COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The interim chancellor of the University of Missouri says another videotaped interaction shows “appalling” behavior from an assistant professor who was suspended for run-ins with student journalists during university protests last year.

Melissa Click was suspended after she was videotaped in November calling for “some muscle” to remove a student videographer from a university protest. The protests were spurred by what activists said was administrators’ indifference to racial issues.

The Columbia Missourian reports that police body camera footage from the October homecoming parade shows Click telling police to get their hands off students and cursing at an officer who grabbed her shoulder.

University Interim Chancellor Hank Foley said Sunday he and curators will review Click’s behavior in the new video, which he says shows a “pattern of misconduct.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers are considering a measure that’s part of a growing national movement aimed at forcing judges to award equal custody to both divorcing parents.

A state Senate committee last week heard testimony on a shared parenting bill that would require courts to start with the assumption that both parents deserve equal time with their children.

Current state law requires only that judges award “significant, but not necessarily equal” periods of time with a child.

Supporters of the bill say that in cases where both parents are equally deserving of custody, courts usually award physical custody to the mother.

Critics counter that shared parenting might make sense on an emotional level, but many factors make mandated equal time impractical or even dangerous for the children.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A split vote last month on an abortion issue is the first time in Kansas Court of Appeals’ history that it has reached a deadlock.

The 14-member court was evenly divided in a January 22nd vote on whether the Kansas Constitution guarantees the right to an abortion.

The main reasons there have been no previous ties is that that initially the court had seven members, and normally decisions are made by three-judge panels.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the January session was the first time the court had met as a whole, or en banc, since 1983.

The tie meant a Shawnee County District Court ruling that prevented a ban on a second-trimester abortion procedure from taking effect was affirmed.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — City regulators are trying to persuade Missouri lawmakers not to replace local regulations governing ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft.

Those two businesses have endorsed legislation in the House that would replace stricter rules in St. Louis, Kansas City and Columbia with statewide regulations.

Jim Ready is the manager of Kansas City’s Regulated Industries Division. He said it’s important for regulations to address each city’s specific needs.

The St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission has already sued Uber over allegations the companies’ drivers are not complying with the city’s licensing rules. Regulators say those rules are for public safety.

An Uber representative said more uniform regulations would allow the company to expand out of the state’s metropolitan regions. Uber says its internal policies are sufficient to ensure customer safety.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers want to restrict public access to law enforcement body camera footage in an effort to protect the privacy of people caught on camera. A bill introduced by the House judiciary committee last week would limit release of the video to the people in the footage, their attorneys and their parents if they are minors.

The public would have access to footage only through a court order. Under the current law, most of the footage is a public record available to anyone who asks for it.

Proponents say regulation would protect the public’s privacy. A critic said the bill doesn’t go far enough to balance privacy rights and the value of the cameras as an accountability tool.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Springfield police say a 28-year-old man was shot to death and a suspect has been arrested.

The victim of the Saturday evening shooting was identified as 28-year-old Jacob Merriman. He was found shot in the front yard of a home in west Springfield.

Police say a 24-year-old suspect was taken into custody at the scene. No charges have been filed.

Police told The Springfield News-Leader on Saturday the shooting came after an argument between neighbors.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A suspended University of Missouri assistant professor says she wants to keep her job.

Melissa Click has been working with a public relations firm to repair her image after becoming nationally known for her run-ins with student journalists during protests at the university.

In a confrontation caught on video last November, Ms Click called for “some muscle” to remove a student videographer from the protest area on the Columbia campus.

Click was charged with misdemeanor assault, but a Columbia prosecutor says he’ll drop the charge if she completes community service.

Click has given several interviews recently and has been working with Status Labs, an online reputation management firm.

She told The Columbia Missourian she wants to stay at Missouri and that she deserves to be treated fairly.

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) — Officials at Homestead National Monument in southeast Nebraska are preparing a new long-range plan for events, exhibits and education and ranger programs to guide the monument’s offerings for the next five to 10 years.

Monument officials have scheduled a public meeting to run from 5 to 7 p.m. February 25th at the monument’s Education Center. People are asked to attend to hear about the plan and share their ideas.

The monument sits four miles west of Beatrice, along Nebraska Highway 4.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Prison inmates in Iowa are paying cheaper telephone rates to talk to their families under a rule change that Governor Terry Branstad has highlighted as part of his criminal justice reform efforts, but the change was also federally mandated.

The F.C.C. adopted changes last year, including a rule that prisons can charge inmates a maximum of 11 cents per minute for telephone calls within the United States. The Iowa Department of Corrections removed a more expensive flat rate in January.

Branstad highlighted the change in his Condition of the State address when he specified his criminal justice reform efforts in Iowa. Branstad’s spokesman says the timing of the federal requirement is coincidental, though a corrections spokesman says the change was greatly influenced by the Federal Communications Commission.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — A small group of volunteers helped sow seeds by hand over the weekend to help create another patch of native prairie in the midst of farmland.

The Grand Island Independent reports 20 volunteers helped the Nature Conservancy plant seeds for 141 species of native prairie plants on 60 acres Saturday.

The planting was part of the group’s ongoing effort to create sections of vibrant prairie in Central Nebraska’s Platte River Valley.

The Nature Conservancy paid a contractor to clear the land last summer.

Evan Barrientos, with the group, says the goal isn’t to recreate what used to exist across the Plains. But he hopes to create a site that holds a high diversity of species.