WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former police chief near Wichita, Kansas, has admitted in federal court that he played a role in a scheme to buy and sell discounted firearms by falsely claiming they would be used for law enforcement purposes.

Former Bel Aire chief John Daily pleaded guilty Tuesday in Wichita to a count of theft of government money, property or records.

Prosecutors said Daily admitted that twice in 2012, he misrepresented firearms as being solely for law enforcement purposes, wrongly exempting the guns’ makers from paying about $300 in taxes to the U.S. government.

Daily faces up to a year in prison and as much as $100,000 in fines when sentenced on Aug. 17.

Bel Aire a small suburban community just north of Wichita.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Senate is considering a resolution condemning a recent Obama administration decree that public schools allow transgender students to use restrooms that match their gender identity, not their sex at birth.

Opponents said the measure is a distraction on the last day of the annual session.

The nonbinding resolution comes less than a week after the state Supreme Court ruled that legislators failed to equitably fund public schools. Justices threatened to keep public schools from opening in August if legislators don’t pass a measure by June 30 that adequately funds poor school districts.

Equality Kansas, the state’s leading LGBT group, is planning a rally on Wednesday to oppose the resolution. Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, said legislators should focus on the school funding formula instead.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Three Democratic U.S. congressmen have asked a federal agency whether a top elections official had the right to unilaterally change voter registration forms in three states to require proof of citizenship.

Reps. Elijah Cummings, Robert Brady and James E. Clyburn asked the chairman of the Election Assistance Commission on Wednesday for records connected to EAC executive director Brian Newby’s amendment of forms in Kansas, Alabama and Georgia.

The group is seeking documents relating to requests from the three states to modify voter registration forms; all analysis of the impact of modifying federal voter registration forms; and all documents giving Newby the authority to unilaterally make the changes.

Voting rights activists criticized the changes Newby made in February as a “secretive move” that created additional barriers for potential voters

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Top Republican legislators are accusing the Kansas Supreme Court of issuing its latest education funding ruling to help justices survive attempts to oust them in the November election.

Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce said Wednesday that he believes the court is trying to shift voters’ attention away from unpopular past decisions that struck down death sentences in capital murder cases.

House Speaker Ray Merrick also said the school funding decision was political.

The court did not respond to a request for comment.

The court on Friday rejected some education funding changes approved by legislators earlier this year and warned that schools won’t reopen if lawmakers don’t make additional fixes to help poor school districts by June 30.

Five of the court’s seven justices face yes-or-no retention votes in November.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A settlement has been reached in a former Jackson County inmate’s lawsuit accusing county employees of cruel and unusual punishment for shackling her while pregnant and transporting her to another prison on the day she gave birth.

The Kansas City Star reports that the American Civil Liberties Union helped Megon Riedel file the federal lawsuit. The ACLU said Tuesday that the settlement includes $50,000 in damages and written policies regarding the use of restraints for pregnant inmates.

Riedel says she was 39 weeks pregnant in 2012 when she was handcuffed, shackled and driven for more than three hours from the Jackson County Detention Center to a state prison in Vandalia.

Riedel says she was examined by a doctor when she arrived at the prison and then sent to a nearby hospital, where she delivered a boy that day.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman who posted nude photos of a 15-year-old girl on Facebook has been sentenced to a year in federal prison.

The Kansas City Star reports 49-year-old Michelle Renee McCoy, of Carl Junction, was sentenced Tuesday for possession of child pornography.

Prosecutors say McCoy, an acquaintance of the girl, found the pictures on the girl’s phone.

McCoy sent them to her own phone then posted them on the girl’s Facebook page. She also changed the password so the victim couldn’t remove the pictures.

McCoy’s attorney said his client posted the pictures to shame the victim and teach her a lesson. He asked that she receive probation because she was not a typical child pornographer.

Prosecutors asked for a three-year prison sentence, saying the victim was humiliated.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Bond has been set at $1 million for a former St. Louis police officer charged with first-degree murder in a 2011 shooting of a 24-year-old man after a chase.

A St. Louis judge set the bail amount Tuesday for Jason Stockley, who previously had been ordered held without bond.

Prosecutors allege Stockley was on duty when he first fired at Anthony Lamar Smith after police say Stockley witnessed a drug deal.

Authorities say that during an ensuing pursuit of Smith’s car, Stockley can be heard on his in-car video telling his partner he was “going to kill this (expletive).”

After the police SUV forced Smith’s car to stop, prosecutors allege, Shockley approached Smith’s car and fired five times into its driver’s side. Smith died after being hit by each round.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — What’s being called Nebraska’s first commercial solar energy project is expected to begin tracking the sun and delivering some of its power by June 20.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the Enerparc project will be able to output about 3.6 megawatts, enough to power around 900 Lincoln homes. It sits on a 46-acre parcel on the west side of the capital city.

Lincoln Electric System has a 20-year contract to buy the power, with a five-year extension option.

The utility has declined to say how much it will pay for the electricity or how the rate will compare to the cost of fossil fuel-produced electricity or other renewable sources such as wind. Enerparc has said the project is costing $8.9 million.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services says there has been a surge in mumps cases related to an outbreak at Midland University in Fremont.

The number of mumps cases increased from 10 to 21, after new cases were reported in Cass, Douglas, Dodge, Hall, Madison and Platte counties last week.

Authorities said 10 cases of the virus were reported at Midland University earlier this month. Officials say most students have now returned home for the summer and some started experiencing symptoms.

The department is working with local health officials to investigate the cases.

The viral infection’s symptoms include swollen salivary glands, fever, jaw pain and muscle aches. It is spread by coughing, sneezing and sharing saliva.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri woman has been ordered to spend seven years and three months in federal prison for her foiled attempt to hire someone to kill her sister.

Fifty-two-year-old Leta Faye Douglas of Houston, Missouri, was sentenced Tuesday in Springfield, where she pleaded guilty in January.

Court documents indicate Douglas’ ex-husband contacted authorities after she called him in January 2015 asking for help with the plot. The husband said Douglas’ parents were in a home for the elderly and her sister was in charge of their finances. He believed she wanted access to her parents’ estate.

Douglas met with the undercover agent in Houston in February 2015 and gave him a map of her sister’s home and the $2,000. She was arrested a few days later.