KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City, Missouri, man has been ordered to spend two decades in prison for causing a deadly 2014 car wreck while fleeing police.

Twenty-six-year-old Drew Ryland of Independence was sentenced Thursday in Jackson County. He was convicted him in March of second-degree murder, resisting arrest, five counts of armed criminal action and three counts of second-degree assault.

The murder charge was a based on the fact that the 28-year-old victim, Michael Hernandez, died as the result of Ryland’s resisting a lawful stop.

The Kansas City Star reports police gave chase to a sport utility vehicle they had tried to stop, then abandoned the pursuit moments before the SUV collided with Hernandez’s car.

The newspaper reports testing of Ryland’s blood drawn at the hospital showed he was legally drunk.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — One of Kansas City’s new streetcars has been damaged in a wreck with a car.

The Kansas City Star reports the wreck occurred Thursday evening when the streetcar and a car collided at a downtown intersection.

No injuries were reported. About 10 people were in the streetcar at the time.

One of the streetcar’s doors was partly caved in. The Streetcar Authority says the streetcar was returned to its station and streetcar service resumed later Thursday evening.

Accounts differ on whether the streetcar or the passenger vehicle had a green light to proceed through the intersection.

Kansas City’s streetcars started taking passengers earlier this month along its 2.2 mile starter line. The streetcar line cost $102 million, including $37.3 million in federal funding.

DYERSVILLE, Iowa (AP) — Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred traveled to the “Field of Dreams” movie site in eastern Iowa to announce this year’s National Baseball Hall of Fame tour stops in six cities.

Manfred was joined by 2015 Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz in Dyersville to announce that Davenport, Iowa; Kansas City, Missouri; Milwaukee; St. Louis; Minneapolis; and Las Vegas will be host cities for this year’s “We Are Baseball” tour stops.

Hundreds came to hear the announcement at the site of the 1989 movie. Manfred told attendees that the league wants to bring baseball’s history to its fans because not everyone can make it to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

The tour will begin July 3-10 at Davenport’s baseball stadium.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Tourism Commission has fired its executive director in the wake of a blistering state audit that found questionable spending and a lack of oversight within the agency.

Kathy McKillip had been suspended with pay before Thursday’s 8-0 vote to terminate her contract. Commissioners also voted to install deputy director Heather Hogue as a temporary director until they name a permanent replacement.

The audit highlighted numerous spending problems within the agency, such as running $4.4 million over budget with an advertising firm’s contract and paying $44,000 in speaking fees for a 90-minute speech by a corporate executive.

Commission Chairman John Chapo says members take the audit seriously and will work to resolve the issues it raised.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 15-year-old St. Louis boy is charged as an adult with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl.

Ja’Mare Stewart also is charged with armed criminal action in the Jan. 17 shooting of Jamyha Luss. Stewart was certified to stand trial as an adult on Tuesday.

Jamyha was at a friend’s house when she was fatally shot in the back. Two boys who had been there fled before police arrived.

Jamyha was a student at Gateway Middle School and lived mostly with her grandmother because both parents are incarcerated.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman already accused of embezzling more than $300,000 from engineering firm Black & Veatch is now charged with stealing $1.2 million while on the job at Garmin International.

A federal grand jury in Kansas City, Missouri, on Tuesday indicted 43-year-old Patricia Webb of Lee’s Summit on 23 counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.

Webb already was charged with embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from Black & Veatch while working there as a global payroll manager.

The new indictment also accuses her of stealing more than $1.2 million while previously working as a senior payroll specialist for the Olathe, Kansas-based Garmin between early 2012 and May 2014.

A message seeking comment was left Wednesday with her attorney.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Six states and the Federal Highway Administration have agreed to make the roadsides along Interstate 35 friendlier for bees and butterflies to help the insects boost their declining populations.

The 1,500-mile stretch of road between northern Minnesota and southern Texas is a path for monarch butterflies that migrate between Mexico and Canada. Both the butterflies and bees pollinate plants that produce much of the nation’s food.

Officials from Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas and the federal government signed an agreement Thursday to improve the habitat and develop a branding campaign informally naming the interstate the “Monarch Highway.”

Honeybee and monarch butterfly populations have been dwindling in recent years.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri Senate staffer is set to review Planned Parenthood’s internal records, including procedures for fetal tissue disposal.

Republican attorney Todd Scott said he plans to examine the documents Thursday at the office of Planned Parenthood’s attorney. He checked the documents earlier this month to verify they were all present.

Planned Parenthood came under scrutiny last year after activists released undercover videos alleging the nation’s largest abortion provider illegally profited from fetal tissue sales. Missouri’s attorney general cleared Planned Parenthood of wrongdoing, and the organization pointed to that exoneration when lawmakers subpoenaed documents for their own investigation.

Planned Parenthood agreed to share the documents after senators threatened to hold its regional CEO in contempt, which could have carried jail time.

The Senate has until mid-June to review the files.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former state lawmaker is suing over an associate University of Missouri law professor and attorney general candidate’s emails.

Former Republican Rep. Kevin Elmer sued the university system and Republican candidate Josh Hawley Wednesday, saying the university violated the Sunshine Law.

Elmer said he requested university records on Hawley last May to see whether he received support from the university to run for office. Elmer said he was overcharged and it’s taking too long.

Hawley faces an Aug. 2 primary against Sen. Kurt Schaefer.

Hawley’s spokesman said the lawsuit is meant to distract voters from what he described as problems with Schaefer.

A spokesman said the University of Missouri system is responding in a timely manner but that Elmer’s request is extensive and one of 714 requests made last year.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican legislative leaders and more than 100 others say they oppose the Obama administration’s directive on transgender student bathroom access.

Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder first sent a letter opposing the guidance that public schools allow students to use restrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identity.

Kinder on Thursday announced Republican Senate President Pro Tem Ron Richard and GOP House Speaker Todd Richardson are joining him.

More than 100 other lawmakers also signed on to Kinder’s letter to Democratic President Barack Obama. No Missouri Democrats signed on.

The letter says the administration is seizing local control and putting students’ privacy at risk.

The directive prompted 11 states to sue the Obama administration. Missouri hasn’t joined.

Kinder is running for governor. He faces a four-way GOP primary Aug. 2.