LEE’S SUMMIT (AP) – The driver of a suburban Kansas City school involved in a collision that injured 13 students has been cited for trying to make an unsafe U-turn.

Police in Lee’s Summit announced the municipal charge against the 50-year-old driver on Wednesday.

The accident occurred Monday afternoon as the bus was carrying 20 players from the Raymore-Peculiar High School volleyball team to a match at Lee’s Summit West High School.

Police said the driver missed a turn and was trying to make a U-turn near the school when the bus was hit on the side by a flatbed truck. The bus remained upright.

Twelve students were treated at hospitals for minor injuries and released. A 13th had serious but non-life-threatening injuries and remained hospitalized in stable condition Wednesday.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The district attorney who prosecuted two brothers in a quadruple Wichita homicide is criticizing Gov. Sam Brownback’s use of the case in a new campaign commercial.

Brownback’s ad references Reginald and Jonathan Carr, whose death sentences for the December 2000 killings were vacated in July by the Kansas Supreme Court.

Former Sedgwick County District Attorney Nola Foulston issued a statement Wednesday saying the ad exploits the case for political gain.

Foulston says the ad is a “political last ditch effort” to undercut the qualifications and integrity of the Kansas Supreme Court and Brownback’s Democratic challenger, Paul Davis. She also says it’s disgraceful that the campaign would make the families of the murder victims relive the crime whenever they turn on their televisions.

Brownback’s campaign did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City woman has pleaded guilty to a $3 million fraud that forced her employer to declare bankruptcy and close the business.

Federal prosecutors say 52-year-old Irene Marie Brooner pleaded guilty Wednesday to bank fraud. She admitted that for more than a decade she took the money from Galvmet Inc., a sheet metal fabrication and steel service center in Kansas City. The company closed in 2014, when it had 18 to 20 employees.

Brooner was ordered to forfeit her home, a Lexus, jewelry and at least $2.9 million.

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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A Canadian soldier standing guard at a war memorial in the country’s capital was shot to death Wednesday, and gunfire then erupted inside Parliament, authorities said. One gunman was killed, and police said they were searching for as many as two others.

People fled Parliament by scrambling down scaffolding erected for renovations, while others took cover inside as police with rifles and body armor took up positions outside and blocked the normally bustling streets around the building.

Witnesses said the soldier was gunned down by a man dressed all in black with a scarf over his face. They said the gunman then entered Parliament, where dozens of shots rang out.

Ottawa police spokesman Chuck Benoit said two or three gunmen were believed to be involved in the attack. Gilles Michaud, assistant commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, called it a “dynamic, unfolding situation.”

Ottawa Hospital said it received two patients, both listed in stable condition, in addition to the soldier.

The attack came two days after a recent convert to Islam killed one Canadian soldier and injured another in a hit-and-run before being shot to death by police. The killer had been on the radar of federal investigators, who feared he had jihadist ambitions and seized his passport when he tried to travel to Turkey.

Canada had raised its domestic terror threat level from low to medium Tuesday because of “an increase in general chatter from radical Islamist organizations,” said Jean-Christophe de Le Rue, a spokesman for the public safety minister.

On Wednesday, Tony Zobl, 35, said he witnessed the soldier being gunned down from his fourth-floor window directly above the National War Memorial, a 70-foot, arched granite cenotaph, or tomb, with bronze sculptures commemorating World War I.

“I looked out the window and saw a shooter, a man dressed all in black with a kerchief over his nose and mouth and something over his head as well, holding a rifle and shooting an honor guard in front of the cenotaph point-blank, twice,” Zobl told the Canadian Press news agency.

“The honor guard dropped to the ground, and the shooter kind of raised his arms in triumph holding the rifle.”

Zobl said the gunman then ran up the street toward Parliament Hill.

Cabinet minister Tony Clement tweeted that at least 30 shots were heard inside Parliament, where Conservative and Liberal MPs were holding their weekly caucus meetings.

“I’m safe locked in a office awaiting security,” Kyle Seeback, another member of Parliament, tweeted.

The top spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Harper was safe and had left Parliament Hill. The U.S. Embassy in Ottawa was locked down as a precaution.

Officials also canceled two events in Toronto honoring Pakistani teenager and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, including one in which she was supposed to receive honorary Canadian citizenship. The teenager was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 for calling for schooling for girls.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police warned people in downtown Ottawa to stay away from windows and rooftops.

Scott Walsh, 21, a construction worker working in a manhole right in front of Parliament Hill, said he heard shots go off at the War Memorial.

“We’re in construction and we’re used to loud bangs. When people started screaming and running, that’s when I clued, and I saw this guy running” with a gun, he said. “It was intense. I didn’t think it was real. ”

He said the gunman had long black hair with a scarf covering the bottom half of his face.

