. The Nebraska State Patrol says officers were pursuing leads Tuesday in the search for 52-year-old Timothy Clausen.

Investigators believe he’s in the Omaha area and are putting greatest emphasis on the city’s northeast area.

Clausen and 37-year-old Armon Dixon escaped the Lincoln Correctional Center on Friday morning by climbing into a laundry truck and then cutting a hole in the truck’s roof.

Police captured Dixon in Lincoln on Saturday.

Clausen was serving a 50-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 12 and up to five years for tampering with a juror.

Police say Clausen is dangerous and people should call 911 if they have information about him.

Missouri murder suspect arrested in Vegas

US Marshal sealLAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a 21-year-old man who was sought on a warrant in a St. Louis homicide case has been arrested in North Las Vegas.

U.S. marshals in Las Vegas say Christopher Arthur McMillan was arrested Tuesday by members of a regional fugitive task force and booked into the Clark County jail pending an extradition hearing.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that McMillan was named last month as the second suspect in the September shooting death of 22-year-old Jamez Milton of St. Louis.

Sydney Stuckey, now 23, was charged in October and is awaiting trial on murder and other charges.

Kansas roofing company accused of forced labor, kickbacks

USDOJ bas relief logoKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The owners of a Kansas roofing company are accused of forcing workers who are in the U.S. illegally to pay kickbacks by threatening to turn them into immigration agents if they didn’t.

A 17-count federal indictment unsealed Tuesday in Kansas City, Kansas, accuses Century Roofing owners Tommy Frank Keaton and Graziano Cornolo of profiting from kickbacks since at least 2009.

Prosecutors say workers who were in the country illegally were paid in cash to complete roofing projects in the Kansas City area in Kansas and Missouri, then were forced to give some of the money back.

A spokesman for Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall says no attorneys had entered an appearance for either defendant. Keaton’s voice mailbox was full Tuesday and Cornolo doesn’t have a listed number.

Kansas moves to register those without citizenship proof

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas secretary of state’s office late Tuesday instructed county officials to put on election rolls the thousands of people who registered at motor vehicle offices without providing proof of U.S. citizenship, but only allow them to vote for federal offices.

The guidelines were issued after the 10th Circuit U.S. District Court of appeals ordered Kansas to begin Tuesday adding more than 18,000 voters whose registrations had been cancelled or suspended.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson’s order strikes a blow to a Kansas law that since January 2013 has required voters to provide proof of citizenship.

About 44 percent of Kansas voters register when getting their driver’s licenses under the federal “motor-voter law.”

New law requires Missouri highs school students to learn CPR

Gov. Jay Nixon
Gov. Jay Nixon
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon has signed a bill that will require Missouri high school students to undergo a new round of first aid training before they can graduate.

The governor signed the legislation Tuesday. The measure will go into effect in the 2017-2018 school year.

Under the new law, students would have to take 30 minutes of CPR instruction, as well as training in the Heimlich maneuver, which is used when a person is choking.

Nixon said in a statement that it’s imperative that young people be familiar with these procedures because first aid can sometimes be the difference between life and death.

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