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Shooting kills three including infant

KCPD patchKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say three people, including an infant, have been found dead after an apparent shooting in Kansas City.

According to a news release from Capt. Tye Grant with the Kansas City Missouri Police Department, officers responded to a house around 9:30 p.m. Police say they found the bodies of a male, a female and an infant inside the home with apparent gunshot wounds.

Grant said a family member had returned to the home and discovered the victims. Police say they do not have a description of a suspect at this time.

Kansas City Police Chief Darryl Forte and Mayor Sly James both visited the scene.

An investigation is ongoing.

Jury recommends death sentence for white supremacist in Jewish center killings

Frazier Glenn Miller (AP)OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Relatives of the three people fatally shot by a white supremacist outside Jewish sites in Kansas are commending jurors for recommending a death sentence.

A Johnson County jury came to the decision Tuesday in the trial of 74-year-old Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.

The same jury convicted Miller of capital murder last week.

Miller has repeatedly admitted killing 69-year-old William Corporon; Corporon’s 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood; and Terri LaManno in April 2014. They were shot at two different locations in Overland Park.

After the sentence was read, Tony Corporon, William Corporon’s son, said he’d just “witnessed justice in action.”

Terri LaManno’s husband, William LaManno, also said the criminal justice system worked and “the people of Kansas have spoken loud and clear.”

The judge overseeing the trial will now decide whether to follow the jury’s sentencing recommendation.

Contractor admits destroying military records

national personnel records centerST. LOUIS (AP) — A contract worker for a national military records repository in St. Louis has admitted in federal court that he mutilated or destroyed dozens of the records.

Thirty-one-year-old Peter Panouzis of East Alton, Illinois, pleaded guilty to a count of destruction of public records.

Federal prosecutors say Panouzis was hired by Ancestry.com to help the National Personnel Records Center in digitizing World War II-era Selective Service records, including draft registration cards and their attachments.

But investigators say that instead of scanning and digitizing the records, Panouzis in March mutilated or destroyed records of 50 or more people.

Authorities say he stuffed the torn pieces of the records into his work gloves and discarded them in bins and trash cans.

Sentencing is set for Dec. 10.

Interstate 70 closed in both directions in central Topeka

I-70 signTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Interstate 70 in central Topeka is closed in both directions as authorities investigate a suspicious package found on the highway.

Transportation Department spokeswoman Kim Qualls says originally only the eastbound lanes on the interstate were closed at the Gage Street exit Tuesday morning but the Kansas Highway Patrol asked about 1 p.m. that westbound lanes also be closed.

Topeka media report that several law enforcement officers were blocking the roadway in the eastbound lane of the interstate.

No other details were immediately available.

Kansas examines teachers getting benefits for union work

school bus - featureTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new state audit says a handful of Kansas teachers may be earning retirement benefits for the work they do as officers of their state and local unions.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that auditors said the practice technically should not be allowed.

One Republican legislator called it fraud within the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System. But others said the practice is merely a technical error caused by vague instructions from the state.

The issue involves credits public employees receive for each year on the job, which determine when they can retire. Auditors noted that while teachers are covered by KPERS, employees of teachers’ unions are not.

Auditors said they selected 34 teachers in a “targeted sample,” and found seven incorrectly awarded KPERS service credits while working for unions.

2016 trial set for Brown family’s suit against Ferguson

Lesley McSpadden, (L) and Michael Brown senior (R) the parents of Michael Brown, listen as family attorney Daryl Parks announce they plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Ferguson and former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, in Ferguson,Missouri on March 5, 2015. Photo courtesy Missourinet
FILE PHOTO: Lesley McSpadden, (L) and Michael Brown senior (R) the parents of Michael Brown, listen as family attorney Daryl Parks announce they plan to file a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Ferguson and former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, in Ferguson,Missouri on March 5, 2015. Photo courtesy Missourinet

ST. LOUIS (AP) A federal wrongful-death lawsuit by Michael Brown’s parents over his fatal shooting by a Ferguson police officer won’t be going to trial for at least another year.

A federal judge in St. Louis has scheduled an October 2016 trial in the case of Michael Brown Sr. and Lesley McSpadden against the city of Ferguson, its former police chief and the white ex-officer, Darren Wilson, who killed the 18-year-old Brown.

Brown’s August 2014 death during a confrontation with Wilson led to sometimes-violent protests in Ferguson and other U.S. cities, spawning a national “Black Lives Matter” movement that seeks changes in how police deal with minorities.

An attorney for Ferguson and the other defendants has asked for the lawsuit to be thrown out.

Missouri man charged with killing over spilled beer

courtSAUGET, Ill. (AP) A 33-year-old St. Louis man faces a first-degree murder charge after a weekend shooting in Sauget that police say began with an argument about spilled beer.

Lamarc R. Garrett was arrested Sunday in connection with the shooting death of 26-year-old Oscar C. Carbajal, also of St. Louis.

Investigators say Carbajal and two other men had bought a 12-pack at an all-night convenience store shortly before 5:30 a.m. Saturday when Garrett demanded a drink.

Garrett allegedly retrieved a gun from his car after one of Carbajal’s companions dropped the beer, spraying foam on Garrett’s shoes.

Bond for Garrett was set at $1 million. Online court records don’t list an attorney on his behalf.

Health insurance signups near 10 million in midyear report

Healthcare Healthcare.govCHICAGO (AP) — About 9.9 million people have signed up and paid for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s health care law, a slight dip from a previous count but on track toward the administration’s year-end goal of 9.1 million.

The Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday that 84 percent of those, or more than 8.3 million, were receiving tax subsidies to help with the cost.

The report was the first update since June on how the health care law’s insurance markets are performing in all 50 states. Enrollment shifts are to be expected as people cancel coverage or newly enroll as their circumstances change. A previous report had put the number at 10.2 million as of the end of March.

The figures released Tuesday cover the period through June 30.

Free parking phased out at Lambert-St Louis International

Lambert St Louis InternationalST. LOUIS (AP) — The director of Lambert-St. Louis International Airport is pledging to rein in a program that has given free parking to everyone from mayors to senators, lobbyists and even the spouses of former elected officials. The little-known free-parking courtesy cards have been doled out for decades.

Documents obtained by the St Louis Post Dispatch through open-records laws show that the free parking access was given to Democrats and Republicans.

A total of about 150 cardholders get long-term parking at some of the airport’s best locations and avoid the hourly fees that can run up to $23 a day.

The airport’s director, Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, has told cardholders the cards will be deactivated Oct. 1.

MoDOT: hundreds of Missouri bridges need repairs or replacement

Bridge Closed Sign ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri transportation officials say hundreds of bridges across Missouri need repairs or replacing, but the state agency that oversees bridges doesn’t have the money for the work.

The Missouri Department of Transportation says it’s still paying off debt it assumed for bridge work a few years ago and new funding sources are needed to make the necessary repairs and replacements.

In the meantime, some bridges around Missouri have to be closed rather than risk carrying traffic. Three bridges have been shut down indefinitely since last year, and 641 of the department’s approximately 10,400 bridges are in critical condition.

MoDOT estimates it would cost about $820 million to repair or replace the 641 critical-condition bridges.

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