ST. LOUIS (AP) — A grounded Mississippi River showboat that has sat idle as preservationists attempted to save it from the scrap heap appears to have taken its last voyage.

The St. Louis Post Dispatch reports that the nonprofit Historic Riverboat Preservation Association says it has been unable to raise enough money to resurrect the 106-year-old Goldenrod Showboat.

The boat was a fixture for decades on the St. Louis and St. Charles riverfronts and a national historic landmark before it shut down in 2001. It’s been in storage since 2003 on the Illinois River north of Kampsville in Calhoun County.

A recent effort to move part of the boat on shore caused the boat’s hull to buckle.

The preservation group plans to salvage some of the boat’s interior for a planned riverboat museum.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A new report from the state auditor’s office shows the Joplin School District has taken steps to better comply with the state’s open meetings law.

A three-page audit report from Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway says the Joplin district now has several new procedures to ensure compliance with the Sunshine Law. Those procedures include having a board member take meeting minutes during closed sessions and ensuring that votes and decisions are made public when required.

The Joplin Globe reports the report released Monday did not assess the status of other findings noted in a February audit, including low fund balances and employees who were hired without the minimum qualifications for their positions.

School officials said earlier this spring they were working to address those deficiencies.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man who robbed a bank and unsuccessfully tried to rob a casino has been sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison without parole.

Federal prosecutors say 63-year-old James T. Smith was sentenced Monday to 16 years and seven months for a May 2013 robbery at a Commerce Bank branch in Kansas City. Prosecutors say the next day he threatened a cashier at Isle of Capri Casino in Kansas City but did not get any money.

In both cases, Smith used a note to demand money and verbally threatened to blow up the businesses.

The sentence includes a two-year consecutive prison term for violating his supervised release on a 1996 bank robbery in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He was also ordered to pay $1,053 in restitution to Commerce Bank.

PARK HILLS, Mo. (AP) — Sixteen people are facing drug charges following an arrest roundup in southeast Missouri.

The Daily Journal newspaper in Park Hills, Missouri, reports that the arrests made by Park Hills officers on Monday were all on warrants for distribution of a controlled substance. Police say the suspects were involved in distributing marijuana, prescription medications, heroin and methamphetamine.

The suspects range in age from 19 to 61 and live in Park Hills and other nearby towns, including Farmington, Leadington and Bonne Terre.

Police say more arrests are planned.

LUSK, Wyo. (AP) — Authorities have released the names of two people who were killed in a crash north of Lusk that involved a pickup and two motorcycles.

The Wyoming Highway Patrol identified the victims Monday as 63-year-old Dennis Dighero and 58-year-old Deana Dockery, both of Lamar, Missouri.

Sgt. David Wagener says the pickup and motorcycles were headed in the opposite direction on U.S. Highway 85 when they collided Friday morning. Two people on another motorcycle, who also are from Lamar, Missouri, were injured.

Investigators say the pickup driver might have been fatigued when she crossed the centerline.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — About 50 protesters have been arrested after blocking the entrance to a St. Louis federal courthouse while calling for more aggressive U.S. government response to what they call racist law enforcement practices.

The arrests of scholar and civil rights activist Cornel West and the few dozen others were part of what’s been billed as a national day of civil disobedience. They come a day after the one-year observance of the Ferguson police shooting death of Michael Brown.

A police shooting there Sunday night wounded another black 18-year-old, who police say fired on officers during nighttime protests.

Monday’s arrests came after a roughly mile-long march from a St. Louis church to the Eagleton courthouse. That’s where marchers demanded federal action to stop what policing they say targets minorities. The protesters then scaled a waist-high barricade, staging a sit-in before advancing past police to the entrances.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A Washington Post reporter arrested while covering protests in Ferguson, Missouri, last year has been charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer.

National desk reporter Wesley Lowery was ordered to appear in court in St. Louis County on charges of trespassing and interfering with a police officer. The summons, dated Aug. 6, orders him to appear on Aug. 24.

Lowery and Ryan Reilly, a journalist with the Huffington Post, were handcuffed last August inside a fast food restaurant that reporters were using as a staging area while covering the Ferguson protests. Both tweeted about their arrests, detention and release without any charges.

Reilly said Monday that he had not received a summons but expects to be charged, The Post reported.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Some funeral homes in Nebraska are still holding onto unclaimed veterans ashes despite a new law intended to help shield them from lawsuits whenever they release the cremains to volunteer groups.

The Nebraska chapter of the Missing in America Project works to recover the unclaimed ashes and connect them with family if possible, or arrange a military funeral when it isn’t.

The law, which was passed earlier this year, encourages funeral homes and crematoriums to work with such groups on identifying the cremains and to turn them over if they qualify for interment in a veterans’ cemetery.

It wasn’t illegal before, but the law helps keep those involved from getting sued if distant family turns up later.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger has issued a state of emergency, a move that authorizes county Police Chief Jon Belmar to take control of police emergency management in and around Ferguson.

Belmar has not said what steps he will take to preserve order, a day after violence broke out during protests on the anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.

Several shots rang out late Sunday night on West Florissant Avenue. Police shot and critically wounded one suspect, 18-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr., after he allegedly shot through the windshield of an unmarked police van with four plainclothes officers inside.

The officers were not injured. Harris’ father says he believes that his son was unarmed, and he called the police version “a bunch of lies.”

Prosecutors have filed 10 counts against Harris. He remains hospitalized following surgery.