KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The City Union Mission in Kansas City says it will not allow legally married same-sex couples who are homeless to stay at the shelter.

Executive director Dan Doty says shelter officials believe that the Bible prohibits same-sex marriage. He says married same-sex couples will be referred to other shelters.

The Kansas City Star reports  the mission is a private nonprofit that receives no governmental funding, meaning it is not bound by anti-discrimination rules. Officials at the Topeka Rescue Mission say they haven’t decided if the couples will be allowed to stay.

But other Kansas City-area shelters say same-sex married couples already are welcome to stay. That includes Salvation Army shelters in Kansas and Missouri, Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph shelters and the Lawrence Community Shelter.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska hospital says an Ebola patient being treated in its biocontainment unit has died.

Nebraska Medical Center said in a news release Monday that Dr. Martin Salia died as a result of the disease.

Salia contracted Ebola while working as a surgeon in Sierra Leone. He arrived Saturday to be treated at the Omaha hospital, where two other Ebola patients have been successfully treated.

Ebola has killed more than 5,000 people in West Africa.

CABOOL, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Highway Patrol says two people died in an accident caused by icy conditions in southwest Missouri.

The accident happened Sunday night on a bridge on Highway 63 about five miles north of Cabool in Texas County.

The patrol says the car they were riding in went out of control on an ice-covered bridge and slid into the path of a U-Haul truck. Both drivers survived but the driver of the victims’ car was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — About 170 Kansas National Guard from a battalion based in Iola will deploy next year to west Africa to help fight Ebola.

The state announced Sunday that soldiers from the 891st Engineer Battalion Headquarters will help build medical facilities in west Africa. They will leave next spring and be deployed for about six months, with the possibility of serving up to a year. It’s part of a national effort called Operation United Assistance.

Kansas Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanell says the state will do all it can to ensure the soldiers’ safety. That will include training in protocols and preventative measures against the deadly disease.

The soldiers will begin training next month in Kansas and will receive more training at their mobilization station before they go to west Africa.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Springfield police have released the identities of the victims of a triple homicide at a pay-by-the week motel and the name of a fourth person who was critically injured.

Forty-four-year-old Lewis Green, 43-year-old Trevor Fantroy and 29-year-old Danielle Keyes were pronounced dead Saturday when they were found shot in a room at the Economy Inn. The Springfield News-Leader reports that 24-year-old Christopher Freeman was in critical condition on Sunday.

Lt. Culley Wilson says autopsies were performed on Sunday. He said authorities 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.

DETROIT (AP) — The lawyer hired by General Motors to compensate victims of crashes caused by faulty ignition switches is giving people another month to file claims.

Kenneth Feinberg announced Sunday night that the deadline has been extended until Jan. 31, 2015.

GM came under fire last week because the family of a Connecticut woman who died in a crash had not been notified by the company, even though GM linked her death to the faulty switches years ago.

Feinberg says in a statement that the extension is being done out of an abundance of caution. He says notices about the compensation fund have been sent to nearly 4 ½ million current and prior owners of Chevrolet Cobalts and other affected small cars.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A southeast Kansas lawmaker plans to challenge Ray Merrick as speaker of the Kansas House.

After the election, Rep. Virgil Peck sent letters to victorious Republican House candidates. The Tyro Republican informed them of his intention to stand for speaker when lawmakers come to Topeka on Dec. 1 to hold leadership elections.

He says lawmakers have a responsibility to choose leaders “whom we feel are best equipped to represent the core beliefs of Kansas citizens and our party’s philosophy of limited government.”

Merrick’s spokeswoman, Rachel Whitten, said, “Any legislator is welcome to run for whatever leadership office they choose.”

Peck has served in the Legislature since 2005 and currently serves as chair of the Transportation and Public Safety Budget Committee.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Two northeast Kansas parents are increasingly frustrated with the investigation into their son’s disappearance 26 years ago.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Randy Leach was a teenager when he mysteriously disappeared in 1988 from a graduation party. He would now be 44.

Earlier this year, his parents, Harold and Alberta Leach, learned that law enforcement, including the KBI and the FBI, had had a suspect in the 1990s. That suspect, Eric Montgomery, died in prison four years ago.

Montgomery also had been a suspect in two 1990 homicides that occurred seven miles from the Leaches’ home in rural Linwood.

Harold Leach, now 73, said he was saddened when he found out law enforcement had withheld information from him and his wife.