COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A vendor who was on the University of Missouri campus for a smoothie machine demonstration accidentally shot himself in the leg, prompting a campus-wide alert of shots fired. University police Maj. Brian Weimer says officers responded at 3:32 p.m. Tuesday to a loading dock near a dining hall where Michael Stout was suffering from a gunshot wound.

Weimer says Stout was in his vehicle when he showed his firearm to a friend and accidentally fired a round into his own leg.

Stout is not a university employee or a student. He was transported to University Hospital.

The university sent out an all clear at 3:39 p.m.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback is calling the Kansas Legislature into special session to deal with education funding issues.

The Republican governor said Tuesday that he would call a special session but hasn’t set a date.

Brownback said in a statement that he is calling the session to “keep Kansas schools open” in response to a state Supreme Court order last month.

The court rejected some changes in school finance laws made by Republican lawmakers earlier this year to improve funding for poor districts.

The justices said poor schools still wouldn’t get their fair share of the state’s more than $4 billion in annual aid to its 286 districts.

The court warned that schools won’t be able to open after June 30 if lawmakers don’t approve further fixes.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri is accused of strangling a woman and dumping her body down a mine shaft on his employer’s property near Joplin.

Monday 53-year-old Todd Greathouse of Webb City was charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 61-year-old woman who was his tenant.

Investigators said Greathouse got into an argument with Dunn on May 29 at a home she rented from him and choked her until she lost consciousness. They said he drove her body to an abandoned mine on property owned by the operator of Hillbilly Pumping and Hauling, tied her to a rock and dumped her into the mine shaft filled with water.

He was being arraigned Thursday, where he is expected to seek an appointed attorney.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The FBI is offering a $70,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of what might be the second-biggest cash haul of any St. Louis robbery.

The reward is in connection with the April 4 holdup of a Dunbar Armored Car Co. truck and expires in 30 days. Officials have not disclosed how much was taken, but an attorney for one of the two defendants says authorities told him the loot was about $2 million.

Armored car driver employee 30-year-old Shayne Kier Jones and 34-year-old Charles Edward Johnson are charged in federal court with conspiracy to interfere with commerce by threats of violence.

The largest St. Louis robbery appears to have been a $6.4 gunpoint heist in 2010 from the office of ATM Solutions.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Tobacco companies have paid just more than $1 billion in annual payments to Kansas in the past 18 years.

Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Monday tobacco manufacturers had paid Kansas the money as part of a legal settlement to resolve claims by 46 states. The settlement allowed Kansas to recover part of the costs it pays for tobacco-related illness and disease.

Schmidt said payments to Kansas are likely to decline significantly in April 2018 under terms of the agreement.

Kansas uses most of the money to early childhood education programs.

State lawmakers have shown an interest for using some of the funding for other state budget needs.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former University of Missouri employee has admitted in federal court that she stole more than $716,000 from the school over nine years.

Fifty-four-year-old Carla Rathmann of Mount Vernon pleaded guilty Monday in Springfield, Missouri to one count each of mail fraud and credit card fraud.

Rathmann had worked at the university’s Southwest Research Center in Mount Vernon from 2000 to September 2015.

Authorities say an investigation found she had made payments to fake vendors, manipulated her timesheets and made unauthorized cash withdrawals.

Rathmann also admitted that she illegally used a university credit card for more than $146,000 in personal expenses.

Rathmann faces up to 30 years in prison without parole. A sentencing date was not immediately set.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official says giving the agency authority over a contaminated St. Louis-area landfill will not speed up removal of radioactive contamination.

Federal legislation sponsored by St. Louis-area members of Missouri congressional delegation seeks to move the West Lake Landfill into a Corps program created to handle radioactively contaminated sites.

Currently, the Environmental Protection Agency oversees the landfill.

Activists, residents near the landfill and politicians said the EPA has done nothing to clean the landfill, despite having jurisdiction for more than 25 years. The EPA said the radioactive waste is contained and is no threat to residents.

Steve Stockton, the Corps’ director of civil works, said adding the landfill to the Corps’ program would not accelerate at the landfill.

CLEVELAND, Mo. (AP) — A suspect is jailed after one man died and another was injured during a fight on a street in a small northwest Missouri town.

Cass County authorities on Monday charged say 28-year-old Jamie Murray, of Cleveland, Missouri, with second-degree murder.

The sheriff’s office says officers were called Saturday night about an assault in Cleveland, a town of about 600 people south of Kansas City.

Two men were found with serious injuries and one of them, 44-year-old Jeffrey Denton, of Cleveland, died at a hospital.

The sheriff’s office says Denton was in a group walking on a street when he became involved in an altercation with Murray, who was driving on the same street. Terry McIntire, a passenger is Murray’s car, suffered serious injuries.

The investigation is continuing.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Southwest Airlines has hit 100 departures each day from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. The airline is the airport’s largest carrier, with about half the market share, and has its own terminal.

Southwest’s managing director of business development, Dave Harvey, says this month is the first time in more than a decade that one airline has had more than 100 daily departures from the airport.

Southwest has added 11 new destinations from St. Louis in the past year. Its newest nonstop flights are to Cleveland; Portland, Oregon; and Oakland, California. St. Louis passengers were already able to get direct flights to Portland and Cleveland on other airlines, but Oakland is a new nonstop destination for the airport.