ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Latest on the criminal case involving Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (all times local):

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A St. Louis judge has refused to move up the felony trial of Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens.

Greitens was indicted last month on fourth-degree invasion of privacy for allegedly taking a compromising photo of a woman with whom he was having an affair in 2015, before he was elected. He has denied criminal wrongdoing.

The trial is scheduled to begin May 14. Attorneys for Greitens asked Circuit Judge Rex Burlison to move up the trial to the first week of April. Burlison, at a hearing on Wednesday, declined to do so.

Another hearing is scheduled Monday on the request by Greitens to have the judge, rather than a jury, hear his case.

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has claimed to be the victim of a political witch hunt since the day a St. Louis grand jury accused him of taking a compromising photo of a woman during a sexual affair.

So legal experts say it’s only logical that the Republican governor, facing trial in a heavily Democratic city, would request trial by judge, not jury.

Greitens was indicted in February on felony invasion of privacy for allegedly taking a partially-nude photo of the woman without her permission in 2015. Greitens has admitted to the affair but denied criminal wrongdoing.

Judge Rex Burlison at a hearing Wednesday will consider the request for a bench trial and to move the trial from mid-May to early April. City prosecutors oppose both moves

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A man who authorities say was the kingpin of a methamphetamine drug ring in Springfield has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

The Springfield News-Leader reports 56-year-old Patrick Brigaudin was sentenced Wednesday for distributing methamphetamine and money laundering.

Authorities say drug seizures connected to the ring included a total of 77 pounds of methamphetamine and 6 pounds of heroin.

A total of 15 people were indicted in the scheme.

Assistant United States Attorney Randy Eggert said at Wednesday’s hearing that Brigaudin was the unquestioned leader of the organization.

Federal investigators say in court documents that Brigaudin spent more than $10 million on slot machines and withdrew about $8.4 million at a casino in Quapaw, Oklahoma between January 2009 and April 2015.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence police officer who was accidentally shot during a training exercise is out of the hospital.

The police department says the officer was shot Monday afternoon at a police lodge southwest of the city.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports a preliminary investigation found the shooting occurred when equipment became entangled in a trigger guard, causing the officer’s gun to fire. The department did not explain what type of equipment was involved.

Officer Drew Fennelly said Tuesday no crime was involved. The department is investigating to determine if any policies were violated.

Fennelly would not release the officer’s name but said he was a two-year veteran.

The shooting occurred during on-duty, state-required firearms training.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the alleged use of Facebook data to influence the U.S. presidential election (all times local):

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is admitting mistakes and outlining steps to protect user data in light of privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm.

Zuckerberg is breaking more than four days of silence as he posts an update about the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Zuckerberg posted on his Facebook page Wednesday that Facebook has a “responsibility” to protect its users’ data, and “if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you.”

Zuckerberg and Facebook’s No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg, have been quiet since news broke Friday that Cambridge may have used data improperly obtained from roughly 50 million Facebook users to try to sway elections.

BOONVILLE, Mo. (AP) – A former school employee has been charged with having sex with a student when he was 16.

The Jefferson City News-Tribune reports that 27-year-old Clairyssa Lorenz, of California, Missouri, was charged Tuesday in Cooper County with sexual contact with a student. She was charged earlier this month in Moniteau County with second-degree statutory rape and sexual contact with the same student. Her attorney didn’t immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press.

Lorenz is a former elementary school counselor at Cole County R-1 Schools and a former assistant softball coach at Moniteau R-1 Schools. The teenage boy told Moniteau County sheriff’s deputies in February that the alleged sex crimes occurred in June and July of 2017.

By TOM SHINE

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas has filed a complaint in federal court on behalf of a Wichita man who said he was targeted because he is Muslim and was falsely accused of flying a terrorist flag.

The ACLU said in a news release Monday that it filed a complaint against the Spirit/Boeing Employees’ Association, or SBEA, on behalf of Munir Zanial, who works at Spirit AeroSystems.

SBEA is a member-owned nonprofit open to current or former Spirit and Boeing employees, according to its website. It is not affiliated with Spirit AeroSystems.

The complaint says an SBEA employee reported to Spirit’s security team that Zanial and people in “Muslim garb” had held an ISIS meeting in September 2017 on SBEA property. SBEA later revoked Zainal’s right to use the group’s property.

Zanial said the gathering was to celebrate an Islamic holiday and Malaysia’s independence day.

Trish Pulliam, SBEA’s executive director, said Monday the group had not received any paperwork regarding the complaint. She said without knowing the details outlined in the complaint, she could not comment.

Zanial has lived in Wichita since 2011, according to the court filing. He earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from Wichita State University and is a senior stress engineer at Spirit.

He is a native of Malaysia and a permanent resident of the United States.

“To label someone a terrorist due to their appearance and their celebration of their heritage is shameful, but to continue to use that mislabel as grounds for blatant discrimination — even after it had been discredited by the FBI — is downright reprehensible,” Micah Kubic, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas, said in a statement.

In the complaint filed in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., Zanial alleges the following took place:

He had rented SBEA’s recreational lake in south Wichita on Sept. 2, 2017, to celebrate Eid-Al Adhara — a Muslim holy day — and Malaysian independence day with about 45 guests.

An SBEA employee reported the gathering to Spirit’s security team, saying Zanial may be affiliated with radical Islamic terrorism and used the property to hold an ISIS meeting.

The employee also reported that an American flag had been “desecrated by ISIS insignia” and that people at the property were wearing “Muslim garb.”

Spirit forwarded the report to the FBI, which determined the desecrated flag actually was the national flag of Malaysia. After talking with Zanial, the FBI closed its investigation shortly after receiving the complaint.

Zanial said he continued to pay membership dues to SBEA — about $14 a month — but was told in January 2018 when he tried to rent a pavilion that his membership rights had been restricted.

Zanial is seeking to have his membership restored. He also is seeking damages from SBEA and payment of his attorneys’ fees.

Tom Shine is the director of news and public affairs KMUW, a partner in the Kansas News Service. Follow him on Twitter @thomaspshine.  Stephan Bisaha contributed to this report.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Lt. Gov. Mike Parson says he can’t support tax credits for a proposed ice rink complex in suburban St. Louis, even though Gov. Eric Greitens supports the plan.

Parson was the only member of state board to vote Tuesday against issuing $2 million in tax credits to help finance a $78.5 million rink and a St. Louis Blues practice facility in Maryland Heights.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Parson said a sports complex should get state tax credits while the administration is refusing to issue tax credits for low-income housing that would help senior citizens and veterans.

The Missouri Housing Development Commission voted in December to end the use of tax dollars for low-income housing.

Three other members of Greitens’ cabinet voted Tuesday in favor of the tax credits.