KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City’s fledgling streetcar operation is running again after experiencing its first major glitch.

The Kansas City Star reports that no one was hurt when several wheels of a streetcar came off the tracks Monday. The derailment happened while the streetcar was unloading passengers at Union Station. About 10 riders were on board.

While the service was down, buses were called in to ferry passengers along the streetcar’s 2.2-mile route through downtown.

Kansas City Streetcar Authority spokeswoman Donna Mandelbaum says the shutdown looked to be triggered by a problem with a switch. The streetcar that came off the tracks did not appear to be damaged.

The streetcar starter line began operating earlier this month. The project cost $102 million, including $37.3 million in federal funding.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. House has voted down legislation that would require cellphone carriers to provide call location information to law enforcement in dire situations without a search warrant.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the measure rejected Monday is similar to laws enacted in more than 20 states since the 2007 abduction and murder of 18-year-old Kelsey Smith, of Overland Park, Kansas. Cellphone signals helped lead police to her body in a wooded area of Missouri four days after her abduction from a Target store parking lot.

Smith’s parents have pointed to a delay in getting their daughter’s cellphone provider to cooperate with police. The couple has said they don’t believe their daughter’s life would have been saved had the information been released quicker, but they say it could help others.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt is calling for Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald to resign.

Blunt on Tuesday said McDonald should step down after he compared wait times to receive VA health care to the hours people wait for rides at Disney theme parks.

McDonald told reporters on Monday that the VA should not use wait times as a measure of success because Disney doesn’t either.

Republican lawmakers slammed the comment. Blunt described the statement as “right out of Never Never Land.”

Blunt is up for re-election and faces Democratic challenger Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander.

McDonald took office two years ago amid a scandal over chronically long wait times and reports that as many as 40 patients died while awaiting care at the Phoenix VA hospital.

SPOKANE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say at least nine students were injured when a southwestern Missouri school district’s bus entered a pickup truck’s path on a highway.

None of the injuries from the Christian County accident about 7:30 a.m. Monday on U.S. 65 appears to be life-threatening.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the Spokane school district bus pulled out in front of a pickup truck and was hit on the back end.

The injured students, ranging in age from 5 to 18 years old, were taken to hospitals.

The pickup truck’s driver also was sent to a hospital.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Republican State Committee is backing closed primaries.

Members during the state GOP convention this past week in Branson passed in a voice vote a resolution in favor of requiring primary voters to register with a party.

Under the current system, Democrats can vote in GOP primaries and Republicans can vote in Democratic primaries.

Missouri lawmakers would need to pass legislation to require party registration for primaries. The 2016 legislative session ended earlier this month, and the next session begins in January.

Missouri GOP chairman John Hancock says the change would help block Democrats from tampering with Republican primaries and vice versa.

Democratic state committee chairman Roy Temple says he hasn’t heard of any formal proposals regarding registration for primaries.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The parents of an Iowa woman who authorities say was killed by a drunken driver in the country illegally have filed a complaint with the Nebraska Supreme Court against the judge who set the now-missing suspect’s bail.

Bail was $50,000 for Eswin Mejia (meh-HEE’-uh) after he was charged with vehicular homicide in the Omaha collision between his vehicle and one driven by 21-year-old Sarah Root, of Council Bluffs.

He hasn’t been seen since posting the required 10 percent of the bail, or $5,000.

Root’s parents have been collecting petition signatures and Monday gave more than 5,000 to the high court in Lincoln. They want Judge Jeffery Marcuzzo kicked off the bench or punished for setting the bail low enough for Mejia to post 10 percent and flee.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers say they anticipate taking up the issue of transgender school bathrooms upon reconvening next week.

The issue gained attention after the Obama administration’s recent guidance that transgender students at public schools be allowed to use bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identity.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Rep. John Whitmer says he and other conservative lawmakers will try to run a resolution that would express the Legislature’s displeasure. The Wichita Republican says the plan is to send the resolution to federal officials.

A bill introduced in the Kansas Legislature this year would have ordered schools to require transgender students to use the facilities corresponding to the sex determined by their chromosome makeup as recorded on their birth certificate. But that bill stalled in committee.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — A former suburban St. Louis police officer has been sentenced to probation for stealing items from a car that investigators had set up as a decoy as part of a sting operation.

A St. Charles County judge on Monday suspended prison sentences for 40-year-old Matthew Howze, though he must serve 60 days under house arrest.

The Bowling Green man pleaded guilty in March to charges of theft and evidence tampering.

Howze was charged in February of last year after authorities allege he stole a digital camera, parka, cordless drill, tool bag, sunglasses and cash from a car investigators had staged.

Howze was on duty as a St. Charles County police officer and was fired after his arrest.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — For the first time in nearly six years, Kansas is officially considered drought-free.

The current U.S. Drought Monitor map of Kansas says no drought exists in the state for the first time since July 13, 2010.

One of the worst droughts in the state’s history began in the summer of 2010. The drought fluctuated, but as late as April 12, 97 percent of Kansas showed some drought conditions.

Rains in April and May helped wipe out the last of the drought — at least for now. Rainfall amounts in those months included more than 4 inches in Salina and Garden City and 7.46 inches in Hays.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the 2011 and 2012 droughts cost farmers nearly $5 billion in crop losses.

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — Flooding along the North Platte River in Scottsbluff forced the closure of the zoo and nearby campground and park. Scottsbluff Parks and Recreation Director Perry Mader says the floodwaters climbed high enough that the city had to evacuate the campground and close the park.

Officials at the Riverside Discovery Center zoo said the flooding forced the facility to remain closed Sunday because water covered some of the public areas.

The zoo’s education curator Amber Schiltz says all the animals are safe and out of flooded areas.