SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A registered sex offender in Lebanon, Mo., was sentenced in federal court Monday for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet, according to Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.

Kavin Dywayne Finley, 45, of Lebanon, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Roseann A. Ketchmark to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison without parole. The court also sentenced Finley to supervised release for the rest of his life following incarceration.

Finley, who pleaded guilty on April 27, 2017, is registered with the Missouri Sex Offender Registry due to his 1999 convictions in Arizona for molesting a 12-year-old child multiple times.

According to court documents, Finley was actively engaged in trading child pornography with other individuals on the Internet. The investigation began on April 16, 2015, when a Missouri State Technical Assistant Team investigator received a CyberTip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which reported child pornography in Finley’s Google Gmail account. Finley’s e-mail had multiple images of child pornography that he was sending to another user, and he remarked that he had more images and videos he could send.

On May 12, 2015, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at Finley’s residence and seized a laptop computer, which contained multiple videos of child pornography, and Finley was arrested. Investigators also found child pornography on Finley’s cell phone.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ami Harshad Miller. It was investigated by the Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Missouri State Technical Assistance Team and the FBI.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An audit has found that the largest school districts in Kansas have received millions in funding not allowed by state law.

The Kansas State Department of Education has given more than $45 million to the districts in just the past five years to help bus students to school. State auditors estimate Wichita’s district alone will get nearly $3 million more than legally allowed.

The audit report released last week found the department is distributing transportation funds to districts using a method repealed by lawmakers in the 1970s. The method results in districts with the highest population densities receiving more aid.

The report recommends the department remove the unauthorized aid beginning in the 2018-19 school year.

Department officials say they began making the payments decades ago after a request from lawmakers.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A 62-year-old man has been charged in a deadly shooting outside of a Kansas City store.

Victor Kelley, of Kansas City, was charged over the weekend with second-degree murder in the killing of Phillip Degnan in the parking lot of Benton Market & Gas. He is jailed on $250,000 bond. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

Court documents say surveillance video shows that after the victim made a purchase, he walked to the east of the building, where frequent customers congregate. Kelley is seen arriving at the store several minutes later, shooting Degnan after an apparent argument and then walking away.

Court records say Kelley initially denied any involvement but later confessed to shooting Degnan

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An animatronic figure of Donald Trump has joined Disney’s Hall of Presidents in Florida.

The Orlando Sentinel reports that a robotic facsimile of the 45th president of the United States stood front and slightly off-center Monday for the soft reopening of the long-running Walt Disney World attraction.

The Trump figure moves his head during the traditional roll call of leaders, motions with his arms and gives a brief speech. A Disney spokeswoman says Trump recorded his Hall of Presidents script earlier this year. Every sitting president since Bill Clinton has had a speaking part.

The Hall of Presidents debuted at the Magic Kingdom in 1971 and gets an update with each change in leadership. After closing in January, the theater received an upgrade in its sound, light and projection packages.

Disney has not announced an official opening date.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Authorities are investigating a fatal hit-and-run crash in Kansas City.

Police says a passing motorist spotted the victim’s body Monday morning in the southern part of the city. Investigators determined that the victim was struck while walking along a road. The victim was knocked off the road and onto the shoulder.

The vehicle fled the scene. The victim wasn’t immediately identified.

FORT SCOTT, Kan. (AP) — The mother of a 22-month-old boy who drowned in a fish pond at his foster parents’ home says the child died because of neglect, despite a ruling from the state that his death was an accident.

Conner Hawes died Aug. 18 in the pond at a Fort Scott home. A sheriff’s report says his foster father was watching television while Conner and three other foster children were outside before the drowning.

The Kansas Department of Children and Families and the Bourbon County Sheriff’s office ruled the boy’s death an accidental drowning.

The boy’s mother, Beth Hawes, disputes the finding that the death was an accident.

According to published reports, the DCF considers the death an accident, the agency won’t disclose records on how Conner’s death was handled.

JACKSON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a woman in connection with a domestic altercation and officer-involved shooting.

On Thursday, deputies arrested Erica Nicole Miller, 23, Holton, on a Jackson County District Court warrant on two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of domestic battery.

She was booked into the Jackson County Jail and was later released on $10,000.00 Bond. The warrant was issued as a result of an investigation by the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office regarding an alleged domestic altercation involving a firearm between Erica Miller and her husband Patrick Wayne Miller in Holton.

The domestic altercation with a firearm is believed to have occurred in the late evening of Sunday December 3, in Holton.

Just after 3a.m. on December 4, deputies arrested Patrick Miller following a 3-hour armed standoff with law enforcement at 802 Ohio in Holton. Patrick Miller is accused of shooting at law enforcement including a Jackson County Sheriff’s K-9 vehicle in which Erica Miller had been seated. Patrick Wayne Miller remains in the Jackson County Jail on $1,000,000.00 bond.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office has concluded with its investigation of the Holton Police Officer who returned fire on Patrick Miller.  That investigation was forwarded to the Jackson County Attorney for review on Thursday.