ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities say a Missouri woman charged with killing her mother may also have fooled her community into believing she was disabled so that she could collect donations.

Greene County prosecutors charged Gypsy Blancharde and her 26-year-old boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn of Big Bend, Wisconsin, with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 48-year-old Clauddinnea “Dee Dee” Blancharde.

Authorities allege the couple last week killed the mother in the Springfield home she shared with her daughter.

Gypsy Blancharde was reported as using a wheelchair.

Neighbors told media outlets she suffered from leukemia and muscular dystrophy. But Sheriff Jim Arnott said Tuesday that Gypsy Blancharde may have feigned the need for a wheelchair as a donations ploy.

Court records do not list an attorney who could comment on the allegations.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A man has been arrested after trying to flee police while nude at a Cape Girardeau park.

The Southeast Missourian reports police responded to reports Tuesday of a man who was only wearing shoes at Arena Park. Police found him near the park’s train.

Cape Girardeau Police Sgt. Adam Glueck said the suspect tried to flee on a bicycle but was apprehended by police.

Glueck said the man was taken to the city jail pending charges.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A motorcyclist has been captured after a chase that hit 118 mph in southeast Nebraska.

The Nebraska State Patrol said Tuesday in a news release that a trooper clocked the motorcyclist at 115 mph in a 55 mph zone Monday evening on the west side of Nebraska City.

The trooper tried to pull over the motorcyclist, who sped west on Nebraska Highway 2.

The patrol says the motorcyclist eventually turned south onto a gravel road in Lancaster County and struck two patrol cruisers. Then the motorcycle ran out of gas, and its driver was captured after a foot pursuit.

The patrol says 21-year-old Andrew Naderhoff was jailed on suspicion of felony flight and other crimes. Court records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment on Naderhoff’s behalf.

Bob Uecker suffered a mild concussion before Monday’s game against the Royals when he was hit in the head by a baseball. The Milwaukee Brewers Hall of Fame broadcaster and TV funnyman was back home Tuesday after spending the night in a hospital as a precaution.

A team spokesman said the 81-year-old Uecker was hit in the head by a baseball during batting practice before Monday night’s game between Milwaukee and Kansas City.

Uecker worked the first six innings of the game on the Brewers flagship radio station, WTMJ, and started feeling dizzy.

Team doctors checked him out and sent him to Froedtert Hospital as a precaution.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Supreme Court of Missouri has overturned the murder and arson convictions of a southern Missouri man who was charged in the death of his grandmother-in-law.

The high court ruled Tuesday that an Oregon County judge violated state law when he called back an alternate juror, who had already been discharged, to take over for another juror who developed health problems after five hours of deliberations.

Shortly after the juror switch, the panel found Michael Amick guilty of second-degree murder and second-degree arson in the December 2008 death of Leona Maxine Vaughan at her home in the Arkansas border town of Myrtle.

He was sentenced to life in prison for murder and seven concurrent years for arson. The Supreme Court ordered the case sent back to the trial court.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Zoo has won the fight for now in blocking a gun-rights activist from carrying a weapon inside the facility.

A judge has granted a temporary restraining order against Ohio resident Jeffry Smith until a court can take up the dispute next week. The zoo requested the order after Smith announced plans to bring a gun to test its no-weapons policy.

Missouri residents passed an amendment last year guaranteeing an ‘unalienable’ right to bear arms in the state. Certain exemptions apply for venues including amusement parks and riverboat casinos.

Smith argues that those exemptions don’t apply to the zoo and that the amendment requires it to allow visitors to carry guns into the site.

HAZELWOOD, Mo. (AP) — Four current or former employees of a U.S. Postal Service distribution center in suburban St. Louis are among five people accused in a federal indictment of stealing mail that contained marijuana, electronics and other items.

The U.S. Attorney’s office in St. Louis announced the indictment Tuesday.

All five suspects are in their early 20s and face multiple charges, including conspiracy and theft or receipt of stolen mail.

The mail was taken from a distribution center in Hazelwood. The indictment alleges that former employees Sean West and Korey Howard searched for and identified mail and redirected it to themselves or the other suspects, Edward Lewis, Quentin Cook and Che’yron Robinson.

West, Howard and Lewis are former employees of the center. Cook is a current employee, and Robinson is West’s girlfriend.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court says a utility company isn’t liable in the deaths of two children at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Angela Anderson filed a wrongful death lawsuit in 2013 in Morgan County claiming Union Electric, which owns the recreational lake, failed to notify lake dock owners of the need for electrical protection devices to prevent shocks in case of short circuits.

Anderson’s lawsuit claimed Union Electric was negligent when her children died in 2012 of “drowning, electrocution, or both” while swimming at the lake.

The high court affirmed the circuit court’s dismissal of the lawsuit based on a state recreational use act, which says landowners aren’t liable when people use their property free of charge.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed by two African-American men who claimed there was a pattern of racial discrimination at a downtown Kansas City entertainment district.

The Kansas City Star reports U.S. District Senior Judge Ortrie Smith on Monday threw out the second count of the two-count lawsuit filed on behalf of Dante A.R. Combs, of Overland Park, Kansas, and Adam S. Williams of Edmond, Oklahoma. The other count was dismissed last year.

Combs and Williams claimed they were victims of discrimination while visiting the Kansas City Power & Light District in 2010 and 2011.

In his order filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Smith said he found no evidence to support their claims against Power & Light owner Cordish Co. and its affiliates.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is cracking down on artificial trans fats, calling them a threat to public health.

The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it will require food companies to phase them out almost entirely. Consumers aren’t likely to notice much of a difference in their favorite foods, but the administration says the move will prevent thousands of fatal heart attacks every year.

To phase the fats out, the FDA is determining that artificial trans fats no longer fall in the agency’s “generally recognized as safe” category. That means companies would have to petition the agency to add trans fats to foods.

Companies will have three years to phase out the fats or petition the FDA to use them. Many companies have already gotten rid of them.