JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers spent almost $110,000 during a special session and investigation into allegations against former Gov. Eric Greitens.

Final costs provided Tuesday to The Associated Press show that most of that money went toward mileage and daily allowances for lawmakers during a special session. About one-quarter of the expenses came from a special House investigatory committee.

Greitens resigned June 1 while facing potential impeachment over allegations of sexual and political misconduct.

The House investigatory panel spent more than $29,000 from March through May, mainly for court reporters who transcribed its hearings.

The special session cost $70,000 in the House and $10,500 in the Senate. That includes more than $36,000 for lawmakers to return to the Capitol on June 11 to hear a speech from new Gov. Mike Parson.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A last-minute addition of an immigrant child clinging to her mother has been removed from a mural near the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic site in Topeka.

The image was painted over Monday on a 130-foot wide, 30-foot tall mural across from the former all-black school that tells the story of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ended segregated education.

Artist bj McBride says she “couldn’t help” adding the child Friday in response to the separation of parents and children at the U.S. border, but said later she thinks it was “distracting.”

The Topeka nonprofit ArtsConnect worked with another nonprofit and raised $100,000 for the project. The group’s executive director, Sarah Fizell, says the image didn’t fit with the mural’s mission.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Newly released documents show Republican Senate hopeful Josh Hawley’s campaign paid lawyers tens of thousands of dollars to review emails and other documents from his time as a University of Missouri law professor before releasing them publicly.

The Kansas City Star reports that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and another Democratic group asked last year for documents from Hawley as well as his wife, Erin, who still works as a law school professor. Hawley’s campaign says Erin Hawley didn’t feel it was appropriate for her to be making public records determinations.

University of Missouri spokesman Christian Basi says it’s standard for the university to inform employees of records requests. But Basi says it’s “very rare” for a faculty member to use outside counsel to review documents in response to them.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has upheld President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries, rejecting a challenge that it discriminated against Muslims or exceeded his authority.

SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS TRUMP TRAVEL BAN. Wow!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 26, 2018

The 5-4 decision Tuesday is the court’s first substantive ruling on a Trump administration policy.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, joined by his four conservative colleagues.

Roberts wrote that presidents have substantial power to regulate immigration.

Nations on the travel ban list include North Korea, Somalia, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Libya and Venezuela.

The court may have signaled its eventual approval in December, when the justices allowed the policy to take full effect even as the court fight continued and lower courts had ruled it out of bounds.

KANSAS CITY. – A Kansas man who was arrested with methamphetamine, heroin and $67,000 in cash was sentenced Monday to 164 months in federal prison for drug trafficking, according to U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister.

Juan Lopez, 23, Kansas City, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. In his plea, he admitted he drove away from a residence on the 3400 block of Georgia Avenue when the Kansas City, Kan., Police Department came to serve a search warrant there. He abandoned his car near West 42nd Avenue and Thompson Street and he ran into a wooded residential area carrying two bags.

Police recovered one of the bags with more than 3 pounds of methamphetamine and more than half a pound of heroin.

When residents of the 4100 block of Lloyd Street reported a prowler in their garage, police found Lopez hiding there with the second backpack, which contained $67,000 in cash. When police searched the residence on Georgia Avenue, they found firearms, including three assault rifles, a pistol grip shotgun, a Mac-10 and two bulletproof vests.

MILLER COUNTY — One person died in an accident just after 2p.m. Monday in Miller County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2006 International semi driven by Greg E. Mathis, 46, Oak Ford, IL., was northbound on Highway 17 just north of Saline Road.  The semi crossed the center line and was struck by a 1994 Mack Dump Truck driven by Jonathan L Hensley, 35, Clarksburg.

The semi’s load of logs became unsecured and they began falling on the roadway.  Logs struck a 2000 Dodge Ram pickup driven by Franklin Alford, 76, Harrison, WV, and forced it off the right side of the road where it struck a tree and a fence.

The logs also struck a 2018 Nissan Versa driven by Seth C. Graves, 44, Ft. Leonard Wood, on the southbound side of the road.

