ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities say 13 children and a bus driver are injured after a school bus swerved to avoid an accident, drove over a guardrail and down a steep embankment near St. Louis.

The bus crash happened about 8 a.m. Thursday on Interstate 44 as it ferried students from St. Louis to a school in St. Louis County.

Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Al Nothum says a car struck the median and spun toward the bus. It isn’t clear if the vehicles collided, but the bus swerved and ended up about 15 feet down a hill.

The bus driver is hospitalized with moderate injuries. St. Louis Children’s Hospital spokeswoman Abby Wuellner says all 13 children are being evaluated but that none of their injuries appears to be life-threatening.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Missouri state records show an emaciated boy whose father later killed him and fed his remains to the family’s pigs told authorities he was being abused.

Adrian Jones was 5 years old in July 2013 when he told a Missouri Children’s Division worker and police officer that a “little bone come out” when his father kicked him in the head. Two years later, Adrian was dead.

Adrian’s father and stepmother, Michael and Heather Jones, are serving life sentences in his death.

The records released this week show Missouri welfare officials said in 2013 that they didn’t think they could ensure Adrian’s safety at home, but that a county juvenile officer suggested the family be provided more services. The family then moved to Kansas.

Similar records remain under seal in Kansas, where welfare officials have said allegations against the family were “thoroughly investigated.”

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Aetna Health says it will be leaving the individual health plan market in Nebraska.

Aetna had sold policies in only four states this year after quitting 11 states last year, and last month it announced it was pulling out of Iowa and Virginia.

Aetna’s decision leaves only Medica Health in Nebraska’s Affordable Care Act market, and Medica officials said Wednesday that the company had not yet decided whether to remain in the Nebraska market.

Nebraska Insurance Department director Bruce Ramge has said that if no companies participate in the Nebraska exchange next year, it could mean that people who qualify for tax credits don’t get them, although they would still have to find insurance to fulfill the individual mandate should it still be in effect.

SULLIVAN, Mo. (AP) — Two people are in custody after 250 pounds of marijuana worth a quarter-million dollars was found during a traffic stop in eastern Missouri.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Franklin County deputies stopped a 2005 Chevrolet Silverado for a traffic violation at 4:30 a.m. Monday on Interstate 44 near Sullivan. They found marijuana in a false compartment in the pickup’s tool box.

The suspects are a 21-year-old man from Mexico and a 42-year-old woman from Moscow Mills, Missouri. Authorities say the man is in the country illegally and will be turned over to immigration enforcement officials.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who lost a cellphone that contained child pornography has pleaded guilty to federal charges.

Federal prosecutors say 51-year-old Anthony Quin Hodges, of Fulton, pleaded guilty Tuesday to using his phone to receive and send child pornography.

He admitted that he stored child pornography images on his Google Photos account and used his cell phone to search, view and distribute the images.

The phone was found in the driveway of a home in Fulton in January.

The people who found it contacted police after turning the phone on and seeing images of child pornography. Investigators traced the phone back to Hodges.

At the time of his arrest, Hodges was already under investigation by the Boone County Cyber Crimes Taskforce.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A southern Missouri man was sentenced to 2½ years in prison without parole for a counterfeiting $100 bills that he used at businesses across the country.

Federal prosecutors say 56-year-old Stuart Thurber, of Mountain View, also was ordered Tuesday to pay $9,000 in restitution to businesses in Mountain View, Springfield and West Plains, Missouri, and to businesses in Nevada and California.

Thurber, who lived in his pickup and travel trailer, was arrested in April 2016 in Mountain View for passing counterfeit $100 bills.

Officers found computers, hard drives and printers inside the truck and travel trailer parked at a Wal-Mart parking lot. Thurber admitted he removed ink from genuine bills and used his electronics to create counterfeit bills, which he used at businesses across the U.S.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s top prosecutor says a sheriff participated in a jail altercation in which an inmate died and that he should be fired.

Attorney General Josh Hawley says in a news release that he filed a request in court Tuesday to remove Cory Hutcheson from his position as sheriff of Mississippi County.

Hawley says his office is investigating the inmate’s death Friday. Details haven’t been released.

Hutcheson’s sheriff’s license was suspended last month after his arrest on 18 criminal charges, including three linked to allegations that he handcuffed a 77-year-old woman with such force that she suffered a heart attack.

The sheriff’s department hasn’t returned a message seeking comment.

Hutcheson’s attorney, Scott Rosenblum, says he’s reviewing the request but doesn’t think anything about the sheriff’s conduct would warrant his removal.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man in a Topeka homicide.

Police said in a news release that the 40-year-old suspect was booked into jail on suspicion of second-degree murder and a weapons violation.

The release says the victim was suffering from head trauma when officers responded Tuesday night to a disturbance call. The victim was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries. The victim’s name wasn’t immediately released.

The homicide is the 12th of the year in Topeka.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A man is under arrest after a shooting victim summoned police to a Kansas home where three bodies were found.

City police said in a news release that the surviving victim was “struck in the head” and shot in the back late Tuesday at the home in Kansas City. Officers found two males and one female who had been shot to death.

Police say officers found the suspect at an address about 7 miles (11 kilometers) from the scene of the shooting. He was taken into custody.

The statement released early Wednesday provides no further information about the suspect or any of the victims, including the survivor’s gender and condition.

Police have not responded to a phone message from The Associated Press.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad has legalized the sale of bottle rockets, roman candles and most other consumer fireworks, sparking enthusiasm from vendors eager to expand into the state.

Branstad signed a bill Tuesday approved by the Legislature that allows sales between June 1 and July 8 as well as from Dec. 10 to Jan. 3.

Iowa has long been among the few states that ban the sale and use of most fireworks. Several vendors now are scrambling to sell fireworks in Iowa.

Under the law, cities and counties may forbid the use of fireworks, but they cannot prohibit their sale. However, local governments can control locations of firework sales.

Firework sales in Iowa are expected to bring in about $1.5 million in sales tax revenue for the 2018 fiscal year.