KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A city that once had one of the nation’s largest streetcar networks is preparing to launch a smaller, modern version that supporters say will shape development for years to come.

Kansas City is celebrating the opening of its 2.2-mile streetcar line on Friday with street parties, speeches and fireworks. The starter line runs from Union Station near Crown Center to the River Market, a few blocks from the Missouri River.

Advocates say the $102 million project will draw people to the city’s downtown and boost development. City officials plan to add three extensions if they can find a way to fund them.

At its height in the 1920s, Kansas City’s streetcar network featured more than 700 registered streetcars traveling on 300 miles of track. Its last streetcar quit running in 1957.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri House has voted to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a proposal to rein in the amount of money lawmakers aim to provide to K-12 schools.

The day after Nixon vetoed the bill, House members voted 113-43 Thursday to undo his action. Senators had acted hours after Nixon’s veto.

The bill caps what lawmakers consider adequate school funding, which is used as a goal during budgeting.

Funding has fallen short of those goals for years.

Planned basic aid for K-12 schools next fiscal year would have been more than $400 million short of funding goals. Under the proposal, it’s about $54 million short.

Supporters say a cap will make it more feasible to meet target funding, but Nixon says it breaks a promise made to students.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. John Kasich is acknowledging that his message “wasn’t a great sound byte” and he is suspending his campaign for president.

The two-year Ohio governor and former congressman was visibly emotional Wednesday as he thanked his family, campaign staff and supporters without ever saying directly what would happen to his campaign.

Kasich had perpetually trailed even as the crowded GOP field narrowed. But Kasich was insisting — even as recently as after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’ departure from the race Tuesday night — that he would remain in the race until New York billionaire Donald Trump definitely secured the 1,237 delegates necessary to clinch the GOP nomination.

He thanked his wife, twin daughters, campaign staff and armies of volunteers.

Kasich said of his staff, “Nobody has ever done more with less in the history of politics.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ended his presidential campaign Tuesday, eliminating the biggest impediment to Donald Trump’s march to the Republican nomination.

The conservative tea party firebrand who tried to cast himself as the only viable alternative to Trump ended his campaign after a stinging defeat in Indiana’s Republican primary.

Cruz told supporters in Indianapolis that “It appears that path has been foreclosed.”

Cruz said he “left it all on the field of Indiana.”

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A fleet of expensive cars and motorcycles seized from a Kansas City-area accountant has sold for more than $1.4 million.

The U.S. Marshals Service announced the results of last week’s auction on Wednesday. More than 700 bidders from 30 states participated.

The machines that were sold had belonged to Thomas Hauk, who defrauded more than $4 million from clients. Hauk, of Overland Park, Kansas, awaits sentencing after pleading guilty last December to federal fraud charges linked to his on-the-job theft at a financial services company.

The highest winning bid at the auction was $285,000 for a 2006 Ford GT.

Most of the money raised during the auction at KCI Auto Auction in Kansas City, Missouri, will be returned to the theft victims.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is cutting off Medicaid reimbursements to a Planned Parenthood affiliate largely based on allegations against affiliates in other states.

The state Department of Health and Environment sent a letter dated Tuesday informing Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri that it was terminating its status as a provider under the state’s Medicaid program. Department spokeswoman Cassie Sparks confirmed the action Wednesday, as did the group.

Planned Parenthood affiliate President and CEO Laura McQuade called the action “outrageous.”

Documents obtained through an open records request show KDHE first informed Planned Parenthood it intended to cut off Medicaid reimbursements in a letter in March.

That letter cited allegations against Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas and Oklahoma, including from videos secretly recorded by an anti-abortion group about the handling of fetal tissue.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Ferguson is seeking to replace a city prosecutor criticized by a federal probe of the St. Louis suburb’s justice system after the 2014 police shooting death of Michael Brown.

The city posted an advertisement for Stephanie Karr’s replacement on its website Tuesday.

Karr has been city attorney since 2004 and will stay in that role.

The Justice Department in March of last year announced findings of its evaluation of Ferguson’s policing and court practices. That probe came after the death of Brown, who was 18 and black when shot and killed by white police officer Darren Wilson. Wilson was cleared in the case.

The Justice Department accused Karr of retaliating against attorneys who challenged her and of dismissing tickets for friends.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Two white southeast Missouri school officials who are being sued by a black teenager said in newly released police report that they physically restrained the girl because she was trying to fight another student.

The Southeast Missourian reports that officials for Cape Girardeau schools acknowledge taking the then 14-year-old student to the ground more than once in December 2014 and placing a knee on her back. They say in the police report that they were trying to prevent someone from getting hurt.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of Ta’Brea Harris says she was treated at a hospital for neck and back injuries afterward.

The school district’s attorney said Wednesday that she couldn’t comment on pending litigation. Harris’ attorneys didn’t immediately return phone messages from The Associated Press seeking comment.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — State agricultural officials say 39,000 turkeys at a southwest Missouri farm have been destroyed after avian flu was detected late last week.

The H5N1 strain of the virus is weaker than the H5N2 virus that led to the deaths of 48 million birds last year in Missouri and more than a dozen other states. It’s also a different virus than the H7N8 strain found in Indiana this year.

A Missouri Department of Agriculture spokeswoman says the flu is a low-pathogenic variety, meaning the birds often show no or only minor symptoms and have a lesser mortality rate from the virus.

The state isn’t identifying the quarantined Missouri farm, other than that it’s in Jasper County. Commercial flocks within a six-mile radius have tested negative.