KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri agriculture officials have quarantined two commercial facilities after a strain of bird flu that’s deadly to poultry but poses no immediate public health concern was detected.

The Missouri Department of Agriculture announced Sunday that the virus was confirmed in turkeys at a grower facility in Asbury in the southwest part of the state. Preliminary tests also came back positive for the virus at a facility in Fortuna in mid-Missouri. It was not immediately clear how many birds were affected.

It’s the same H5N2 strain that’s been confirmed in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Minnesota.

The release says the remaining turkeys in the “involved flocks” will be killed and won’t enter the food system. Officials also are conducting testing at properties near the affected facilities to ensure the virus hasn’t spread.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The president of the University of Oklahoma says fraternity members who participated in a racist chant caught on video are “disgraceful.”

The video is available HERE (caution very offensive)

University President David Boren joined students at a rally Monday morning on the Norman campus. The Oklahoman newspaper reports that Boren said, “real Sooners are not bigots, real Sooners are not racist.”

Sigma Alpha Epsilon said Sunday night that an investigation confirmed the contents of an online video showing multiple people chanting a racial slur and indicating blacks would never be admitted to the fraternity. The chant also references lynching.

The national fraternity says it’s “embarrassed” by the “unacceptable and racist” behavior, and was closing the local chapter.

The video was first posted online by a black student group. It wasn’t clear how the video was obtained.

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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A University of Oklahoma fraternity will close and its members will be suspended after the group’s national headquarters says a video of members participating in a racist chant was posted online.

The video is available HERE (caution very offensive)

Sigma Alpha Epsilon said Sunday night that an investigation had confirmed the contents of a video showing multiple people chanting a racial slur against blacks and indicating that blacks would never be admitted to the fraternity. The chant also references lynching.

The national fraternity said in a statement that it was “embarrassed” by the “unacceptable and racist” behavior.

The video was first posted online by a black student group at OU. It wasn’t immediately clear how it was obtained.

The university said earlier Sunday that it was investigating and didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment about the chapter’s closure.

FERGUSON (AP) – Dozens of college students are forgoing traditional spring break plans at a beach or another easygoing destination and have instead arrived in Ferguson to encourage residents to vote in next month’s election.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the effort is a part of NAACP’s Voter Registration Alternative Spring Break campaign.

Students from colleges like Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University visited different areas in Ferguson to remind residents that Election Day is on April 7 and to help them register to vote. They said they’re motivated to help Ferguson toward progress and to help residents become more engaged following the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

Brown died after being shot by a Ferguson police officer in August. His death prompted protests and unrest in the area.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — One man has been killed and another critically wounded in a Kansas City, Kansas, shooting.

The Kansas City Star reports that police said they arrived shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday and found both victims in the street. The dead man was in his early 20s, but his name was not released pending notification of relatives. A man in his mid-40s was taken to a hospital suffering from several bullet wounds.

Police say the shooting is under investigation. Authorities are urging anyone with information to come forward.

JOPLIN (AP) – A new Joplin hospital that replaces one destroyed by a deadly tornado is preparing to open.

The Joplin Globe reports that hundreds turned out Saturday for an open house in advance of the March 22 opening of the new Mercy Hospital Joplin. It replaces St. John’s Regional Medical Center, which was destroyed in the May 2011 tornado.

Mercy president Lynn Britton said Joplin’s resilience prompted the leadership of the United Arab Emirates to donate $5 million to the reconstruction of the hospital. Britton said that started a campaign that would raise $15 million toward the $465 million reconstruction of the hospital.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Mercy’s decision to rebuild sent a message to Joplin that it was not being abandoned, and that it could and would rebound.

OLATHE- A Kansas teenager was injured in an accident just before 7 a.m. on Sunday in Johnson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1994 Chevy pickup driven by Clayton J. Akey, 19, Olathe, was northbound Interstate 35 just south of 151st in Olathe.

The truck left the roadway for unknown reason and rolled multiple times.

Akey was transported to Overland Park Regional Medical Center.

The KHP reported he was properly restrained at the time of the accident.

COLUMBIA (AP) – A former youth director at a Columbia church has been charged with sexually assaulting a girl.

Forty-two-year-old Dale G. Johnson, of Columbia, was charged Friday with first-degree statutory sodomy of a person younger than 14 years old, second-degree statutory sodomy and possession of child pornography. He is jailed on a $100,000 cash-only bond. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

The Columbia Missourian reports that his arrest followed an investigation that began when the Missouri Division of Children’s Services received a hotline call in early February.

Chris Cook, the senior pastor at Parkade Baptist Church, said Johnson was put on administrative leave the day after the investigation began. Johnson has since resigned and is no longer affiliated with the church.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have charged three men in an armed robbery and are investigating whether the crime is connected to another holdup in which a deputy was wounded.

The Wyandotte County prosecutor’s office said 24-year-old Dyron King, 35-year-old Cecil Meggerson and 18-year-old Charles Bowser were charged Friday with Tuesday’s robbery of a Family Dollar store in Kansas City, Kansas. It wasn’t immediately clear if the two suspects from Kansas City, Kansas, and one from Kansas City, Missouri, had attorneys. Bond has been set at $1 million.

Authorities also are investigating ties to other recent robberies in Kansas and Missouri, including one this past week at a 7-Eleven in Kansas City, Kansas. Wyandotte County officials say an off-duty deputy was shot and critically wounded when he walked in on the robbery.