CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has ordered the release of a man who spent nearly two decades in prison for the killing of a woman in his southeast Missouri hometown.

The court on Tuesday ruled that David Robinson should be released, saying in a one-page ruling that constitutional violations had occurred during his trial in the August 2000 shooting death of Sheila Box. She was killed in her SUV after leaving the Sikeston bar she and her fiancee owned. Robinson was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The ruling comes about three months after an independent expert, Judge Darrell Massey, cited “clear and convincing evidence” that Robinson was innocent of the crime.

The court ordered Robinson released within 30 days unless the state decides to retry him.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri judge is allowing a lawsuit over use of a message-deleting app by Gov. Eric Greitens’ office to move forward.

Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem on Monday ruled claims that governor’s office staffers violated the Sunshine Law can proceed. Beetem tossed out allegations that there were violations of state records laws.

Attorneys for Greitens had asked the judge to toss the case out.

At issue is a lawsuit over a December open-records request by a St. Louis attorney for records related to use of the Confide app by top staff in Greitens’ office. The app automatically deletes messages after they are read. It prevents recipients from saving, forwarding, printing or taking screenshots of messages.

TOPEKA—Total Fiscal Year 2018 revenue receipts are 20 percent, or over $1 billion higher than last year, data from the latest collections report released Tuesday, according to a media release from the Kansas Department of Revenue.

Tax receipts for April are $293.1 million above April 2017, with individual income tax accounting for $239.2 million of that total. Sales tax receipts for the month are $202.9 million, or $10.7 million above last April.

“We anticipated higher individual income tax collections in April because last year’s state tax legislation allowed payments to be made without penalty as long as they were made before the April 17filing deadline,” Revenue Secretary Sam Williams said.

April tax receipts came in 7.6 percent or $66.1 million above newly revised consensus revenue estimates, for a total of $932.3 million in tax collections during the month.

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — More than a dozen students at a Liberty middle school are out of classes because they have not been vaccinated for measles.

The district’s says only 13 out of 791 students at South Valley Middle School didn’t get the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine because of religious or medical exemptions. Those students are being held out of classes since being exposed to the disease in April.

The Kansas City Star reports the Liberty case is one of 10 that the Kansas City Health Department is tracking. A Kansas case in Johnson County, Kansas, has sickened 18 people so far.

District spokesman Dallas Ackerman says no new measles cases have been reported at South Valley Middle School since the April 18 exposure.

Missouri allows schools to hold unvaccinated students out of class during infectious disease exposure.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A southwest Missouri man who was injured twice at the BNSF Railway Co. rail yard in Springfield has been awarded more than $5 million in damages.

A Greene County jury found for former conductor James Mitchell last week after a weeklong trial.

BNSF spokesman Andy Williams says the company will appeal the decision.

The Springfield News-Leader reports Mitchell was injured in August 2015 when a handrail on a rail car ladder broke, causing him to fall and injure his back and shoulder. He returned to work in 2017, and was injured in February of that year while operating a defective lever that separates rail cars.

BNSF denied liability in the case.

An orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Paul Olive, testified Mitchell will require several spine infusions and cannot return to railroad work.

CALLAWAY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating the murder of a Missouri man and have a suspect in custody.

The Callaway County Prosecuting Attorney charged Amy Steward, 44, of Holts Summit with Murder in the First Degree and Felony Delivery of a Controlled Substance, according to a media release from the sheriff’s department.

The charge is the result of the April 27, murder investigation near Holts Summit conducted by the Callaway County Sheriff’s Office with the assistance of Mid-Missouri Major Case Squad members.

The victim has been identified as David Grant, 67, of Holts Summit

Steward is being held in the Callaway County Jail without bond. Authorities released no additional details.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A legislative report says a woman with whom Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens acknowledged having a consensual affair told prosecutors that he coaxed her into unwanted sexual activity as she was crying “like a wounded little animal on the ground.”

The brief, graphic report from a special House investigatory committee was released Monday and accuses Greitens of mischaracterizing the woman’s testimony. The report is intended as a rebuttal to Greitens, who had asserted that the video interview of the woman “undermined the narrative” of an earlier House report detailing the woman’s allegations that he had been physically aggressive toward her.

The latest report highlights the escalating tension between the first-term Republican governor and the GOP-led Legislature, which is weighing whether to initiate impeachment proceedings to try to remove Greitens from office.