WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Federal authorities have been investigating the death of a 23-year-old Wichita man who was shot by police.

The FBI said Wednesday it’s been investigating the January shooting death of John Paul Quintero “for several months now.”

Quintero was shot and killed January 3rd by a Wichita police officer.

 

Quintero’s family and representatives from Sunflower Community Action presented a nearly 3,000-page petition to the local FBI offices Wednesday, calling for a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting. They were told at the scene that the bureau has been investigating the shooting.

The family is demanding $10 million in damages.

Bridget Patton, an FBI spokeswoman in Kansas City, said she had no timeline on the investigation.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley says he wants an update on the investigation into a 2014 drowning of a handcuffed Iowa man who fell from a patrol boat in the Lake of the Ozarks.

The Iowa senator says in a letter Wednesday to a special prosecutor in Missouri that he wants the current status of the investigation into Brandon Ellingson’s May 2014 death. Grassley says he wants to know a timetable for determining whether any criminal charges will be filed.

The 20-year-old Ellingson, of suburban Des Moines, was handcuffed and in the custody of a state trooper when he fell from the boat and drowned.

Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, forwarded the letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch. He says he wants an update on his inquiry by October.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court is refusing for now to review a district court judge’s order blocking the nation’s first ban on a common second trimester procedure.

The high court’s 4-3 decision this week means that the state Court of Appeals first will handle a lawsuit filed by two abortion providers against a law that was supposed to take effect in July.

The law embodies model legislation from the National Right to Life Committee and bans what abortion opponents call “dismemberment abortion.”

Shawnee County District Judge Larry Hendricks in June temporarily blocked the law, and the state appealed.

Both sides wanted the Supreme Court to take the case immediately, but the court declined Monday without explanation. The Court of Appeals on Wednesday set an expedited schedule for its review.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Two people face charges for a fight in Ferguson over the sale of commemorative Michael Brown shirts.

St. Louis County prosecutors on Tuesday filed felony second-degree assault charges against 35-year-old Latonya Ewings of St. Louis and 36-year-old Calvin Carter of Jennings.

Brown was fatally shot on Aug. 9, 2014, during a confrontation with Ferguson officer Darren Wilson. Wilson was not charged, but the shooting set off months of unrest.

In October, Tony Petty and Pearlie Gordon were selling “Justice for Mike Brown” merchandise. Gordon is the mother of Michael Brown Sr.’s wife.

Gordon told authorities they were rushed by a group of people, including Michael Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, who was opposed to the sale of the shirts. McSpadden has not been charged.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has ruled that a right-to-farm constitutional amendment doesn’t protect a woman who allegedly grew marijuana in her basement.

The Jefferson City News Tribune reports Cole County Circuit Judge Dan Green ruled Tuesday that a woman charged with growing pot isn’t covered by the amendment.

Jefferson City police arrested Lisa A. Loesch in 2012. Her public defender said the judge should set aside a grand jury indictment of the woman, arguing that growing marijuana is protected by the right to farm.

Green says only traditional farming and ranching falls under the amendment. He said the amendment doesn’t allow cultivating plants that are regulated and can be made into drugs, such as cocaine and heroin.

Voters added the right to farm to the Missouri Constitution in August 2014.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled Congress’ first hearing on the Planned Parenthood videos for next week. And the title they’re using leaves little doubt about where Republicans who run Congress stand.

The committee says next Wednesday’s session will be the first of several hearings called “Planned Parenthood Exposed: Examining the Horrific Abortion Practices at the Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider.”

Abortion foes have released nine furtively recorded videos showing Planned Parenthood officials and others describing how they furnish aborted fetus tissue to researchers.

The committee says it is investigating whether Planned Parenthood has violated a federal prohibition against a procedure abortion foes call partial-birth abortion.

Planned Parenthood officials say they’ve done nothing illegal. An organization official, Dawn Laguens, says they know little about the hearing “beyond its provocative title.”

LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska State Patrol says a Lexington woman died and the infant she was pushing in a stroller was critically injured when a vehicle crashed into them.  The patrol says in a written release that 32-year-old Alejandra Zamora was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after the 9 p.m. crash.

Two-month-old Eileen Arredondo was flown to Omaha Children’s Hospital.  Zamora was pushing the infant, her niece, when the two were hit by a sport utility vehicle driven by a 25-year-old Lexington woman. The infant’s 24-year-old mother was walking with them at the time, but was not injured.

The patrol did not give other details of the crash, including whether the victims were in the street or on a sidewalk when they were hit or whether the driver faces charges.