LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man has been charged with fatally shooting another man, dismembering his body and then setting the remains on fire.

Thirty-year-old Colton Stock was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and three other felonies in the death of 35-year-old Matthew Calkins, of Gardner, Kansas.

No attorney is listed for him in online court records. Bond is set at $1 million cash only.

Police arrested him May 5 while responding to report of gunfire at a home where Calkins’ remains were found. An autopsy determined that Calkins was shot twice before his body was dismembered and burned.

Charging documents say Stock told officers that the shooting happened during a “fight for my life.”  Stock previously was charged with assaulting and shooting at another man at the home.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Republican proposal to change a new constitutional amendment on redistricting has stalled in a Senate committee after not enough Republicans showed up to support it.

Senate Fiscal Oversight Committee Chairman Mike Cunningham said Tuesday that the proposal failed on a 2-2 vote a day earlier when Democrats and Republicans deadlocked. Three other Republican committee members were not present for the vote.

The measure which previously passed the House would ask Missouri voters whether to reverse key parts of the 2018 “Clean Missouri” amendment. That amendment directs a state demographer to draw state House and Senate districts after the 2020 census with “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” among the top criteria.

The new proposal would vest greater redistricting powers with a bipartisan commission, which handled redistricting after the 2010 census.

FRANKLIN COUNTY — One person died in an accident just after 5:30a.m. Tuesday in Franklin County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1995 Ford F150 driven by Yaple, John Brian Yaple, 47, Harrisonville, Missouri, was westbound on Kansas 68 seven miles east of Ottawa. The pickup rear-ended a semi that jackknifed.

The semi driver Christopher James Erion, 30, Montevideo, MN, reported he had been traveling at highway speeds westbound on Kansas 68 when a deer ran out from the north running to the south.

After striking the deer, he pressed the brakes which locked up causing the truck and trailer to jackknife.

The truck and tractor went into the eastbound lanes and struck the guardrail causing the vehicle to jackknife on the bridge between Utah and Vermont.

The semi was wedged on the bridge between guardrails at the time of the crash.

Yaple was pronounced dead at the scene. Erion was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident and transported to Ransom Memorial Hospital, according to the KHP.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Senate has overwhelmingly rejected a nominee for the state’s second-highest court whose political tweets offended lawmakers.

The vote Tuesday was 38-0 against confirming Labette County District Judge Jeffry Jack’s nomination to the Court of Appeals.

Democrat Laura Kelly became the first Kansas governor to have an appeals court nominee rejected. Yet the Republican-controlled Senate’s vote also allowed Kelly to name a second nominee.

Kelly herself had urged senators to reject Jack after trying to withdraw his nomination in March. The state Supreme Court ruled Friday that a 2013 law didn’t allow her to withdraw Jack’s nomination. That forced Tuesday’s vote to keep Jack off the appeals court.

“A president who is objectively ignorant, lazy and cowardly,” read one tweet.

Jack’s nomination was doomed by tweets in 2017 that included vulgar language and criticism of President Donald Trump and other Republicans.

By DAN MARGOLIES

Missouri and Kansas have joined 41 other states and Puerto Rico in a lawsuit accusing generic drug makers of conspiring to manipulate and drive up prices for more than 100 generic drugs.

The 510-page lawsuit, filed in federal court in Connecticut, names 20 drug companies and 15 executives as defendants, alleging they participated in a conspiracy led by generic drug giant Teva Pharmaceuticals USA.

Tong, who is taking the lead in the case, announced the lawsuit Sunday night on “60 Minutes,” which aired a story about the case.

The lawsuit expands on an earlier case brought by Connecticut and 19 other states in December 2016. That lawsuit, which is pending, has since been joined by more than two dozen other states.

In a statement Monday, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt called the alleged conspiracy “one of the most damaging and far-reaching price fixing schemes in modern history, with certain companies inflating prices by nearly 1,000%.”

