SCOTT MAYEROWITZ, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — Marriott International will pay the government a $600,000 fine for jamming conference attendees’ own Wi-Fi networks at one of its hotels, forcing them instead to pay as much as $1,000 each to use the hotel’s own connection.

BILL DRAPER, Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge has ruled that the state must recognize same-sex marriages that were legally performed in other states.

Jackson County Circuit Judge J. Dale Youngs ruled Friday that the Missouri Constitution and state laws banning same-sex marriage are invalid for unions legally performed in other states.

Youngs made the ruling in a lawsuit filed by 10 same-sex couples who were legally married in states. They argue that their right to equal protection and due process are being violated by the state’s ban on gay marriage.

Young agreed, saying the couples deserve the same recognition as opposite-sex couples who were married in other states.

JIM SALTER, Associated Press

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — More than a dozen protesters remain in custody after being arrested during Thursday’s protests in Ferguson, and some local officials and rights groups are questioning if police overreached.

Authorities said Friday that 13 people were arrested for failure to comply with police, noise ordinance violations and resisting arrest.

Patricia Bynes, a Democratic committeewoman from the Ferguson area who was there during the protesting, said protesters were warned against violence-inciting language. But she didn’t know what the demonstrators said.

The protesters were taken to a jail in neighboring St. Ann, and some were placed on a 24-hour hold. The American Civil Liberties Union says it is investigating the arrests.

Hundreds of people have been arrested during nearly two months of protests in Ferguson, including journalists and clergy members.

MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer

LONDON (AP) — A Swedish doctor says a woman has given birth to a baby after receiving a womb transplant, a world first.

The 36-year-old mother received a uterus from a close family friend last year. Her baby boy was born prematurely but healthy last month, and he and the mom are now at home and well.

Dr. Mats Brannstrom says the baby is “fantastic.” He is the professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm IVF who led the research.

Details of the case are to be published soon in the medical journal, Lancet.

The identity of the woman or where she lives was not disclosed.

KANSAS CITY- A Kansas man was injured in an accident just after 7 a.m. on Friday in Johnson County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2001 Olds Alero driven by Michael B. Neighbors, 26, Ottawa, was northbound on Interstate 35 at Homestead Road.

The vehicle swerved inside construction cones and struck a paving machine that was running but was not in motion.

Neighbors was transported to Overland Park Regional Medical Center.

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

Jefferson City, Mo. (AP) — Missouri revenues are up 3.8% through the first quarter of the new budget year.

Figures released Thursday by the state Office of Administration show that individual income and sales tax collections both rose for the three-month period ending in September.

The 3.8% increase in net general revenues marks a turnaround from last fiscal year, when state revenues declined by 1%. But it remains short of what’s needed to meet the budget.

Legislators had forecast a growth rate of 4.2% and Gov. Jay Nixon had assumed a 5.2% growth rate for this year. Because the budget began with less money than expected, state budget director Linda Luebbering says Missouri now needs a greater than 10% growth rate to meet the budget.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is set to speak at the dedication of a combined high school and vocational school that replaces one destroyed by a deadly tornado in Joplin more than three years ago.

Biden will be joined by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan for the Friday ceremony at the Joplin High School/Franklin Technology Center.

Half of Joplin’s schools were damaged or destroyed in the tornado that killed 161 people and flattened thousands of homes and businesses.

Construction of the new high school was the last of the district’s major rebuilding projects. It opened Sept. 2.

Students, parents and others at the dedication plan to try to set a world record for the longest ribbon used in a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The planned 6.5-mile ribbon symbolizes the tornado’s path through Joplin.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri Board of Curators has ratified changes to how sexual misconduct and discrimination allegations will be handled on the university system’s campuses.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports the curators voted Thursday to approve changes first issued as executive orders last month by President Tim Wolfe.

The changes include a tentative 60-day period for investigating sexual misconduct allegations and creating a way to deal with students or organizations that are accused of discrimination.
Sexual assault, stalking and dating violence are prohibited under Title IX, the federal anti-discrimination laws.
Wolfe said more than 100 people on the system’s four campuses have received training on handling sexual misconduct allegations. He says other mandated reporters will be trained in the future.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than $450,000 will go to farmers markets and organizations across Missouri to help grow and promote local produce.

The Missouri Department of Agriculture on Thursday announced 14 groups will receive block grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s specialty crop funds.

Planned initiatives include money for Kansas City community gardens, beekeeper classes and farmers markets.

Both the University of Missouri and Missouri State University are set to use the money to research local grapes and other berries for use in wines.

Other recipients of the grants include the Columbia Farmers Market, EarthDance Organic Farm School and the Missouri Vegetable Growers Association.