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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Police in Ottawa say shots also were fired near a shopping mall close to Parliament.

Ottawa police Constable Marc Soucy said Wednesday there have been shots fired at three places in the Canadian capital: at the National War Memorial, where a soldier was wounded, on Parliament Hill and near the Rideau Centre Mall.

All three sites are within less than a mile from each other.

He said it started at the war memorial and that it is still unclear whether there is more than one shooter. No arrests have been made.

“Most of downtown Ottawa is in lockdown,” Soucy said.

The shooting came two days after a recent convert to Islam killed one Canadian soldier and injured another in a hit-and-run before being gunned down by police.

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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Police and witnesses say a gunman has shot a Canadian soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.

Witnesses also said the gunman entered Parliament and shots rang out. Royal Canadian Mounted Police warned people in downtown Ottawa to stay away from windows and rooftops. Buildings across the area including the U.S. Embassy are on lockdown.

The shooting, which happened shortly before 10 a.m., comes just two days after two Canadian soldiers were run over — and one of them killed — in Quebec by a man with jihadist sympathies.

CONNIE CASS, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are significantly expanding the breadth of vigilance for Ebola, saying that all travelers who come into the U.S. from Ebola-stricken West African nations will now be monitored for symptoms of illness for 21 days.

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the program will begin Monday and cover visitors as well as aid workers, journalists and other Americans returning from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea.

The program will start in six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Georgia.

CDC Director Tom Frieden says state and local health officials will check daily for fever or other Ebola symptoms.

Passengers will get kits to help them track their temperature and will be told to inform health officials daily of their status.

PAOLA- Three people were injured in an accident just before 8 a.m. on Wednesday in Miami County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Ford passenger car driven by Robert L. Geiler Jr., 36, Osawatomie, was northbound on U.S.69 and stopped in traffic.

A 2013 Ford SUV driven by Denise M. Sieben, 53, Bucyrus, was slowing to stop and was rear-ended by a 2000 Acura driven by Marin E. Hoskins, 17, Olathe.

The impact pushed the SUV into the car.

Geiler JR, and a passenger in the car Anthony L. Woltkamp, 25, Olathe, were transported to Miami County Medical Center.

Sieben was transported to Overland Park Regional Medical Center.

The KHP reported Hoskins was possibly injured but not where she was treated and all were properly restrained at the time of the accident.

MANHATTAN, KAN. – Today, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), along with a bipartisan group of 13 Senators, expressed concern to U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Jack Lew about recent proposals that would repeal the accounting method of “last-in, first-out” (LIFO), which is used by many American businesses.

In the letter, the Senators argue that a repeal of LIFO could create undue burdens for American businesses and would run counter to the goal of a simple and efficient tax code that allows businesses to compete.

The Senators wrote, “LIFO is a widely accepted inventory accounting method, and has been recognized in the U.S. tax code for more than 70 years. By allowing businesses to qualify their inventory under the LIFO standards, businesses report a fair tax liability that is both realistic and unoppressive to growth.

“…If this reform is passed, the penalty to the businesses that used LIFO could extend decades into the past, forcing companies to pay off the “reserve” to which they had legally been entitled. This retroactive tax would place undue burden on companies that abided by an accepted standard… At worst, repeal could force cuts to employment or drive companies out of business altogether.”

Many American manufacturers, retailers, distributors and small businesses rely on LIFO. A LIFO repeal could result in retroactive tax increases for many of these companies – costs that could ultimately be passed on to employees and consumers, hindering future growth and job creation.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri funeral director is sending his father out with a bang. His father’s ashes, anyway.

Greenlawn Funeral Homes will hold its first Firework Memorial program on Saturday night, when fireworks packed with James Carver’s cremated remains will be launched skyward as part of his family’s goodbye.

Carver’s family is the first to try Greenlawn’s new program. His son is funeral director Jim Carver. He says his father, who died in 2008, loved watching fireworks and would appreciate the unusual send off. The family will follow the eight-minute fireworks display with a cookout and memorial celebration.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that  Greenlawn’s Fireworks Memorials range from a $300 “Sensational Celebration” to the “Ultimate Goodbye,” costing between $8,000 and $10,000.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The aircraft overhaul base at Kansas City International Airport has signed a three-year contract to do maintenance work for Southwest Airlines.

Base operator Aviation Technical Services said Tuesday maintenance work for Southwest will begin later this year. Southwest operates 67 daily non-stop flights from KCI to 26 destinations.

The repair base reopened at KCI earlier this year. It also has contracts with Hawaiian Airlines, Air Canada and UTair Aviation, one of Russia’s largest airlines.

ATS has said it plans to employ 540 workers and 40 contract employees in three to five years, and the operation eventually could grow to 1,000 jobs.