KANSAS CITY (AP) – Jackson County prosecutors have dropped charges against a woman who spent six days in jail after police said she injured an officer during a traffic stop.

The Kansas City Star reports Monday that the 21-year-old woman was released over the weekend. Her mother says her daughter was at home asleep during the incident and that her temporary license tag had been stolen.

Kansas City police say a silver Nissan struck the officer as its driver fled the traffic stop on Nov. 8. Investigators linked the woman to the incident using the tag.

The woman’s mother says her daughter shouldn’t have been charged without a “proper investigation.”

The extent of the officer’s injuries is unclear.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Hunters have killed more than 91,000 deer in Missouri so far this firearms season.

The Missouri Department of Conservation on Monday said the number of deer shot during opening weekend is up roughly 30,000 from 61,446 last year.

The last time hunters checked this many deer during the first weekend of the season was in 2010, when Missouri reported 97,856 animals were killed.

Franklin County had the largest harvest with 1,839 deer, followed by Howell and Callaway counties with a little less than 1,800 each.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will decide whether homeowners who declare bankruptcy can void a second mortgage if the home’s market value has dropped below the amount they owe on their first mortgage.

The justices said Monday they will consider two appeals from Bank of America Corp., which asserts that bankrupt homeowners should not be able to “strip off” a second loan even if they are underwater on primary loans.

In both appeals, bankruptcy courts allowed Florida homeowners to nullify second loans held by Bank of America. The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, but Bank of America says the rulings conflict with other appeals courts and Supreme Court precedent.

Hundreds of homeowners have moved to void underwater second mortgages since the 11th Circuit endorsed the practice two years ago.

TOM RAUM, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal watchdog agency overseeing the nation’s pension protection system reported Monday that it’s running a $62 billion deficit — almost double last year’s shortfall — mostly due to the poor financial condition of a few large multi-employer pension plans.

Despite a strengthening U.S. economy, plans that now protect the pensions of up to 1 million workers and retirees “are likely to run out of money” in the next 10 years, the U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation said in a report.

Overall, the agency insures the retirement pension benefits for more than 41 million individuals in private defined-benefit pension plans; 401(k) retirement accounts are not included.

Agency officials called for Congress to enact legislation submitted by President Barack Obama designed to shore up the program’s finances.

Labor Secretary Thomas Perez said fixing the problem is vital to the retirement security of the nation’s middle-class.

The report said that multi-employer plans, which are collectively bargained retirement plans maintained by more than one employer, are most at risk of failing. Multi-employer plans cover more than 10 million people in over 1,400 plans, the agency said.

“The deficit in our multi-employer program has increased dramatically because of ongoing financial challenges in a minority” of those plans, said Alice C. Maroni, acting director of the agency.

The agency’s $62 billion deficit for fiscal 2014, which ended September 30, is up from $36 billion from the year before.

The size of the deficit matches a projection the agency made in June.

PBGC officials who briefed reporters on the report declined to publicly identify any of the at-risk pension plans it deems most likely to fail unless helped.

Monday’s report showed that the deficit in the agency’s multi-employer insurance program increased by $8.3 billion in the past year to $42.4 billion. At the same time, the financial condition of the single-employer program improved over the same period, posting a $19.4 deficit for 2014, down from $27.4 in 2013.

Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, called the multi-employer insurance program “a ticking time bomb that will inflict a lot of pain on workers, employers, taxpayers and retirees if Congress fails to act.”

He said congressional leaders have been trying to reach consensus on a package for months so far to no avail.

BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal regulators say a respected Internet company failed to check whether commercial websites and mobile apps bearing its seal of approval were indeed meeting its standards for protecting users’ privacy and customers’ data.

The company known as TRUSTe must pay $200,000 to settle a complaint alleging deceptive practices brought by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC says the San Francisco company failed to conduct annual reviews of websites and apps that displayed the TRUSTe privacy seal. The commission also says the company let websites describe TRUSTe as a nonprofit service even after it became a for-profit business.

TRUSTe says it regrets not living up to its own standards. It says it conducted reviews in most cases, and has now fixed the problems identified by the FTC.

TOM KRISHER, AP Auto Writer

DETROIT (AP) — Honda is quietly offering to replace potentially defective air bag parts across the U.S., even though its latest recall only covers cars in 13 high-humidity states and territories.

The replacement program for owners concerned about their safety was revealed in documents posted recently by U.S. safety regulators. Customers outside the recall areas won’t be notified.

Honda says it’s trying to take care of customers but is not expanding the recall nationwide.

The company announced in November that it would recall about 2.8 million 2001 to 2006 Hondas and Acuras to replace air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. They can explode with too much force, blowing apart a metal canister and sending shrapnel into the passenger compartment.

At least five deaths worldwide have been linked to the faulty inflators.