JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri is moving closer to replacing a new mental health facility at the Fulton State Hospital.

The Office of Administration announced Tuesday that $92 million in bonds had been issued for the project. Fulton State Hospital opened in 1851 and is the oldest state psychiatric hospital west of the Mississippi River. It houses the state’s only maximum security psychiatric facility.

The bonding is the result of a measure passed this year by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Jay Nixon. It will pay to demolish old buildings and replace them with 413,000 square feet of new facilities.

Gov. Jay Nixon said in a news release that a new facility will “mean better care for patients and greater safety for employees.”

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Springfield police say a man who was wounded in a pay-by-the-week motel shooting that killed three others has died from his injuries.

The Springfield News-Leader reports 24-year-old Christopher Freeman of Springfield had been in critical condition since he and the three others were found shot in a room at the Economy Inn on Saturday. Forty-four-year-old Lewis Green, 43-year-old Trevor Fantroy and 29-year-old Danielle Keyes were pronounced dead at the scene.

Police suspect that the victims had been in the motel room for longer than a day and were shot with a handgun. It’s unclear how they knew each other.

No arrests have been reported.

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Yahoo may be getting more serious about search again.

Mozilla is dropping Google as the default search engine for its Firefox browser, replacing it with Yahoo for U.S. users on their computers, phones and tablets.

Yahoo had farmed its search engine out to Microsoft five years ago.

There have also been tensions between Mozilla and Google, with the search giant’s Chrome browser stealing market share from Firefox for years.

Mozilla and Yahoo said in a statement Wednesday that they have agreed to a five-year partnership that is a “framework” for other possible product integrations and deals.

KANSAS CITY (AP) – A Missouri audit claims two Kansas City charter schools botched their closures by overspending and providing poor documentation.

The Kansas City Star reports an audit released Tuesday shows there were “major errors” when Imagine Renaissance Academy and Urban Community Leadership Academy shut their doors in 2012.

Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich’s report says Urban Community Leadership Academy did not provide records for almost $118,000 in closing expenses. UCLA school board member Kendra Kemp-Trammel didn’t immediately return a phone message seeking comment.

Schweich’s office says Imagine Renaissance Academy wasted thousands of dollars by doling out too many responsibilities to its law firm without reviewing less-expensive options.

That school told auditors it turned to the law firm after staff members failed to handle duties related to the closing.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster no longer will accept campaign contributions from anyone under investigation by his office.

Koster on Wednesday announced the new, self-imposed policy after a New York Times report alleged he was influenced by lobbyists and campaign donations.

The report addressed claims that Koster, along with attorneys general across the country, changed policies and negotiated more favorable settlements after receiving campaign contributions and perks from lobbyists.

He says he also no longer will accept contributions from lobbyists or attorneys representing entities facing litigation from his office.

Gifts of any value from registered lobbyists are off the table, as well as contributions from members of Koster’s office.

He’s asking lawmakers to enact similar policies statewide.

Koster says the newspaper report distorts how his office deals with companies.

LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government proposed new rules Wednesday to make it easier for doctors and patients to learn if clinical trials of treatments worked or not.

Thousands of Americans participate in clinical trials every year, testing new treatments, comparing old ones or helping to uncover general knowledge about health. Many of the studies are reported in scientific journals and trumpeted in the news. But results aren’t always made public, especially studies that fail.

National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins says that’s not acceptable. Under the new proposals, all clinical trials funded by NIH would have to reveal summaries of their results on a public database: www.clinicaltrials.gov . So would certain other studies under an expansion of Food and Drug Administration rules.

The proposals are open for public comment through Feb. 19.

ALICIA A. CALDWELL, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — An Iowa man is being held on a weapons charge after Secret Service officers say they found a hunting rifle, dozens of rounds of ammunition and a knife in his car parked near the White House.

The Secret Service says R.J. Kapheim, 41, was arrested on a charge of having an unregistered firearm.

Kapheim, from Davenport, Iowa, was arrested after he approached uniformed officers along 15th Street just before 1 p.m. Wednesday and explained that someone in Iowa told him to drive to the White House. He later showed them to his car parked nearby and let officers search the vehicle. The agency reports they found the rifle, ammunition and a 6-inch knife in the truck of his 2013 Volkswagen Passat.

It was unclear if Kapheim has a lawyer.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 29-year-old Missouri man is sentenced to 18 years in federal prison for selling crack cocaine near a playground across the river in Kansas.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says Arrick Warren of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing crack within 1,000 feet of Bethany Park playground in Kansas City, Kansas. He also pleaded guilty to possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it near the playground, and one count of maintaining a residence near the playground in furtherance of drug trafficking.

Prosecutors say Warren was charged in June 2013 in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, after investigators arranged to make controlled buys of the drug. They seized drugs, more than $25,000 in cash and a handgun while executing a search warrant earlier that year.