KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s voter ID law is facing a legal challenge from a national progressive organization alleging it creates undue burdens for voters who lack the required photo identification.

The Kansas City Star reports that the Democratic-aligned Priorities USA filed the lawsuit on behalf of 70-year-old Mildred Gutierrez of Jackson County.

The lawsuit says Gutierrez’s driver’s license expired in 2016 and she wasn’t eligible for renewal due to her failing vision. The complaint says Gutierrez was informed she wouldn’t be allowed to vote in future elections without a non-driver’s license ID from the state.

The law says a person without a photo ID can cast a ballot if they sign a sworn statement attesting they don’t have required documents. But the lawsuit says the procedural hurdles are “fraught with uncertainty and unwarranted threats of criminal penalties.”

KANSAS CITY (AP) – A man has been convicted in the fatal road rage killing of a Kansas City area mother after she stopped for groceries.

Forty-year-old Christopher Taylor was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the 2016 death of 22-year-old Whitney Gray, of Independence.

Gray was driving a minivan with a 16-year-old, a 3-year-old and an 8-month-old inside when Taylor

began following her closely and nearly caused an accident while trying to pass her in Independence. At a light, a liquid was thrown from the passenger side of Gray’s van onto Taylor’s sport utility vehicle, and then a loud “pop” was heard. Gray died at the scene. Not one else was hurt.

Taylor was later arrested in Box Elder, South Dakota. Sentencing is set for Aug. 24.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – President Donald Trump is calling Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill “phony” for using a private plane during part of a recent trip through Missouri using an RV.

Senator Claire McCaskill of the GREAT State of Missouri flew around in a luxurious private jet during her RV tour of the state. RV’s are not for her. People are really upset, so phony! Josh Hawley should win big, and has my full endorsement.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 13, 2018

Trump tweeted Wednesday that “people are really upset, so phony!” He says Republican challenger Josh Hawley should win the U.S. Senate race and repeated his endorsement of him.

McCaskill’s spokeswoman says she spent the majority of the late May trip on her RV but flew back to where she stayed overnight during the three-day tour.

The tour was aimed at speaking with veterans.

State Attorney General Hawley tweeted Tuesday that it must be good to be “rich and liberal.” His campaign manager, Kyle Plotkin, says use of the plane was hypocritical of McCaskill.

RENO COUNTY — A bridge in northeast Reno County will be out of use for an extended period of time after a large wheat cart fell through the deck and into the North Fork Blaze Creek Wednesday.

Don Britton of Reno County Public Works says the single-axle cart was way too much for the 91-foot wooden structure to handle. He expressed frustration that people aren’t paying attention to, or simply disregarding, weight limits on the spans they are crossing.

Britton said it’s too early to tell if the bridge will be replaced or not. The structure is maintained by Reno County and shared by McPherson County. The north side the road is McPherson County. The south side in Reno County.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Dozens of elected officials in Rep. Kevin Yoder’s congressional district in Kansas are pushing him to demand an end to the forced separation of families caught crossing the U.S. border illegally.

Democratic state Rep. Jarrod Ousley of Merriam and Republican state Rep. Linda Gallagher of Lenexa delivered a letter Wednesday to Yoder’s office in Overland Park.

The letter urged Yoder to demand that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security stop separating families. The GOP congressman is chairman of a House Appropriations homeland security subcommittee.

Yoder said in a statement that he is “heartbroken” by the separations and is working to find a solution.

Most of the more than 60 people who signed the letter are state lawmakers or local officials in the 3rd Congressional District in the Kansas City area.

FULTON, Mo. (AP) – Three of five people charged in the case of a developmentally delayed Missouri man whose body was found encased in concrete have pleaded not guilty.

The Fulton Sun reports that Sherry Paulo, Anthony R. Flores and Mary Paulo entered the pleas Monday in connection to the death of 31-year-old Carl DeBrodie.

Sherry Paulo and Flores are charged with first-degree involuntary manslaughter, client neglect, abandonment of a corpse and two counts of making a false report of a missing person.

Mary Paulo is charged with a misdemeanor of making a false report of a missing person.

The three worked at the Second Chance Homes in Fulton where DeBrodie lived before his remains were found in April 2017.

Two other defendants are charged with making a false report. They’re scheduled to be arraigned Friday.

WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) – A 40-year-old Missouri man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced to 189 years in prison for sexually and physically abusing two girls.

Robert Brown, of Warrensburg, was sentenced Monday for numerous counts of child abuse, neglect, endangerment, statutory sodomy and witness tampering.

The Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal reports prosecutors said Collins whipped the 10- and 8-year-old girls and padlocked them in their rooms in April 2017. He also was accused of sexually abusing the girls between September 2016 and April 2017.

Brown’s attorney, Casey Symonds, said he plans to appeal the conviction and sentence.

Johnson County Prosecuting Attorney Rob Russell said Brown will have to serve 85 percent of some of the sentences and 100 percent of others.