CHANUTE, Kan. (AP) — A picture of Jesus has been removed from a southeast Kansas middle school where it had hung for decades.

First-year superintendent Richard Proffitt says the Chanute district’s lawyer advised that Royster Middle School could not legally display the print of Warner Sallman’s “Head of Christ.”

Issues arose after the district received a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

The national organization is dedicated to the principle of separation of church and state. Ryan Jayne, a spokesman for the foundation’s legal department, said he thinks it’s “wonderful” that the district responded the way it did and as quickly as it did.

But many in the community aren’t happy, including former student Erika Semey. She says, “Not enough people have Christ in their lives.”

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Enough Missouri senators appear to support an unemployment bill to vote to overturn Democratic Governor Jay Nixon’s veto.

Sponsoring Senator Mike Kehoe says he plans to press for the override Sept. 16, and three senators who were absent when the bill originally passed told the AP they support the bill. If everyone who originally voted for the bill does so again, those previously absent senators would provide enough votes to meet the two-thirds majority needed for an override.

The measure would cut unemployment benefits to as low as 13 weeks from the current 20 weeks depending on the state’s jobless rate.

Republican backers say it would reduce the burden on business owners, who now pay for the state’s unemployment fund.

Democrats criticized the measure as hurting struggling Missourians.

NEW YORK (AP) — A barrel of U.S. crude fell below $40 per barrel for the first time since the end of the global economic crisis.

Friday’s fall, to $39.86, was just the latest indicator of a vast shift in the energy landscape.

Oil prices have been falling solidly for eight consecutive weeks. That’s the longest streak since 1986.

Prices have fallen almost 60 percent since this time last year, and more than 34 percent in just the past three months.

The U.S. is churning out oil at an unprecedented pace, adding to the supply from energy powerhouses like Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations.

What may be pushing prices this low, and possibly lower, is a steady drumbeat of economic data out of China suggesting that the world’s second largest economy is slowing.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has refused to block the release of an anti-abortion group’s secretly recorded videos of discussions with a company that provides fetal tissue for research.

But how soon the videos might be released is unclear. The company, StemExpress of Placerville, California, has said it will seek a stay from an appeals court.

Superior Court Judge Joanne O’Donnell on Friday finalized a ruling vacating an earlier temporary restraining order and denying a permanent injunction sought by StemExpress.

The judge says the company is likely to win its claim of privacy violations, but that doesn’t trump the First Amendment rights of anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress.

The case arose after the center released videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing providing aborted fetal organs for research. StemExpress then realized its officials also were recorded.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A Jasper County judge has denied a request for a new trial on a $1.4 million civil judgment awarded to Joplin against the city’s former master developer.

The Joplin Globe reports the $1.4 million judgment was entered for the city May 13 against Wallace Bajjali Development Partners and its two principals, David Wallace and Costa Bajjali.

The city hired the development partners, of Sugar Land, Texas, in 2012 to lead Joplin’s recovery from the May 2011 tornado.

Bajjali was seeking to overturn the summary judgment after the company defaulted on their contracts with the city and the Joplin Redevelopment Corp. Bajjali contended he hadn’t been properly served notice of the lawsuit.

Circuit Judge David Dally ruled Thursday that sufficient notice of the lawsuit had been given.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that U.S. government employees with sensitive jobs in national security or law enforcement were among hundreds of federal workers found to be using government networks to access and pay membership fees to the cheating website Ashley Madison.

The list includes at least two assistant U.S. attorneys, an information technology administrator in the White House’s support staff, a Justice Department investigator, a division chief, and a government hacker and counterterrorism employee at the Homeland Security Department. Others visited from networks operated by the Pentagon.

Hackers this week released detailed records on millions of people registered with the website one month after the break-in at Ashley Madison’s parent company, Toronto-based Avid Life Media Inc. The website — whose slogan is, “Life is short. Have an affair” — is marketed to facilitate extramarital affairs.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A $1 million Powerball prize will be split 19 ways — $52,631 before taxes for each — after a group of workers at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis shared a winning ticket for the Aug. 12 drawing.

The Missouri Lottery says all 19 are medical records employees at the hospital. They matched all five white-ball numbers in the Aug. 12 drawing: 8, 13, 29, 38 and 52. The ticket was purchased at a Circle K store in St. Louis.

The Missouri Lottery says the employees have generally been contributing $5 each per week to play Powerball and another game over the past four years.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas doctor and his wife convicted in a moneymaking conspiracy at a clinic linked to 68 overdose deaths will have to wait a little longer to learn their new sentence.

U.S. District Judge Monti Belot on Thursday rescheduled the hearing date for Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda, to Sept. 24. The Haysville couple had previously been set for resentencing on Aug. 31.

They were convicted in 2010 of conspiracy to commit health care fraud resulting in those deaths, unlawfully prescribing drugs, health care fraud and money laundering.

But in June, Belot overturned the conspiracy sentence following an unrelated U.S. Supreme Court decision that the victim’s drug use had to be the actual cause of death, not merely a contributing factor. He also threw out some convictions.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Several state agriculture groups are backing Missouri’s U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt to run for re-election.

At the Missouri State Fair on Thursday the soybean, cattlemen’s, corn growers, dairy and pork associations pledged to support Blunt if he officially announces plans to run for re-election in 2016.

Blunt told The Associated Press he’s worked to ensure regulations don’t get in the way of the agriculture industry.

Both Blunt and his likely Democratic opponent Secretary of State Jason Kander were among elected officials and candidates shaking hands with voters at the fair.

Kander told AP he supported state legislation this year to exempt family farms from some paperwork. Kander has said he voted for an amendment on the August 2014 ballot that created a constitutional right to engage in farming and ranching.

SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican U.S. Rep. Jason Smith says he thinks the federal Environmental Protection Agency should be eliminated.

Smith’s remarks came during a Missouri Farm Bureau presentation Thursday at the Missouri State Fair on a new rule on streams, tributaries and wetlands.

The federal rule clarifies but doesn’t expand which bodies of water should be protected from development and pollution.

The Missouri Farm Bureau says the rule is a significant expansion of the EPA’s authority. The group wants the new rule axed.

Smith says he supports not only stripping funding for the EPA but eliminating the agency altogether.