TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials still don’t know whether a six-week tax amnesty program raised the $30 million that legislators anticipated.  Department of Revenue spokeswoman Jeannine Koranda said Tuesday that the agency is still processing paper amnesty applications.

Previously, the department said a figure for what the program raised might be available in mid-November.

A law enacted by legislators earlier this year allowed the department to waive interest and other penalties for anyone who paid back taxes from Sept. 1 through Oct. 15.

The amnesty program was part of a larger package of measures for balancing the state budget that included increases in sales and cigarette taxes in July. Some legislators thought the $30 million projection for the amnesty program included in the budget was too optimistic.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Figures have plunged in a fourth straight monthly survey of supply managers in nine Midwest and Plains states, providing more evidence of a slowdown in the region’s economy.

A report issued Tuesday says the overall Mid-American Business Conditions Index dropped to 40.7 last month from 41.9 in October, 47.7 in September and 49.6 in August.

Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey, and he again cites the strong U.S. dollar among the reasons for the region’s economic slide.

The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests economic growth. A score below that suggests decline.

The survey covers Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The bacteria that causes Legionnaires’ disease has been found at a hotel in a popular Missouri tourist town, and health officials say one of three people who became ill after staying there has died.

Missouri health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an investigation last month of the Best Western on the River Hotel in Hannibal. The town draws hundreds of thousands of visitors each year to sites associated with Mark Twain, who grew up in Hannibal.

Samples from four rooms tested positive for Legionella bacteria. What caused the bacteria remains under investigation.

All three people who became ill had stayed at the hotel over the previous eight months. State health department spokesman Ryan Hobart declined to provide details about the person who died.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Monsanto Co. plans to make its operations carbon neutral by 2021.

A key component of Monsanto’s plan calls for working with the thousands of farmers who use its seeds, herbicides and pesticides. The company is developing an incentives program to encourage environmentally-friendly production methods.

Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant told The Associated Press ahead of Tuesday’s announcement that part of the agricultural company’s effort is also basic “good housekeeping.” That includes stricter emissions control and conserving energy at offices.

Monsanto also pledges within its seed production operations to take steps to reduce its carbon footprint through breeding, plant biotechnology, conservation tillage and use of cover crops.

To be carbon neutral, Monsanto must reduce its net emission of climate-changing carbon to zero.

VALLEY PARK, Mo. (AP) — A 6-year-old child has been found unharmed in a Valley Park home where detectives suspect a murder-suicide occurred.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that St. Louis County detectives are investigating the incident that left a 46-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man dead in the residence.

Police were called to the home around 11:15 a.m. Monday after Valley Park School District officials expressed concern that the boy wasn’t in school. The boy answered the door when police arrived.

County police spokesman Sgt. Brian Schellman says the boy was present during the incident, but it’s unclear how much he witnessed. The child is currently in protective custody.

Police aren’t releasing the cause of death for the victims until autopsies are complete. Police are withholding their names pending notification of family members.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked Missouri’s health department from revoking the abortion license held by a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia.

The temporary restraining order issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Nanette Laughrey is set to expire Wednesday evening, following another hearing.

Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri filed a federal lawsuit Monday to preserve the Columbia clinic’s abortion facility license from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

The department had planned to revoke the license Monday evening.

The Columbia clinic last week stopped non-surgical abortions induced with a pill because physician Colleen McNicholas no longer has privileges with the University of Missouri Health Care system. The system’s medical staff voted to discontinue the type of privileges McNicholas held amid a legislative investigation of abortion.

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — A woman who was found dead in the Missouri River near Nebraska City has been identified as a missing Iowa resident.

The Nebraska State Patrol said Monday that 40-year-old Jennifer Giles of Council Bluffs was identified through dental records.

A trapper found her body on Nov. 23 in an area north of an Omaha Public Power District power plant in southeast Nebraska. Family members reported Giles’ disappearance to Council Bluffs police on Oct. 28.

Authorities say autopsy results are pending. The Nebraska State Patrol is assisting Council Bluffs police with its investigation.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man is being held on $10 million bond after police were made aware of his missing 7-year-old son and found unidentified human remains on his property.

Michael A. Jones — a 44-year-old Kansas City bail bondsman — made his first court appearance Monday on charges of child abuse, aggravated battery and aggravated assault with a firearm.

Police were called to Jones’ home Wednesday to respond to an unspecified disturbance. While there, investigators were told Jones’ son had been missing.

Police didn’t say who told officers about the boy but that human remains were later found in Jones’ barn. Jones is accused of assaulting a woman and “torturing or cruelly beating” his son.

A district attorney says six other children living in the house were placed in state custody.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Fixing the damage caused by a southeast Nebraska prison riot cost far more than initially predicted.

Officials now say it could take until mid-2016 to complete.

The Department of Correctional Services says it needs nearly $1.3 million from lawmakers to replacement equipment, supplies, walls, doors and window grilles that were destroyed during the May 10 riot at the prison in Tecumseh. The state previously paid a $200,000 deductible to its insurer, which has already covered slightly more than $1 million in expenses.

The estimate far exceeds earlier tallies of the damage total that wasn’t covered by insurance. Corrections director Scott Frakes told a legislative committee in May that his best cost estimate was between $350,000 and $500,000.

Corrections spokeswoman Dawn-Renee Smith says inspections after the riot revealed “much more extensive” damage than expected.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri higher education leaders have dropped plans for a potential 2016 ballot measure that would have raised cigarette taxes to fund college scholarships.

Supporters of the “Missouri Promise” initiative announced their decision Monday.

They said competition from two other cigarette tax proposals would have made it difficult to raise enough money to hire petition circulators and promote their initiative.

The proposal would have raised cigarette taxes by somewhere between 70 cents and $1 a pack, with the proceeds going to scholarships for students maintaining at least a 3.0 GPA.

One rival proposal seeks to increase cigarette taxes by 60 cents a pack to fund early childhood education and health initiatives.

A convenience store association has proposed a 23-cent increase, with revenues going either to transportation or the state’s general fund.