HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — A Holton man pleaded no contest to attempted murder and other crimes after a standoff where authorities say he fired shots at officers and his wife.

Patrick Wayne Miller entered the plea Friday to attempted first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault against a law enforcement officer.

On Dec. 3, Holton police and Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call about a domestic dispute. Police say Miller ran into his house and fired several times at officers and his wife, who was in a police car. No one was injured.

A Holton officer returned fire but no one was hit. Miller surrendered after a two-hour standoff.

His wife, Erica Bell, was later charged with aggravated assault and two counts of domestic battery.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens’ personal attorney is asking state lawmakers to delay the release of its findings in an investigation of Greitens’ actions during an extramarital affair.

Attorney Edward Dowd sent a letter Friday to the head of the House committee that’s investigating that details what he said were several problems with a criminal investigation being conducted in St. Louis.

Dowd warned that the committee’s findings will “almost certainly” contain information that will prove to be inaccurate as the criminal investigation proceeds.

The House’s report is expected to be released in the coming week.

The committee is investigating allegations that Greitens took a nonconsensual photo of a partially nude woman during their affair in 2015. The governor has denied any criminal wrongdoing.

The committee’s chairman, Republican Rep. Jay Barnes, declined comment Saturday.

TOPEKA —Soldiers of the 2^nd Combined Arms Battalion, 137^th

Infantry Regiment and Battery C, 1^st Battalion 161^st Field Artillery bid farewell to family and friends during a deployment ceremony at the Kansas Expocentre Exhibition Hall in Topeka.

The 2-137th, headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas, and Battery C, 1-161^st FA, headquartered in Newton, will deploy as part of the 155th Armored Brigade Combat Team, Mississippi National Guard, for a year-long mission to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Spartan Shield.

COVINNGTON, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports that Oklahoma recorded a magnitude 4.6 earthquake that was also felt in Kansas and Missouri.

It was one of four earthquakes in northwest Oklahoma on Saturday morning.

Garfield County Emergency Management Director Mike Honigsberg says there are no reports of injury or serious damage following the quakes.

The largest temblor was at 7:16 a.m. near Covington. Reports on the USGS website show it was felt as far away as Kansas City, Missouri, some 300 miles  northeast of Covington. People in Joplin, Missouri, and Wichita, Kansas, also reported feeling it.

Saturday’s quakes were in the same area where four others struck Friday, including one of magnitude 3.7.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – An attorney for Missouri Republican Gov. Eric Greitens is trying to toss out a lawsuit alleging governor’s office staff violated the law with a message-deleting app.

The lawsuit is over a request by a St. Louis attorney for records related to use of the Confide app, which deletes messages after they’re read.

Attorney Bob Thompson on Friday argued the governor’s office complied with that request to the extent it could. He said the nature of the app means the messages left no record.

He says related concerns about potential records-retention violations should go to the attorney general, prosecutors or other elected officials.

Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem did not indicate when he would decide whether to allow the case to move forward.

By CARLA ECKELS

Funeral services were held in Topeka on Thursday for civil rights icon Linda Brown, the schoolgirl at the center of the landmark Supreme Court case that declared school segregation unconstitutional.

Family and friends listened intently to acknowledgments and words of encouragement during the service. Some fanned their faces with fans emblazoned with images of Linda Brown Thompson – her married name – as they listened. She was 75 when she died last month.

Brown was described as humble, creative and an accomplished pianist; she played Sundays at her church, St. Mark’s African Methodist Episcopal in Topeka, for nearly 40 years.

Her pastor, the Rev. Shirley Heermance, said visitors from all over the country would ask to meet the civil rights figure after church.

They would ask you, ‘Is that Linda Brown?’ Everybody recognized her of course,” Heermance said. “ ‘Do you think she will give me an autograph?’

“And it would be really fun to watch them be really nervous going to meet her.”

She said Brown always was polite and would oblige the visitors with an autograph.

Terry Crowder, who attended church and sang with Brown as his accompanist, said she was humble about her role in the famous civil rights case. He said she praised the other people involved in the case.

The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, involved several families trying to end decades of federal law that condoned segregated schools for black and white students.

It began with Brown’s father, Oliver, who tried to enroll her at the Sumner School, an all-white elementary school in Topeka just a few blocks from their home.

The school board prohibited her from enrolling and Brown, a pastor at St. Mark’s AME Church, was angry that his daughter had to be shuttled miles away to go to school. He partnered with the NAACP and a dozen other plaintiffs to file a lawsuit against the Topeka Board of Education.

Two years later the court struck down the doctrine of “separate but equal.” The justices agreed that it denied 14th Amendment guarantees of equal protection under the law.

Carla Eckels is director of cultural diversity and the host of Soulsations. Her story courtesy the Kansas News Service.  Follow her on Twitter @Eckels.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The designer of a waterslide at a Kansas waterpark where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated has been booked into a Kansas jail.

John Schooley, who designed the Verruckt slide for the Schlitterbahn Water Park in Kansas City, Kansas, is charged with second-degree murder in the 2016 death of Caleb Schwab.

Schooley was released from a Texas jail and was booked into the Wyandotte County jail Friday afternoon.

His attorney, J. Justin Johnston, says in a bond motion that Schooley’s design for the waterslide and the raft involved in the boy’s death were modified after the ride was commissioned, meaning his design is not responsible for the fatality.

The motion seeking to reduce Schooley’s bond says he wasn’t affiliated with the Kansas park after April 2015.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has approved an additional $700 million of spending this year.

Greitens signed the supplemental budget bill Thursday.

The measure adds roughly $705 million in spending authority to this fiscal year’s $27.7 billion budget. The fiscal year ends in June.

It mostly covers funding for higher-than-expected costs in the Medicaid health care program for low-income residents. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Dan Brown has said Medicaid costs make up about $622 million of the increase.

Most of the money is federal spending. State general revenues account for only $162 million of the increased spending, but that’s more than what lawmakers initially expected to spend on the mid-year budget adjustment.