COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A fight is brewing over a proposal by the Fulton Medical Center to build a 10-bed hospital in south Columbia.

The Columbia Missourian reports that the Boone Hospital Center says the proposed facility isn’t needed when there are several others already serving the area.

Fulton Medical Center said in its application for the hospital that it would help improve the company’s finances. It’s owned by health care management company Neuterra, which is based in Kansas, and the University of Missouri Health Care.

The Missouri Health Facilities Committee will hold a public hearing on the proposal Monday at the state Capitol.

If approved, the new hospital would cost $36.2 million to develop, including the $4 million it would take to purchase the property.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has tossed out a legal challenge from a national gun control group of a Kansas law that asserts the federal government lacks authority to regulate firearms made, sold and kept only in the state.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson ruled Friday that the Washington-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence failed to show that the state law’s enforcement inflicts an actual or imminent injury on any of its members. Robinson said the federal court therefore lacks jurisdiction to consider the merits of the lawsuit.

She granted the state’s motion to entirely dismiss the case without prejudice, meaning it could be refiled.

The 2013 state law at issue makes it a felony for any U.S. government employee to attempt to enforce federal regulations for Kansas-only firearms or ammunition.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas House leaders are urging the Senate to pass a budget to avoid state worker furloughs.

Administration officials have said that nonessential state workers would be furloughed if a budget is not signed by Sunday. The House approved a budget Wednesday requiring tax increases to balance. The Senate has not debated a comprehensive budget proposal since March.

House Speaker Ray Merrick said Friday that state workers should not be furloughed because the Senate stalled its budget talks. Fifty-four of the House’s 97 Republicans signed the statement.

Republicans have been sharply divided over measures to fill a shortfall initially projected at $800 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1. Senate leaders have said they could consider a proposal to balance the budget through a 5.9 percent across-the-board cut.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Owners of some of Kansas City’s largest buildings will be required in the next few years to report how much energy the buildings use.

Despite strong objections from some property managers and developers, the Kansas City Council voted Thursday to require the energy and water use measurements, in an effort to encourage energy efficiency.

The Kansas City Star reports the requirement will apply to the city’s municipal government buildings in the next two years. It will eventually expand to affect 3 percent of the public and private buildings in the city.

Privately owned buildings of more than 100,000 square feet will have to gather energy consumption data beginning in May 2017. Buildings over 50,000 square feet would start gathering data in May 2018.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A pet owner’s federal lawsuit accuses the St. Louis County Police Department and two of its officers of wrongly killing her dog while allegedly storming her home last year.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Angela Zorich seeks unspecified damages and legal fees in the lawsuit filed Tuesday in St. Louis.

She alleges an officer who was part of a tactical unit unjustifiably shot and killed her 4-year-old pit bull in April of last year while storming Zorich’s house to search for possible housing code violations. Zorich says the dog never acted aggressive and didn’t have time to bark before being killed.

A spokesman for the department, Sgt. Brian Schellman, says the tactical team is used to execute warrants or deal with barricaded suspects. He declined to discuss the lawsuit.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Fishing will be good in Kansas this weekend, at least in terms of costs.

The state will waive its requirement for fishing permits on Saturday and Sunday, continuing a tradition that began in 2001.

Doug Nygren, fisheries chief for the state wildlife department, says the free weekend is offered to help people connect with the outdoors, with the hope they will decide to buy a license and continue fishing.

This weekend was chosen because it’s early enough in the season that hungry fish are fairly shallow and within casting distance of shorelines.

The rest of the year, people between 16 and 75 are required to have a fishing permit, unless exempt by military service or fishing on privately-owned waters.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A mid-Missouri rancher and political activist is suing the state for the second time in a week, this time alleging that a law allowing commercial vehicles to be pulled over and inspected without cause is unconstitutional.

Ron Calzone of Rolla filed the federal suit Wednesday. A spokeswoman for Attorney General Chris Koster says the suit is being reviewed.

Calzone was pulled over while driving his dump truck in 2013, though he says he was doing nothing wrong. He refused to consent to an inspection and was charged with a misdemeanor. The charge was dropped.

Calzone is director of Missouri First, a think tank promoting limited government. On May 29th, he sued over a state law dealing with issues ranging from fire sprinklers to shingles, claiming it has too many provisions.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Rain-swelled creeks and rivers are overflowing their banks across parts of Missouri.

National Weather Service hydrologist Scott Watson says voluntary evacuations were underway Thursday in the northwest Missouri town of Mosby after the Fishing River overran its banks again. About three dozen homes in the town of about 190 residents flooded last month.

Watson says a few roads also are impassible around the nearby town of Kearney because a creek that is a tributary of the Fishing River is flooding.

Minor to moderate flooding also is being reported in several spots along the Missouri River.

Rains have been heavy this spring. Watson says the Kansas City International Airport has received 12.5 inches of rain over the past six weeks, which is about 6.750 inches above average.