NOEL, Mo. (AP) — A 60-year-old southwest Missouri man has come forward with a Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $25 million before taxes.

The winner thought he had won much less.

The Missouri Lottery announced Thursday that Raul Ahumada of Noel took what he thought was a $25,000 winner on to the Lottery’s Springfield office Tuesday and learned he was an even bigger winner.

Ahumada works at a chicken processing plant and said he plans to “try to find a nice mountain home and stay there.”

Lottery officials say Ahumada bought his winning ticket for the July 31 drawing at Rio Alce convenience store in Noel. He let the computer pick the winning numbers.

Officials say Ahumada’s jackpot was the 427th ticket worth $1 million or more sold in Missouri since the Lottery was started in 1986.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services has released a plan outlining steps officials will take in the wake of a May prison riot that left two inmates dead and heavily damaged the state prison at Tecumseh. But officials say there remains much work to be done.

The Nebraska State Patrol still has not completed its separate criminal investigations. Johnson County Attorney Rick Smith said Thursday the State Patrol’s investigation into the two deaths is still ongoing. He hasn’t yet filed charges for documented assaults on prison guards, criminal mischief to parts of the prison or for the killings.

The plan released Thursday by corrections director Scott Frakes pulls directly from steps listed in a June 29 incident report detailing how the May 10 riot unfolded. The steps include an analysis of prison staff, additional staff training and drills, reviewing responses to prison disturbances and even buying “new weapon resistant mops and brooms.”

The plan also calls for recommendations on how to hand out over-the-counter medication to prisoners. Officials have said the rampage by several hundred inmates started when too many prisoners were allowed to leave their cells at once to get medication.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A new report shows a Missouri agency doesn’t plan to recover what an audit described as about $1.5 million in overpayments for an early childhood development program.

An audit of the state fund for early childhood programs released in February said the Social Services Department overpaid about $1.5 million for Early Head Start.

A follow-up report released Thursday shows the agency isn’t planning on recovering that money from nonprofits contracted to provide services.

The report notes the agency says the contracted nonprofits deserved the additional funding to train more staff and expand facilities.

Three other changes recommended by the auditor’s office haven’t been fully implemented. Work has been done to collaborate between agencies to more efficiently provide services and stop double billing.

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. It 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.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A University of Missouri professor faces charges in Washington state accusing him of removing artifacts from a national forest without the proper permits.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports R. Lee Lyman, professor of archaeology, was charged June 30 with second-degree theft, second-degree malicious mischief and making false or misleading statements to a public servant.

Matthew T. Boulanger, a research specialist, is also charged with second-degree theft and second degree malicious mischief.

Court documents show they’re accused of removing more than 93 items from national forest sites in Washington in 2013.

They did not respond to requests for comment, but an article they wrote about the excursion was cited in the investigation report and says the artifacts were visible and could be removed by people using the area.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon is directing a state commission and the Missouri Department of Public Safety to update the state’s training standards for law enforcement officers.

The governor announced Thursday in Kansas City that he wants proposals for the new standards by Dec. 1. The state’s law enforcement training requirements haven’t been updated since 1996.

The standards will focus on tactical training, fair and impartial policing, as well as the physical and mental health of officers.

Nixon appointed five new members to the Missouri’s Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission, which sets rules for law enforcement training, continuing education and instruction.

He says the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson last August sparked a national debate on police training and gave Missouri a chance to help lead the discussion.

EDMUNDSON, Mo. (AP) — Police suspect a woman died from complications after receiving illegal, cosmetic injections in her buttocks at a hotel room in the St. Louis suburb of Edmundson.

Edmundson Police Chief Miklos Hurocy says officers investigating 22-year-old Daysha Phillips’s death last week are awaiting the medical examiner’s report. Hurocy says he’s “pretty confident” the medical examiner will rule the case a homicide.

Phillips died July 30 when she was taken off of life support at a hospital.

Hurocy says friends of the Florissant woman had taken her to the hospital four days earlier after she had difficulty breathing following the procedure.

Police are trying to identify the person who gave the injections.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A Ferguson city councilman says the federal government’s plan to reform policing and municipal courts could bankrupt the St. Louis suburb where the police shooting death of Michael Brown a year ago sparked racial unrest.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the councilman, Brian Fletcher, wouldn’t discuss what the board finds unacceptable about the U.S. Department of Justice’s proposal. But he says the council will request more time to find an alternative that won’t “financially ruin the city.”

Sunday marks one year since 18-year-old, black and unarmed Brown was killed by a white Ferguson police officer, who later was cleared by a county grand jury and the Justice Department.

A Justice Department probe of Ferguson’s justice system later found a profit-driven court system and widespread racial bias by police.

NOEL, Mo. (AP) — Lottery officials say a Mega Millions lottery ticket worth $25 million was sold in southwest Missouri.

The Joplin Globe reports a ticket for the July 31 Mega Millions drawing sold at a Noel convenience store matched all six numbers for the $25 million jackpot. The numbers were 28, 32, 33, 40, 46 and the Mega Ball number was 10.

The Missouri Lottery says since the state joined the game in 2010, 31 Missouri players have won $250,000 and six players have won $1 million.

But the lottery says Missouri hasn’t had a Mega Millions jackpot winner until now.