JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is asking that bond be revoked for a county sheriff who was temporarily removed from office after an inmate died from injuries suffered in an altercation at the jail.

Hawley said in a news release Tuesday that he wants former Mississippi County Sheriff Cory Hutcheson either jailed or barred from interfering in Hawley’s investigation into the May 5 death of inmate Tory Sanders.

Hutcheson was charged in April with 18 criminal counts, including robbery and illegal surveillance. A Mississippi County Circuit Court judge refused to deny him bail at the time. Hawley says despite being suspended after the charges, Hutcheson was at the jail and directed the altercation that led to Sanders’ death.

Hutcheson’s lawyer, Scott Rosenblum, was not available for comment Tuesday.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Senate has backed away from a floor debate on the state’s controversial concealed carry law and opted to send a bill back to committee.

Senators on Tuesday voted to send back a bill that would allow public hospitals and nursing homes, community mental health centers, low-income health clinics and the University of Kansas Medical Center to ban guns in their facilities.

Under a law taking effect July 1, those health care providers will have to either allow guns on the premises or secure building entrances using metal detectors and armed guards. The bill would allow the facilities to ban guns without paying for the added security.

Ways and Means Committee Chair Sen. Carolyn McGinn says the committee could work on the bill as soon as Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army says that when transgender solider Chelsea Manning is released from military prison on Wednesday she will remain on active duty in a special status, pending her final appellate review.

An Army spokeswoman, Lt. Col. Jennifer Johnson, said Manning will be released in accordance with former President Barack Obama’s decision to grant her clemency.

Manning was convicted in 2013 of leaking secret military and State Department documents and battlefield video. She served nearly seven years of her 35-year sentence at the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. She was known as Bradley Manning before transitioning in prison. She is appealing her court-martial conviction.

Johnson said Manning will be on unpaid active duty in “excess leave” status, which makes her eligible for medical care at Army treatment facilities.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A man accused of ripping the tail off a classroom’s pet rabbit while working as a custodian for a University of Kansas child care will face two misdemeanors instead of a felony.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that a judge ruled Monday after a preliminary hearing for Shawn Zuehlsdorf.

A woman testified that she saw a man drop off the bleeding rabbit in March at a park and snapped a picture of his car. Zuehlsdorf told a university police officer that the rabbit’s tail came off while “roughhousing” and described what happened as “an accident” in a note left at the school.

The rabbit was later euthanized. Zuehlsdorf no longer works for the university. He’s scheduled to be arraigned next month on misdemeanor cruelty to animals and theft charges.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway says a law to allow more people to request criminal record expungements and raise application fees could violate the state Constitution.

Galloway warned Tuesday that a 2016 law could go over limits on lawmakers raising fees without a public vote.

But that depends on whether an estimated net of more than $146 million in revenue materializes once the law is fully implemented in fiscal year 2019.

The law takes effect in January. It will allow more people to apply to expunge criminal records and shorten the waiting period for doing so. It raises application fees from $100 to $250.

Springfield Republican Sen. Bob Dixon sponsored the measure and says researchers overestimated potential expungement applications. He says he “seriously doubts” it will violate revenue limits.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Springfield man is charged with intentionally wrecking his car after threatening to kill himself and a passenger.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that 57-year-old Gilbert Hoffer Jr. faces a first-degree domestic assault charge. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

Court documents say he crashed early Sunday while driving on Interstate 44. Hoffer told a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper that he hit the median cables after swerving to dodge a deer.

But his passenger said he became angry after reading her text messages and accused her of cheating on him. The woman told the trooper that Hoffer accelerated to above 120 mph and said “he was going to intentionally crash and kill her and himself.” Hoffer told the trooper the wreck wasn’t intentional.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens says the state is adding six more counties to the number being assessed for damage linked to recent flooding and severe weather.

Greitens said in a statement the expanded survey comes as he prepares to make a request for a federal major disaster declaration.

The latest counties in which preliminary assessments will be conducted for individual assistance involving damaged homes and personal property are Franklin, Iron, Laclede, St. Louis and Wayne.

Franklin, Perry and St. Louis counties will undergo preliminary damage surveys for aid involving damage to public infrastructure like roads, bridges, and schools, as well as to certain nonprofit entities.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri expects to cut 400 positions amid enrollment drops and cuts in state funding.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Increased funding for public education is expected to be a boon to early childhood programs in Missouri.

Extra money is available because Republican lawmakers passed a bill to fully fund the school finance formula for the first time in recent memory. That full funding triggered a 2014 law that allows districts to receive money for pre-K.

The program could cost more than $62 million if all districts take advantage. Educators say that likely won’t happen in the first year.

Republicans say it’s a monumental step for education. But some educators and lawmakers question the future effect of the program.

Some lawmakers have proposed phasing in the funding to make sure the money is available. Others worry that the increased cost could put a strain on already depleted state revenues.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An embattled Kansas City, Missouri, jail has been sued by a man alleging he was raped by another inmate, and a guard did nothing to help.

In fact, the lawsuit filed May 9 alleges that the female guard at the Jackson County Detention Center gave cocaine to the man assaulting Ryan Dumas during the attack in September.

A county spokeswoman on Monday did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

Last month, a federal indictment accused four former corrections officers at the jail of assaulting a shackled inmate. In another lawsuit, two former inmates alleged that sewage often backed up in their cells, but jail staff refused to do anything about it.