KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City area doctor faces charges accusing him of sexually abusing a teenage patient.

The Jackson County prosecutor’s office said Monday that 43-year-old Joseph T. Mackey of Blue Springs is charged with eight counts of second-degree statutory sodomy.

Mackey, who surrendered his medical license earlier, was also a leader of a Jackson County Boy Scouts troop and had volunteered for the Kansas City area’s Heart of America Council of Boy Scouts as the medical director and as a member of the executive board.

The prosecutor’s office says the victim told authorities he met Mackey through scouting when he was 11, and that he also became a patient of Mackey’s. The charges stem from alleged incidents in 2000 and 2001.

Mackey’s lawyer, Michael Taylor, declined comment Monday.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Ukrainian woman has pleaded guilty to taking part in a marriage fraud in order to stay in the U.S.

The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri said Monday that 40-year-old Darya Chernova pleaded guilty to participating in the marriage fraud conspiracy.

Another defendant, 62-year-old James Douglas Barding, of Jefferson City, pleaded guilty earlier to participating in the marriage fraud.

Prosecutors say Chernova and Barding had an affair, and the only purpose for Chernova’s marriage to another U.S. citizen was so she could evade immigration laws and stay in the U.S. with Barding.

Sentencing hasn’t been scheduled.

The prosecutor’s office says because Chernova has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, her removal from the U.S. is presumed to be mandatory.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Attorneys are telling Kansas regulators an agreement that would allow the state’s largest electric company to increase its rates about 4 percent is reasonable for customers.

The rate-setting Kansas Corporation Commission had a 90-minute hearing Monday on the proposed deal. It was struck by Topeka-based Westar Energy Inc., the commission’s staff, a state consumer advocacy agency and the utility’s largest customers.

The company’s annual rates would rise $78 million — about half of what Westar wanted. Most households would see their monthly bills increase from $5 to $7 a month.

Westar sought higher rates to pay for power plant upgrades.

Attorneys representing the parties urged the three-member commission not to change any of the agreement’s terms. State law gives the KCC until Oct. 28 to issue an order.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators have uncovered new violations by the manufacturer of medical scopes recently linked to outbreaks of deadly “superbug” bacteria at U.S. hospitals.

Olympus Corp. failed to alert regulators to a cluster of 16 infections in patients who underwent procedures with the company’s scope in 2012, according to a warning letter issued today by the Food and Drug Administration. Olympus did not report the problems to the FDA until 2015, when the company was already under scrutiny for a more recent series of outbreaks.

Additionally, FDA inspectors say that the company has no procedure for promptly reporting serious problems with its devices, a requirement for medical device makers.

Olympus medical scopes were linked to infections of antibiotic-resistant bacteria at two separate Los Angeles hospitals early this year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says thieves used an agency website to steal tax information from as many as 220,000 additional taxpayers.

The agency first disclosed the breach in May. Monday’s revelation more than doubles the total number of potential victims, to 334,000.

The thieves accessed a system called “Get Transcript,” where taxpayers can get tax returns and other filings from previous years. In order to access the information, the IRS said the hackers already had information about the taxpayers, including Social Security numbers and dates of birth.

The IRS believes the breach was part of a sophisticated scheme to use stolen identities to claim fraudulent tax refunds in future years.

The IRS said it will begin notifying newly discovered victims in the next few days. The agency will offer credit protection.

DETROIT (AP) — Most victims of General Motors’ faulty ignition switches have accepted compensation offers from the company.

GM’s compensation fund has finished processing all of the claims it received. It determined that the faulty switches caused 124 deaths and 273 injuries, and it has made compensation offers to those victims or their families.

So far, 308 of the 397 offers have been accepted. Five have been rejected. The fund is waiting for decisions on 84 offers.

Victims and their families are being offered at least $1 million each. General Motors has set aside $625 million to compensate them.

GM recalled 2.6 million Chevrolet Cobalts and other small cars last year but acknowledged it knew about the ignition switch problems for more than a decade.

BRENHAM, Texas (AP) — Blue Bell Creameries will resume distributing ice cream to select markets in Texas and Alabama this month after halting sales and production following listeria contamination.

The Brenham, Texas-based company said Monday that it plans to re-enter parts of 15 states in five phases. The first phase, which starts Aug. 31, will include the Brenham, Houston and Austin areas in Texas and the Birmingham and Montgomery areas in Alabama.

Blue Bell in April voluntarily recalled all products after its treats were linked to 10 listeria illnesses in four states, including three deaths in Kansas.

The Blue Bell production facility in Sylacauga (sihl-uh-KAW’-guh), Alabama, began producing ice cream in July. Production facilities in Brenham, Alabama, and Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, still are undergoing upgrades.

Listeria is a bacteria that can cause serious illness.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas regulators are reviewing an agreement that would allow the state’s largest electric company to increase its rates by $78 million a year.

The Kansas Corporation Commission was opening hearings Monday on the deal between Topeka-based Westar Energy Inc., a state consumer advocacy board and other parties.

State law gives the three-member KCC until Oct. 28 to issue an order revising Westar’s rates.

The utility has said that under the agreement, most households would see their electric bills rise between $5 and $7 a month. Westar has nearly 700,000 customers in Kansas.

The company initially sought an annual rate increase of $152 million, largely to cover costs already incurred for power plant upgrades. But consumer advocates and the KCC’s own staff objected.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City woman with six children who was helped by a police officer when she was shoplifting diapers is jailed on a federal drug charge.

Wyandotte County Sheriff’s department spokeswoman Lt. Kelli Bailiff says Sarah Robinson was taken to jail Friday. She was indicted by a federal grand jury in St. Louis in July with possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. The alleged crime occurred in Lincoln County, Missouri in March 2014.

Bailiff says she was not sure where Robinson’s children were taken.

When Robinson was stopped July 6 for shoplifting the diapers, Roeland Park Police Officer Mark Engravalle bought shoes, diapers and baby wipes for some of Robinson’s children.

After his gesture received national attention, the public donated about $6,000 and numerous items to the family.