JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers will consider whether to override dozens of vetoes by Gov. Jay Nixon.
The Legislature is to convene Wednesday with an agenda that has 32 vetoed bills and an additional 136 line-item vetoes of particular sections in the state budget.
A two-thirds majority is needed in each chamber to override vetoes.

Lawmakers plan to pursue veto overrides on about 50 budget items.
Republican legislative leaders are confident they will be able to override a veto of a bill requiring a 72-hour abortion waiting period.
Veto override attempts also could occur on legislation creating special training for teachers to carry guns in schools, granting tax breaks to some businesses and shifting the regulation of deer farms from the Conservation Department to the Agriculture Department.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A nearly four-hour police standoff has ended peacefully after Springfield officers cornered a man who they say is connected to a gun incident at an area high school.

Lt. Chad Eutsler says the man fled from police Tuesday into an apartment. He says the man is believed to be involved in an incident last week when a gun accidentally discharged at Central High School. Police didn’t say how he is connected to the incident.

Eutsler says the man is not a juvenile, but declined to provide any other information about him. He surrendered at about 7 p.m.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – A bronze bust of women’s suffrage activist Virginia Minor soon will be on display in the Missouri Capitol.

House Speaker Tim Jones and other lawmakers planned to induct Minor into the Hall of Famous Missourians on Wednesday in the Capitol building.

Minor was born out of state but later moved to Missouri, where she died in 1894. She unsuccessfully argued for women’s right to vote in the U.S. Supreme Court.

The bust made by sculptor Cynthia Hitschler will sit in a hall filled with other famous Missourians. They include Laura Ingalls Wilder, Harry Truman and figures who have stirred more controversy, such as Rush Limbaugh.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The manager of a Chinese restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri, has pleaded guilty in Kansas to a charge of conspiring to harbor workers who were in the U.S. illegally.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says 26-year-old Quan Liu admitted Tuesday that the crime occurred while he was manager of Wei’s Super Buffet in Kansas City.

The restaurant is owned by an Olathe, Kansas-based company headed by a co-defendant who is awaiting trial.

Prosecutors said officers executing a search warrant at a three-bedroom apartment near the restaurant found six people who are in the country illegally living there.

Three others are awaiting trial, one is awaiting sentencing and another is set for a change of plea hearing later this week.

Quan Liu faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.

JIM SALTER, Associated Press

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri inmate has been put to death for killing two people during a restaurant robbery in 1998.

Forty-year-old Earl Ringo Jr. was executed Wednesday, the eighth person put to death in Missouri this year and the 10th since November.

The Department of Corrections said he was executed at 12:22 a.m. by lethal injection.

Ringo and an accomplice killed delivery driver Dennis Poyser and manager trainee JoAnna Baysinger at a Ruby Tuesday restaurant in the early hours of July 4, 1998. Both were shot to death at point-blank range.

Courts and Gov. Jay Nixon refused to halt the execution.

Ringo’s attorneys questioned Missouri’s use of a pre-execution sedative. They said the drug, midazolam, could dull his senses and leave him unable to express any pain or suffering during the process.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor plans to discuss the recent shooting death of a Topeka police officer.

Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor scheduled a news conference for Wednesday morning in his office to discuss the killing of police Cpl. Jason Harwood.

Authorities have two 30-year-old men in custody in connection with Sunday’s shooting, which occurred after Harwood pulled a car over in east Topeka.

One of the men could face a capital murder charge and was arrested Sunday night in Lawrence after police said he was taken there by the other man on a stolen motorcycle.

The second man was being held on suspicion of theft, possessing stolen property, obstructing justice and aiding a felon.

Harwood was a decorated 15-year veteran of the police department.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska doctor treating an American who became infected with Ebola while working in Liberia says the man’s condition is improving.

The patient, Dr. Rick Sacra of Massachusetts, arrived at the Nebraska Medical Center on Friday for treatment in the hospital’s specialized 10-bed isolation unit.

Dr. Phil Smith said in a written statement Tuesday that doctors at the Omaha hospital are pleased with Sacra’s progress, adding that Sacra is becoming more alert and interactive.

Smith said doctors “continue to be encouraged by what we’re seeing up to this point.”

The 51-year-old Sacra was the third American aid worker with the Ebola virus to be flown to the U.S. for treatment. A fourth worker, whose identity has not yet been revealed, arrived Tuesday morning at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.

 

REPUBLIC, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri company that makes bottled spices and seasonings is moving to larger quarters about 20 miles away.
Red Monkey Foods originally operated from a small building in Golden City. The company has operated from a plant in Mount Vernon for the past eight years, but founder Jeff Brinkhoff says it’s outgrown that space as well.
KOLR-TV reports Red Monkey is now preparing to move to a new, 60,000-square-foot plant in Republic. Construction in Republic’s Brookline Business Park is scheduled to begin this fall.
Red Monkey produces bottled spices and seasonings, including private-label gourmet spices, that are sold in supermarkets around the country.
Brinkhoff says 128 jobs will be transferred from Mount Vernon to Republic, with an additional 40 employees to be hired over 18 months.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A government report shows the quality of this year’s Kansas wheat crop down from 2013, with just 73 percent of samples graded by grain inspectors getting the top No. 1 grading.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service said Tuesday that 85 percent of last year’s Kansas crop was graded as No. 1 wheat.

Determinations of test weights, protein content, grade and defects were made by the Kansas Grain Inspection Service based on 8,036 samples from 49 counties.

The report says about 26 percent of the wheat was graded this year as No. 2 wheat, compared with 14 percent last year. One percent this year was graded No. 3 or below.

Average test weight was 60.5 pounds per bushel. Protein content averaged 13.4 percent, an improvement from last year.

 

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Supporters of a Missouri proposal to link teachers’ job evaluations to student performance say they won’t be campaigning for the question on the November ballot.

The Teach Great group that has been backing the measure said Tuesday it had realized that now is not the right time to pursue it.Proposed Constitutional Amendment 3 will remain on the Nov. 4 ballot, but the group said it won’t be pouring money into an effort to pass the initiative.

The measure would limit tenure protection for newly hired staff members. It also would require teachers’ evaluations to be based largely on student performance data that would be used in decisions about pay and retention.
The measure had been financed largely by political activist Rex Sinquefield and opposed by public school teacher and administrative groups.