Police in Manchester, Missouri are looking for a man who apparently put a foreign substance into a pot of soup at the salad bar of a grocery store.

The incident happened Thursday at a Dierberg’s Market. Witnesses saw the man putting something into the soup and alerted store workers.

The employees removed the soup before anyone bought any after the man was spotted doctoring it.

Manchester police and the FBI are investigating. Police released two videos from store surveillance that they say show the man who tampered with the soup.

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on Monday signed into law a bill that changes the statute of limitations for prosecuting rape cases.

Kansas is among 10 states that required rape cases to be prosecuted within five years.

 

The new law also allows for prosecution of a sexually violent crime within 10 years if the victim is at least 18 years old. For younger victims, prosecution would begin within one year of the date the suspect is identified through DNA testing, or within 10 years of the victim’s 18th birthday, whichever is later.

Rape victims say the change in the law helps them with their healing after the crime.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt issued the following statement on Governor Brownback’s signing of House Bill 2252:

“As technology has improved in areas such as DNA evidence, our ability to successfully prosecute perpetrators has increased. This new law will allow prosecutors and law enforcement agencies to bring these cases forward whenever sufficient evidence is available without an artificial time limit.”

Peter Cottontail has made a special aerial delivery to a southwest Missouri church.

The bunny flew Saturday in a helicopter to King’s Way United Methodist Church in Springfield.

He then dropped thousands of eggs on a field that soon would be filled with children.

Besides the egg drop, there were games like bowling and a petting zoo.

Church spokeswoman Katherine Botts says the egg drop has been happening for several years and was sparked as an idea by the pastor. The helicopter flew from Branson to the church. It then made several passes and hovered off the ground as the eggs were dropped.

Hundreds of cattle owners in southwest Missouri turned up for a recent demonstration on cattle branding, which officials say may help deal with the recent upsurge in cattle thefts.

Lawrence County Sheriff Brad DeLay says a spate of cattle thefts across southwest Missouri in recent weeks has subsided. But officials estimate that up to 200 head of cattle have been stolen in the past two years in southwest Missouri, creating a potential loss of $200,000.

The most recent theft was reported about a month ago in Greene County.

The demonstration was staged by the University of Missouri Extension office in Lawrence County, the Southwest Missouri Cattlemen’s Association and area sheriffs’ departments because branding remains a good way to identify the ownership of cattle.

A fat cat that drew international attention when its owner turned him over to a shelter is now living at a sanctuary for hard-to-place animals in eastern Missouri.

The cat, named Biscuit, weighed 37 pounds when he was taken to the St. Charles shelter. More than 110 people offered to adopt him before he was placed with a couple from Eureka earlier this month.

However, Biscuit fought with a cat at that home and the couple couldn’t keep him. On Saturday, Biscuit was turned over to The Shannon Foundation sanctuary for hard-to-place animals outside St. Clair in Franklin County. He’ll stay there permanently, living with about 75 other animals.

Biscuit weighed 33.2 pounds on Thursday. His goal weight is 14.8 pounds.

A 53-year-old Salina man who had sex with an underage girl more than 100 times is sentenced to life in prison for rape.

Saline County prosecutors say Gary Flores Perales was sentenced Wednesday to life without eligibility for parole for 25 years for rape. He also was sentenced to nearly 27 years for other sex crimes.

Perales was convicted of eight counts in October 2012.

Authorities allege that the crimes occurred between 2006 and 2010 when the victim was between twelve and sixteen years old.

The third of four inmates who escaped in April 2012 from a north-central Kansas jail was sentenced to 11 more years in prison.

The Kansas Attorney General’s Office says 24-year-old Alberto Barraza-Lujan was sentenced Tuesday for aggravated escape from custody. He’ll serve the sentence after finishing a sentence of 11 years and four months for previous convictions.

Barraza-Lujan and three others escaped from the Ottawa County jail in Minneapolis. They were being housed at the county jail to relieve overcrowding at the state prison.

Barraza-Lujan was serving time for attempted aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer in 2011. He was recaptured in Ottawa County shortly after the escape.

Two other defendants have been sentenced and the third is awaiting sentencing.

Missouri has confirmed four new cases of chronic wasting disease in deer in a north-central part of the state.

The state Conservation Department said Tuesday the four free-ranging deer were among about 100 deer killed in January and February in the 29-square-mile chronic wasting disease core area in Linn and Macon counties.

The four new cases bring the state’s total confirmed cases of the disease to 10.

All have been found in the small section of Linn and Macon counties.

Chronic wasting disease is a neurological disease spread among deer through physical contact or contact with soil containing the waste of an infected deer.

The fire chief in the eastern Missouri town of Potosi is hospitalized in serious condition after the tanker truck he was driving overturned on the way to a fire call.

The accident happened Monday afternoon, injuring 51-year-old Richard Knight.

He was driving the tanker on Route 47 when it veered off the roadway and flipped, partially ejecting the chief.

 

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says it isn’t clear if icy conditions played a role in the accident. Troopers say the shifting weight of water in the tank may have been a contributing factor.

The Delaware Tribe of Indians is considering moving the tribe’s headquarters from Oklahoma to Kansas.

Dee Ketchum, a former chief of the tribe, says it is looking for property in Kansas, focusing on Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties. He met with Leavenworth city officials last week.

Ketchum says the tribe is not looking for land for a new reservation. It could use the new headquarters for several things, such as health care, housing and child care.

The Leavenworth Times reports Ketchum acknowledged that gaming could be part of an economic development effort.

He says the move is being considered because of restrictions the Delaware Tribe faces at its current location, which is in the jurisdiction of another tribe.

The Delaware Tribe of Indians has about 10,500 members.