KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City, Missouri, 18-year-old is accused of fatally shooting a suburban father who had been trying to sell a gun on a grocery store’s parking lot.

Jackson County prosecutors on Tuesday charged Fazon Swinton with second-degree murder, second-degree robbery, armed criminal action and leaving the scene of a shooting.

Authorities say Jacob Branter of Lee’s Summit was shot and killed April 3 outside a Price Chopper store. Prosecutors allege that Swinton made arrangements to buy a handgun from Brantner but stole it instead, running off before exchanging gunfire with Brantner.

Swinton later was treated at a hospital for a bullet wound.

Online court records don’t show whether Swinton has an attorney.

AUGUSTA, Kan. (AP) — No federal charges will be filed against a concealed weapon permit-holder who wounded himself and a bystander when the gun he stuffed into his sock accidentally discharged at a southern Kansas high school graduation ceremony.

The Wichita Eagle reports that there’s an exception to the federal gun-free school zones law that allows holders of state-issued concealed-carry permits to carry their weapons in school zones. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesman John Ham says that means the man cannot be prosecuted under the law for bringing the gun to the Augusta High School commencement on Sunday.

The man was shot in the foot when he adjusted his sock. A woman was struck in the calf.

State charges remain possible. Police haven’t yet provided the case to county prosecutors

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a report that a woman set her boyfriend on fire at a Kansas City house.

The Kansas City Star reports that officers responded Monday to an assault report and found the man suffering from burns to his face and shoulders. The man told police that his girlfriend had poured gasoline on him and set him ablaze. Police confirmed he was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in serious condition.

Police have arrested the woman near where the man was burned. Authorities are urging anyone with information to come forward.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a former St. Louis police officer with first-degree murder in a 2011 shooting that killed a 24-year-old man after a chase.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce charged 35-year-old Jason Stockley on Monday. A judge ordered him held without bond.

Stockley is in custody in the Houston area. Online court records don’t show whether Stockley has an attorney.

Prosecutors say Stockley was on duty when he fired into 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith’s car after supposedly witnessing a drug transaction.

Prosecutors say that during an ensuing chase, Stockley could be heard on an in-car video saying he planned to kill the suspect. They say he fired five times into Smith’s car when it stopped. All five bullets hit Smith.

The incident that led to one of the largest wrongful-death settlements stemming from a police shooting in the city’s history.

Joyce says Stockley left the department in 2013.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri prison inmate serving a life sentence for a southwestern Missouri murder conviction has died at a Springfield hospital.

The Missouri Department of Corrections says 48-year-old John Hayes died of apparent natural causes Saturday. Hayes began serving his sentence in 1996 for second-degree murder and lately had been confined to the South Central Correctional Center in Licking.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Columbia, Missouri, man faces at least a decade in federal prison after acknowledging his role in a sex-trafficking case.

Thirty-five-year-old Kenyata D. Miles pleaded guilty Monday in Jefferson City to a felony count of attempted sex trafficking.

Miles admitted he booked two rooms for two nights at the Quail’s Nest Inn in Osage Beach in April 2013.

Law enforcement officers found a missing 16-year-old female in one of the rooms, and Miles and two women were in an adjacent room.

Authorities say advertisements had been posted on Backpage.com advertising the availability of the teenager and one of the women for sexual services. Prosecutors say Miles arranged hotel reservations and provided transportation to hotels for their prostitution activities.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Four students at a middle school near Wichita, Kansas, are charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection with a supposed bomb-and-shooting plot.

Names of the Haysville Middle School eighth-graders charged Monday in Sedgwick County were not released. It was not immediately clear if they were charged as adults, or if they have attorneys.

School officials have said the alleged threat surfaced last Thursday after social media posts indicated someone was plotting to bomb and shoot people on school grounds. Police identified the students behind the alleged threat and took them into custody.

The four defendants remain in custody, awaiting hearings.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Canadian-based company plans to replace sections of its Keystone pipeline so the company can begin pumping oil at higher pressure.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that some of the sections of TransCanada Corp.’s pipeline don’t meet federal strength standards.

The company must replace those sections so it can pump oil at higher pressure. TransCanada spokesman Terry Cunha told the newspaper that running at the higher pressure “allows us to be more efficient with our operations.”

The work is scheduled to begin this month and extend through 2017 in Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Illinois and Missouri. The 30-inch pipeline first went into operation in June 2010. A portion of the pipeline crosses under Doniphan and Buchanan counties on its way to the refining and storage cluster in southwest Illinois.

In November President Barack Obama killed the company’s plans to expand Keystone with a second international crossing.

healthCAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Missouri doctors have managed to deliver a baby whose mother was killed in a crash on her way to a hospital to give birth.

The Southeast Missourian reports that 26-year-old Sarah Iler and the baby’s father were driving Wednesday from Cape Girardeau to Poplar Bluff when a tanker truck collided with their SUV.

Cape Girardeau police Sgt. Adam Glueck says officers administered CPR in the hopes of saving Iler and the baby. Iler was declared dead on arrival at a hospital, but doctors performed an emergency cesarean section and delivered her daughter, Maddyson.

The newborn was taken off a ventilator on Friday, though doctors don’t know yet if she suffered brain damage due to a lack of oxygen.

The father, Matt Rider, suffered extensive injuries but is recovering.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former western Missouri sheriff’s deputy has admitted in federal court his role in a wire-fraud scheme involving a former jail inmate.

Former St. Clair County deputy Michael Mullaney of Lowry City pleaded guilty Monday in Springfield to charges that he stole public funds.

William E. Parker of Fort Ritchie, Florida, pleaded guilty in February to a charge of wire fraud.

Authorities say that after Mullaney arrested Parker for burglary in 2010, the two schemed to claim more than $5,000 in unjustified unemployment benefits for Parker through the state of West Virginia.

Prosecutors say Mullaney completed an online form with Parker’s personal information to fraudulently certify Parker’s eligibility for unemployment benefits.