AURORA, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say an officer shot and wounded a woman after she backed into another officer during a traffic stop in southwest Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the 21-year-old woman was flown to a hospital following the shooting Saturday in Aurora. Patrol spokesman Sgt. Jason Pace says he didn’t have an update Monday on her condition.

Pace says local police pulled the woman over because they believed the 19-year-old man in the passenger seat had warrants for his arrest.

The unarmed woman is accused of putting the car into reverse as officers approached and striking one of them. Pace says another officer then fired at the car and struck the woman.

The officer who was hit by the car was taken to a hospital with moderate injuries. The 19-year-old passenger was taken into custody. Another passenger suffered minor injuries.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Several Missouri groups have submitted signatures to put a minimum wage hike, medical marijuana and limits on lobbyist gifts to lawmakers to a public vote.

Sunday was the deadline to submit signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office to put initiative petitions on the Nov. 6 ballot.

The secretary of state still needs to count the number of signatures to check that enough were submitted to put the proposals before voters. Then local election authorities must verify signatures.

The initiatives include a proposal to gradually increase the state’s current minimum wage of $7.85 an hour to $12 an hour by 2023.

A proposed constitutional change would limit lobbyist gifts to lawmakers to $5 per gift and would change how the state handles redistricting. Three other petitions would allow medical marijuana.

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (AP) – Army officials are now acknowledging they’ve investigated reports of child-on-child sexual assaults at Fort Leonard Wood.

The disclosure comes amid an Associated Press investigation that found many sexual assault reports among children at U.S. military bases where service member families live have languished in a dead zone of justice, in which victims and offenders go without help.

New documents released to AP show Army criminal investigators opened at least six cases at Leonard Wood over a recent 10-year period. They concluded all were true.

Initially, Army’s Criminal Investigation Command released a list of 223 sexual assaults among juveniles that showed none at the central Missouri base.

After reporters challenged the list’s accuracy, the agency added 86 cases. It declines to share the number of reports that are still being investigated.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Body camera footage shows that law enforcement ignored the advice of SWAT team members when they entered a suburban Kansas City home and fatally shot a mentally distressed woman.

The Kansas City Star reports that it obtained 23 hours of footage tied to the Aug. 23 shooting of 26-year-old Ciara Howard in Olathe after suing.

It shows that officers had been briefed that she was acting irrationally and had access to her boyfriend’s handgun when they arrived to arrest her on a warrant. It was for walking away from the county’s adult residential center where she’d been required to report after her latest conviction. None of them were for serious or violent offenses.

Olathe police said in a statement that Howard’s death was a “tragedy for everyone involved.”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Visitors to the Kansas City Zoo will get a chance to pet sharks and stingrays starting later this month.

The Kansas City Star reports that the new $3.5 million Stingray Bay officially opens May 18. It features 20 cownose rays, eight southern stingrays and 12 white-spotted bamboo sharks. Eventually, the public will be able to feed them chunks of fish, probably for a small fee.

Zoo officials said at a preview event Tuesday that they wouldn’t take chances with public safety. The rays’ stingers near the base of the tail have been snipped off. The removal is harmless to the animals, which face no predators in the zoo exhibit. The bamboo sharks measure about a yard long and are bottom dwellers.

CLAY COUNTY — One person died in an accident just before 1p.m. Sunday in Clay County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Ford passenger vehicle driven by James W. Glyn, 65, Holden, was southbound on Interstate 435 just north of 108^th Street.

The vehicle left the road and struck a tree.  Holden was transported to Liberty hospital where he died.

He was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the MSHP.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri high school students could put computer-science course credits toward graduation requirements under a bill passed by the state Legislature.

Senators passed the bill unanimously Thursday. It passed the House 121-19 on Tuesday.

If enacted, the measure would allow students to count one computer-science credit toward math, science or elective graduation requirements. It directs the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to develop a high school graduation policy that allows that by July 2019.

The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry touted the measure as a way to incentivize high school students to take computer science classes.