MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Riley County police say a missing 37-year-old Manhattan woman might be with a suspect in a homicide.
Police say Cora Brown could be in danger if she is with 38-year-old Steven Harris.

A warrant issued Tuesday accuses Harris of murder and attempted murder after the Sunday shooting death of 39-year-old German Gonzalez Garcia.

A second man was shot and critically wounded.

Harris is 5-feet-7-inches, weighing 145 pounds. He has short brown hair, brown eyes and distinctive tattoos on his head and neck.

Brown is described as 5-feet-3-inches, weighing about 120 pounds. She has brown hair and blue eyes. Police did not say why they believe Brown might be with Harris.

Police also are looking for a gold 2004 Buick Rendezvous in connection with the Harris.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man has been charged with shooting into a south Kansas City church, injuring a greeter.

Orlando Gentry was charged Tuesday with assault, possession of a firearm, unlawful use of a weapon and carrying a loaded firearm in the shooting.

Kansas City police say the 29-year-old Gentry fired the shots during a confrontation Sunday at the House of Refuge church.

One of the bullets grazed Montell Bruce in the head and then he fell through a window in the sanctuary. Bruce was treated and released.

The Kansas City Star reports that Gentry told investigators he got into a fight at the church but denied having a gun.

Online court records do not show that Gentry has an attorney.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gov. Eric Greitens is requesting federal disaster aid for 45 Missouri counties affected by recent flooding.

Greitens said Wednesday that he has asked President Donald Trump to approve a major disaster declaration for Missouri.

The declaration would make federal assistance available to individuals and businesses who suffered flooding damage in 37 counties. Local governments and nonprofits in 45 counties also would be eligible to receive federal aid for flooding response and recovery efforts.

The disaster request stems from flooding that began April 28 after as much as a foot of rain fell in some areas. At least a dozen rivers and major creeks rose to record highs.

Many of the affected counties are in the central and southern part of the state.

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa (AP) — A man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed a sheriff’s deputy and wounded another while escaping from an Iowa jail.

Online court records say 24-year-old Wesley Correa-Carmenaty filed the written pleas Tuesday to charges of murder, attempted murder, escape, kidnapping and other crimes. His trial in western Iowa’s Pottawattamie County is scheduled to begin July 25.

Authorities say Correa-Carmenaty had just been sentenced on May 1 to 45 years in prison in an unrelated murder case when he managed to grab one of the deputies’ guns while being transferred to the county jail in Council Bluffs. He shot them both and used the jail van to escape.

Authorities say he was recaptured after he carjacked a woman at gunpoint and forced her to drive to Omaha, Nebraska.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is one of several states where proposals to punish adults in cases where children gained access to unsecured weapons have stalled in the Legislature.

The issue arises after Missouri has recorded six children ages 3 and under dying in accidental shootings between 2014 and 2016. The Associated Press and the USA TODAY Network examined cases across the country in which children killed themselves or other children with unsecured firearms.

Missouri law makes it a misdemeanor to sell, lease, loan, or give a firearm to a minor without the parent’s or guardian’s consent.

During the just completed session, several Democratic lawmakers proposed legislation to prevent minors from possessing firearms and setting punishments for people who sell, lease or transport guns to them. None of the proposals got a floor debate.

HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — A judge says he will allow evidence that a northeast Kansas man watched hours of violent pornography at his upcoming sexual assault trial.

Jacob Ewing sis scheduled for trial in June on charges of rape and aggravated criminal sodomy against two women.

Jackson County District Judge Norbert Marek ruled Monday portions of seven video showing acts Ewing “is said to have replicated” will be used as evidence at the trial.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports special prosecutor Jacqie Spradling said in May that evidence showed Ewing viewed an average of four hours of violent pornography per day.

Ewing’s attorney, Kathleen Ambrosio, argued the porn would be highly prejudicial.

Ewing faces trials in August and October in other sexual assault cases. He was acquitted last month of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Although Kansas has recorded four accidental shooting deaths of young children between 2014 and 2016, legislators have shown little interest in laws that would punish adults who allow children access to guns.

Data compiled by The Associated Press and USA Network found at least 21 states and the District of Columbia have laws dealing with negligent storage of firearms. Researchers found the laws are enforced in widely varying ways.

Kansas’ law against child endangerment makes it a crime to “knowingly and unreasonably” cause or permit children to be situations in which the child is endangered. But the law doesn’t mention firearms.

Public health experts say child access laws could reduce unintentional shootings that kill and injure hundreds of children every year. Critics say the laws violate gun owners’ rights.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A health system based in Kansas City, Missouri, has signed an agreement with Washington University in St. Louis that gives patients access to clinical trials through the university’s National Cancer Institute-supported research.

The Kansas City Star reports the agreement between St. Luke’s Health System and the university’s Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center will take effect June 1. Patients should start having access to trials by late summer.

The partnership puts St. Luke’s in competition with the University of Kansas Health System, which has a National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center. Siteman is considered a “comprehensive” cancer center, which is one step above Kansas’ designation.

National Cancer Institute spokeswoman Shannon Hatch says it’s pointless to compare the two because each will offer some treatments that the other doesn’t provide.