OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nobel Peace Prize winner who advocates for girls and women and education will speak in Omaha this summer at a fundraising lunch for Girls Inc.

The nonprofit group that offers educational and recreational programs for girls says Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan will speak in Omaha on July 18th.

The 18-year-old won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for advocating for girls’ education after she was shot on a school bus in 2012.

Girls Incorporated’s executive director Roberta Wilhelm says she thinks Yousafzai’s message will resonate with the girls she works with.

The group has brought a number of prominent speakers to Omaha in the past including, President Barack Obama, Former President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and billionaire Warren Buffett.

HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have identified the three people killed during a shooting at a Kansas factory.

The dead were 30-year-old Renee Benjamin, whose hometown was unavailable; 44-year-old Brian Sadowsky of Newton; and 31-year-old Josh Higbee of Buhler.

The three were killed when Cedric Ford randomly shot at people while driving and when he got to the Excel Industries plant on Thursday evening. Hesston Police Chief Doug Schroeder shot and killed Ford inside the plant.

At least 14 people were wounded.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has struck down as unconstitutional a state law that punishes suspected drunken drivers who refuse to submit to a sobriety test.

The state’s high court, by a 6-1 vote Friday, declared the law a violation of the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

Under Kansas law, refusing to submit to a sobriety test has been punishable by a one-year suspension of the driver’s license.

Friday’s ruling came a little more than two months since the U.S. Supreme Court announced it also will decide whether states can criminalize a driver’s refusal to take an alcohol test even if police have not obtained a search warrant.

Roughly a dozen states make it a crime to refuse to consent to warrantless alcohol testing.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City has announced the grand opening of the first streetcars in the city to carry passengers in nearly 60 years.

The city announced Thursday that a downtown street party would be held to celebrate the streetcars. The first passengers are set to board on May 6, and a series of street parties along the route have been planned through the following day.

The streetcar route connects the River Market, Central Business District, Crossroads Arts District, and Union Station and Crown Center areas. The southern terminus is Union Station.

Kansas City’s previous streetcar system shut down in 1957.

The new system will have four vehicles, and three of them have already arrived. City spokesman Chris Hernandez said that the fourth car is slated to arrive in late March.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis suburb and one of its former police lieutenants are being sued by two women who allege he drugged them at a bar and abducted them in November 2014.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Wednesday’s lawsuit in federal court in St. Louis accuses Pine Lawn of ignoring Steven Blakeney’s alleged pattern of abusive, illegal behavior.

The lawsuit filed by two lawyers with the nonprofit law group ArchCity Defenders included hundreds of pages documenting more than a decade of alleged wrongdoing by Blakeney.

Blakeney calls the lawsuit “extremely defamatory and false.”

A federal jury last month found Blakeney guilty of conspiring to falsely report that a mayoral candidate had stolen a campaign poster from a business and having that candidate arrested. Blakeney awaits sentencing in that case.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is taking action to allow a wage hike for home care attendants.

Nixon on Friday vetoed a legislative measure designed to block an agency rule change for an increase in those workers’ wages.

Lawmakers want to stop a proposed Department of Health and Senior Services rule that would raise the pay for home care attendants from the $7.65 an hour to a range between $8.50 and $10.15.

The workers care for aging Missourians and others who can’t care for themselves.

Some lawmakers say a wage hike should be up to the Legislature, and that the agency doesn’t have the authority to give those workers raises.

Nixon says home care workers deserve higher pay.

The measure passed the House and Senate with veto-proof majorities.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska health officials say the first flu-related death this season has been reported in the state.

Officials with Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that a young child in a region of northeastern Nebraska has died from the flu.

Test results showed the seasonal flu virus was a factor in the child’s death, but the child also tested positive for several other respiratory viruses.

The child was in a region that includes Burt, Cuming, Madison and Stanton counties. The child also spent time in an area that includes Dodge, Saunders and Washington counties.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 13 children have died nationally from the flu this season.

Health officials say the flu continues to circulate at moderate levels in Nebraska.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge has issued a restraining order blocking a former lobbyist accused of sexually harassing interns and employees from coming within 1,000 feet of the Missouri Capitol.

A Cole County judge granted the restraining order Thursday against David Poger. Calls to Poger were not immediately returned.  He was registered as a lobbyist in 2011. The House and Senate claim he still comes to the Capitol.

A hearing is scheduled for March 14th.  The restraining order comes a week after a Republican House member resigned after admitting to having an affair.

A Republican House speaker left office last year after admitting to exchanging sexually suggestive text messages with an intern. And a Democratic state senator also resigned last year amid allegations of sexually harassing interns.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A woman whose family controls several western Pennsylvania cheese-making firms will plead guilty — along with two of her companies — to charges that their grated cheese had too little cheese and too much wood pulp.

Michelle Myrter is scheduled to plead guilty Friday morning before a federal judge in Pittsburgh. She’ll also be pleading guilty on behalf of International Packing LLC and Universal Cheese and Drying Inc.

The two Slippery Rock-based businesses were accused of mislabeling products made by family-owned Castle Cheese. Myrter is vice president of Castle and an officer in the other firms.

A defense attorney for the company declined to comment in advance of the guilty pleas.

Myrter faces up to a year in prison and a $500,000 fine.