INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Funerals have been set for five more members of an Indiana family who lost nine relatives when a tourist boat sank on a Missouri lake last week.

A church spokeswoman says services will be held Saturday at Eastern Star Church in Indianapolis for 70-year-old Horace Coleman; his 69-year-old wife, Belinda Coleman; 76-year-old Ervin Coleman; 45-year-old Angela Coleman; and her 2-year-old son, Maxwell Coleman.

Eleven members of the Coleman family were aboard the duck boat when it sank Thursday in Table Rock Lake in Branson, Missouri. The sinking occurred during a storm and killed 17 people .

Tia Coleman and her 13-year-old nephew were the family’s only survivors. Funerals for her husband and three children are scheduled for Friday.

Online fundraisers are raising money for funeral expenses and the family’s surviving relatives

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — The FBI has opened a hate crime investigation into the stabbing death of a Kansas woman whose relatives allege the suspect is a white supremacist.

Ronald Lee Kidwell, 47, is charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of 43-year-old MeShon Cooper, who was missing for a week until her body was found July 14 at Kidwell’s home in Shawnee.

Kidwell’s estranged daughter and a cousin told The Kansas City Star that Cooper’s death was likely a hate crime because Kidwell was an avowed white supremacist. Cooper was black.

FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton confirmed Tuesday that the agency was investigating whether Cooper’s death was a hate crime.

According to a police affidavit, Kidwell told police Cooper attacked him at his home and threatened to tell everyone that he is HIV positive. He said he “flipped out” when Cooper hit him in the hand with a knife, which he grabbed before stabbing and killing her.

A joint investigation by Shawnee, Lenexa and Kansas City police led officers to Kidwell’s home after phone records showed that Cooper visited Kidwell’s house July 6, the last day she was seen alive, the affidavit said. A search warrant was requested after police found “an overwhelming smell of bleach” at the home. Kidwell at first denied knowing where Cooper was but eventually told police that Cooper’s body was wrapped in trash bags and inside of a trashcan in his garage, according to the affidavit.

Kidwell’s estranged daughter Carolyn Foster told The Star that Kidwell was a “monster” white supremacist who enjoyed targeting and assaulting black people. She said he often showed off his swastika tattoo and bragged about belonging to the Ku Klux Klan. Forster said he pretended to befriend minorities and then harmed them.

“He’s been a monster his whole life,” she said. “He’s the true definition of evil.”

His cousin, Shana Turner, said most of Kidwell’s family had disowned him because of his racist views.

“Whenever I was around him, he’d talk about white power,” she said. When she heard about the murder allegation, “it didn’t surprise me that she (the victim) was black.”

Kidwell has spent 15 years in prison on various assault charges. In 2011, Kidwell was convicted of second-degree assault in Clay County after attacking and sexually assaulting a black woman. He did so without a condom, he told detectives at the time, despite knowing he was HIV positive.

Kidwell is jailed on $1 million bail.

KANSAS CITY- During his address to the VFW Tuesday in Kansas City, President Trump took a moment to remember the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank at Table Rock Lake.

Funeral services are set for Wednesday for two Arkansas victims of the duck boat accident.

Osceola Church of Christ posted on Facebook that funerals for 15-year-old Lance Smith and 53-year-old Steve Smith will be held Wednesday afternoon.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – An academically struggling charter school in Kansas City has closed just weeks before local schools resume classes.

Doug Thaman is executive director of the Missouri Charter Public School Association. He tells the Kansas City Star that Benjamin Banneker Charter Academy of Technology has shuttered after failing to meet state performance expectations for several years.

Thaman says the association will help parents find other school options for their children.

The University of Central Missouri decided to sever ties with the school in October. The university’s contract as the charter’s sponsor expired last month.

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education says the school was unable to find a replacement sponsor.

Banneker’s superintendent Marian Brown didn’t return the newspaper’s requests for comment Monday.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Actor John Goodman is starring in a radio ad opposing a right-to-work law on Missouri’s Aug. 7 ballot.

