KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Kansas City say a fetus found dead in a trash truck was a boy born prematurely.

The truck’s crew found the body Monday morning along a residential route.

On Tuesday, the Jackson County medical examiner’s office determined the fetus had reached 29 to 34 weeks of development.

Police believe it was a premature home birth, and they asked the public to come forward with information about someone whose pregnancy may have ended abruptly.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A Joplin man who gave synthetic marijuana known as K2 to his 15-year-old daughter and her girlfriend will serve five years’ of probation for felony child endangerment.

A judge who sentenced 40-year-old William M. Hillegus on Monday also ordered him to have no contact with his daughter as a condition of his probation.

The daughter testified two years ago that her father gave her and a 14-year-old friend K2 in April 2011. The friend became sick and the daughter was hospitalized with a high heart rate.

The daughter told investigators her father had given her K2 twice previously, after a father-daughter dance and on her birthday.

K2 products plant material infused with a chemical compound that mimics the effects of marijuana.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Lottery officials say someone in northeast Kansas bought a $1 million Powerball ticket for the Saturday night drawing.

It’s the second week in a row that a $1 million win was recorded in Kansas.

The lucky ticket matched the first five numbers, but not the Powerball. The winning numbers are 9-23-40-53-58 Powerball 6.

Last week, Nelson Worley of Osawatomie matched the first five numbers in the July 20th Powerball drawing to win $1 million.

The Powerball jackpot increased to an estimated $235 million for Wednesday’s drawing.

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A southeast Kansas woman will be sentenced Sept. 3 after pleading no contest to involuntary manslaughter in the death of her 4-month-old son.

Twenty-five-year-old Heather Buckalew of Arma entered the plea Monday in a deal that calls for her to be placed on probation.

Buckalew’s attorney said the plea deal grants her probation. And the state won’t seek a fine.

Prosecutors said they will seek a 60-day jail sentence as part of Buckalew’s probation but the defense can argue for a reduction to 30 days.

Buckalew initially was charged with second-degree murder in the death of Memphis Cash Harvey last August. Court records indicated Buckalew fell asleep after drinking beer. A forensic pathologist ruled the child likely was smothered by his mother while they slept.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police are investigating the death of a man who suffered a gunshot wound in his hospital bed. Police say a nurse found the 59-year-old patient wounded Monday at the Truman Medical Center.

The death has been assigned to the police department’s homicide unit.

Police say the nurse who checked on the patient found him bleeding from the nose.

Hospital staff did not perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation because the patient had a “do not resuscitate” order.

A handgun was found under the man’s arm.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The Kansas Senate’s top Democrat is questioning Governor Sam Brownback’s motives for calling a special legislative session.

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley said Monday that Brownback called the September 3rd session to gain quick approval of a coming appointment to the state Court of Appeals and avoid scrutiny of his nominee.

Brownback must nominate the judge by August 29th.

Brownback asked lawmakers to rewrite a state law allowing judges to sentence convicted murderers to at least 50 years in prison.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month raised questions about the law’s constitutionality.

But Senate GOP leaders said Monday that state law will require the Senate to consider the judicial appointment during the special session rather than waiting until the regular session in January.

In a news release, Hensley said the state needs to hold the governor accountable.

“The $40,000 daily cost of this special session for Kansas taxpayers should be reported as an in-kind contribution to the Brownback re-election campaign,” he said.

Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley said the governor called the special session because of the “Hard 50” law and said it should remain the focus.

She noted that Attorney General Derek Schmidt asked for a special session last week, and Schmidt, a Republican, garnered strong, bipartisan support from legislators, prosecutors and law enforcement groups. Hawley called Hensley’s statements “ridiculous.”

“The governor called the special session out of concern for the victims of particularly heinous crimes,” Hawley said.

WASHINGTON (AP) – A woman was arrested Monday after green paint was found splattered inside two chapels at the Washington National Cathedral.

Police were investigating her in connection with two similar incidents on the National Mall, authorities said.

The woman was arrested in the area of the cathedral shortly after the paint was found, Assistant D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham said.

Investigators were hoping to question her about the vandalism on the Mall, including at the Lincoln Memorial, but a language barrier delayed the interrogation, Newsham said.

The woman would likely be charged with destruction of property, Newsham said.

Green paint was found early Friday morning on the Lincoln Memorial, and symbols were found painted in green later Friday on another statue on the Mall. The Lincoln Memorial was closed temporarily but reopened later Friday.

Officials at the cathedral discovered the paint inside two chapels Monday afternoon. It was still wet, which led them to believe the vandalism had just occurred. Officials called police immediately and closed the cathedral to visitors while authorities searched the grounds.

The paint was splashed onto an organ and on the floor inside the cathedral’s historic Bethlehem Chapel on the basement level, officials said. It was also found inside Children’s Chapel in the nave of the cathedral.

Also Monday, U.S. Park Police said green paint was found on the statue of Joseph Henry outside the headquarters of the Smithsonian Institution on the Mall. Henry was the Smithsonian’s first secretary.

Meanwhile, crews continued working Monday to remove the paint from the Lincoln Memorial. The National Park Service said progressively stronger substances would be used until all the paint is gone, which could take several days. The memorial was scheduled to be power washed Tuesday.

Sgt. Paul Brooks, a U.S. Park Police spokesman, said it was too early to tell whether the same person was responsible for the vandalism at the two Mall landmarks. He noted that while the paint appeared to be splattered indiscriminately on the memorial, the statue appeared to have been deliberately painted. The symbols on the statue were not immediately decipherable.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A central Missouri nuclear plant is expected to remain shut down for several days while Ameren Missouri workers perform tests and repair damage from a small fire Friday night.

The fire was in the “non-nuclear” power-generation side of the Callaway County nuclear facility, and the plant will stay offline until the workers are finished.

Ameren spokesman Cleveland Reasoner says power cables that connect the plant to the electric grid shorted, causing some nearby insulation to catch fire.

Ameren says the nuclear reactor automatically shut down and no radioactivity was released.

The Callaway County reactor supplies about 20 percent of the electricity Ameren sells to its 1.2 million customers. Other Ameren plants will make up for the lost power while the nuclear plant is offline.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police are trying to figure out exactly what thieves plan to do with hundred-pound terra cotta theater masks stolen from outside the old Sun Theater on Grandel Square.

Fifteen of the giant masks were taken sometime between July 12 and July 16.

Officials say they were removed from behind a locked construction fence at the Sun, which is in the midst of an $11 million renovation.

Twenty-nine of the masks had been taken down as part of the renovation. The Lawrence Group, which is rehabbing the Sun, had donated half of them to the City Museum.

But when the museum went to pick up the masks, they were gone.

The masks are worth $1,000 to $5,000 each — but they aren’t easy to sell.