JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley voted in Boone County’s special election last week, reviving questions about whether he is following state law on where the attorney general should live.

The Jefferson City News-Tribune reports the Boone County clerk’s office confirmed that Hawley voted there in a special election for the 50th House District seat in the Missouri Legislature.

A state law says the attorney general “shall reside” in the seat of government, which is defined in the Missouri Constitution as Jefferson City. He lives in rural Boone County, within 20 minutes of Jefferson City.

When questions were raised in February, Hawley rented an apartment in Jefferson City and said he would live in it enough to make it a legal residence, but his primary residence would remain near Columbia.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Columbia-based company that has seen significant growth as a provider of mortgage services will pay more than $1.1 million to settle allegations it improperly withheld refunds from New York customers.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Veterans United Home Loans agreed to pay more than $600,000 in restitution to consumers and a $500,000 civil penalty under a consent agreement signed Aug. 9 with the New York Department of Financial Services.

The department found that if closing costs on loans are less than estimated in the loan agreement, lenders must refund the excess through a reduction in the interest rate, cash refund or other form. The department found in more than 300 cases that Veterans United didn’t make the required refund.

Veterans United spokeswoman Lauren Karr said Monday the company identified and corrected the issue several years ago.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A man who escaped from jail has been apprehended in eastern Kansas and returned to custody.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports 39-year-old George Burgess Jr. escaped the Leavenworth County Jail through a side door in July while on a work detail. Maj. Jim Sherley says Burgess was in jail on a misdemeanor count of battery.

A Lawrence Police Department statement says officers responded to a call reporting a wanted person at large Sunday. Police say Burgess was located riding a bicycle and attempted to flee by bike and then on foot after seeing the approaching officers. Police apprehended Burgess without further incident and returned him to the jail.

Sherley tells The Associated Press that Burgess appeared in district court Monday and would have been charged with escape from custody.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa is proposing a 7 percent increase in tuition annually for five years.

The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports university President Bruce Harreld told a Board of Regents Tuition Task Force on Monday that the school was recommending the annual 7 percent increases. If approved, the increases would raise tuition from $7,486 for the upcoming year to $10,537 by the fall 2022 semester.

Harreld also proposed raising nonresident undergraduate tuition by just over 2 percent annually for the next five years.

Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa also have proposed tuition increase to meet rising costs at a time of falling state support.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence officials have learned that 13 miles of pipeline was improperly installed after 22 water main breaks.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the breaks have occurred over a three-week period. Director of Utilities Dave Wagner says repair and replacement costs from the breaks have totaled about $200,000, and costs could grow.

Most of the breaks occurred in piping that was only about 25 years old. The piping was projected to last for 100 years, but was installed without the wrapping or other protection needed to account for the soil conditions. He says the 13 mile span of piping is “probably not going to last that long.”

Commissioner Matthew Herbert says what happened is “a classic example of why you have to do things right the first time.”

KEARNEY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri school district is apologizing for removing the senior quotes that two openly gay students wanted printed under their yearbook pictures.

KCTV reported that Kearney High graduates Joey Slivinski and Thomas Swartz were surprised by the absence when they opened the newly printed 2017 yearbook. Both had included closet references in the quotes they submitted. Slivinski’s was, “Of course I dress well. I didn’t spend all that time in the closet for nothing.”

The district described what happened as a “mistake” and said in a statement that its policy of not publishing potentially offensive quotes had the “unintentional consequence of offending the very students the practice was designed to protect.”

The two graduates plan to make stickers to insert their quips into their yearbooks and those of their friends.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Administrators at the University of Missouri in Columbia are working to maintain research and education opportunities despite proposed budget cuts and job eliminations.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the university released a budget proposal in May calling for the elimination of more than 300 jobs and about $60 million in budget cuts for fiscal year 2018.

Most of the changes went into effect this summer. Administrators say duties of those lost positions have been either eliminated or reallocated to remaining staff.

The university hopes to limit expenditures. It also wants to restructure academic programs and administration by consolidating those programs, duties and staff positions.

University spokesman Christian Basi says the school’s main mission of providing education and research opportunities for students will continue despite the cuts.

BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri man accused of the dragging death of a cat has also been accused of having a makeshift weapon in his jail cell.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that a corrections officer in Taney County Jail found a sharpened spork in 18-year-old Kyle Williams’ cell last month.

State law doesn’t allow for the concealment of weapons in jail. Williams has been charged with a felony for possessing the homemade knife.

Authorities say the Branson man killed a kitten by tying it to the back of a vehicle and dragging the cat around until it died. The incident was filmed and posted to Williams’ Facebook account.

Williams has been in jail since June. He’s pleaded not guilty to charges in the cat death.

WICHITA, KAN. – A Salina man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.

Michael N. Rodenbeek, 54, Salina, Kan., was sentenced Aug. 11. He pleaded guilty to two counts of producing child pornography. In his plea, he admitted using an iPhone camera to surreptitiously record videos focusing on the genitals of a 10-year-old victim and a 9-year-old victim. The recordings were made without the victims’ knowledge.

Beall commended the Wichita Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Hart for their work on the case.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say the bodies of a man and a 3-year-old girl have been found in a wetlands area near Lawrence, and a woman who is believed to be the girl’s mother was fatally shot about 10 miles away.

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release that the woman was discovered first. Deputies found her around 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the driveway of a residence she had no connection to southwest of Lawrence. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that she died at the scene.

Law enforcement officials later found the girl and the man thought to be her father near the woman’s vehicle at the Baker Wetlands. The release says the 41-year-old man is suspected of shooting the woman. Authorities haven’t determined how he and the girl died.