ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police say a man who was unloading his firearm died when it discharged, shooting him in the head.

Thirty-one-year-old Willie Crowder’s body was found about 6 a.m. Tuesday in his home.

Police say an autopsy is planned.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Three people fatally shot by a white supremacist at two Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City are being remembered with a memorial at one of the shooting sites.

Family and friends gathered Tuesday for a private dedication of the memorial at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas.

That’s where 69-year-old William Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Underwood, were killed in the April 2014 attack. Fifty-three-year-old Terri LaManno was the killed at the nearby Village Shalom retirement home.

The sculpture is attached to an outside wall and features three waves of intertwined steel strands that cast different reflections as the sun moves. It also includes a plaque with pictures of the three victims.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr., of Aurora, Missouri, was sentenced to death in the shootings.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former physician assistant is accused of sexual battery and other crimes involving at least seven patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Kansas, and a lawyer says more victims will emerge.

Three civil lawsuits filed in recent weeks in U.S. District Court in Kansas accuse Mark Wisner of conducting unnecessary and improper genital examinations at the Leavenworth VA Medical Center.

He also faces criminal charges of aggravated criminal sodomy, solicitation and sexual battery in Leavenworth County.

Wisner surrendered his medical license last year after seven patients accused him of abuse. He acknowledged in a consent decree that he had sexual contact with some patients, made inappropriate sexual comments and overprescribed.

His attorney has said little except that Wisner is innocent until proven otherwise.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — A 37-year-old Colorado man has been given one to three years in a Nebraska prison for stealing two all-terrain vehicles and a trailer from a sheriff’s department.

Online court records say Richard Keith, of Evans, Colorado, was sentenced Monday in Lincoln County District Court. He was given credit for 235 days already served.

Keith had pleaded no contest March 21 to a felony theft charge after Lincoln County prosecutors dropped a misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office says the ATVs and a trailer were taken from a county roads department lot in North Platte late on July 29 or early on July 30 last year. The items were recovered in August in the Greeley, Colorado, area.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska wildlife regulators could raise hunting and fishing permit fees to cover their expenses under a bill headed to Gov. Pete Ricketts’ desk.

Lawmakers voted 45-3 on Tuesday to approve the measure.

Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha, a fervent opponent, remained silent despite his earlier promise to fight it after lawmakers rejected his effort to ban mountain lion hunting.

Chambers says he’s saving his opposition for a debate on whether to reinstate the winner-take-all system for awarding Nebraska’s electoral votes in presidential elections.

Sen. John McCollister of Omaha says he sponsored the bill because fees have not been adjusted since 2003, and the increases will help the Game and Parks Commission pay its rising operational costs.

Ricketts has five days to act on the bill.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita, Kansas, police lieutenant is charged in federal court with making fraudulent reports so she would be paid for working a part-time job while on duty.

Heather D. Bachman faces seven wire-fraud counts and one count of making a false statement to a federal investigator.

Bachman is accused of defrauding the Wichita Police Department by working part time for Orion Security Services while on duty and being paid by the department. The city says she has been suspended without pay.

Prosecutors allege Bachman made a claim for mileage with Orion, even though she used a Wichita police patrol car. She also is alleged to have electronically filed a state tax return that didn’t accurately report part-time earnings.

A message left Tuesday with Bachman’s attorney, Cyd Gilman, wasn’t immediately returned.

PINEVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say two men who escaped from a jail in southwest Missouri have been captured in Texas.

Matthew Miller, of Eagle Rock, and Keith Davis, of Anderson, escaped the McDonald County jail in Pineville on Sunday.

McDonald County Sheriff’s Capt. Chris Allison says they were captured without incident Tuesday in Bowie County, Texas.

The McDonald County sheriff said earlier that the two men also escaped the jail in December before they returned on their own a short time later.

Miller is facing charges of kidnapping, burglary and tampering with a motor vehicle and Davis was being held on charges that include tampering with motor vehicles.

KANSAS CITY, Kansas (AP) — Local officials are recommending approval with multiple conditions for a request to allow a Kansas City, Kansas, business to reopen as a racetrack, electronic gaming venue and entertainment facility.

The city’s planning commission heard testimony Monday on a special use permit application request for The Woodlands.

The commission voted to send the request on for further consideration by the Unified Government Commission.  More than a dozen stipulations, including a main building of at least 85,000 square feet, were attached to the approval.

The plan by Ruffin Woodlands LLC calls for a horse racing, electronic gaming and entertainment facility on 317 acres of a 400-acre site.

The company is headed by billionaire Phil Ruffin, who owns other racetracks or casinos in Kansas and Nevada.

TECUMSEH, Neb. (AP) — The family of an inmate killed in a prison riot in Tecumseh last year is blaming the state of Nebraska for his death and seeking $1.2 million in damages.

Forty-six-year-old Shon Collins was one of two sex offenders beaten to death, presumably by other inmates, late on May 10 or early on May 11 at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution.

His mother, Susan Collins, filed a wrongful death claim against Nebraska earlier this year, alleging that the prison’s administrators and employers were responsible because they failed to contain, control or stop the 11-hour riot.

A Department of Correctional Services spokesman declined to comment on the pending litigation. A Nebraska State Patrol spokeswoman said an investigation into the incident is ongoing.

 

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The husband of one of the three people killed by a white supremacist at two Jewish sites in suburban Kansas City is suing over the sale of the shotguns used in the April 2014 attack.

The Kansas City Star reports that the lawsuit, filed late Monday afternoon in Jackson County Circuit Court by Jim LaManno, names Wal-Mart and several other entities.

Seventy-five-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. was sentenced to death last year for the shooting that killed LaManno’s wife, Terri, and two others in Overland Park, Kansas.

Miller was a felon and prohibited from purchasing guns. The lawsuit says Miller used two weapons that were purchased by a friend at a gun show and a Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart didn’t immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press seeking comment.