LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials say they are investigating reports that babies were placed at risk while they slept at a day care.

The Kansas Department for Children and Families said Thursday in a written statement that a report was made last month about a Leavenworth facility. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment says it’s investigating and that the day care continues operating.

The agencies commented after KSHB-TV talked to parents who were shown pictures of their babies lying face down with the sleeves of their sleepers tied behind them with ponytail holders. The babies appeared to be unable to move their arms. Deirdre Engle says she pulled her daughter from the facility, which she identified as Miss Anne’s, after she was notified. The day care didn’t immediately return a phone message.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri-Kansas City is cutting 17 professors and administrators.

University officials said this week that most of the jobs eliminated will be faculty positions, with about a half dozen being administrators.

In a statement to The Kansas City Star Thursday, the university said the cuts were part of an ongoing effort to restructure and save resources for the school’s long-term growth.

Those affected by the decision were notified this week.

University of Missouri System officials announced last year that cuts would be made across the system in Columbia, Rolla, St. Louis and Kansas City.

Missouri-Kansas City officials announced earlier that they wanted about a 3 percent budget reduction from each school, college and division.

MIAMI (AP) -A former Kansas City Chief and University of Florida football player has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for a health care fraud scheme that prosecutors say bilked the federal government out of about $20 million.

Federal court records show that 46-year-old Monty Grow was sentenced Monday and ordered to pay about $18 million in restitution.

Grow was convicted earlier this year on 17 counts of health care fraud and money laundering in a kickback scheme from Patient Care America, a South Florida compounding pharmacy.

Prosecutors say Grow got millions in illegal payments for recruiting patients who were covered by the Tricare health insurance program for the U.S. Department of Defense, which services veterans.

Grow played the 1994 NFL season with the Kansas City Chiefs, competing in 15 games and tallying one interception, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and seven tackles. He also played one season with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

FORDLAND, Mo. (AP) – Officials say a maintenance worker died when a Missouri television station tower collapsed and he became trapped under a tangle of metal and wires.

Rob Talburt, assistant fire chief for the Logan-Rogersville Fire Protection District, says the 1,980-foot (600-meter) tower near Fordland collapsed Thursday. Missouri State University owns the tower and uses it to broadcast KOZK Ozarks Public Television and KSMU Ozarks Public Radio.

Talburt says six workers were about 105 feet (32 meters) off the ground when the tower tumbled. Five workers suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The cause of the collapse is under investigation.

Webster County Sheriff Roye Cole says the workers were replacing crossbeams on the tower. University spokeswoman Andrea Mostyn says the workers are contractors.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A former Michigan State football player facing a May trial for an alleged sexual assault has been arrested in Kansas.

Auston Robertson was arrested Tuesday by Garden City, Kansas, police who are investigating marijuana crimes and other offenses. The disclosure was made Thursday by a prosecutor in Lansing, Michigan.

In response, a judge revoked Robertson’s bond in the assault case. He’s charged with raping a woman at an apartment near Michigan State a year ago.

Robertson, a defensive end, was kicked off the Michigan State team but played last fall at Garden City Community College in Kansas. He had 73 tackles.

His Michigan lawyer, Brent Leder, declined to comment on the new arrest. Robertson remains in custody in Finney County, Kansas.

LAKE OZARK, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say four people have been found dead inside a house destroyed by fire in Missouri.

Lake Ozark Fire Protection District assistant chief Matt Birdsley said in a news release that firefighters rushed to the home just before 1 a.m. Thursday. Birdsley says the first crews on the scene tried to search the property but that the fire was too fierce, forcing them to switch to a defensive operation from outside the home.

Birdsley says the names of the dead aren’t yet available. The house is considered a total loss and the cause of the fire is under investigation.

Lake Ozark is about 120 miles (195 kilometers) southeast of Kansas City.

CLINTON, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri woman accused of dealing drugs from a home where an ex-convict fatally shot one police officer and wounded two others is now charged with first-degree murder and, if convicted, could be sentenced to death or a life in prison.

Prosecutors announced Wednesday that the charge against 37-year-old Tammy Dee Widger has been upgraded from second-degree murder. The Kansas City Star reports that she also faces two first-degree assault charges.

Officers went to Widger’s Clinton home by mistake last month in response to a 911 call. Widger said in a jailhouse interview that she thought James Waters had slipped out the back to avoid police when she let the officers inside. Waters then opened fire and later was found dead inside the home along with Officer Ryan Morton.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A legislative assistant in the Missouri House has been arrested at the capitol on a charge of soliciting sex from a minor.

The Boone County Sheriff’s Department said Wednesday that 24-year-old Carter Ballmann, of Jefferson City, attempted to lure an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old girl out of her home. Ballmann also asked her to send him nude pictures, according to the department.

Ballmann began working for Rep. Mark Matthiesen, a Republican of Maryland Heights, in December. In a statement, Matthiesen said, “I was stunned and saddened to learn about the alleged misconduct of Carter Ballmann and have immediately terminated him from my office.”

Ballmann was charged with one count of enticement or attempted enticement of a child. Online court records list no attorney who could speak for him.