COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri panel has followed through on plans to stop issuing state low-income housing tax credits for the year.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the Missouri Housing Development Commission voted 8-2 Tuesday against the credits. The state still is moving ahead with federal low-income housing tax credits.

Republican Gov. Eric Greitens slammed the program as inefficient. But backers say cutting it could hurt access to affordable housing.

Tuesday’s vote came just hours after Greitens appointed two new members to the commission who then voted to ax the state tax credits. The appointees are Craig Porter and John Scariot.

Porter is a residential developer and gave $10,000 to Greitens’ campaign. Financial services officer Scariot gave $100 to Greitens’ campaign and previously volunteered at the veterans charity Greitens founded.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The federal government paid $13,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former Haskell Indian Nations University student who claimed she was raped at the school.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports it obtained a settlement agreement Monday.

The woman filed a lawsuit in 2016. She said she was raped in 2014 by two male students in a Haskell dorm. Among other things, she contended the university, which is Lawrence, retaliated against her after she reported the alleged rapes. She also alleged the school unlawfully released her private records.

According to the agreement, the federal government, which operates Haskell, didn’t admit any wrongdoing.

The woman’s attorney, Dan Curry, said she is “content” with the settlement and plans to re-enroll in at Haskell in the spring.

RAYTOWN, Mo. (AP) – A Raytown man who photographed nude children and posted the pictures online has been sentenced to 20 years without parole in federal prison.

Twenty-year-old Cody Davidson was sentenced Tuesday for distributing child pornography on the internet. He will be on supervised release for the rest of his life after he is released from prison.

Prosecutors say Davidson took pornographic pictures of two girls, one 7 and the other 8, and posted them on social media.

Federal agents in Boston found some child pornography images online and traced some of them to Davidson.

Investigators found more than 2,000 still and video child pornography images on phones taken from Davidson’s home.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Springfield police say a robbery was thwarted when a gas station manager pulled a gun on an armed teenager and held him until officers arrived.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that the crime happened Dec. 9. A probable cause statement says 18-year-old Anthony Hetherington told investigators he was smoking marijuana with a friend and decided take a BB gun to the gas station. Police say that when Hetherington raised a towel to his face, the manager grew suspicious.

Police say Hetherington raised his shirt to show a gun tucked in his waistband. The manager drew his own handgun. Police arrived to find the suspect lying face-down on the ground with the manager holding a gun to him.

Hetherington is charged with first-degree robbery and free on bond.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court has sided with chemical manufacturer Bayer in its fight against a lawsuit over one of its birth control products.

Supreme Court judges in a unanimous Tuesday ruling said a lower court was wrong to deny Bayer’s motion to dismiss out-of-state claims in the lawsuit.

Bayer says the case doesn’t belong in Missouri because only seven of the 92 plaintiffs are from the state. The women sued for alleged medical complications from Essure, an implant that permanently prevents pregnancy.

Judges agreed that the case doesn’t seem to fit in Missouri. They sent it back to the St. Louis Circuit Court to consider the women’s new argument.

Plaintiffs now say the case belongs in Missouri because of clinical trials and a national marketing campaign based in the state.