“Millions and millions of Americans rely on generic prescription drugs every day to treat diabetes, infections, depression, cancer, HIV, and more,” Schmitt said. “This price fixing scheme by Teva Pharmaceuticals and other industry giants demonstrates a level of corporate greed the state of Missouri and the country rarely sees. By joining this lawsuit we’re sending a clear message to pharmaceutical companies: if you harm any of the 6 million people that call Missouri home, we will pursue action and hold you accountable for your actions.”

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, which is based in Pennsylvania and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries, denied wrongdoing in a statement .

“The allegations “are just that – allegations,” the company said.

“Teva continues to review the issue internally and has not engaged in any conduct that would lead to civil or criminal liability. Teva delivers high-quality medicines to patients around the world, and is committed to complying with all applicable laws and regulations in doing so. We will continue to vigorously defend the company.”

Teva subsidiaries operate out of two locations in Overland Park, Kansas, where until recently they employed about 350 people. The city and state granted Teva more than $53 million in tax abatements in 2013 to erect a $46 million, five-story headquarters building at College Boulevard and Nall Avenue, where it employed back office workers in its branded drug business. A smaller facility is located a few blocks away on 107th Street.

In December 2017, Teva announced plans to slash its global workforce by 25%. The local workforce has since been reduced, although it’s not clear by how much. A spokeswoman for Teva did not immediately respond to a query about how many people it now employs in the area.

The lawsuit filed Friday in Connecticut alleges that Teva significantly raised prices on more than 100 generic drugs beginning in July 2013 and colluded with competing companies to carve up markets and raise prices on at least 86 of those drugs.

The suit claims that the defendants coordinated their moves in person or by cell phone at golf outings, cocktail parties, industry dinners and other social occasions.

Besides Teva, the companies named in the suit are:

• Actavis Holdco US, Inc.
• Actavis Pharma Inc.
• Amneal Pharmaceuticals Inc.
• Apotex Corp.
• Aurobindo Pharma U.S.A. Inc.
• Breckenridge Pharmaceutical Inc.
• Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Inc.
• Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA
• Greenstone LLC
• Lannett  Company Inc.
• Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc.
• Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc.
• Par Pharmaceutical Companies Inc.
• Pfizer Inc.
• Sandoz Inc.
• Taro Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.
• Upsher-Smith Laboratories LLC
• Wockhardt USA LLC
• Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc.

Dan Margolies is a senior reporter and editor in conjunction with the Kansas News Service. You can reach him on Twitter @DanMargolies.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Police have announced plans to conduct a follow-up investigation into a racist video that a Missouri high school student posted on Snapchat.

A student at Kickapoo High School in Springfield warned black classmates to stay out of a locker room and talked about lynching in the profanity-laden video that was posted Thursday. The Springfield NAACP demanded that it be investigated as a terroristic threat.

Kickapoo Principal Bill Powers told parents he requested that social media platforms remove the video and disciplined the student, who is a juvenile.

The video comes after at least one student waved a Confederate battle flag last month while driving through the school’s parking lot on a day focused on raising awareness about LGBT bullying. Two posters promoting the event also were torn down.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A former employee of a suburban Kansas City sports medicine clinic alleges in a lawsuit that she was sexually harassed by a surgeon.

The former medical assistant at the Kansas City Spine and Sports Medicine Center in Overland Park, Kansas, sued last month. The suit says she complained to management multiple times that Dr. Glenn Amundson regularly made sexual comments and touched her inappropriately in front of other employees, including management.

The medical assistant says that when she spoke to human resources, the department determined that she should transfer. The suit described the conditions as “intolerable.”

Amundson declined to discuss the allegations with The Star. The Kansas City Spine and Sports Medicine Center says Amundson is no longer with the company.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service will issue a stamp honoring the famous World War II battleship the USS Missouri that was the site of Japan’s unconditional surrender on Sept. 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay.

The Postal Service says that the commemorative Forever stamp will be issued on June 11 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of her commissioning. A first-day-of-issue ceremony will be held that day at the Pearl Harbor memorial, where a section of the ship is being repaired as part of a $3 million restoration project to address rust and other deterioration.

The stamp shows the battleship, which was affectionately nicknamed “Mighty Mo,” cutting through the water with clouds looming in the background. Designed by art director Greg Breeding, the stamp features a digital illustration created by Dan Cosgrove.