TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback has vetoed measures to block a major economic development project and to protect a government office building near the Kansas Statehouse.

The governor on Friday vetoed a provision in a budget bill preventing his administration from authorizing bonds backed by state sales tax revenues to lure the American Royal horse and livestock exhibition to Kansas from Kansas City, Missouri.

Most of the rest of the bill will become law.

Brownback also vetoed a separate bill preventing the state from tearing down the Docking State Office Building.

Legislators passed the bill after Brownback canceled a $20 million project that would have torn down the building. The project also would have built a new power plant to replace one at the Docking building for the Statehouse and other buildings.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri lawmaker is dropping efforts to dismantle the merger of the state’s road and highway patrol.

The Kansas City Star reports that Rep. Diane Franklin, a Camdenton Republican, made the announcement Thursday, noting that crucial changes are already being made. She said the demerger legislation she filed in January has led the Missouri Highway Patrol to assign more troopers to the water and to beef up efforts to identify boaters who are intoxicated.

The changes will go into effect at the Lake of the Ozarks in the next two months, before prime boating season.

The merger has faced questions, in part because a handcuffed Iowa man in patrol custody tumbled into the Lake of the Ozarks on May, 31, 2014, wearing an improperly secured life vest and drowned.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Active-duty Missourians stationed in the state wouldn’t pay state income taxes under a bill that has won passage in the state Senate.

The Jefferson City News-Tribune reports that the Senate’s 31-0 vote on Thursday sends the measure to the House. Officials from Fort Leonard Wood and Whiteman Air Force Base were on hand for the vote because they were in the state Capitol for Military Appreciation Day.

Sen. David Pearce, a Warrensburg Republican, whose district includes Whiteman, co-sponsored the bill. He says the measure makes Missouri a “more military friendly state.” Pearce says Whiteman has about 7,000 employees and Fort Leonard Wood about 36,000.

Passing the change into state law could cost the state more than $12 million in general revenue.

WASHINGTON (AP) — After a raucous and — at times — crass debate in Detroit, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio is spending Friday looking for votes in Kansas.

One of four Saturday nominating contests, Kansas offers 40 delegates of the 155 in play this weekend.

Rubio trails second-place Ted Cruz in delegate count, and both men are well behind front-runner Donald Trump after the billionaire businessman won seven primaries on Super Tuesday to go with his three victories in February.

The Rubio campaign continues to argue that the Florida senator can reach the required 1,237 delegates required for the GOP nomination. The more likely best-case scenario for Rubio is that he and Cruz together earn enough delegates in the coming weeks to keep Trump from reaching the majority threshold.

That would set up an unpredictable Republican convention in July, when delegates at the Cleveland gathering would have to choose a nominee in open voting.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Donald Trump plans to have a rally Saturday in Wichita as Republicans prepare to vote in the state’s presidential caucuses.

The billionaire businessman’s campaign for the GOP nomination announced the event Friday, as rival and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was campaigning in the state.

Trump’s campaign posted a statement on a website but did not provide additional details.

Republican candidate Ted Cruz also planned to be in Wichita on Saturday to speak at the Century II arena caucus site as voting opens at 10 a.m.

Cruz had a campaign stop Wednesday evening in Olathe, followed by a rally at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park.

Rubio’s rallies Friday were Topeka, Wichita and Overland Park.

They’re vying for the state’s 40 delegates to the GOP National Convention this summer.

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government is investigating complaints that the brakes can fail on Ford’s F-150 pickup truck.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the probe covers about 420,000 pickups with 3.5-Liter engines from the 2013 and 2014 model years.

The agency says it has 33 complaints about the problem, including some drivers reporting that the pedals can suddenly go to the floor with a complete loss of braking. Four drivers reported that the problem caused crashes, although there were no injuries.

Some of the drivers reported that mechanics told them brake fluid had leaked from the master cylinder to the brake booster, causing the problem.

The agency will check into how often the problem happens and whether a recall is necessary. Messages were left Friday seeking comment from Ford.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers have passed a bill requiring public employees’ to give permission every year for union dues to be withheld from their paychecks.

The House voted 109-49 Thursday to send the legislation to Governor Jay Nixon. The Senate passed the bill 23-7 earlier this week.

The Democratic governor vetoed a similar bill in 2013.

Lawmakers were unable to override his veto then. This year, the bill passed in each chamber with the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to override a veto.

Before the vote, House Democrats warned that the bill is a step toward so-called right-to-work rules that would bar mandatory union fees in the private sector.

House Speaker Todd Richardson defended the bill, saying it would never be used to implement right to work.

The Senate passed the measure 18-14 Thursday, a tight vote and the minimum needed to send it to the House.

Sponsor Senator Eric Schmitt says the bill would help consumers and the beer industry because it could mean more refrigerators to store cold ales.

Craft brewers say it could give an unfair advantage to larger breweries, such as St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch.

Jeff Schrag, founder of the Springfield-based Mother’s Brewing Company, says craft breweries can’t afford to buy coolers to lease. He says that could give big breweries more opportunities to get store space for their products.

A regional Anheuser-Busch official said the bill would help the entire Missouri beer industry.