ST. LOUIS (AP) — The longest-serving inmate in the St. Louis jail system is going to prison for the rest of his life.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Calvin Brown was jailed in 2008 after being accused of killing his grandmother. He has remained in jail for seven years, through several hearings and mental health evaluations. A circuit judge eventually ruled he was competent for a trial in November 2013.

Brown was found guilty at that time, but Judge John Garvey allowed the defense to pursue a new round of examination. It was determined that Brown was competent. He was sentenced Thursday to life without the possibility of parole.

His attorney says she will appeal.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A white supremacist charged with killing three people at two Jewish sites has given his opening statement after earlier being halted so the judge could clarify what the man was allowed to say.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. is representing himself in the capital murder trial stemming from the April 2014 killings near Kansas City. He attempted Monday to lay out a defense contending that Jewish people are committing genocide against the white race. All three victims were Christian.

Assistant Johnson County prosecutor Chris McMullin objected before Miller could complete his first sentence, in which he started to say that he tried to make a plea deal before the trial. Jurors were removed from the courtroom for a time.

The 74-year-old Miller later completed his abbreviated opening statement.

FLORISSANT, Mo. (AP) — A suburban St. Louis police officer has died after being struck by a car.

St. Louis County police say 53-year-old Peggy Vassallo, a sergeant with the Bellefontaine Neighbors Police Department, was involved in a minor accident involving her personal vehicle.

The officer got out to speak with the other driver and a third vehicle struck the officer.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County and the FBI are investigating four cases of guards accused of abusing jail inmates.

County Executive Mike Sanders announced the investigations Monday.

Sanders says he’s also forming a citizens task force to look into practices at the Jackson County Detention Center.

Recent injuries to four male inmates ranged from bruises and stitches to a man who suffered a broken neck when he was restrained.

Joe Piccinini, acting director of county corrections, learned there was a problem last month when a nurse informed him an inmate had been hospitalized with a broken neck. He says none of the accused guards still work for the county.

Sanders says county officials have been cooperating with the federal probe for more than a month.

GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — A western Kansas woman has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from accusations that arose after 11-year-old son said in school that his mother smokes marijuana “a lot.”

Shona Banda pleaded not guilty Monday to three felonies and two misdemeanors relating to marijuana use.

Ms Banda’s preliminary hearing is Nov. 16.

Law enforcement and Kansas Department of Children and Families officials started investigating Banda after her 11-year old son said “my mom smokes … a lot!” during an anti-drug program at a Garden City school.

Banda is the author of a book recounting her use of concentrated cannabis oil to treat Crohn’s Disease.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Top election officials in Kansas and Sedgwick County have asked a court to block the release of voting machine tapes sought by a Wichita mathematician who is researching statistical anomalies in election counts.

Secretary of State Kris Kobach argued in a court filing that the records are not subject to the Kansas open records act.

Mr Kobach also said disclosure of the records sought by Wichita State University mathematician Beth Clarkson is prohibited by Kansas statute.

Kobach also contended he is not the custodian of records kept by the Sedgwick County Elections Commissioner Tabitha Lehman from the November 2014 general election.

Lehman told a Sedgwick County District Court judge in a separate filing last week that production of the tapes would be “unnecessarily burdensome” because the material cannot be easily copied.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita woman has been ordered to repay the Kansas Medicaid program over $40,000 for committing Medicaid fraud while she was a care attendant.

The Wichita Eagle reports 59-year-old Joyce Ann Spencer was also sentenced to two years of probation Friday. She had pleaded no contest to one count of making a false claim to Medicaid for billing the program for work she did not do between May 2009 and October 2013.

According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, Spencer claimed she was working for three different Medicaid patients at the same time.

Schmidt said Spencer has also been banned from working for any program funded by federal health care dollars.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Stephens College has raised its full-time employee minimum wage to $10 per hour.

The change became effective with the start of the school’s fiscal year on July 1. Employees mainly affected by the shift are in service or maintenance roles, including those who clean, take care of the grounds, handle recycling and trash pickup.

Stephens College President Diane Lynch called those jobs “critically important” to the institution.

The women’s college, which is in Columbia, has about 200 full-time employees. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that school officials wouldn’t say how many of those employees received a raise because of the minimum wage increase.

The state’s minimum wage is $7.65.

DETROIT (AP) — Lawyers hired to compensate victims of General Motors’ faulty ignition switches have rejected 91 percent of the claims submitted.

They finished determining which claims were eligible last week.

The compensation fund led by lawyer Kenneth Feinberg approved 399 of the 4,343 claims filed and rejected 3,944. The fund has made offers in 124 death cases and 275 injury crashes. Of those, 325 were accepted, eight rejected and 65 haven’t decided.

Two injury claims were added to the eligible list in the past week

Families of those who died will get at least $1 million. GM has set aside $625 million to compensate people.

The company recalled 2.6 million older small cars last year. Ignition switches can slip out of the run position and cause the cars to stall.