TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are weighing legislation that would make it illegal to post photos or videos of a nude person online without his or her consent. Democratic Rep. Sydney Carlin of Manhattan and Republican Rep. Stephanie Clayton of Overland Park introduced bills last session to deter the online phenomenon of “revenge porn.”

Under the legislation, posting of nude materials without a person’s consent could be prosecuted as a potential felony under the state’s blackmail and breach of privacy laws.

Republican Rep. John Barker of Abilene is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He says that panel could vote on whether to advance the bill to the House floor as early as Thursday.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A cleric arrested during a protest in Ferguson has been found not guilty of willfully disobeying a police order to disperse.

A St. Louis County jury deliberated just 20 minutes Tuesday before ruling in favor of the Rev. Osagyefo Sekou.

The St. Louis native is scholar in residence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.

He was praying when he was arrested outside Ferguson Police headquarters on Sept. 30, 2014.

Sekou was among those who protested in the weeks after 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black and unarmed, was fatally shot by white officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. A grand jury and the Justice Department declined to prosecute Wilson, who resigned in November 2014.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court says a recent amendment to the state constitution doesn’t mean some felons now can carry guns.

The Tuesday ruling by the Supreme Court applies to a 2014 amendment making the right to bear arms “unalienable.”

The amendment specified that lawmakers can limit the rights of “violent” felons. That led to confusion about what the change means for felons convicted of nonviolent crimes.

The judges ruled on the case of a man previously convicted of a nonviolent felony and later charged with unlawfully possessing a firearm.

The Supreme Court ruling clarifies that Missouri’s current ban on felons possessing firearms is constitutional.

The high court has previously upheld the ban in other felon-gun cases based on a version of the Missouri Constitution that existed before the 2014 amendment.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The career of Missouri’s longest-serving sheriff has come to an abrupt end after he pleaded guilty to stealing reimbursement checks for his own use.

Wallace Newman George Jr. served as Saline County sheriff for 36 years before being required to step down Monday under terms of a plea agreement announced Tuesday. Under that deal, he pleaded guilty to one count of stealing. Prosecutors agreed to seek no more than one year and one day in jail.

Prosecutors say the 70-year-old admitted stealing 34 state-issued checks reimbursing the sheriff’s office for mileage and expenses incurred when transporting prisoners returned from outside Missouri.

The checks were taken between January 2010 and June 2015 and totaled around $97,000. George admitted taking nearly $79,000 of that. Prosecutors say he’s paid it back.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a repeat offender has been sent to prison for life because he robbed two banks and tried to rob a third in Omaha.

Twenty-nine-year-old Quantal Blake was sentenced Monday in Omaha. He was convicted in May of bank robberies in February and March 2014 and of an attempted robbery in March 2014.

Authorities linked Blake to the robberies through the electronic monitoring device that he was required to wear because of two prior robbery convictions. Blake had two previous violent felony convictions for robbery and associated weapons charges.

Because a firearm was used during the March 2014 robbery, Blake was subject to the life sentence under the federal three-strikes law.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions of a Kansas obesity specialist who co-authored the “Atkins Diabetes Revolution.”

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed all five counts of attempted tax evasion against Dr. Mary C. Vernon.

The Lawrence woman was sentenced in 2014 to three years and five months and ordered to pay more than $311,000 in restitution.

The “Atkins Diabetes Revolution” was published in 2004, a year after the death of weight loss expert Dr. Robert Atkins.

The appellate panel rejected Vernon’s claim that the trial judge miscalculated her sentence, based on a tax loss of $988,000 from 1991 to 2002. The lower court had also given Vernon more prison time because she created a sham corporation called Rockledge Medical Services to evade income taxes.

Nebraska authorities say a Hastings company will be sending the first significant shipment of beef from the United States to Israel since Israel banned U.S. beef imports more than a dozen years ago.

Israel had barred U.S. beef after a case of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, was confirmed in the United States in December 2003.

On Tuesday Nebraska Agriculture Department Director Greg Ibach (EYE’-bah) praised WR Reserve for complying with a rigorous inspection process that included Israeli government regulator visits. WR Reserve officials declined to comment on the shipment.

The department news release didn’t say how large the shipment would be, and department officials said they didn’t know how much American beef was expected to be sold in Israel.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City hospital has resumed taking new patients after it reported 18 cases of gastrointestinal illness with at least one of them preliminarily identified as norovirus.

The University of Kansas Hospital’s Marillac Campus in Overland Park said last week that 10 patients and eight staff members became ill with symptoms, including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

In a statement released on Sunday, the hospital said that the campus underwent extensive cleaning to combat norovirus and patients and staff had been free of symptoms since Thursday.

The hospital, which focuses on inpatient pediatric behavioral health services, became part of The University of Kansas Health System last year.

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors is recalling more than 473,000 trucks and SUVs in the U.S. and Canada because the brake pedals can come loose and fail to work properly.

The recall covers certain 2015 and 2016 Chevrolet Silverado HD, GMC Sierra HD and Chevrolet Tahoe police vehicles.

GM says a nut on the brake pedal pivot mechanism can come loose, causing the pedal to loosen and possibly become inoperative.

The company says it has no reports of crashes or injuries due to the problem.

Dealers will inspect the pivot bolts. If they weren’t fixed at the factory, dealers will put adhesive on the nut and retighten it. Canadian safety regulators say the problem can cause the brake lights to stay on longer than expected.

GM says the recall should begin shortly.

DETROIT (AP) — Toyota’s youth-oriented Scion brand is recalling about 28,000 FR-S sports cars in North America because drivers can take the keys out of the ignition without the car being in park.

The recall covers cars with automatic transmissions from the 2013 through 2016 model years.

Toyota says in some cases, the mechanism that holds the key until the ignition unless the cars are in park may not have been connected before delivery. That makes it possible to remove the key while the cars are in gear, which could increase the risk of cars rolling away unexpectedly.

Toyota wouldn’t say if the problem has caused any crashes or injuries. The company says dealers will check the key lock mechanism. If it doesn’t work, they’ll activate it.