Lawmakers voted 125-28 Thursday for a bill allowing Missouri-born adoptees to access their original birth certificates when they turn 18.

The bill now goes to the Senate.

Rep. Don Phillips said his bill would help reform an outdated record system. Other supporters said adoptees can learn important health information only from their birth parents.

Adoptees currently can only obtain their original birth certificates through a court order. They can access identifying information in their adoption file if their biological parents consent or die, but that remains sealed if their biological parents cannot be found.

The proposal’s critics said it is wrong to change adoption arrangements already in place.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Coast Guard says it is responding to a fuel spill on the Mississippi River near Granite City.

The guard said in a news release Thursday that a vessel was damaged Thursday while using Lock and Dam 27, rupturing a fuel tank.

The fuel tank holds approximately 20,000 gallons. The fuel is reportedly contained inside the lock and dam.

The Mississippi River is closed at Lock and Dam 27 until clean-up is complete.

An investigation into the spill is continuing.

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A Salina man accused of shoving a bleach-soaked cloth into a girl’s mouth has been arrested.

The Salina Journal reports that the 43-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on a child abuse warrant in connection with the February 18th incident at a north Salina home.

The Salina Police Department says that the high school-aged girl suffered chemical burns to her mouth and throat. Captain Mike Sweeney said the girl was treated at Salina Regional Health Center.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man was sentenced to one year and three months in federal prison for defrauding a Kansas City-based construction company out of $442,000.

Prosecutors say Rodney Tatum of Branson was sentenced Thursday and ordered to pay $442,810 in restitution.

Prosecutors say he stole the money from Clarkson Construction Company by using the firm’s credit card to buy computer and communication equipment, which he resold for personal profit. He pleaded guilty in October to mail fraud.

Tatum worked for Clarkson construction since 1991 and was director of information technology since 2003.

He hid his fraud by bulk purchasing merchandise that could be used for his department and by faking invoice reports.

Prosecutors say he earned $120,000 a year during the fraud scheme but still incurred significant debt.

The Texas Department of Public Safety on Thursday announced the arrest of 56-year-old Robert Houston Hayes. He was captured February 25th at a rural home in Harrisonville, Missouri.

Hayes in October failed to arrive at a halfway house in El Paso after being released from a facility in Houston.

Records show Hayes in 1998 was convicted of sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in Nebraska and sentenced to three years in prison.

Hayes lived in Amarillo and the Albuquerque, New Mexico area before being sent to a Texas prison in 2013 for failing to register as a sex offender.

Hayes is wanted in New Mexico for armed robbery, aggravated battery and probation violation.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for luring a carjacking victim to a motel with an online advertisement and robbing a store.

The U.S. attorney’s office says 26-year-old Wesley Lavern Harris was sentenced Wednesday for carjacking and robbery. He admitted to leaving the victim in the Topeka motel’s bathtub after taking the man’s keys, money and car. Harris and others had lured the victim to the motel in June by advertising sexual services online.

Harris also admitted that the next day, he robbed a Lawrence store and threatened to kill an employee.

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SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) — A historic church in central Missouri has been destroyed in an overnight fire.

KRCG-TV reports that firefighters responded to the blaze at First United Methodist Church in Sedalia shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday. The church, which was originally built in the 1880s, was engulfed in flames when crews arrived at the scene.

Nearby roads were blocked off and likely will remain closed due to debris for most of Thursday morning.

The Missouri State Fire Marshal will investigate the cause of the fire, which is currently unknown.

No injuries were reported.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Lawmakers are considering whether to tax Missouri’s drug dealers.

Sen. Wayne Wallingford told a Senate panel Thursday that dealers would face an additional charge of tax evasion if they are caught with more than 35 grams of marijuana, a gram of other drugs or a dosage of illegal substances without paying a tax. Dealers would buy stamps from the state to prove they paid the tax.

Wallingford said he intends for the bill to raise money for law enforcement, not permit drug use. He said this would provide another way to prosecute drug dealers.

Sarah Rossi of the American Civil Liberties Union opposed the legislation, saying it would penalize someone twice for the same crime.

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws says 20 states have stamp laws.

MEXICO, Mo. (AP) — A man charged in the death of a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper is out of jail after his bond was reduced.

Twenty-one-year-old

was released Wednesday when his family posted $10,000 bond, 10 percent of the $100,000 bond set Wednesday by a Montgomery County judge. Comerzan had been held on $250,000 cash-only bond. He must stay at his family’s home in Mexico.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Comerzan is charged with second-degree murder or an alternative of first-degree involuntary manslaughter, as well as several other charges.

Court records indicate Trooper James Bava died tried unsuccessfully to pull over a motorcycle going 105 mph in rural Audrain County in August. The trooper’s body was found later near his burning vehicle, which had crashed.