LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska has issued 1,300 driver’s licenses to youths who were brought into the country illegally as children since the state became the last in the nation to let them apply.

The Department of Motor Vehicles says 427 licenses were issued in Douglas County from May 29th to August 5th and 133 in Lancaster County. The third-largest number issued was in Hall County.

The youths became eligible after Nebraska lawmakers voted in May to end the state ban on driving privileges for those who were allowed to stay in the U.S. under the federal deferred-action program.

Advocates say it helped put Nebraska in line with the rest of the country. Some new recipients say they’re now able to drive to work and school and feel like they’re part of the community.

VINITA PARK, Mo. (AP) — A white Ferguson court clerk who was fired over racist emails uncovered by the U.S. Justice Department after a police officer killed 18-year-old Michael Brown has a new job with another St. Louis-area court.

Vinita Park Mayor James McGee told The Associated Press on Friday that Mary Ann Twitty was hired last month as a temporary, part-time court clerk in that 1,900-resident city.

The Justice Department cited the questioned emails involving Twitty and two Ferguson police officers in a scathing March report criticizing Ferguson’s police and court operations.

That scrutiny came after Brown, who was black and unarmed, was shot by a white Ferguson officer last year.

McGee, who is black, says he was aware of reasons behind Twitty’s firing in Ferguson but believes she deserved a second chance.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 28-year-old Topeka man has received 10 citations after police say his two pit bull-type dogs attacked three people, including an 11-year-old boy.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Angelo Aldridge was issued six citations for a dangerous dog, two for having a dog at large and two for not having a city tag for them.

Police say the two dogs bit the boy, who escaped to the top of some monkey bars, and two men, ages 21 and 33, who tried to intervene.

A Topeka police officer shot one of the dogs and both were captured by police, who were called to Chesney Park at 2:09 p.m. Thursday.

Police Chief James Brown says the officer who shot the dog probably saved several lives. None of the bites were considered life-threatening.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been arrested in the slaying of his employer in Kansas City, Kansas, after a standoff with police.

According to authorities, the FBI and police took the man into custody around 5:30 p.m. Thursday for the killing of Michel G. Ziade, who owned a medical transportation company, after a five-hour standoff.

Police in Kansas City, Kansas, say Ziade was fatally shot on July 28 near the University of Kansas Medical Center. Ziade was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.

FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton would not identify the man who was arrested in Kansas City, Missouri. The suspect faces a first degree-murder charge in Kansas.

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BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — A state report says water seeping through a pond’s clay liner likely led to the massive sinkhole at a Branson area golf course.

The Springfield News-Leader reports the state Department of Natural Resources also says Bass Pro Shops, which owns the Top of the Rock Golf Course, should fill the sinkhole with rocks and install a plastic liner on top of the clay barrier to prevent future sinkholes.

The sinkhole, estimated to be about 60 feet in diameter and 30 to 40 feet deep, formed in May 22 on the golf course’s driving range.

Martin Mac Donald, Bass Pro’s director of conservation, says Bass Pro is “excited” about the geology beneath the sinkhole and is preparing an update on the sinkhole. He declined to elaborate.

STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. (AP) — A woman claims in a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of St. Louis that she was sexually abused by a former coach at her Roman Catholic high school.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the woman filed the suit last week in Missouri’s Ste. Genevieve County south of St. Louis, identifying herself only as “K.B.”

The lawsuit alleges she was abused by Martin Weiler as a teenager in the locker room, weight room and faculty parking lot at Valle Catholic High School in Ste. Genevieve.

Weiler committed suicide in 2009, after the accuser contacted police.

The suit says the plaintiff now is imprisoned for drug-related crimes and blames her “downward spiral” on Weiler.

The archdiocese says it investigated the allegations and interviewed the imprisoned plaintiff but found the claims meritless.

CARTHAGE, Mo. (AP) — The mother of a 26-year-old Joplin man who claims her son’s suicide in a Carthage jail was captured on video surveillance has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Carthage police and the city of negligence.

Charles Roderique died in August 2013 after hanging himself in his cell.

The Joplin Globe reports the wrongful death lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Springfield on behalf of Roderique’s mother, Patricia, says authorities failed to take precautions although they knew Roderique was mentally ill.

The lawsuit says surveillance video shows Roderique twisting his bedsheet into a ligature and hanging himself several minutes later without jailers noticing.

Police Chief Greg Dagnan says the lawsuit account leaves out several details and that department policies were followed. He said he could not discuss the case further.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas state health department has not received a single report on the handling of fetal tissue in the 15 years that it’s been legally required whenever such tissue is transferred.

The Department of Health and Environment’s disclosure — in response to an Associated Press open records request — comes amid a national debate about fetal tissue.

The debate was spurred by anti-abortion activists’ release of videos showing Planned Parenthood officials outside Kansas discussing their handling of fetal tissue.

A 2000 Kansas law banning the sale of fetal tissue requires anyone legally donating it to someone else to file a report providing details.

The state’s abortion providers say they don’t have such donation programs. Abortion opponents said Thursday another possible explanation is that the requirement is being ignored.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Secretary of State Kris Kobach says he’ll start prosecuting voter fraud cases in September and will focus on cases of double voting from the 2010 election.

Kobach’s office is aiming for mid-September to begin filing charges.

Double voting refers to when a person casts a ballot in more than one jurisdiction in the same election.

Kobach said his office has been working with other states to get documents to support the claims of double voting. Kobach won the authority to prosecute election crimes during this past legislative session. That authority to prosecute, which he sought, went into effect July 1st.

Many Democratic lawmakers have expressed concern that Kobach will pursue unnecessary prosecutions.