SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The Greene County Prosecutor will not charge anyone in a case involving the mix up of three bodies at a Springfield mortuary.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that in 2014 a body that was supposed to be cremated was instead buried. The body matching that grave was placed in another. A body that was supposed to be in the second grave was cremated.

Prosecutors sought to determine if Springfield Mortuary owner Brian Simmons deliberately provided false information about the bodies.

Chief Assistant Prosecutor Todd Myers said in a memo this week that the office could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Simmons knowingly provided false information about the bodies.

The issue became public in September when two graves were opened after a former mortuary employee reported the mix up.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The head of Missouri’s public defender system is warning that the strain on his department could be grounds for a federal lawsuit.

The Office of the State Public Defender is asking for a funding boost of more than $25 million for the fiscal year that starts in July. But Governor Jay Nixon’s budget proposal calls for a $1.5 million increase to the department. Most of it slated for “representation costs,” though he isn’t proposing to add more full-time employees.

Office of the State Public Defender director Michael Barrett says his department’s caseload calls for almost twice as many attorneys than he can hire. He says the department’s high turnover exacerbates the problem.

He says that unless the legislature boosts funding, the state could face a lawsuit.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A bill in the Kansas Legislature would change the current forfeiture law and require that a person has to be convicted of a crime before the state can take their property.

Kansas’ current forfeiture law does not require a person to be convicted of a crime before law enforcement can take property they believe was used in a crime.

The Lawrence Journal World reports a forfeiture case is civil, not criminal, and law enforcement must prove by a preponderance of evidence rather than beyond a reasonable doubt that the seized property was used in a crime.

The new measure would require individuals be convicted of a crime before they can have their property taken.

Several law enforcement agencies oppose the measure because forfeitures provide police agencies with needed funding.

NORTH NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas police chief investigating a child torture case involving three adopted Peruvian children is alleging that “somewhere, some time, the system broke down.”

North Newton police chief Randy Jordan says he’s trying to find out what happened.

Chief Jordan says state welfare officials received around a dozen reports before the adoptive parents, Jim and Paige Nachtigal, were charged last week with three counts each of child abuse. But Jordan says none were forwarded to his department for further investigation. Some of the reports were from 2014.

State welfare officials have declined to discuss the specifics of the case.

Jordan says one possible source of information in the case will be post-adoptions reports. It wasn’t immediately clear if the Nachtigals have an attorney.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A 47-year-old Des Moines woman is accused of setting her boyfriend on fire.

Des Moines police say officers who were dispatched to a home just after 7 p.m. Saturday found medics treating a burned man who was yelling that his girlfriend had set him aflame. The officers arrested Amy Thornton, who lived with the man.

Thornton is charged with willful injury and with attempted murder.

Polk County Jail records say she remained in custody Monday, pending $100,000 bail. Online court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment on Thornton’s behalf.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Millions of gallons of water are being pumped into the Republican River again this year to ensure that Nebraska farms in the area can continue operating while Kansas gets the water it is entitled to.

The Omaha World-Herald reports this is the third year in a row that Nebraska pumped groundwater into the river to satisfy its obligations under its compact with Kansas and Colorado.

But the amount of water being pumped into the river this year is about 60 percent less than past years because the three states reached a new agreement on managing the river’s water.

The use of the river’s water is governed by an agreement that says Nebraska gets 49 percent of the river’s water, Kansas receives 40 percent and Colorado gets 11 percent.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — More than 2,000 people raced to the top of Omaha’s tallest building this weekend, but one of the slower racers earned one of the loudest ovations.

Sixty–year-old Ann Hegstrom heard cheers when she crossed the finish line on crutches Saturday. Hegstrom of DeSoto, Iowa, said she didn’t want to miss her fourth race up the First National Bank tower even after breaking her femur around Thanksgiving.

Initially, Hegstrom planned to only climb halfway, but decided to continue up all 40 floors and finish in 28 minutes, 57 seconds.

Thirty-two-year-old Morgan Chaffin of Omaha won the women’s division in 5 minutes, 59 seconds.

Ivan Marsh of Ashland had the fastest time of 4 minutes, 32 seconds. The 41-year-old has won all 10 of the tower races.