KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man who died more than eight years ago has been summoned twice in the last three years for jury duty in Jackson County.

Cody Liberty, who graduated from Raytown High School in 1999, died in 2007 in Florida. But Jackson County summoned him for jury duty in 2012 and again for July 20 this year.

His mother, Jana Swann, of Kansas City, says the first time was bad enough. That’s when she told court officials her son died in 2007.

Officials said they pulled his name from the records then. But Swann says she received the second summons this month.

State and county court administrators say they can’t explain the mix-up, but say records will be corrected to show Liberty has died.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police are investigating a man’s report that someone pulled up beside him and shot into his car while he was driving on Interstate 435 in southeastern Kansas City.

It was the second such report in just over a week but Kansas City police Capt. Tye Grant says investigators have no evidence the two shootings are connected.

In Monday’s incident, a 40-year-old man was able to drive himself to a fire station. He suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his upper left leg and a bruise on his torso.

On June 14, two women riding in a car in the same area reported their vehicle’s driver’s side window shattered. A shotgun pellet was later found in the car. One of the women was cut by shattered glass.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton will campaign in the St. Louis area Tuesday, marking her first trip to Missouri as a presidential candidate.

The former secretary of state will hold a fundraiser hosted by Trudy Busch Valentine, the daughter of late chairman of the Anheuser-Busch Companies.

Clinton’s campaign is expected to release more details Monday about another event in the St. Louis area.

The Democrat is making her second bid for president after losing to Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries.

She had been criticized for waiting nearly three weeks to comment after a white officer fatally shot black 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson. Clinton had said the unrest that followed Brown’s death was the result of frayed bonds of trust in the St. Louis-area community.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Health officials say two men from South Africa whose bodies were found at a motel in southwest Missouri died of cerebral malaria.

The Greene County Medical Examiner’s office said Monday that 45-year-old Gerrit Strydom and 44-year-old James Bethel died in early May of cerebral malaria, a treatable disease transmitted by an infected mosquito.

The medical examiner’s office says the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made the diagnosis.

Tom Vandeberg, a forensic investigator with the medical examiner’s office, says both men likely became infected about the same time in South Africa and died within hours of each other. Their bodies were found May 9 at a Springfield motel.

He says the men had been ill and searched the Internet for their symptoms during their motorcycle trip across Route 66.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Governors across the country have been packing their bags for trade missions abroad, spending taxpayer dollars on costly trips that have an uneven track record of yielding any tangible benefits for their states.

Last week alone, governors of 10 states were jetting across Europe, many converging at an air show in Paris. Others traveled to Canada, South America and Asia. At the beginning of last week, more than a quarter of the nation’s governors were out of the country.

An Associated Press analysis of gubernatorial trade trips since the start of 2014 shows that governors have taken or scheduled more than 80 trips to 30 countries.

The results are mixed, with some governors striking multimillion-dollar business deals and others achieving little to show for their travels.

 

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Georgia band is getting its van back after the vehicle was stolen in St. Louis.

The band the Radio Birds said the 1997 Dodge van was packed with their equipment when it was taken between 4 a.m. and 8 a.m. Saturday from near a downtown hotel.

Band member Justin Keller set up a GoFundMe account after the van was taken, and as of Sunday the account had received contributions of more than $10,000.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the van was found by police Sunday afternoon in Florissant. There was no apparent damage and it contained a large amount of musical equipment.

No arrests have been made.

INDEPEDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his neighbor with an ax.

Ricky Sines was sentenced Friday to life without parole plus 30 years for the killing of 71-year-old Roger Krout in July 2013 in an unincorporated area of Jackson County near Independence.

Sines was found guilty in May of first-degree murder and armed criminal action.

The Independence Examiner reports a witness reported seeing the 41-year-old Sines hit Krout with the ax end of a shingler’s hammer. The altercation came after Krout withdrew $300 from a bank and paid Sines $50 for mowing his lawn. Court records indicate the two men drank some beer and watched a movie before Sines attacked Krout.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback says he wants to increase the number of highway patrol troopers on the state’s roads.

His comments come as the patrol is working with its lowest staffing levels since 2005, when the patrol had 487 troopers.

Patrol spokesman Lt. Adam Winters says as of Friday, the patrol currently has 399 troopers.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that at the end of last year, the patrol had no troopers assigned to 21 counties, and another 34 counties had only one trooper.

When the governor was asked last week what areas of state government should get increased funding, he specifically mentioned the highway patrol but offered no specifics.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police say a man reported he was shot as he drove along an interstate in Kansas City.

The man told police he was driving east on Interstate 435 Monday morning when a black car pulled up next to him and someone in the car began shooting.

The victim was able to drive himself to a fire station. He was treated for a graze wound and released from the hospital.

Police say they have little evidence and are looking at surveillance video from businesses to see if cameras recorded anything.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A 21-year-old woman has been found mentally fit to stand trial in the 2012 shooting death of a man in southwestern Missouri.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that a Greene County judge has declared Marya Von Brandt mentally competent for trial on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 41-year-old Kevin Engh. Engh was shot to death in a car.

A psychiatrist who evaluated Von Brandt at the defense’s request had determined that Von Brandt suffered from multiple psychiatric disorders, meth withdrawals and a regressed mental state when she agreed to speak with investigators of Engh’s death.

But a judge in May signed off on Von Brandt’s prosecution going forward, ruling that she no longer is incompetent to understand the proceedings or assist in her defense.