GRANDVIEW, Mo. (AP) — Police say a 43-year-old man is dead after being hit by a train in the Kansas City suburb of Grandview.

Officers were called to the railroad tracks behind a strip mall shortly before 2:30 p.m. Saturday after a man was found underneath a train.  The man was declared dead at the scene. His name was not immediately released.

The train belongs to the Kansas City Southern Railroad. A spokesman for the railroad issued a statement Saturday saying the train’s crew saw a man sitting on the tracks but could not get the train stopped in time to avoid hitting him.

Nobody on the train was injured. The Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office is investigating.

BRENHAM, Texas (AP) — Blue Bell plans to restart its main Texas ice cream-making plant in a few months as sales expand following listeria contamination and cleanup.

Blue Bell said Thursday that its products return to the Dallas, Fort Worth and Waco areas on Nov. 2, plus Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The Brenham-based company on Aug. 31 resumed selling ice cream in the Houston and Austin areas, four months after suspending sales when listeria was found at some plants.

Bell Bell was linked to 10 listeria cases, including three deaths in Kansas. The bacteria can cause serious illness, especially in older adults, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems.

Blue Bell resumed limited production after extensive cleaning and decontamination. Items are currently produced in Sylacauga , Alabama, and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Hundreds of state workers have been shuffled into new positions at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment and other agencies.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that documents show Gov. Sam Brownback ordered the moves based on a study the effected workers haven’t seen. Kansas Organization of State Employees director Rebecca Proctor says that without seeing the study, workers are left in the dark.

An executive directive signed last week by Brownback abolishes 18 job classifications and replaces them with 16 new classifications. The positions affected range from environmental technicians to geologists and program services managers.

KDHE spokeswoman Sara Belfry says the changes were made in response to a study by the Department of Administration over the past two years to determine whether changes to job classifications were necessary.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says St. Louis County police need to strengthen policies for handling protests and demonstrations, improve training on diversity and community policing, and do a better job of hiring and promoting minorities and women.

A department report released Friday is the third and final review stemming from the unrest in Ferguson that followed the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The department’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services looked at the St. Louis County department at the request of Chief Jon Belmar.

A message seeking comment from Belmar has not been returned.

Brown, who was black and unarmed, was killed Aug. 9, 2014, during a confrontation with white Ferguson officer Darren Wilson, prompting months of unrest in the St. Louis suburb.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Former longtime Missouri state Sen. Harold Caskey has died following complications related to Parkinson’s disease.

Kay Caskey said her husband died Thursday at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Kansas. He was 77.

She says he was taken there earlier this week from their Butler home after choking on food and losing consciousness. Kay Caskey says her husband had difficulty swallowing because of Parkinson’s disease.

Caskey first won election to the Missouri Senate in 1976 and served for 28 years before being forced out by term limits. The Democrat previously was the Bates County prosecutor

Caskey played a key role in Missouri’s school funding laws and in a measure allowing people to carry concealed guns.

He was vice chairman of the Missouri Capitol Commission, which oversees the building’s preservation projects.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha leaders who say they went to bat for ConAgra with tax breaks and other incentives years ago say they’re disappointed the company is moving its headquarters to Chicago.  About 1,000 people will lose their jobs in Omaha and roughly 300 Omaha jobs will move to Chicago.

The company will keep 1,200 workers in Omaha. ConAgra is cutting a total of about 1,500 jobs, or approximately 30 percent of its global, office-based workforce.

The company said the job cuts exclude plant positions and do not include any impact from the planned sale of its private label operations. It anticipates about $345 million in one-time charges over the next two to three years related to the restructuring.

ConAgra Foods Inc. said Thursday that its plans should result in about $200 million in cost savings, with most of that realized in fiscal 2018. The company said the savings are in addition to approximately $150 million in cost cuts over the last two years.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Election officials across Kansas are expected to begin removing the names of more than 31,000 prospective voters from their records in line with Kansas’ tough voter identification law, which requires applicants to prove their citizenship before casting a ballot.

Secretary of State Kris Kobach directed election officials to discard applications from prospective voters who after 90 days did not provide all the required documents.

Most were people who hadn’t documented their U.S. citizenship.

The proof-of-citizenship requirement took effect in 2013. Only four states have a similar requirement, which advocates support as an effective tool against voter fraud but opponents consider a ruse for discouraging voting by the poor and minorities. The culling of applications is the first since the law went into effect.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A judge has ordered Wells Fargo to pay another $17.8 million to a suburban St. Louis woman who claimed the family trusts were mismanaged.  The ruling Wednesday by St. Louis County Circuit Judge Carolyn Whittington is in addition to $77 million in damages awarded in May to Barbara Burton Morriss of Olivette.

A Wells Fargo spokesman says the company disagrees with the verdict and is considering appeal options.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch report that it wasn’t a complete win for Morriss. The judge also ordered her to pay $5.9 million, ruling that she was partly at fault for losses.

Morriss filed suit in 2012. It alleged that San Francisco-based Wells Fargo failed to fully disclose financial transactions in two family trusts that were drained of millions of dollars.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge ruled on Thursday there is enough evidence to try a 27-year-old for capital murder and rape in the death of a woman who was set on fire at a Wichita park.

Cornell McNeal faces a Nov. 12 arraignment in the November death of Letitia “Tish” Davis.

The 36-year-old mother of four suffered burns on more than half of her body and cuts on her head in the attack. She died about a week later.

The critically injured victim couldn’t say much to investigators after she was found near a charred area in Fairmont Park, but witnesses say she kept repeating she had been raped, beaten and set on fire.

Affidavits show a damaged cellphone and DNA evidence connected McNeal to the attack.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri has joined a nationwide coalition dedicated to making it easier for high school students to apply for college.

The Columbia Missourian reports that the 80 college Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success aims to accomplish this goal by creating a website that allows students to create a digital portfolio of their school careers, look at financial aid opportunities and submit applications.

Coalition officials say the portfolio side of the site will go live January 2016, and the application side in fall 2016. Students starting classes in fall 2017 will be able to apply using the new site.

Leigh Spence, director of counseling at Battle High School in Columbia, said says hopes an easier application process will increase the number of schools to which students apply.