KANSAS CITY (AP) – A South Dakota boy who found $10,000 in a Kansas City hotel room won’t get to keep the cash even though it remains unclaimed.

Tyler Schaefer stumbled upon the neatly stacked bills in a hotel drawer last May, and handed it over to two uniformed off-duty police officers working at the hotel.

The Kansas City Star reports the Police Department is still storing the money. If an owner is not identified after four more years, the money will go to the state treasurer’s office.

State law requires finders such as Tyler to file an affidavit with a state court judge within 10 days and physically post a list describing the money on the courthouse door and at four other public places in the city, which he didn’t do.

KANSAS CITY (AP) – An unvaccinated northwest Missouri infant has been diagnosed with measles after the family returned from traveling abroad.

The Kansas City Star reports Clay County health officials say the baby – who does not attend day care – was treated at an area hospital and released, and family members are being vaccinated.

Measles is a highly contagious disease that is rare in the U.S. So far this year there have been 187 cases reported in 17 states, including Missouri.

Symptoms of measles include fever, rash, cough, runny nose and red, watery eyes.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to legislation that would give social workers more time to complete investigations into child abuse and neglect.

The House voted 139-2 on Tuesday to send the measure to Gov. Jay Nixon. The Senate passed it earlier this month.

Current law stipulates that investigations involving children must be completed within 30 days. The bill would give the Department of Social Services up to 45 days to submit a report after first hearing allegations of abuse and neglect.

Sponsoring Rep. Bill Lant, a Pineville Republican, says these serious investigations shouldn’t be rushed and added that the current timetable puts a strain on department staff

High winds  are  blamed for doing damage across the midwest last week.  This You-Tube video shows what a strong wind gusts did to a semi-truck on a highway in Kansas.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Retired investment executive Rex Sinquefield has given an additional $1.5 million to a political group that has backed efforts to cut Missouri’s income tax.

Grow Missouri Treasurer Aaron Willard says the latest donation from Sinquefield will help the group develop a new round of issues to support now that the Republican-led Legislature has enacted an income tax cut.

Willard says Grow Missouri may help support a Sinquefield-backed ballot measure limiting teacher tenure and basing teacher employment on student achievement.

He says the group may also support a ballot measure establishing a right to farm, as well as future issues focused on making government more efficient and improving the state’s economy.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) Missourians could buy motorcycles and some other recreational vehicles on Sundays under legislation sent to the governor’s desk.

Many states have repealed bans on selling retail on Sunday, but Missouri still prohibits dealers from selling cars, trucks and motorcycles on that day.

Under the bill given final approval Tuesday, dealers could sell motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles, personal watercraft and other vehicles “customarily sold by powersports dealers.” Cars and trucks still could not be sold on Sundays.

Supporters argue it would make Missouri more competitive with neighboring states, including Kansas, that allow such sales on Sunday.

Missouri law already allows recreational vehicles, mobile homes, tires and repair parts for motor vehicles to be sold on Sundays.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.) sent a letter to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki and the VA St. Louis Health Care System this week to express their concern and demand answers “in response to serious allegations that have been made regarding the availability of mental health services within the VA St. Louis Health Care System.”

“The allegations suggest that VA St. Louis mental health providers are making inefficient use of their time, seeing patients for only a fraction of the workday, and in the process creating delays in the provision of mental health services for veterans in need. If true, these claims would demonstrate an unacceptable lack of leadership at the VA in St. Louis that is putting the health and safety of veterans at risk,” the Senators wrote. “The care, well-being and support of our nation’s veterans are of the utmost importance to us. It is our responsibility to provide the oversight necessary to ensure our veterans receive the quality medical care they have earned.”

The Missouri Senators requested specific information on the availability of mental health treatment in the VA St. Louis Health Care System, including the number of providers, the number of patients seen per day, average wait times, standards for providing timely access to services, and specific steps to shorten wait times.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Authorities in Springfield say officers have shot and killed a woman who opened fire on two unarmed men at a storage facility.

The two men fled unharmed to a nearby radio station and called 911 around 2:45 p.m. Tuesday.

The Springfield Police Department says in a news release that police and Greene County sheriff’s deputies went to the storage business. Police say the woman initially refused to leave an office, then came out and pointed a gun at the officers.

Two deputies and two police officers then fired at the woman.

None of the officers was injured. Police said it was unclear by Tuesday evening whether the woman fired any shots.

The woman’s name was being withheld while relatives were notified. An autopsy is planned later this week.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A disagreement among Missouri’s Republican lawmakers is threatening to derail a bill that seeks to nullify certain federal gun control laws.

At issue is how to punish federal agents who enforce laws deemed to infringe on gun rights.

The House passed a plan Tuesday that would let Missourians sue federal agents for enforcing such laws.

But the Senate sponsor says that penalty is insufficient and wouldn’t accomplish the legislation’s goal. Sen. Brian Nieves wants to include a provision to bar federal law enforcement officers from future state jobs if they infringe on gun rights. He says it’s unlikely the Senate will consider the version passed by the House.

Time is running short for compromise. The Legislature faces a 6 p.m. Friday deadline to pass bills.

FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators say the pilot of a vintage biplane who died at a Northern California air show was making his second attempt at an upside-down stunt 20 feet off the ground when he crashed.

The pilot identified as 77-year-old Eddie Andreini had a knife attached to his plane and was trying to cut a ribbon on pole held by a ground crew.

The findings are included in a preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report released Monday about the May 4 crash at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield.

The NTSB says the plane was too high during the first attempt to cut the ribbon. It crashed before reaching the ribbon during the second attempt, catching fire and coming to a stop a few hundred feet beyond the crew members.