Alford was pronounced dead at the scene and transported to Millard Funeral Home in Eldon. Authorities reported no other injuries.

By CELIA LLOPIS-JEPSEN

Kansas continues to underfund its schools, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled Monday — a decision that could cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars more over the next four years.

The high court could have forced lawmakers back to Topeka in coming weeks to fix the problem or face school closures, something the state’s lawyers begged it not to do.

“The 2018 legislature’s efforts,” the justices wrote, “and the amount of money added to the financing system for the approaching school year should permit such an extension.”

Read the Kansas Supreme Court ruling.

The Legislature passed a five-year plan this spring to add more than a half billion dollars in annual school funding.

That, the state argued, brings Kansas in line with funding levels approved by the Kansas Supreme Court in a separate case in the mid-2000s — adjusting for inflation.

The justices disagreed. Among the problems they found: Kansas left out multiple years’ worth of inflation from its tallies.

The ruling doesn’t say how much it will cost to fix that. John Robb, an attorney for the plaintiffs, put the figure at about $100 million a year for four years starting in 2019.

But because the plaintiffs and state disagree on how to calculate annual inflation, he surmised the state might peg the figure at around $250 million over the four years.

Robb called the ruling “bittersweet.”

“It’s a great ruling because it recognizes that the legislature has gone a good distance but they’ve not made it to the finish line,” he said, but added, “The professional studies show that to get our kids proficient is going to take a lot more resources, but the court didn’t go that far.”

Last winter, the Legislature commissioned a study to figure out how much money schools need to meet standards laid out in the state constitution and previous Kansas Supreme Court rulings.

But the effort backfired on conservative leadership when its authors concluded Kansas could need to add as much as $1.8 to $2.1 billion to its public schools to close achievement gaps and prepare students for college or careers.

The plaintiff school districts urged the court, in vain, to make Kansas aim for those higher amounts in coming years.

Attorney General Derek Schmidt, whose office defended the state in court, lauded the justices for rejecting those arguments.

The ruling “flatly rejects the plaintiffs’ unreasonable demands for an additional $1 billion windfall,” he said in a statement.

Instead, justices agreed that Kansas can finally escape nearly eight years of litigation by following guidance issued more than a decade ago in the Montoy v. Kansas school finance lawsuit.

That lawsuit ended with the court approving a multi-year plan to ultimately increase school funding by more than $700 million. But a few years after the high court dismissed the case, the 2008 recession derailed the plan, prompting a fresh lawsuit.

Dozens of school districts are cosponsoring the current lawsuit, Gannon v. Kansas, which began in 2010. The plaintiffs argue that after Sam Brownback became governor in 2011, he should have returned to the funding plan instead of cutting income taxes.

In one ruling after the next, the Kansas Supreme Court has agreed schools are underfunded and have been so since 2009.

Meanwhile, the high court did drop the other major claim in the school finance lawsuit against Kansas — that the state is not only underfunding schools, but left the poorest districts with the least resources. Past court rulings found school funding unfair to taxpayers and children in school districts with weak local tax bases.

Gubernatorial candidates were quick to weigh in on the ruling.

Democratic contender Laura Kelly praised the court’s work and competitor Josh Svaty lamented low teacher pay.

Republican incumbent Jeff Colyer, who signed off on this spring’s school finance bill, touted his efforts to improve the school system without a tax hike.

“We got it done,” he said. “I look forward to building upon the work we did together this year.”

His main challenger painted a different picture, calling for an amendment to the Kansas Constitution to stop school finance lawsuits.

“The Court is now micromanaging every dollar spent on education,” Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach wrote. “Even down to calculating adjustments for inflation.”

Schmidt, who is running for another term as attorney general, also called for putting a constitutional amendment to a public vote. Jim Barnett, a Republican running for governor, said in a news release that the court’s ruling “got it right.”

Celia Llopis-Jepsen is a reporter for the Kansas News Service. You can reach her on Twitter @Celia_LJ.