KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri-Kansas City has announced plans to put its new arts conservatory on campus and not downtown as originally proposed.

The Kansas City Star reports that the school said Thursday that the conservatory will be located next to the Olson Performing Arts Center. For years, the university had been pushing for a new downtown conservatory near the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Supporters had raised $48 million in pledges toward a $96 million conservatory and were waiting for a state match when former Gov. Eric Greitens vetoed the plan. That sparked new conservations about how to proceed.

Now that the university has picked the on-campus location, it will review program needs for music, dance and theater, and determine the size and cost of the building.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A man who hosted a drug-filled Missouri party where an Arkansas woman was killed and seven others were wounded has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm.

The charge was filed Wednesday against 36-year-old Roy Norey. Federal prosecutors say Norey operated a music studio out of a Springfield building where gunfire erupted early on Dec. 23. One of the victims, 42-year-old Delmarie Bailey of West Memphis, Arkansas, died weeks later at a hospital.

After the shooting, police searched Norey’s home. The criminal complaint says police found a loaded 9 mm pistol in his bedroom nightstand. He was prohibited from having it because of previous drug and firearm convictions.

No other arrests have been made in the case. The investigation is ongoing.

TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has received additional federal funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to keep the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) operational into March, during the Federal Government shutdown.

On Thursday, KDHE received an additional $1,603,809 in food funds and $602,897 in administrative funds. These funds now allow Kansas to purchase foods until March 20, 2019 and keep staff operational until March 26.

“We are pleased to receive these additional funds,” said David Thomason, Director of the Nutrition and WIC Services Section in the KDHE Bureau of Family Health. “There is an average daily food cost in Kansas of $92,134 under this program, and we continue to work with the USDA to see that WIC funding in Kansas continues through the shutdown.”

The USDA monitors state WIC programs and is working to ensure that programs remain operational. States were instructed to contact the USDA prior to implementing any changes to the program that would curtail operations or in any way limit or restrict access to the program and its benefits.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been sentenced to 33 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing three people, including a toddler.

Twenty-six-year-old Joseph Nelson of Kansas City was scheduled to go to trial this week for the killings of 18-year-old Shannon Rollins Jr., 17-year-old Bianca Fletcher and Fletcher’s 1-year-old son, Joseph. Instead, he pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts of second-degree murder, armed criminal action and witness tampering.

Nelson was sentenced to 33 years, with three of those years added because he tampered with a potential witness by trying to persuade the person to say someone else killed the victims.

Prosecutors say the victims were killed in September 2015 after Nelson and Fletcher got into an argument and she threw a diaper at him.

Nelson killed Fletcher, then shot the toddler and Rollins.

SULLIVAN COUNTY — One person died in an accident just before 9:30p.m. Thursday in Sullivan County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2015 Chevy Sonic driven by Kenneth L. Morris, 71, Milan, was westbound in the eastbound lanes of Missouri 6 five miles east of Milan.

The vehicle collided head-on with a 2005 Chevy Malibu driven by Fiston Meunyi, 35, Kirksville. Morris was pronounced dead at the scene. Sullivan County ambulance transported Meunyi to the hospital in Kirksville.

Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the MSHP.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Department of Revenue Director Joel Walters is blaming lagging revenue collections so far this year on a tax withholding error by his agency.

Missouri is down about $460 million in net revenue collections this fiscal year compared to last, according to the latest data available . Most of the drop in is attributable to a dip in individual income tax collections, which are down about $476 million compared to the same time last year.

Walters told the House Budget Committee Wednesday that the withholding mistake is the issue, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.The error meant employers didn’t take enough money out of worker paychecks throughout the year, so employees will have to foot a larger share of their tax bill when they file their taxes this year.

Walters said state revenues will grow as people file taxes and said he still expects the state to meet the revenue growth projections needed to keep this year’s budget balanced.

“I am confident of that,” he told lawmakers.

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Dan Hegeman on Thursday described the revenue dip as “disconcerting,” but he also said he expects taxpayers will make up the difference later.

But lawmakers have raised concerns about taxpayers getting an unexpected bill this year because of the mistake.

“My constituents are going to be left holding the bag for a $500 million hole that’s been left in our budget,” Senate Democratic Minority Leader Gina Walsh said. “Will we make it up? I don’t know, but there’s going to be a lot of Missourians writing checks.”

Democratic House Minority Leader Crystal Quade proposed legislation that would give taxpayers who file on time but owe less than $200 an extended deadline of June 15 to pay. Her bill has not yet received a hearing.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Leaders in Kansas City, Missouri, one of the nation’s largest cities without a public memorial to Martin Luther King Jr., settled a yearlong debate Thursday by voting to rename a 10-mile stretch of roadway after the civil rights leader.

Nearly 51 years after King was assassinated, the Kansas City Council voted 8-4 to rename the Paseo as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The Paseo is a 10-mile boulevard the runs through Kansas City’s mostly black eastern sections.

Supporters, including Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver, fought since early last year to honor King.

Objections centered mostly on whether residents and businesses along The Paseo had been given sufficient notice or didn’t want the street renamed. Others thought a better site could be found to honor King.

“We have overcome a borderline regressive electoral body that almost didn’t do this, but we thank God for the progressive leaders on this council that rose up today and are a reflection of what one Kansas City can look like,” said Vernon Howard Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City, one of the strongest proponents of the name change.

The Board of Parks and Recreation, which oversees the city’s boulevards, rejected the suggestion last year to rename The Paseo for King. That’s when ministers led by the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference began collecting signatures to put the question on the August or November 2018 ballot, but the organization didn’t gather enough signatures.

Mayor Sly James, who said he thought there were better ways to honor King than renaming the Paseo, formed a citizens commission to gather public input and recommend which sites could be renamed for King. That panel favored naming a new terminal at the Kansas City International Airport after King, a suggestion that airport officials did not support.

The second option was 63rd Street, an east-west thoroughfare that stretches from majority-white neighborhoods through eastern Kansas City. The commission’s third option was The Paseo.