KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 24-year-old Kansas City man is charged in the 2012 slaying of a 60-year-old man who was shot while jogging.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced Tuesday she had charged Craig L. Brown with second-degree murder in the May 13, 2012, death of Harry Stone of Raytown.

Stone was shot around 7:15 a.m. and died in surgery.

Baker says Brown was in an automobile accident on Feb. 1, 2015, and police found a black Glock semi-automatic pistol in the glove box. The gun was test fired in June and matched the gun used to kill Stone.

The gun was tracked to a federal prison inmate, who said he sold it to Brown before Stone’s shooting.

Brown is being held on $200,000 bond and does not yet have an attorney.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Legislation requiring a private company to scrutinize Missouri’s welfare rolls has won initial approval in the House.

Under the bill endorsed Tuesday, the state would hire a company to check people’s eligibility for programs such as food stamps. The company would flag cases for state employees to investigate.

Bill sponsor Rep. Marsha Haefner said the proposal could save more than $20 million over the next three years by eliminating waste and fraud.

Some Democrats voiced support for the bill, though others said the Legislature should instead make the funding available for state employees to do the work.

Another House vote is needed to send the bill to the Senate. A similar bill already has passed out of a Senate committee.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s secretary of state says an investment banker will pay $850,000 as the last settlement involving lawsuits over bonding for a failed Mamtek sweetener factory.

Jason Kander announced the consent decree Monday involving Tennessee-based Morgan Keegan & Co. That bond underwriter for the Moberly project was accused in Boone County of securities fraud.

In 2010, the city of Moberly issued $39 million in bonds to finance construction of the Mamtek artificial sweetener plant. Morgan Keegan helped Moberly prepare its bond offering and sold the bonds for profit to the public.

The plant was touted as an economic boon for the north-central Missouri town until Mamtek defaulted on bond payments in 2011.

Kander sued in 2013, alleging the fraud by Morgan Keegan.

Morgan Keegan admits no wrongdoing under the consent decree.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln police say a piglet running down Interstate 80 caused a three-car crash.

The baby pig was spotted around 4:30 p.m. Friday in an eastbound lane of Interstate 80 in Lincoln. An accident report Monday shows a car stopped to avoid hitting the piglet, causing the car behind it to stop as well. This started a chain reaction of two cars being rear-ended.

The people in the three cars were not hurt and neither was the piglet.

Police do not know where the piglet was from, and the accident report did not say if the animal was caught.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Two proposals aimed at requiring Missourians to show photo ID before voting are heading to the Senate floor.

Senators voted 8-2 Monday along party lines to advance a bill and a constitutional amendment out of committee.

Both measures have already passed the House. The constitutional amendment would need voter approval.

Critics of the measures say voter impersonation is extremely rare, and these proposals could disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of people who don’t have proper identification.

Supporters say it’s nearly impossible to prove voter impersonation without a photo ID requirement. They also point out the legislation would only go into effect if the state helps pay for people’s IDs.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Abortion-rights organizations, students and Kansas House members are rallying against legislation banning access to reproductive health care.

Representatives from Planned Parenthood, Trust Women and United for Reproductive & Gender Equity are pushing a House bill that would repeal a ban on so-called telemedicine abortions.

The measure would allow women to undergo medically-induced abortions without a physician being present. Katie Knutter, a representative from Trust Women, says the bill would help save time and money for many women who travel several hours to reach her clinic in Wichita.

Monday’s rally comes after hundreds of anti-abortion advocates rallied outside the Statehouse last month on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A gun-dealers trade group is pushing legislation in several conservative states to restrict what it says is discrimination by financial institutions.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation initiated legislation in Kansas, Georgia, Alabama and Missouri over the last year after hearing complaints from gun businesses.

Those businesses allege they’ve been unfairly denied financial services, including by insurance companies.

Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Information Institute, called the effort a “solution in search of a problem.” He says guns are big business in the U.S., and insurance companies are going to compete for it.

Other companies and organizations also are opposed, saying if such anti-discrimination laws are needed, they should be extended to other legal businesses, not to one industry.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man convicted of a 1994 homicide in St. Louis is planning to appeal his case after finding video evidence of an interview with his trial’s only eyewitness.

Leron Hornaday, who was sentenced to life in prison in the death of 16-year-old Travis Smith, received evidence through his 2013 request to St. Louis police for materials from the investigation.

To convict Hornaday in 1997, the jury had to believe 30-year-old Crystal Thomas, who claimed she saw the incident.

In the video recorded three days after the homicide, Thomas tells police she was high on crack during the shooting. Thomas’ statements in the video were inconsistent with her trial testimony.

Hornaday’s attorney, John Washington, says there’s no way Hornaday should’ve been found guilty.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas secretary of state’s office says the number of businesses in the state grew by 5 percent last year.

Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office reported Monday that Kansas had about 179,000 businesses at the end of 2015. That’s about 8,600 more than at the end of 2014.

Kobach’s office noted that a record of nearly 17,300 businesses formed in Kansas last year.

Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has pointed to annual records for new business formations each year since 2011 as a sign that his tax-cutting policies are boosting the economy.

But the secretary of state’s report also showed that a growing number of businesses also dissolved, withdrew or forfeited their right to remain active in Kansas. More than 15,600 did so last year, up slightly from 2014.

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — William Jewell College in suburban Kansas City has picked a Nebraska educator as its newest president.

The 1,060-student liberal arts college in Liberty named Elizabeth MacLeod Walls to the post on Monday.

She will succeed David Sallee, who is retiring July 31 after serving as president for 16 years.

Walls is in her fourth year as dean of University College at Nebraska Wesleyan University. She oversees graduate and adult education at four campuses.

She previously worked at Bryan College of Health Sciences in Lincoln, where she served in various administrative roles.

Board of trustees chairman John Gill praised Walls in a statement, saying she had “proven success in many facets of higher education administration.”