KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police are investigating the shooting death of the 83-year-old owner of a well-known Kansas City bar.

Police said James “Jimmy” Townsend’s body was found Saturday outside his home. He died from a gunshot wound. Townsend was 83.

The Kansas City Star reports Townsend owned the Green Duck Lounge and Grill for more than 20 years.

The bar was also owned earlier by civil rights leader Leon Jordan, who was killed outside the tavern by a gunman in 1970. Jordan was a co-founder of the political organization Freedom Inc.

The Green Duck was shut down as a public nuisance in 2011 by the Jackson County prosecutor’s office after repeated instances of violent crime and drug activity. The business reopened in 2012.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri lawmaker says he will try again to get his state on permanent daylight saving time, but his proposed measure calls for at least two neighboring states to do the same before it can go into effect.

Republican state Representative Mike Kelley of Springfield says it doesn’t make sense to keep shifting back and forth between daylight saving and standard times.

The Jefferson City News-Tribune reports Kelley has proposed for the second time an amendment to Missouri’s constitution that would make “daylight savings” time the new, permanent “standard” time.

He says supporters will have to convince other states that the change is a great idea, adding that several states have reached out to his office in response to last year’s proposal.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Two fraternities at the University of Kansas are on probation for hazing.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports documents obtained through an open records request show Delta Tau Delta and Phi Beta Sigma were placed on probation this spring. Hazing at Delta Tau Delta occurred in fall 2014, and hazing by Phi Beta Sigma occurred in spring 2015.

The university prohibits hazing, which it says can include anything from “extreme embarrassment” to endangering someone’s physical health.

The university didn’t detail what hazing occurred or whether the fraternities have complied with the terms of their probations so far.

Delta Tau Delta’s national headquarters says some members of the Kansas chapter have been disciplined. The national headquarters of Phi Beta says on its website that a few members have been suspended through 2019.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A retrofitted Metro bus loaded with fruits and vegetables launches its mission to bring fresh produce to underserved St. Louis area neighborhoods.

St. Louis MetroMarket is a mobile farmers market that will start making regular visits to various neighborhoods and hospitals this spring. On Saturday the market provided food to residents of a northern St. Louis neighborhood to introduce its service to the area.

In addition to offering fresh produce, KWMU reports the MetroMarket’s visit included samples of sweet potato chili and recipes to make it.

Once in full swing, the market will sell food at cost or slightly below cost to residents who live in neighborhoods without grocery stores, sometimes known as food deserts.

The market will mainly rely on corporate sponsorships and money paid by recipients.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Two men and a Willard-based company have been charged in what authorities say is a towing scheme run out of a parking lot near downtown Springfield.

Viper Bite Towing and Recovery and its operators, 38-year-old Ronnie Mansker of Willard and 50-year-old Jerry Klekamp of Bolivar, were charged Friday with stealing by deceit and peace disturbance.

Authorities say company representatives told owners of vehicles with expired tags at least three times that they needed to pay a $150 fee in order to avoid their car being towed.

Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patterson says there isn’t such a rule for expired license plates or state inspections.

Klekamp told the Springfield News-Leader that he believes the company’s actions complied with city code, and that they were standard practice for the industry locally.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 31-year-old man has been convicted in the 2012 rape of a woman in Kansas City after DNA linked him to the crime.

Prosecutors say that on Thursday a Jackson County jury found Justin Simon guilty of rape, sodomy and second-degree robbery in the June 2012 attack.

Authorities say Simon and another man offered to give the woman a ride home after she left a bar. The men walked the woman to an apartment building, where Simon punched her and took her into an apartment unit. Authorities say both men sexually assaulted her.

The Kansas City Star reports that the man is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 9.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court says private pilots can’t offer flight-sharing services to the public using an Internet model similar to sites like Uber and Lyft.

