NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook’s “like” button isn’t going away, but it’s about to get some company.

Facebook has been testing alternatives to “like” in about a half-dozen countries. On Wednesday, the social network will start making “haha,” ”angry” and three other responses available in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

In changing a core part of Facebook, the company says it tried to keep things familiar. The thumbs-up “like” button will look just as it long has, without the other choices cluttering the screen or confusing people. You have to hold that button for a second or two for the alternatives.

The rollout is expected to take a few days. You’ll get the feature automatically on Web browsers, but you’ll need to update your app on iPhones and Android devices.

PERRY, Kan. (AP) — The head of a northeast Kansas school district is among three administrators who won’t return next year amid a student drug-testing controversy.

Perry-Lecompton Superintendent Denis Yoder’s decision to retire comes after the school board decided not to renew the high school principal and assistant principal’s contracts.

One issue is a drug-testing policy that took effect at the high school as the new semester began. District officials confirmed at the time that teachers and most school district staff wouldn’t undergo drug testing and that the assistant principal was twice convicted for drunken driving.

Yoder says publicity surrounding the new policy affected the board’s decision not to renew the contracts of the high school officials. But he says it “isn’t necessarily” the reason he’s leaving.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas House members are comfortable raising the speed limit on some highways to 70 miles per hour, but they aren’t ready to increase it to 80 on interstates.

The House approved a bill on a 106-19 vote Tuesday to allow the state’s secretary of transportation to increase the speed limits on non-interstate highways another 5 miles per hour, from the current 65. The measure goes next to the Senate.

The House’s action came after it voted 90-24 against a proposal from Republican Rep. John Bradford of Lansing to increase the speed limit on interstates to 80 mph from the current 75.

Bradford noted that seven other states have top speed limits of 80 or 85 miles per hour. But opponents cited safety concerns in rejecting his proposal.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Critics are assailing a bill that would require would-be motorists in Nebraska to take driver’s exams in English.

The proposal before a legislative committee met strong opposition Tuesday from Latino advocacy groups and organizations that work with immigrants and refugees.

Sen. Dave Bloomfield, a retired truck driver, says his bill would ensure that all drivers can read and understand road signs.

Adrian Sanchez, chairman of the Nebraska Latino American Commission, says the measure creates an unnecessary barrier for people who just arrived in the country, and could lead many to drive unlicensed.

Darcy Tromanhauser, an advocate for immigrants with the group Nebraska Appleseed, says some people already speak English may still feel more comfortable taking exams in their native language.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — House members have voted unanimously to make changes to the Missouri Returning Heroes’ Education Act to cap tuition for veterans who enlisted after Sept. 11, 2001, at $50 per credit hour.

The vote could have significant implications for veterans who are inundated with costs related to tuition, such as student fees and room and board.

University of Missouri graduate student Sean McLafferty testified during the bill’s committee hearing that Mizzou currently charges $276 per credit hour for in-state tuition.

Rep. Charlie Davis, a Webb City Republican, says he is confident the bill will pass in the Senate. A hearing date has not been set for the measure.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A new Purdue University study says grain bin entrapments and other confined space accidents on the nation’s farms fell to their lowest level in a decade last year.

Purdue’s study shows the U.S. had 47 entrapments in grain bins and other confined spaces in 2015. That’s 34 percent less than 2014’s 71 entrapments and the fewest since 46 were recorded in 2006.

Purdue says 25 people died last year in entrapments, down from 31 in 2014.

But Bill Field, a Purdue professor of agricultural safety and health, says many nonfatal entrapments go unreported each year because there’s no mandatory national reporting system.

Iowa led the nation with seven incidents. Others were reported in Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin and South Dakota.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s candidates for a U.S. Senate seat are criticizing the president’s plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

 

Republican incumbent Sen. Roy Blunt and Democratic challenger Secretary of State Jason Kander say closing the facility in Cuba would be dangerous.

Democratic President Barack Obama released a plan Tuesday to close Guantanamo Bay. Obama wants to change a law that now prevents detainees from being held in the U.S.

Blunt says moving detainees accused of violent extremist acts would put Americans at risk. He says he’ll fight to keep those prisoners out of the U.S.

Kander similarly spoke against closing the facility and says he wants Obama to reconsider the plan.

The candidates’ opposition could be one of the few times they agree leading up to the Nov. 8 election.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 43-year-old woman has been given jail time and told to make restitution for helping to steal cattle in Nebraska’s York County and selling them in southwestern Iowa.

Amy Springer, formerly of Omaha, Monday was sentenced to six months in jail and ordered to pay nearly $1,800 to a feedlot owner in York County. Court records say Springer pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting a felony after prosecutors reduced the charge from theft and dropped a burglary count.

Prosecutors say she and Ervin Jacob stole two steers from the feedlot and sold them at a sale barn in Massena, Iowa.

The 58-year-old Jacob has pleaded not guilty to theft and burglary charges. His trial is scheduled to begin April 19.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln man has been sentenced to 300 days in jail for pushing headstones off of their bases at Wyuka Cemetery in 2014.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that 19-year-old Chase Dill was also ordered to pay $800 in restitution on Tuesday.

He pleaded no contest to criminal mischief and attempted failure to appear.

Authorities say the cemetery’s superintendent called police on Sept. 5, 2014, after spotting a man pushing headstones off their bases. Police say the man had chipped the bottom of three headstones, broke one in half and pushed two concrete flower pots from their bases.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Republican-majority House has passed several bills that would expand gun rights in Iowa, including legislation that would allow children under 14 to use handguns with parental supervision.

The House voted Tuesday in support of five gun bills that now head to the Democratic-controlled Senate, where it’s unclear if they will get enough support to advance.

The legislation includes a measure that would restrict public access to information about gun owners and another bill that would allow people to use their guns in a state of emergency. Another bill would legalize the use of suppressors.

Rep. Matt Windschitl, a Republican from Missouri Valley, says the bills protect Second Amendment rights. Rev. Cheryl Thomas, with Iowans for Gun Safety, says some of the legislation is designed to weaken Iowa’s gun laws.