SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The Dickerson Park Zoo in Springfield says its popular hippopotamus is being moved to a zoo in Cincinnati. The Springfield News-Leader reports that zoo officials say Henry the hippopotamus needs a better living space than the one he’s had at the Dickerson Park Zoo for the last three years.

But Zoo Director Mike Crocker says Henry will remain in Springfield a few months longer than originally expected. He says Cincinnati’s new hippo environment won’t be ready until early summer 2016.

The zoo also says it’s canceling the 2015 edition of its annual Halloween party, Spooktacular, which has seen declining attendance.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The lawyer for convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning says her client faces charges for alleged prison infractions that carry a possible maximum sentence of indefinite solitary confinement.

Defense attorney Nancy Hollander said Wednesday an August 18th hearing is set at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the transgender Army private is serving a 35-year sentence. The military had no immediate comment.

The prison charges include possession of prohibited property, including the Vanity Fair issue with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover. She also faces a charge of medicine misuse over an expired tube of toothpaste, and charges alleging disrespect and disorderly conduct.

The former intelligence analyst was convicted in 2013 of espionage and other offenses for sending more than 700,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks while working in Iraq.

MARSHFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former southwest Missouri teacher has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from having sexual contact with a student.

The Springfield News-Leader reports 47-year-old Johnna Feazell pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony charges of statutory sodomy and sexual contact with the 16-year-old student.

Feazell was an 8th-grade teacher and coach in Marshfield until last November.

The girl’s parents went to the Marshfield principal in October after finding a cellphone that she and her husband hadn’t bought their daughter, and the only contact in the phone was Feazell’s number.

Court documents show she also pleaded guilty to felony charges of tampering with physical evidence and tampering with a witness.

Sentencing is Nov. 3 in Webster County.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The government’s first corn production forecast of the season anticipates a good 2015 harvest in Kansas.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Wednesday that it projects the state’s corn production to come in at 570 million bushels. If realized, that is 1 percent above last year’s production.

Their upbeat forecast comes despite 1 percent fewer anticipated harvested acres than a year ago. The agency estimates 3.75 million acres will be harvested, but higher yields will more than make up for the fewer acres.

Corn yields are forecast at 152 bushels per acre, up 3 bushels from a year ago.

Sorghum production in Kansas is anticipated to be up 15 percent to 229 million bushels.

This year’s soybean crop is forecast to come in at 133 million bushels, down 7 percent.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former top executive at a large St. Louis-based construction firm has been found guilty in a scheme using company money for his own personal expenses.

A federal jury late Tuesday convicted 58-year-old Brian Paluch of Kirkwood of three counts of mail fraud. Sentencing is Nov. 30.

Paluch is a former chief financial officer and senior vice president of Paric Construction. Federal prosecutors say he used his company credit card to pay for personal travel, dining, spa charges, electronics and other things from 2010 through February 2014.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in St. Louis says Paluch sometimes forged the name of the company’s president on financial summaries to falsely indicate that the payments were approved.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s state House leader has assembled a panel to review how to provide Medicaid health care.

Republican Speaker Todd Richardson appointed lawmakers, providers and consumer group members to the task force Wednesday.

An earlier message from Richardson described a task force for expanding Medicaid. A release from the speaker’s office later corrected that.

Republican Rep. Marsha Haefner of Oakville is chairwoman. She says the goal is to review ways to provide all of those on Medicaid with health care through a managed care model.

The state pays a private company to manage patients’ health care under that model. Missouri now also provides care through a fee-for-service model, which reimburses physicians as patients are treated.

Haefner says she intends to recommend legislation to switch all Medicaid services to managed care.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The father of a black 18-year-old who was shot by plainclothes police officers in Ferguson during protests to mark the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death says he expects his son to survive.

Tyrone Harris Sr. told The Associated Press Wednesday that the family’s lawyer has advised him to not discuss the Sunday night shooting that left Tyrone Harris Jr. in critical condition.

Harris declined to identify the attorney. His son was charged Monday with 10 felonies.

St. Louis County police say four officers opened fire on the younger Harris after he opened fire on their unmarked van on West Florissant Avenue. The street has been the hub of demonstrations marking Brown’s Aug. 9, 2014, shooting death by a white Ferguson police officer.

Louis County remains in a state of emergency.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City’s new $100-million streetcar system faces potential delays that could mean it won’t be ready in time for next March’s Big 12 men’s basketball tournament.

Mayor Sly James has said it’s crucial that the new two-mile downtown streetcar system can carry passengers in time for the March 2016 tournament, which is expected to draw to draw thousands of visitors to downtown Kansas City.

The streetcar track work is completed, and the electrical wiring is expected to be ready by the end of September.

But City Manager Troy Schulte told The Kansas City Star on Tuesday the four streetcars, which together cost about $18 million, may not be finished until the end of the year, and that may not be enough time to start the service in March.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a lower judge’s ruling striking down Nebraska’s now-negated ban on gay marriage and civil unions as unconstitutional. The decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday was largely a formality, as a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in late June legalized gay marriage across the county.

But the formality was necessary, the appeals court said, because while the Supreme Court’s ruling grants gay couples the right to marry nationwide, the ruling came on appeals regarding the same-sex marriage bans in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee — not Nebraska.

Tuesday’s ruling came in the case of seven same-sex couples in Nebraska who sued last year for the right to marry in Nebraska or to have their marriages in other states recognized by Nebraska.