The ruling upholds a decision by the FAA that found that the service offered by a Boston-based company, Flytenow, violates flight regulations. The company’s website connected private pilots with passengers willing to share fuel costs and other flight expenses.

The FAA says posting a planned trip on a website is like advertising, so the private pilots would have to meet the same safety regulations as pilots for commercial airlines.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bold federal effort to curb prescribing of painkillers may be faltering amid stiff resistance from drugmakers, industry-funded groups and, now, even other public health officials.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was on track to finalize new prescribing guidelines for opioid painkillers in January. The guidelines — though not binding — would be the strongest government effort yet to reverse the rise in deadly overdoses tied to drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet.

But this highly unusual move — the CDC rarely advises physicians on medications, a job formally assigned to the Food and Drug Administration — thrust the agency into the middle of a longstanding fight over the use of opioids, a powerful but highly addictive class of pain medications that rang up over $9 billion in sales last year, according to IMS Health.

Critics complained the CDC guidelines went too far and had mostly been written behind closed doors. One group threatened to sue. Then earlier this month, officials from the FDA and other health agencies at a meeting of pain experts bashed the guidelines as “shortsighted,” relying on “low-quality evidence.” They said they planned to file a formal complaint.

The CDC a week later abandoned its January target date, instead opening the guidelines to public comment for 30 days and additional changes.

Anti-addiction activists worry the delay could scuttle the guidelines entirely.

“This is a big win for the opioid lobby,” said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, co-founder of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, a group working to reduce painkiller prescribing.

CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said politics did not play a role and the guidelines remain a priority.

“We want to make sure we don’t go so fast that there are questions about our process, but we certainly don’t want to see any further delay,” Frieden told the Associated Press.

Frieden said the FDA and other agencies support his effort, despite the negative comments from some officials. The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees both the CDC and the FDA, said the guidelines are critical to “tackling the opioid epidemic.”

Frieden acknowledged the limited evidence comparing various treatments. “But there is no way we can wait for better evidence while so many people are dying.”

Under the proposed guidelines, doctors would prescribe these drugs only as a last choice for chronic pain, after non-opioid pain relievers, physical therapy and other options. The CDC also wants doctors to prescribe the smallest supply of the drugs possible, usually three days or less for acute pain. And doctors would only continue prescribing the drugs if patients show significant improvement.

The CDC’s logic: Reshaping how primary care doctors use opioid painkillers would result in fewer prescriptions and, therefore, fewer deaths. By its estimation, deaths tied to these drugs have surged four-fold since 1999.

But industry-funded groups like the U.S. Pain Foundation and the American Academy of Pain Management warn that the CDC guidelines could block patient access to medications if adopted by state health systems, insurers and hospitals. Such organizations often look to the federal government for health care policies.

The CDC decision to delay its guidelines followed months of lobbying by physician and patient groups aligned with the pharmaceutical industry, who have almost always had a seat at the table in federal discussions on opioids. As a result, they have had far more influence over federal policy than addiction activists, according to experts.

“They’re very well-funded and they have a lot of pharma money behind them,” said Dr. Lewis Nelson of New York University, an FDA adviser who is also advising the CDC on its guidelines. “And then you have the anti-addiction groups on the other side, which is clearly much less funded and organized.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are proposing a ban on the use of tanning beds for anyone under the age of 18, part of an ongoing effort to reduce skin cancers caused by the devices.

The Food and Drug Administration proposal would also require tanning bed users to sign consent forms acknowledging the risks of the radiation-emitting devices.

Last year the FDA required tanning beds and sun lamps to carry new warnings that they should not be used by anyone under age 18.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a $1.14 trillion spending bill to fund the government through next September.

It’s a peaceful end in the House to a yearlong struggle over the budget, taxes, and Republican demands of President Barack Obama.

The vote sends the bill to the Senate — where senators are expected vote on the budget measure in combination with a year-end tax plan that gives breaks to working families and a wide variety of business interests.

Obama has promised to sign the massive measure.