ST. LOUIS (AP) — A south-central Missouri man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a fraud scheme that allegedly duped at least 24 investors of more than $2 million.

The indictment against 55-year-old Daniel Keith Steele of Rolla was announced Thursday. He is charged with mail fraud, four counts of wire fraud and two counts of engaging in unlawful monetary transactions using criminally derived property.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Steele had an attorney.

The indictment alleges that Steele promised investors returns of up to nearly 29 percent per month. But prosecutors say he invested only a fraction of the money that he solicited in foreign currency markets, spending most of it on himself and his family.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal agency is investigating a report of a carbon dioxide leak at a General Mills plant in Kansas City.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it’s looking into the incident at the General Mills plant that led to the evacuation of 110 employees Wednesday after a carbon dioxide alarm went off.

No injuries were reported.

Jean Williams, OSHA’s acting area director in Kansas City, says the agency will determine if federal standards were violated leading to the incident.

The agency says carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless, incombustible gas used in food refrigeration. Symptoms of exposure can include headache and shortness of breath.

The plant mills and packages flour.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Imprisoned national security leaker Chelsea Manning is renewing her demand in federal court to wear a feminine hairstyle.

The transgender former Army intelligence analyst filed the amended complaint Monday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It says gender-appropriate grooming is part of the recognized treatment for gender dysphoria, Manning’s sense of being a woman in a man’s body.

The military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas began giving Manning hormone therapy in February, but officials there have refused to allow her to wear her hair longer than 2 inches. The military has cited “safety and security risks” for the decision.

The Army didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the filing.

Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, is serving 35 years for sending classified documents to the WikiLeaks website.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Ideas about what to do with soon-to-be-vacant Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha are emerging as a real estate marketer is looking to sell the property.  James Maenner with CB Richard Ellis/Mega Real Estate says no new use for the facility is too far-fetched, including vertical farming.

The facility will be vacated in 2017, after the teaching hospital and trauma center move to the Bergan Mercy Medical Center complex.  The firm has listed the 795,000-square-foot medical center and parking stalls.

Creighton vice president for administration John Wilhelm says the university prefers that the facility be repurposed and not demolished. He says they’re open to different concepts and haven’t set a price.

The Omaha World-Herald reports possible uses for the facility include a data center, housing, offices and research space.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Scholars are collecting and editing about 1,000 pieces of poet T.S. Eliot’s prose — some of it never before published.

The University of Missouri-Columbia says an associate English professor at the school is working on the project with Eliot scholars from Emory University and Boston University. Their goal is to create the first complete set of corrected, annotated, and searchable texts of the St. Louis native’s prose.

Three volumes have been published on Johns Hopkins University Press’ Project Muse website. The latest volume includes an essay called the “The Contemporary Novel” in which Eliot discusses the work of writers Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.

After its 1927 publication in French, Eliot sent the original to his mother, who misplaced it. Before now, it hadn’t been published in English.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A sibling spat between an Omaha woman and her brother has now become a police matter.  Police say the 39-year-old woman has filed a harassment complaint accusing her brother of placing her cellphone number on an adult website.

The woman told police on Monday that her brother’s actions caused “numerous unknown men to text her obscene messages,” beginning about noon Sunday.

A police report says the 37-year-old brother, who lives in another state, is angry with his sister because she informed two women that he was dating them both at the same time.

There’s no word on what action, if any, police might take in the matter.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The group that led a petition drive to reinstate Nebraska’s death penalty is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit that could keep the issue off the 2016 ballot.

Attorneys for Nebraskans for the Death Penalty filed a motion to dismiss the case earlier this week, arguing that the death penalty opponents who sued failed to state a legitimate claim.

The lawsuit filed last month argues that the death penalty ballot measure is invalid because Governor Pete Ricketts wasn’t listed as a sponsor even though he was a major donor.

Nebraskans for the Death Penalty is also seeking an order to halt discovery in the case until the judge rules on the motion to dismiss.

A second lawsuit challenging the proposed ballot language is also pending.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 44-year-old Chanute man has been indicted on charges of manufacturing and selling gun silencers illegally.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Tuesday that Shane Cox, owner of Tough Guys Army surplus store, was charged with 12 criminal counts, including possessing an unregistered firearm, conspiracy and National Firearm Act violations.

Prosecutors say Cox advertised unregistered silencers and manufactured silencers without paying federal taxes or without serial numbers. Authorities also say Cox made false statements to agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on April 21.

Cox faces prison time and fines

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A conservation group is raising money to pay for an unplowed stretch of native prairie on the outskirts of Kansas City.

The Snowball Hill Prairie was placed in conservation protection after it was acquired in June through effort of the Missouri Prairie Foundation and the Platte County Land Trust. Now the foundation is trying to pay off a $273,000 loan that was used to purchase the 74-acre tract that includes the native prairieland. Fundraising events are planned for next week and in November.

The foundation owns more than 3,000 acres of prairie in 19 tracts across the state. It says that many plant species restricted to original prairie have already been identified on the newly acquired property near the Cass County community of Harrisonville.