OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas boy accused of killing his father during a custody exchange with the man’s ex-wife will remain in juvenile detention for now.  A Johnson County judge refused Friday to release the 14-year-old to his mother pending his next court date.

Prosecutors have charged the boy with first-degree premeditated murder in Tuesday’s fatal shooting outside a Shawnee business.

Police say the teen was being delivered by his mother and stepfather for an arranged visit with his 46-year-old father when he pulled out a handgun and shot the man. Investigators say the boy surrendered the gun and waited while his stepfather called 911.

The Associated Press is not naming the father because of the son’s age.  The youth is expected back in juvenile court on July 16th.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Governor Jay Nixon has signed legislation that reinstates local taxes on vehicles bought from out-of-state dealers or through person-to-person sales.

Nixon’s enactment of the law Friday comes after he twice vetoed previous bills that sought to re-impose local vehicle taxes.

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled last year that local sales taxes cannot be charged on vehicles bought out of state.

The high court said cities and counties could charge “use taxes” on such vehicles only if the tax had been approved by local voters. The ruling also applied to vehicles bought in private transactions.

The new law redefines vehicle sales taxes by applying them to the titling of vehicles. It also requires some local governments to hold public elections on whether to keep or repeal the redefined vehicle tax.

 

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Governor Jay Nixon has signed legislation allowing state employees to keep guns in their vehicles.

Nixon described his signature of the legislation Friday as an expansion of gun rights. But the Democratic governor also vetoed a much broader bill passed by the Republican-led Legislature that would have declared some federal gun control laws void and allowed criminal charges against federal agents who tried to enforce those gun laws. (find out more here)

The bill Nixon signed lets state workers keep guns in their cars while on property owned or leased by the state.

It also allows fire chiefs with concealed-gun permits and special approval to carry weapons on the job.

And it bars governments from running gun-buyback programs unless those guns are later offered for sale or trade to licensed firearm dealers.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri House Speaker Tim Jones says he wants to try to override Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a gun-rights bill passed by the Legislature.

Nixon announced Friday that he had vetoed the bill. It sought to nullify various federal gun laws and would have allowed federal agents to be charged with misdemeanor crimes for trying to enforce federal gun control laws in Missouri. Journalists also could have faced charges for publishing the names of gun owners. Nixon said that would have violated federal free speech rights.

Similar legislation attempting to nullify new federal gun laws recently passed in Kansas.

Jones said Friday that he is “shocked and astounded” by Nixon’s veto. He believes “a supermajority of Missourians” want lawmakers to override the veto.

An override would require a two-thirds vote in both the House and Senate during a September session.

EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Twinkies are not just snack cakes in Emporia. They’re something to celebrate, which the city will do with a Twinkies Festival on July 15, the day Hostess Brands plans to return them to store shelves.

The event will also honor the reopening of the city’s Hostess bakery.

More than 500 people lost their jobs when Hostess closed the Emporia plant last November following a strike by union bakers.

The new owners, doing business as Hostess Brands LLC, decided to reopen it as their flagship bakery. It’s reopening this summer with an expected 250 employees to start.

The Twinkies Festival at Flinthills Mall will feature such activities as a Twinkie-eating challenge and a Twinkie costume competition.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita school district official says an elementary teacher charged with carrying a concealed handgun on school premises doesn’t work for the district anymore.

Wichita school district spokeswoman Susan Arensman says 31-year-old Daniel C. Nagel “is no longer an employee” of the district. She would not say if Nagel was fired or when his employment ended.

Nagel was arrested May 20 at an elementary school on suspicion of carrying a concealed gun on school property. He’s scheduled for his first appearance in Municipal Court on Monday.

Nagel’s lawyer, Nicholas Means, says Nagel has a state-issued concealed-carry permit.

State law prevents anyone other than law enforcement officers from carrying a gun into a school that has an obvious sign banning guns.

ARCHIE, Mo. (AP) — A two-vehicle crash in western Missouri has killed five people, including three children.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the accident occurred Thursday afternoon when the victims’ westbound vehicle ran off a Cass County road just east of Archie, over-corrected and skidded sideways across the roadway. Their vehicle was then struck in the side by the second vehicle, which was traveling east.

The patrol identified the victims as 22-year-old Aleah Lucas of Olathe, Kan.; 8-year-old Anna Rittermeyer; 32-year-old Jason Rittermeyer; 10-year-old Noah Rittermeyer, and 9-year-old Sage Rittermeyer. The patrol says the Rittermeyers were all from Archie.

The patrol also says the driver of the victims’ vehicle and one of the children were not restrained and were ejected from the vehicle.

The driver of the second vehicle sustained minor injuries.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri’s first year as the northernmost outpost of the Southeastern Conference cost the school an extra $1 million in unanticipated travel expenses.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Missouri spent $7.1 million on travel in the 2012-13 academic year. That’s $1 million more than what athletics officials expected and nearly $2 million more than travel costs during the school’s final season in the Big 12 Conference.

Missouri shared the top spot for SEC travel costs with fellow Big 12 exile Texas A and M among the seven SEC public schools that provided data to the Tribune.

Commercial flights from Columbia to most SEC campuses are limited, and the move from the Big 12 eliminated games at three schools within driving distance: Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Governor Jay Nixon is requesting a federal major disaster declaration for severe storms that struck Missouri from May 29th to June 10th.

The storms included one that spawned a tornado in the St. Louis area and others that caused widespread flooding.

Nixon’s request Wednesday is for public assistance to 30 counties.

The area ranges from Barton County on the border with Kansas to St. Louis County. The governor also is requesting individual assistance for Callaway, Lincoln, Montgomery, Osage, Pike, St. Charles and St. Louis counties.

Public assistance allows local officials to seek aid for response and recovery efforts. Individual assistance allows households to seek federal aid for uninsured losses.