KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man being pursued by police jumped from a highway bridge into the Missouri River in Kansas City but was later captured.

The Kansas City Star reports the man jumped from the Broadway Bridge into the river after Clay County deputies began pursuing him for a traffic violation early Wednesday. The man swam to the shore nearby, climbed out and disappeared into the woods.

He later jumped back into the river, but was arrested while treading water.

In a separate incident in neighboring Lenexa, Kansas, a 28-year-old man remained hospitalized Wednesday with leg injuries after jumping from a bridge while fleeing police Tuesday. Police estimate he fell about 30 feet onto a grassy area.

Police say they were questioning him about drug paraphernalia in his car when he jumped.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than 100 employees have been evacuated from a General Mills plant in Kansas City.

General Mills spokeswoman Kelsey Roemhildt says firefighters and hazardous materials crews were called to the plant Wednesday morning after a carbon dioxide alarm went off.

She says the plant’s 110 employees were evacuated as a precaution and there are no reports of injuries.

She says the leak has been isolated and crews are assessing the area before allowing employees to return to work at the plant, which mills and packages flour.

The Kansas City Star reports that in 1994, a carbon dioxide leak at the facility killed a worker.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Monsanto will eliminate 2,600 jobs as part of a cost-saving plan designed to deal with falling sales of its biotech seeds and herbicides.

The cuts will reduce the company’s workforce of more than 22,000 workers by about 12 percent over the next two years.

The company says the move will generate between $275 million and $300 million in annual savings by the end of fiscal 2017. The cost of the reorganization — which will streamline sales, R&D and other departments — is estimated at $850 million to $900 million.

Monsanto has struggled to deal with slumping corn prices in the U.S., which have reduced demand for its best-selling product: genetically-enhanced corn seeds. Farmers are shifting more acres to other crops due to a surplus of corn from last year’s harvest.

Monsanto reports a $495 million loss for its fiscal fourth quarter.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri pastor sentenced to seven years in federal prison after admitting he bilked $3.3 million from at least 18 mostly elderly investors wants to rescind his guilty plea.

Now imprisoned in southern Illinois, Jim Staley has filed a four-page motion he authored challenging the constitutionality of federal laws under which he was prosecuted.

Staley is asking for a November trial and have U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch compelled to testify about the veracity of the laws applied to his case.

Staley was unregistered in Missouri to sell securities but earned more than $570,000 in commissions while selling investment products he often claimed carried minimal risk and yielded large, guaranteed returns. Yet in many cases, investors’ life savings were wiped out.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Canadian company that wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline is taking steps to circumvent one of the major roadblocks in Nebraska.

But in filing an application Monday for the same proposed path with a state pipeline regulator, TransCanada could create another round of lengthy delays in an already drawn-out process.

It indicates a new push for the federally delayed Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline in a state where opponents have repeatedly thwarted efforts to complete it.

Former Gov. Dave Heineman approved the project in 2013 under a state law that allowed TransCanada to use eminent domain against holdout landowners, but opponents sued. The project has been mired in the courts ever since.

The Public Service Commission could be another avenue for route approval, though its decision can be appealed.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Republican Party’s chairman is demanding that Democrats’ last nominee for governor withdraw as an attorney from a federal lawsuit challenging voter registration policies.

GOP Chairman Kelly Arnold said Tuesday that former Kansas House Minority Leader Paul Davis’ involvement in the case filed last week violates state law.

Davis says he intends to proceed with the case.

Davis represents two northeast Kansas residents seeking to block enforcement of a 2013 law requiring new voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship to register.

They’re also challenging Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s directive to counties to cancel thousands of incomplete registrations.

Arnold cited a state law preventing some ex-legislators from participating in such lawsuits unless they voted against the statute being challenged. Davis voted for the proof-of-citizenship law.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The former city attorney of Manhattan has been charged with distributing and possessing child pornography.

Fifty-three-year-old Bill Raymond, of Andover, was arrested Tuesday on four federal charges. Although he was indicted last month, the charges weren’t announced until Tuesday because that is when he is making his first court appearance in Kansas City, Kansas. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

Raymond served as the Manhattan city attorney from December 2012 through this August. Before that, he was the chief assistance county counselor for Sedgwick County.

Assistant city manager Kiel Mangus says the city won’t comment on what he described as a “personnel matter”

The U.S. attorney’s office says Raymond faces up to 20 years on the three distribution counts and 10 years on the possession charge.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to consider reinstating death sentences for two brothers convicted of notorious multiple murders in Kansas in cases that roiled the state’s politics.  The nation’s highest court is taking up cases of Jonathan and Reginald Carr, sentenced to lethal injection for four killings in Wichita in December 2000.

The justices also planned to hear the case of Sidney Gleason, sentenced to die for the 2004 murder of a Great Bend woman and her boyfriend after she witnessed a robbery.

The Kansas Supreme Court overturned death sentences in all three cases last year, and Attorney General Derek Schmidt appealed.

The state’s highest court has yet to uphold a death sentence since Kansas reinstated capital punishment in 1994. Republican officials have complained about the decisions.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — An attorney representing an energy company planning a wind farm in Lancaster and Gage counties said proposed regulations may prevent the project from happening.

Lincoln attorney David Levy, who’s representing Volkswind USA, says regulations proposed in each county would make them “effectively off-limits” for wind energy developments. He says the regulations go beyond protecting residents’ safety and welfare.

The proposed regulations would set limits on turbine noise and minimum distances from nearby properties.

The Lancaster County Board will discuss regulations during an Oct. 20 meeting, while the Gage County proposals are still in the drafting stage.

Volkswind has said it plans to put up more than 50 turbines in the two counties. Levy declined to say whether the company would continue with its project if regulations are approved.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An Atlanta man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison in a gang scheme that used homeless people to cash counterfeit checks.

The U.S. attorney’s office announced Tuesday that 47-year-old Marion Norwood was sentenced Monday for leading crews into Kansas City in late 2012 and early 2013. He also was ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution.

Through the scheme, criminals broke into shared mailboxes outside business and industrial parks and looked for payroll checks or payments to vendors. With checks in hand, printers — like Norwood — duplicated the checks on computers.

Two other crew members then went to homeless shelters, looking for someone willing to cash the checks. Next, the names of the homeless people were sent to the printer.