WARRENSBURG–A Missouri man was killed in a Johnson County crash on Tuesday.

The Missouri State Patrol reported a 2005 Kawasaki ridden by Ron D. Schwartz, 48, Chilhowee, was westbound on Route 2 at 253 SW Route. The rider failed to yield while negotiating a curve, traveled into the east bound lanes and was hit by an east bound semi truck driven by Rick D. Loulos, 50 Calhoun.   The motorcycle rider was ejected and both vehicles traveled off the south side of the roadway.

Schwartz was pronounced dead at the scene.  The truck driver was not injured.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Missouri lawmakers have included several building projects in the final version of next year’s operating budget.

The largest of those projects is a roughly $200 million facility at the Fulton State Hospital. The budget plan also includes $6 million to renovate a Jefferson City hospital for use as a state building.

An additional $1.5 million would help fund renovations of the Women’s Building at the Missouri State Fairgrounds. And $2 million would go to improve the levee protecting Rosecrans Air National Guard Base near St. Joseph.

Construction projects usually are handled separately. But all of those projects were included in the $26.4 billion operating budget agreed to Tuesday by House and Senate budget negotiators.

They decided to leave out a $33 million building for the State Historical Society of Missouri.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A new panel will study ways to make life easier for Missourians living with multiple sclerosis.

The state House gave unanimous approval Tuesday to a resolution creating the Missouri Multiple Sclerosis Task Force. The Senate approved the measure earlier.

Multiple sclerosis is a potentially debilitating disease that affects the protective sheath covering nerves. Damage to the sheath can disrupt communication among the brain, spinal cord and other areas of the body. There is no cure, but treatments can manage symptoms and reduce the progress of the disease.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) – The trial of a 75-year-old Missouri woman accused of killing her husband in Wyoming in the mid-1970s has gone to a jury in Cheyenne.

Alice Uden, of Chadwick, Missouri, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ronald Holtz.

Jurors heard closing arguments Tuesday and are scheduled to begin deliberating Wednesday.

Uden testified she shot her 25-year-old husband at their Cheyenne home to stop Holtz as he was set to attack her 2-year-old daughter. Prosecutors say Uden shot her husband as he slept.

Police arrested Uden and 71-year-old Gerald Uden in September. Gerald Uden has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-wife and her two children in central Wyoming in 1980.

Prosecutors haven’t linked the two cases.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Missouri’s Republican-led Senate has defeated a rape and incest exemption to the state’s abortion waiting period.

The party-line 22-9 vote came as lawmakers started debate Tuesday on legislation tripling the state’s mandatory waiting period between an abortion and a woman’s initial medical consultation.

The amendment offered by Senate Democrats would have exempted women who were raped or a victim of incest from the current 24-hour waiting period. The measure pending before the Senate would increase the waiting period to 72 hours. The amendment would have applied to the longer waiting period, as well.

Republicans opposed the exemption and argued that a pregnancy resulting from rape should be treated the same as others. Democratic opponents say crime victims shouldn’t be forced to wait to terminate a pregnancy.

SEDALIA (AP) – Investigators in central Missouri are awaiting autopsy results to determine whether human remains discovered outside a mobile home over the weekend are those of a single person or if there are multiple bodies.

Four days after 65-year-old Joseph Arbeiter was arrested on attempted rape, sodomy and a number of other charges, maintenance workers on Sunday discovered possible human remains at the Pettis County trailer park where he lives.

The Sedalia Democrat reports deputies found partial remains outside Arbeiter’s trailer, and a deputy searching a wooded area nearby found additional remains a few hours later.

Sheriff Kevin Bond said he could not speculate on whether Arbeiter had anything to do with the remains. He also declined to provide details on the type of remains found.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than 20 people have been arrested after demonstrators briefly interrupted debate in the Missouri Senate to protest lawmakers’ refusal to accept federal dollars to expand the state’s Medicaid program.

Protesters filled the public galleries, chanted and sang hymns during Senate debate Tuesday for about an hour. A spokesman for the Missouri Department of Public Safety says 23 people were arrested for refusing to leave after being asked by Capitol Police. They were checked for active arrest warrants, but were not handcuffed or taken into custody.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Missouri lawmakers have given final approval to legislation allowing contractors to sell food, drinks, souvenirs and alcohol in the Capitol at celebrations of key moments in state history.

The bill sent to Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday would allow the state to contract with vendors at events commemorating the anniversary of the Capitol’s construction and Missouri statehood.

It also would allow such vendor sales at the former Missouri penitentiary site in Jefferson City, which is now used for tours. Sponsoring Sen. Mike Kehoe, of Jefferson City, said the vendor contracts could help fundraise for state celebrations.

The current Capitol was constructed between 1913 and 1917 after a fire destroyed the previous building. Missouri will celebrate its bicentennial in 2021.