JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Democratic attorney general says an investigation by his office found no evidence that Planned Parenthood in St. Louis is selling fetal tissue from abortions.

Chris Koster’s report released Monday said a review of more than 300 abortions performed in June found that all tissue had been properly incinerated.

Koster launched an investigation following state and national outrage, primarily by Republicans, about undercover videos released by anti-abortion activists. The videos show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the transfer of fetal tissue to researchers.

Republicans in the Missouri House and Senate also are leading reviews of abortion practices in the state in response to the videos.

Koster is expected to run for Missouri governor in 2016, when Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon will be barred from seeking re-election because of term limits.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A California man who was being paid to drive drugs to Kansas City has been sentenced to 46 months in federal prison without parole.

Prosecutors say 21-year-old Juan Carlos Ahumada of San Ferdinando, California, pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to deliver heroin after being caught on Interstate 70 with 15 pounds of the drug.

Ahumada was pulled over by a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper in Wabaunsee County, where investigators found a hidden compartment where the heroin was concealed.

In his plea deal with prosecutors, Ahumada admitted he was hired to drive a load of the drug from California to Kansas City. He was sentenced Monday.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A group seeking to reinstate Nebraska’s death penalty spent more than $900,000 to place the issue on the 2016 ballot.

Nebraskans for the Death Penalty disclosed its expenses Monday. The group announced in August that it had collected nearly 167,000 signatures from a petition drive that began after lawmakers abolished capital punishment.

The largest contributions in the latest reporting period were $100,000 from Robert Mercer, a New York hedge fund manager, and $100,000 from the Washington-based Judicial Crisis Network.

Gov. Pete Ricketts and his father, TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts, have collectively given $300,000 but did not contribute in the latest reporting period.

Nebraskans for the Death Penalty reported $10,350 in cash-on-hand. Spokesman Chris Peterson says the group will continue raising money to fight a lawsuit challenging the petition drive.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Supporters of Missouri inmate Kimber Edwards say the state risks executing an innocent man if Edwards is put to death next week.

Edwards, a 51-year-old former St. Louis jailer, was convicted of hiring Orthell Wilson to kill his ex-wife, Kimberly Cantrell, in 2000 in her apartment in suburban St. Louis. Prosecutors said Edwards wanted Cantrell dead so he didn’t have to pay child support.

Wilson was sentenced to life in prison after a plea deal in which he agreed to cooperate against Edwards. Meanwhile, Edwards confessed.

But Edwards’ attorney, Jeremy Weis, and Tricia Bushnell of the Midwest Innocence Project say Wilson now says he lied to save himself from the death penalty. They say Edwards is autistic, and that played a role in a confession he now says was false.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Lancaster County sheriff says an internal investigation shows a deputy followed department protocol in shooting an armed 18-year-old, ending a chase across a street from the Nebraska Capitol.

Sheriff Terry Wagner said Monday that Deputy Jeffrey Moeller acted within the scope of the policy on use of force.

Wagner says Moeller and a deputy U.S. marshal shot Tareik Artis after Artis pointed a loaded .45-caliber handgun at them. Artis was fleeing from a Lincoln officer after a traffic stop. Lincoln police say the officer saw that Artis was carrying the gun, so the officer called for more aid.

The U.S. Marshals Service hasn’t named the deputy marshal involved. The agency and Lincoln police also are investigating the shooting.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A national wildlife group says it is doling out $3.3 million in grants as part of an initial push to stem the worrisome decline of monarch butterflies.

The 22 grants announced Monday by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will be matched by more than $6.7 million from the recipients, who are in at least a dozen states.

The money is meant to restore up to 33,000 U.S. acres of habitat in areas identified by experts as key to monarch butterfly recovery.

The foundation says $1.2 million of Monday’s grants is from Monsanto. Critics have partly blamed that St. Louis-based agribusiness’ popular weed killer Roundup for knocking out monarch butterflies’ habitat.

Monsanto announced in March that it is committing $4 million to the effort.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Organizers of a wedding expo geared toward same-sex couples say the November event in Topeka will give businesses a chance to let the gay community know they want their business.

The Kansas Equality Wedding Expo is scheduled for Nov. 22 at the Maner Conference Center, with some of the proceeds from the $5 entrance fee to benefit Topeka Pride.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the event will feature vendors who are friendly to same-sex couples.

Visit Topeka president Brett Oetting says the expo will help couples avoid the discomfort of going into a business and finding out the owner doesn’t want to serve them.

A similar event took place in February just across the state line in the Westport neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say a man was shot while driving a Metro Call-A-Ride van in St. Louis.

According to St. Louis police, a gray minivan pulled alongside the van around 1:30 p.m. Sunday and a man inside the minivan fired shots, striking the metro driver several times and causing the van to crash into a tree.

The victim was taken to a hospital. His condition was not immediately known. Patti Beck, director of communications for Metro, said two passengers on the van suffered minor injuries from the crash, and one was taken to the hospital for treatment.

The Call-A-Ride service offers rides in wheelchair-accessible vehicles for residents who cannot use other public transit options.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police are investigating after four people were injured during a shooting in Kansas City’s 18th and Vine Jazz District.

The Kansas City Star reports that two large groups of people gathered in the streets and started shooting at each other early Sunday outside The Juke House bar.

One man was found lying on the sidewalk in front of the bar suffering from what appeared to be a wound to the upper torso. Police said the man was taken to a hospital and was listed in serious condition.

The other three victims also appeared to have been shot, although their injuries weren’t believed to be life-threatening.

One of those victims flagged down paramedics, while a bar patron drove another person to a hospital. The final victim drove to a hospital.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists are reporting that Mars appears to have not only frozen water but flowing streams of salty water, at least in the summertime.

They say their latest observations “strongly support” the longtime theory that salt water flows down certain Martian slopes each summer.

These dark, narrow streaks tend to appear and grow during the warmest Martian months, and fade the rest of the year. Salt lowers the freezing point of water, and scientists say that would explain these seasonal briny flows.

Because water is essential to life, Monday’s findings could have major implications.

The researchers say further exploration is warranted to determine whether any microscopic life might exist at modern-day Mars. They based their findings on data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling Mars since 2006.