KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas priest has been revoked of his rank years after an investigation into multiple child sexual abuse allegations against him.

Archbishop Joseph Naumann issued a decree in December removing the Rev. John Wisner from the clergy. The decree was announced May 25.

The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas says it suspended Wisner from active ministry in 2012 after receiving many allegations he sexually abused minors decades ago. The archdiocese says an internal investigation found the allegations credible.

Wisner has denied the allegations. The archdiocese says it notified law enforcement, but Wisner was never criminally charged in relation to the allegations.

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests criticized the archdiocese on Wednesday for taking so long to announce Wisner’s defrocking.

BELTON, Mo. (AP) – A 26-year-old western Missouri woman who had been missing since Sunday has been found dead.

Police in Belton found the body of Jessica Parsons Wednesday near railroad tracks. Authorities say she left home to go for a walk on Sunday. She sent a text message to a relative about 5:15 p.m. that day but had not been seen or heard from since then.

Police have not disclosed a cause of death and say the investigation continues.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says states can force online shoppers to pay sales tax.

The 5-4 ruling Thursday is a win for states, who said they were losing out on billions of dollars annually under two decades-old Supreme Court decisions that impacted online sales tax collection.

The high court ruled Thursday to overturn those decisions. They had resulted in some companies not collecting sales tax on every online purchase. The cases the court overturned said that if a business was shipping a product to a state where it didn’t have a physical presence such as a warehouse or office, it didn’t have to collect the state’s sales tax. Customers were generally supposed to pay the tax to the state themselves if they don’t get charged it, but the vast majority didn’t.

The Kansas Board of Regents (KBOR) approved tuition rates for each of the six state universities in Kansas for the 2018-2019 academic year.

According to a media release, tuition increases for resident and non-resident undergraduates ranged from 1.1 percent to 2.8 percent, apart from Kansas State University Polytechnic, which had no tuition increase. Tuition increases for resident and non-resident graduate students also ranged from 1.1 percent to 2.8 percent, excluding Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, which had no tuition increase.

The Regents approve tuition and fees for the upcoming academic year as proposed in the June Board agenda, which is available here: https://t.co/7EZiwMdic7

— KS Board of Regents (@ksregents) June 20, 2018

“Raising tuition is always a difficult decision that the Regents deliberate carefully,” said KBOR Chair David Murfin. “We will continue to work with the Governor and the Legislature, as well our institutions, to keep higher education as affordable as possible for Kansans.”

In 2018, state universities received a partial restoration of the $31 million reduction in state funding that occurred in 2016. This allowed universities to propose tuition increases that were among the lowest in recent years.

One of the primary responsibilities of the Board of Regents, as defined in state law, is to set tuition and fees at state universities. Based on the tuition rates approved today, it is projected that approximately $743 million will be raised from tuition revenues this upcoming year.

The tuition proposals that were approved by the Board Wednesday may be accessed through the June 2018 agenda here.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Two Kansas Lottery players have agreed to pay about $28,000 in damages and fines for allegedly cheating the game.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced the settlement Wednesday. Schmidt’s office negotiated the settlement with Amy Demoney and Christopher McCoulskey.

Authorities say the pair cashed in rigged tickets and split $44,000 in winnings with a former multistate lottery security official who manipulated a computer to turn the tickets into winners.

That official, Eddie Tipton, is imprisoned in connection with the case.

Neither Demoney nor McCoulskey admitted guilt but agreed to pay damages in the amount they collected. Demoney will pay $14,400 and McCoulskey will pay $14,000.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office issued written instructions Wednesday to county elections officials telling them to immediately take steps to implement a federal court ruling that struck down the state’s proof-of-citizenship voter registration law.

The state’s two-page directive instructs election officials not to ask for citizenship documentation of any voter registration applicant. If an applicant voluntarily provides it, they were instructed to scan the document and keep it with the registration record where it would be used only for tracking purposes.

For those residents whose registration record was previously suspended or cancelled due to lack of proof of citizenship, their status would be changed to active and they would receive a notice informing them of their status and the polling place for the upcoming primary election.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson issued a 118-page ruling at nearly 5 p.m. Monday finding that the Kansas law violated the constitutional right to vote. Elections Director Bryan Caskey said he held a conference call at 11 a.m. the following morning with the county officials.

“The first thing that I said was we are going to comply with the entirety of the court’s ruling. However, it is going to take a little bit to issue written instructions. Don’t change anything until we issue our written instructions so you know exactly what to change,” Caskey said.

Some counties did not wait for guidance from Kobach’s office before deciding to stop enforcing the state’s proof of citizenship law in the wake of Robinson’s ruling, said Douglas County Clerk Jamie Shew.

“In my mind, if we continued to apply the law then we are applying an unconstitutional law,” Shew said.

The instructions say the state is appealing the ruling, and that if an appeal is successful any person who has not provided evidence of citizenship may need to have their status reviewed.

Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project, said the guidance that Kobach’s office sent out have some “compliance problems” with Robinson’s ruling, but they do not appear to be emergency issues and can be addressed with the court via a status report in a few weeks.

Kobach, a conservative Republican seeking his party’s nomination for governor, was vice chairman of President Donald Trump’s now-disbanded commission on election fraud.

The court in its ruling noted Kobach’s “well-documented history” of avoiding its orders and providing “confusing notices and information” on the state’s website. Robinson ordered the parties to file a joint status report 30 days before the Kansas primary election to verify compliance with her orders and determine whether any additional steps may be necessary so “effective relief for covered voters is not denied or otherwise undermined” by Kobach.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s new lieutenant governor says the state’s constitution supports his appointment.

Mike Kehoe said Wednesday that he wouldn’t have accepted the job if he didn’t believe the office could be filled by a governor’s appointment, but he said the courts will have the final say.

The Missouri Democratic Party filed a lawsuit Monday to block Kehoe’s appointment just hours after Gov. Mike Parson appointed the former Senate Majority Floor Leader to the executive branch’s No. 2 position. Both Parson and Kehoe are Republicans.

Missouri’s constitution and law aren’t clear on how to fill a lieutenant governor vacancy.

Parson left the position when he replaced former Gov. Eric Greitens, who resigned June 1.

Kehoe says he plans to use the position to focus on Missouri’s infrastructure needs, among other issues.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Fashion designer Kate Spade is being buried in Kansas City, where she was born.

Services for Spade are planned for 3 p.m. Thursday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Redemptorist Church. That’s where her grandparents wed.

Spade was found dead by suicide on June 5 in her New York City home. She was 55 and had a 13-year-old daughter.

Spade was working as an accessories editor at Mademoiselle magazine when she launched her company with husband Andy Spade in 1993. Andy Spade says she had depression and anxiety for many years.

In lieu of flowers, the family has asked for donations to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals or a Kansas City animal shelter.

GEARY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating two suspects on drug charges.

Late Tuesday, deputies stopped a vehicle on Interstate 70 at the Manhattan exit for a defective tail light, according to the Geary County Sheriff’s Department.

Deputies arrested Mariel Fjer, Mission, Kansas and Sophia Poplin, Independence, Missouri on suspicion of Possession of Marijuana and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

Fjer is also accused of suspicion of Driving While Suspended and for the Defective Tail Light.