SMITHVILLE, Mo. (AP) – A Kansas City woman has been sentenced to 23 years in prison in a deadly 1990 stabbing.

The Kansas City Star reports that Annette S. Davis was sentenced Friday for killing of 70-year-old Clifford McClanahan in Smithville. She was arrested in 2013 when the Clay County Sheriff’s Department reopened the cold case. Fingerprints that weren’t on file at the time of the killing linked her to the crime.

Prosecutors said Davis and McClanahan had been dating but that he slapped her when he caught her smoking crack. Davis stabbed McClanahan 12 times with a kitchen knife and left him to die.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors have learned that Kansas welfare officials were contacted 17 times before police removed a 14-year-old girl who weighed just 66 pounds from her home.

The Wichita Eagle  reports that the Kansas Department of Children and Families initially provided prosecutors information about nine allegations of abuse or neglect. But prosecutors, acting on questions raised by The Eagle, recently discovered eight additional reports of suspected abuse.

The 14-year-old girl and three other children were taken into protective custody in March. A child-in-need-of-care petition alleges that the girl’s adoptive parents at times chained her in a basement and gave her a bucket to use as a toilet. The parents have denied the allegations.

A DCF attorney told a Sedgwick County judge Friday that the state had provided all the previous reports.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas woman has been sentenced to eight years and four months in prison for arranging the shooting of her ex-boyfriend on a highway south of Lawrence.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Brittany Nicole Smith was sentenced Friday in Douglas County for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. The victim, 24-year-old Skylar Workman, survived after being shot May 26 on U.S. 59.

Smith, who pleaded guilty in October, also was sentenced to six months in jail for driving under the influence and was ordered to pay more than $120,000 in restitution to Workman for medical expenses.

Authorities say she persuaded 25-year-old Edward Joseph Parker to shoot Workman.

Parker pleaded no contest in a separate hearing Friday to attempted second-degree murder. He will be sentenced Feb. 20.

KANSAS CITY (AP) – Authorities say Kansas City police have shot and critically wounded a bank robbery suspect.

The Kansas City Star reports that the shooting happened Friday afternoon after two officers saw a person matching the bank robber’s description attempt an armed carjacking. Police said in a news release that the suspect pointed a weapon at officers and that the officers shot the suspect.

The shooting occurred shortly after a 4:10 p.m. robbery at a Commerce Bank branch in the city’s downtown.

FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton said in a statement that the robber entered the bank carrying a black duffel bag and demanded cash while threatening to detonate an explosive device. Patton says the robber fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Police say that the wounded man had a black bag.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Cargill Inc. has announced plans to close a Springfield meat slicing and packaging facility that employs 118 people.

The agribusiness giant said in a news release that managers informed workers Friday of plans to move the operation to the company’s facilities at Nebraska City, Nebraska, and Waco, Texas. Cargill says some of the meat sliced and packaged in Springfield comes from the two cities.

The Springfield facility will close on March 11. Cargill says the workers will be offered a severance package and help relocating to other company facilities in the region.

Cargill acquired the Springfield facility in 2008, together with other assets that were part of Willow Brook Foods.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Efforts to cut Missouri’s prison population appear to be working, but a new report shows that’s not enough to save the state money.

A recent Sentencing and Corrections Oversight Commission report shows almost 30,000 prisoners have been released since 2012 through programs intended to curb prison time for nonviolent offenders.

The Justice Reinvestment Act creates incentives for offenders to comply with probation and diverts others from prison for some technical violations, and although it has helped keep some offenders out of prison, the report shows housing costs for new sentencings outstrip savings.

Republican state Sen. Bob Dixon of Springfield co-chairs the commission. He says he’s pushing for more money to fund programs in the act in hopes of cutting costs for housing prisoners.

Savings would be used for crime-prevention programs.

JOSH FUNK, Associated Press

SHENANDOAH, Iowa (AP) — Ethanol producers will likely have to endure leaner profits this year because of the collapse of oil prices, but demand for the fuel additive will remain strong.