TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers have voted to overhaul the juvenile justice system by allowing more low-risk offenders to stay at home while participating in community-based programs like anger management.

Juvenile offenders can currently be placed in juvenile detention centers or group homes for any level offense.

Kansas has the sixth-highest rate of juvenile offenders placed in detention centers or group homes nationwide.

The measure passed 117-6 in a final-approval House vote Monday, after it passed 38-2 in the Senate last month. Senators will review the changes before it is sent to the governor.

The House version of the bill includes a provision to reserve up to 50 beds in group homes for juvenile offenders. The previous measure approved by the Senate says all group homes will close by July 2018.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Charles County woman who is the recorded voice of cockpit warnings for fighter pilots has retired from Boeing Co.

Sixty-year-old Leslie Shook retired after 20 years of providing the voice of cockpit warnings heard by F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter pilots around the world. She came to be known as “Bitchin’ Betty.”

Shook’s insistent and stern instructions provide dozens of voice commands to help military aircraft pilots avoid disaster.

The F/A-18 can sense when corrective action is needed—right away—and the plane promptly warns the pilot what needs to be done. Bitchin’ Betty will bark commands like “Pull up! Pull up!” until the pilot complies. There are numerous Bitchin’ Betties across various airplanes, with Erica Lane voicing the AH-64 Apache and Sue Milne the Eurofighter Typhoon (where she is known as “Nagging Nora.”)

Shook was filling in as a sound engineer one evening at McDonnell Douglas’s complex at the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport when she was asked to step in the recording booth for four new commands. Company officials admired her performance and ended up recording all of the instructions because they wanted cockpit commands in the same voice.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — After almost two years of controversy, a veterans’ memorial that bears a religious symbol has been moved from the Boone County Courthouse grounds to a private cemetery.

The memorial, which listed the names of two Boone County men killed in Operation Desert Storm, was moved during the weekend to the Columbia Cemetery. The ichthus, often called a “Jesus fish,” will be displayed at the cemetery.

The memorial became the focus of controversy in June 2014 when the Americans United for Separation of Church and State threatened to take legal action against governments that allow religious symbols on public land. Despite strong opposition, including from the parents of the two soldiers named on the memorial, the county commission voted to move the monument.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a Kansas City-area baby sitter has been charged with scalding a 4-month-old girl.

The Jackson County prosecutor’s office announced Monday that 23-year-old Brea White, of Independence, is charged with first-degree child endangerment. It wasn’t immediately known if she had an attorney.

Court documents say that the baby was dropped off at White’s home Saturday morning. Several hours later, the girl was rushed in an ambulance to Children’s Mercy Hospital, where she was diagnosed with first- and second-degree burns over 60 percent of her body. She also was diagnosed with potential brain bleeding that was consistent with being shaken.

White told an officer that the baby began having trouble breathing in the bath tub. White said she tested the bath temperature before placing the baby in the water.

(AP) – Blue Cross-Blue Shield health insurer Anthem is suing pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts over prescription drug prices.

Express Scripts runs prescription drug coverage for Anthem, the nation’s second-largest health insurer. Anthem said Monday that it wants to recover damages for prescription drug prices that are higher than competitive benchmarks.

Express Scripts Holding Co. says Anthem’s lawsuit has no merit and that it has acted according to the terms of its deal with the insurer.

Anthem Inc. says its federal lawsuit doesn’t change the way customers get prescriptions filled.

Pharmacy benefit managers run prescription drug plans for employers, government agencies and insurers, among other clients. They use their large purchasing power to negotiate on price.

Shares of both companies slumped in midday trading while broader indexes edged up.

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prison inmate who was reported missing last week has been apprehended after investigators received a tip that led them to a family member’s home.

Bradley Struble, 37, was taken into custody at 10:30 p.m. Saturday in Arkansas City, near the Oklahoma border.

Struble had been missing from the minimum-security Winfield Correctional Facility since just before midnight Wednesday.

He was apprehended without incident and was being held in the Cowley County Jail. He was scheduled to be released in October.

Struble is serving time for violating parole. His most recent criminal convictions were in 2004 for battering a correctional officer. Department of Corrections records show he also has convictions for aggravated burglary, robbery, criminal damage to property, theft and misdemeanor battery.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have identified a 71-year-old Lincoln man who died in a house fire last week.

Lincoln Police say Gary M. Tunnison died Wednesday at his home in South Lincoln.

He was found dead with his cat inside a garage that had been converted into a living space.

Firefighters say the fire was concentrated in the garage living space. It took about 35 minutes to control the fire.

Investigators do not suspect foul play in the fire or Tunnison’s death, but the exact cause of his death hasn’t been determined.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican lawmakers argue they may never be able to meet the Kansas Supreme Court’s demands for fairness in education funding. They worry about creating yearly budget chaos as they constantly reshuffle dollars among local school districts.

The Senate could debate a bill this week that would redistribute a small part of the state’s annual aid to its 286 school districts to help the poorer ones at the expense of wealthier ones.

It’s a response to a Supreme Court ruling last month that Kansas has shorted poor districts and schools must shut down in July unless lawmakers fix the problem.

GOP lawmakers said last week that they found it galling that the court rejected key parts of a law they enacted last year to make education funding more predictable year-to-year.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recognizing a connection between bighorn sheep die-offs and diseases transmitted by domestic sheep could have far-reaching ramifications on federal grazing allotments in the West.

The ruling earlier this month against domestic sheep producers upheld a lower court ruling in Idaho supporting a U.S. Forest Service decision to close grazing allotments to protect bighorns.

Laurie Rule of Advocates for the West says it’s the first time a U.S. circuit court has ruled on disease transmission between the species and the decision could guide federal agencies or be used in future lawsuits.

The Idaho Wool Growers Association sued in 2012 contending the Forest Service illegally shut down 70 percent of sheep grazing in the Payette National Forest in western Idaho.