KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities are looking for a missing witness in a pending Missouri homicide case.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol has issued an endangered person advisory for 42-year-old Kenneth Cornwell Jr. He was last seen Tuesday in Raytown. Investigators are looking for a green 2000 Kia Spectra with Missouri license plate SR0-G3L.

Cornwell is 6 feet tall and 240 pounds. He has tattoos on both of his arms.

Police didn’t immediately release any information on the homicide case in which he is a witness.

KANSAS CITY — Fans who suffer from the epidemic that hit the state this week have a place to go for help.

A Kansas City area hospital helps patients with flu, colds and many other health issues. Now they have created a web site that will help patients who have Chiefs Fever.

According to the St. Lukes Health System web site, Chiefs Fever is an extremely contagious condition of the brain and body. It’s known to occur when the Kansas City Chiefs utterly dominate in the AFC West.

Head coach Andy Reid and quarterback Patrick Mahomes are among the healthcare providers listed on the web site.

Both providers will be busy Sunday evening during the AFC Championship game that is scheduled to kick off at 5:40p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has identified three of the four Americans killed in a suicide bomb attack claimed by the Islamic State group in Syria this week.

They are Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan R. Farmer, 37, of Boynton Beach, Florida, who was based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Navy Chief Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Shannon M. Kent, 35, from upstate New York and based at Fort Meade, Maryland; and a civilian, Scott A. Wirtz, from St. Louis, Missouri.

The Pentagon hasn’t identified the fourth casualty, a civilian. The four were killed in the northern Syrian town of Manbij on Wednesday. The attack, which also wounded three U.S. troops, was the deadliest assault on U.S. troops in Syria since American forces went into the country in 2015.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court says a lower court judge was wrong to order a woman to reveal her home address despite being in a program that shields the addresses of abuse victims.

Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Thursday praised the ruling.

Ashcroft’s office runs the Safe at Home program, which lets victims of domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, stalking and other crimes keep their addresses confidential by routing mail through a special post office box.

A St. Louis County judge in 2017 had ordered one participant to reveal her actual address as part of a divorce case. The judge said the application failed to include a sworn statement about the abuse.

Missouri’s Western District Court of Appeals reversed that ruling Tuesday.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Department of Labor is recommending that federal employees who are furloughed because of the partial government shutdown should apply for unemployment benefits.

Impacted fed. workers who want to file for unemployment or who have questions, call the KDOL Contact Center at 1-800-292-6333.

Kansas law requires a waiting week before benefits are paid. Be proactive in filing to ensure funds can be received when needed.#KSDOL #GovtShutdown pic.twitter.com/qY7el9uJBs

— Kansas Dept of Labor (@KansasDOL) January 17, 2019

The department said in a news release Thursday that unemployment insurance was created to help people who are not working through no fault of their own.

Federal employees in Kansas can apply for benefits by calling a contact center at 1-800-292-6333.

Applicants will need to provide wage verification, such as pay stubs or W-2 forms.

Federal employees who are working full time but not being paid are not eligible for unemployment benefits. The law requires anyone receiving back pay to any repay jobless benefits they received.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the abuse death of his then-girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in southwest Missouri.

Leonard Valdez pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder in the November 2017 death of Jonathan Munoz-Bilbrey. The plea agreement effectively drops a second count of child abuse resulting in death and caps his sentence at 22 years.

Court records say Valdez called the boy’s mother while she was at work and told her that Jonathan was sick. Jonathan was transported from a Joplin apartment to a local hospital, and later to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, where he died .

Medical staff determined that Jonathan suffered injuries consistent with head trauma.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson wants to downsize the Department of Economic Development and move several hundred staffers to the Department of Higher Education.

The Republican governor on Thursday signed executive orders for the state government reorganization.

Parson says the goal is to pare back the Department of Economic Development’s responsibilities so the agency can focus on how to bring businesses to the state and develop a trained workforce.

Several hundred other staffers will also be moved to the insurance department under the plan. That agency would be renamed the Department of Commerce and Insurance.

Parson says the changes would bring the Economic Development Department down from about 865 employees to 165 employees.

The Republican-led Legislature has 60 days to disapprove of the changes or they will automatically take effect.