AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado woman walking past a pizza shop was hit by a car, landed on its hood and was pushed through a plate glass window into the store.

Amazingly, she immediately hopped off the car amid debris and escaped serious injury.

A surveillance camera captured Wednesday’s incident outside — and inside — the Pudge Brothers Pizza shop in Aurora.

KUSA-TV reports the car’s driver apparently hit the gas pedal instead of the brake, jumped the sidewalk the woman was walking along, and crashed into the store. No one inside was hurt.

Aurora police didn’t immediately return a phone call seeking additional details, including the identities of the woman and the car’s driver.

CLAYCOMO, Mo. (AP) — After years of preparation and more than $1 billion in upgrades, the Ford Motor Co.’s Claycomo plant has begun producing the new F-150 pickup truck.

The Kansas City Star reports that production began Friday morning. Joe Hinrichs, Ford’s president of the Americas, and Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, were on site to tour the plant and ceremonially mark the first F-150 to roll off the production line.

Gov. Jay Nixon’s prepared remarks for the ceremony say investments for the Claycomo plant began during the recession more than six years ago, when Missouri committed to helping the then-struggling automaker.

According to Ford, the plant has a total of 7,485 employees. The plant added 900 workers earlier this year to create a third truck line shift for the new production.

By DAN MARGOLIES
An Overland Park business has been ensnared in a crackdown on compounding pharmacies that make products containing a drug used to boost lactation in breastfeeding women.

The Food and Drug Administration last month issued a warning letter to Perry Drug Inc. citing it for compounding drug products containing domperidone, a drug not approved by the FDA.

Although domperidone is approved in several countries to treat gastric disorders, it is not approved anywhere to enhance breast milk production.

Perry Drug’s president, Dena K. Perry, referred inquiries to the company’s Washington, D.C., attorney, Karla L. Palmer, who said the company had stopped dispensing domperidone and would no longer do so without notice to the FDA.

“Hundreds of compounding pharmacies have received these types of letters from FDA since 2012,” Palmer said. “Dena Perry’s pharmacy is no different from those. Other than the fact that she has not been compounding sterile drug products for quite some time, FDA never tested the products and nobody to the best of our knowledge reported an adverse event as the result of any Perry Drug products.”

Marc Willis, an FDA spokesman, said the agency’s investigation of Perry Drug was still considered an open case.

“A follow-up inspection is the usual means for FDA to verify the corrective actions made by a firm as a result of a Warning Letter,” Willis said in an email. “FDA normally completes a follow-up inspection of the company within six months of the date on the warning letter.”

Once the FDA confirms that the company has corrected the violations, he said, it will issue a close-out letter.

Records on file with the Kansas Secretary of State show Perry Drug was incorporated in 2008. The compounding pharmacy is housed in an office building next to Overland Park Regional Medical Center.

Compounding pharmacies combine drugs or drug ingredients to create medications tailored to the needs of individual patients.

Since 2004, the FDA has been warning compounding pharmacies not to make domperidone, citing concerns about serious health risks associated with the drug, including arrhythmias, cardiac arrest and sudden death.

In its warning letter to Perry Drug, the FDA also said its investigator observed “serious deficiencies” in its practices for producing sterile drug products, “which put patients at risk.”

Palmer said Perry had taken the FDA’s concerns seriously and “responded in all respects appropriately to the letter.”

“She looks forward to continuing to compound drug products that are non-sterile to meet her patients’ needs,” Palmer said.

Editor’s note: This story was updated on March 12 to include the comments of an FDA spokesman.

Dan Margolies, editor of the Heartland Health Monitor team, is based at KCUR.

Dan Margolies, editor of the Heartland Health Monitor, a news collaboration focusing on health issues and their impact in Missouri and Kansas.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee-based motorcycle manufacturer has announced 169 workers will be laid off at its plant in Missouri.

Harley-Davidson Inc. says the layoffs are effective May 11 at the Kansas City, Missouri, plant and are expected to continue through September. The company says the layoffs reflect production needs, the outsourcing of work performed at the off-site Materials Velocity Center some related sub-assembly work.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports about 750 people are employed at Harley’s Kansas City plant, where Dyna, Street and V-Rod motorcycles are manufactured.

The company says no layoffs are planned for its Wisconsin plants or its operation in York, Pennsylvania.

NEVADA (AP) – An inmate has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 3-year-old western Missouri boy.

The Joplin Globe reports 32-year-old Jerry Penticuff is currently serving a three-year sentence at the Boonville Correctional Center for distribution of a controlled substance.

Nevada police on Thursday announced the charge against Penticuff, who had been left to care for Ethan Warner last year. Ethan was taken to the Nevada Regional Medical Center on Oct. 29 after his mother returned home, discovering on her son what appeared to be burns caused by hot water.

Ethan was later flown to the Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, where he died Nov. 2.

Police say Ethan’s mother has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

It wasn’t immediately known if Penticuff has an attorney.

SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Authorities in southwestern Missouri’s Greene County are searching for two men they say impersonated law enforcement officers during a home invasion.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that the home happened in the southwestern section of the county.

Sheriff’s officials say occupants of the home reported that two men knocked on the door and identified themselves as law enforcement officers to gain entry.

Investigators say that once inside the home, the suspects demanded cash and fled with electronics and a firearm.

None of the occupants were injured.

There was no immediate word on any charges Thursday evening.

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JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Missouri could reinstate caps overturned by the state Supreme Court three years ago after senators passed a compromise to limit non-economic damages in medical malpractice lawsuits.

The Senate voted 28-2 on Thursday to approve a measure limiting awards for pain and suffering in most personal injury cases arising from botched medical procedures to $400,000.

In catastrophic injuries, the limit would be $700,000. The measure also raised the existing cap on wrongful death cases form $350,000 to $700,000.

Supporters say without caps, doctors will leave the state due to higher insurance costs.

Previously, Senate Democrats have blocked efforts to reinstate caps overturned in 2012 by the Supreme Court. The measure is a compromise between Senate Democrats and Republicans that now goes to the House, which passed its version last week.