ST. LOUIS (AP) — Death penalty opponents plan vigils at several locations around Missouri on Tuesday as the state prepares for its seventh execution of 2015.

Ernest Lee Johnson is scheduled to die at 6 p.m. for killing three Columbia convenience store workers in 1994. An appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court claims the execution drug could cause painful seizures because Johnson still has part of a benign tumor in his brain, and surgery to remove the rest of the tumor in 2008 forced removal of up to 20 percent of his brain tissue. A separate appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court claims Johnson has an IQ of 67 and his life should be spared because he is mentally disabled.

Only Texas, with 12, has performed more executions than Missouri this year.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A member of St. Louis’ governing board says he expects public hearings next week over the city’s financing of a proposed new riverfront football stadium.

As a member of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, Steve Conway chairs the panel’s Ways and Means Committee.

He’s putting together a schedule for the hearings and should have that sorted out by the end of this week. On Monday, the board’s president, Lewis Reed, assigned to Conway’s committee a financing bill filed last week.

Rams owner Stan Kroenke wants to move the franchise to Los Angeles. Although a new billion-dollar stadium is being proposed in St. Louis, it’s unclear if the city will have an NFL team when such a stadium is finished.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska prison officials unsuccessfully tried to buy a key lethal injection drug from a pharmaceutical company based in Mississippi.

That came after spending months trying to import tens of thousands of dollars in execution drugs from India, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services ordered about $825 worth of pancuronium bromide last month from Gulf Coast Pharmaceuticals Plus, which replaced a firm that was dissolved in 2013 after it faced disciplinary action in other states.

Documents obtained through an open records request show the order was placed Oct. 14, amid an ongoing challenge to lawmakers’ decision to repeal the death penalty in Nebraska, which hasn’t carried out an execution in 18 years. The four-box order was cancelled a day later, after the company said the product wasn’t available.

Nebraska had already spent $26,000 to buy 1,000 doses of the drug from an Indian distributor, along with 1,000 doses of the anesthetic sodium thiopental, but the shipment was blocked in India because it didn’t have proper shipping papers. Similar orders by Arizona and Texas that made it to the United States were confiscated by federal authorities.

Both drugs are required as part of Nebraska’s three-drug lethal injection protocol, but sodium thiopental currently has no legal uses in the U.S. Nebraska already has the third drug, potassium chloride, which is used to stop the heart.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City erupted in a half-hour flurry of fireworks after the Royals won the World Series, and the National Weather Service has radar images to prove it.

Meteorologist Jared Leighton says the weather service radar in Pleasant Hill, about 45 minutes southeast of Kansas City, shows the most intense fireworks activity was downtown, near the Power & Light District, starting just after 11:30 p.m.

He says smoke from the fireworks showed up better on the radar Sunday night than it would have during the Fourth of July because the air is cooler and the radar beam stays closer to the ground.

Kansas City Police Chief Daryl Forte tweeted a photo of fireworks around midnight and said they were a big part of celebrations happening all over the city.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 33-year-old woman is recovering from a severe hand injury after police say she broke into the Omaha Zoo to pet a tiger.

Police said officers were called to Creighton University Medical Center around 7:20 a.m. Sunday after the woman showed up with the hand injury. Officer James Shade says the woman acted aggressively and appeared to be intoxicated.

Police determined that the woman snuck into the zoo to try to pet a tiger. She was bitten when she reached into the animal’s cage.

The woman was ticketed on suspicion of trespassing while she was being treated at the hospital Sunday.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri judges are getting a pay increase this year even though lawmakers didn’t set money aside for the raises.

Supreme Court, court of appeals, circuit and associate circuit judges are getting paid about 1 percent more than last year.

Supreme Court spokeswoman Beth Riggert says money from six unfilled positions was used for the raises, which total about $538,000 for the budget year that began July 1st.

The pay increase is based on a 2010 state board recommendation that tied state judges’ pay to their federal counterparts’ salaries.

Some lawmakers questioned the pay bump for judges because it didn’t have legislative approval. Others said the 5-year-old recommendation from the Citizens’ Commission on Compensation for Elected Officials means the state must continue to tie state judges’ pay to federal judiciary salaries.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers will study instituting a statewide policy requiring law enforcement officers to wear body cameras. A similar proposal failed to gain traction last spring.

Rep. John Rubin, a Shawnee Republican, will hold a joint committee hearing next week. He supports police body cameras.

The Kansas City Star reports that the issue has bipartisan support but lawmakers don’t agree on the specifics. For example, the committee will consider whether to require all levels of law enforcement to use body-worn cameras, how to pay for them and rules about the storage and access of recordings,

In Missouri last year, some lawmakers stalled a statewide requirement for body-worn cameras because they did not believe the state should impose an unfunded mandate.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City church now houses at least 30 desktop computers that will be available to the public for free beginning November 9th.

The project was created by Connecting for Good, a nonprofit that has worked to bridge the digital divide since 2011. The organization strives to bring email and the Internet to low-income people.

The new center was open for preview tours Sunday.

The center will allow the public to use computers for free, offer classes for basic and advance computer skills, and sell refurbished desktop and laptop computers to people who enroll in classes.

The U.S. Census Bureau reports that a quarter of Kansas City area residents don’t have home Internet access, and 42 percent of those people have annual household incomes less than $25,000.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A meat company based in Nebraska is recalling 167,427 pounds of ground beef that might be tainted with E. coli bacteria.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Sunday that All American Meats Incorporated is recalling the meat that was sold to retailers nationwide. No illnesses have been linked to the beef.

The recalled meat was produced on October 16th, and it was sold in either 60-pound or 80-pound packages.

All the meat that is being recalled had a sell-by date of Nov. 3 and establishment number 20420 in the USDA inspection stamp.

FULTON, Mo. (AP) — Westminster College in Fulton has officially installed the 21st president in its 165-year history.

Benjamin Akande was installed in a ceremony Saturday, although he took over the presidency in July.

Akande, is a Nigerian-born American citizen. He is Westminster’s first black president. He was an economics professor and dean of Webster University’s school of business and technology before arriving at Westminster.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that on Saturday Westminster announced its first African exchange program, with a public university in southwestern Nigeria. The partnership will focus on technology, cybersecurity and science. The program will start next September.

Akande replaced George Forsythe, who retired after a decade at the university.

Westminster’s nearly 1,000 students come from 28 U.S. states and more than 75 countries.