The ad is airing in the St. Louis market.

Goodman says the law is marketed as a way to help workers. But he tells voters to “look a little deeper, and you’ll see it’s all about corporate greed.”

Goodman starred on “Roseanne.” He went to high school and college in Missouri.

Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists paid for the ad.

Right-to-work supporters say workers should be able to choose whether they pay fees in industries that require union membership.

Missouri lawmakers passed the law banning mandatory union fees last year. Opponents gathered enough signatures to put it to a public vote.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – President Donald Trump is praising Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley during a stop in Missouri.

Trump called Hawley a “special man” while speaking Tuesday at the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City. He said “we need Josh badly,” then called Hawley on stage to speak to the veterans and national television audience.

Hawley said the word that comes to mind when he thinks of Trump is “courage.” He cited Trump’s work to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and his appointment of conservatives to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Hawley is Missouri’s attorney general. He’s trying to unseat Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill in a state Trump won by nearly 19 points.

Trump will also speak Tuesday at a fundraising luncheon for Hawley.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government announced a $12 billion plan Tuesday to assist farmers who have been hurt by President Donald Trump’s trade disputes with China and other trading partners.

The plan focuses on Midwest soybean producers and others targeted by retaliatory measures.

The Agriculture Department said the proposal would include direct assistance for farmers, purchases of excess crops and trade promotion activities aimed at building new export markets. Officials said the plan would not require congressional approval and would come through the Commodity Credit Corporation, a wing of the department that addresses agricultural prices.

“This is a short-term solution that will give President Trump and his administration the time to work on long-term trade deals,” said Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. Officials said the direct payments could help producers of soybeans, which have been hit hard by the Trump tariffs, along with sorghum, corn, wheat, cotton, dairy and farmers raising hogs.

In Kansas City, meanwhile, Trump told a veterans convention that he was trying to renegotiate trade agreements that he said have hurt American workers, and he asked for patience ahead of key talks.

“We’re making tremendous progress. They’re all coming. They don’t want to have those tariffs put on them,” Trump told the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention.

(backslash)rump declared earlier Tuesday that “Tariffs are the greatest!” and threatened to impose additional penalties on U.S. trading partners as he prepared for negotiations with European officials at the White House.

Tariffs are taxes on imports. They are meant to protect domestic businesses and put foreign competitors at a disadvantage. But the taxes also exact a toll on U.S. businesses and consumers, which pay more for imported products.

The Trump administration has slapped tariffs on $34 billion in Chinese goods in a dispute over Beijing’s high-tech industrial policies. China has retaliated with duties on soybeans and pork, affecting Midwest farmers in a region of the country that supported the president in his 2016 campaign.

Trump has threatened to place penalty taxes on up to $500 billion in products imported from China, a move that would dramatically ratchet up the stakes in the trade dispute involving the globe’s biggest economies.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is flooding into the agricultural sector on reports that the Trump administration is preparing a plan that would send billions in aid to U.S. farmers hurt by tariffs.

CF Industries Holding and Mosaic Company both traded up more than 3 percent, while Deere & Co. shot up more than 4 percent after news of the aid package was leaked to The Associated Press by two people briefed on the plan. Shares in Archer-Daniels-Midland and FMC Corp. also rose.

The Agriculture Department is expected to announce details later Tuesday. The plan would attempt to give relief to farmers who have faced retaliation from U.S. trade partners with duties on products like soybeans and pork.

President Donald Trump is in Kansas City Tuesday, the heart of the nation’s farm country.

LINN COUNTY — One person died in an accident just before 7:30a.m. Tuesday in Linn County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1993 Olds Regency driven by George Everett Larson, 22, Bronson, was north bound on K3 twelve miles north of Bronson.

The vehicle traveled off the east side of road. The driver lost control of the vehicle. It re-entered the roadway, crossed over north and south bound lanes, entered the ditch and rolled.

Larson was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Frontier Forensics. He was not wearing a seat belt, according to the KHP.