MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A doctor says some victims of a multiple stabbing at a high school near Pittsburgh have suffered injuries classified as life-threatening, though all are expected to survive.

Dr. Chris Kaufman says two victims were in the operating room and one was awaiting surgery at Forbes Regional Medical Center, a few miles from Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville.

Officials say four students were believed to be the most seriously injured Wednesday morning by a fellow student who stabbed or slashed others, injuring as many as 20.

Westmoreland County emergency management spokesman Dan Stevens says not all of the 20 injured were cut by the knife, though most were. Some suffered scrapes and cuts in the mayhem that ensued.

The suspect, a male student, was taken into custody and being questioned.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Jackson County legislator has withdrawn from the Democratic primary amid concerns about a previous felony conviction.

The Kansas City Star reports  Jackson County Legislator James Tindall has withdrawn his name from the August primary ballot.

State law forbids felons from holding elected office.

Tindall referred questions to his attorney, Pat McInerney, who said he’d comment later.

Two other Democrat candidates are in the race so far. No one from an opposing party has filed.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill got an update last week from the National Guard Bureau’s Chief on the recently exposed, wide-scale fraud in the Guard’s recruiting program-in which up to $100 million in potential fraudulent payments were made, with more than one thousand Guard members implicated.

McCaskill met with General Frank Grass, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, weeks after McCaskill’s oversight subcommittee and Army investigators revealed pervasive fraud and potential waste in the Army National Guard’s Recruiting Assistance Program. The program paid National Guard members, retirees, and civilians to recruit friends and family, but had virtually no safeguards or controls-leading to criminal fraud on a massive scale. The program was established at the height of the Iraq war in 2005 to help the Guard achieve its recruiting goals, and was later expanded to the Army Reserve and Regular Army.

“The Army National Guard is full of hardworking men and women, fighting to protect and serve our nation,” said McCaskill, a former Missouri State Auditor and the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Financial & Contracting Oversight. “That’s why it’s so important that we get this right. We need to restore the integrity of the recruiting and contracting process, and make sure these criminals are held accountable for their actions, to start erasing this stain on our National Guard.”

Earlier this year, McCaskill’s Senate hearing on the recruitment program identified that the program likely led to more than $50 million in fraud, with a worst case of up to $100 million wasted. Since the first cases of fraud were reported, the fraud cases have become one of the largest criminal investigations in Army history. Approximately 200 agents have begun a review of all 106,364 individuals who received money from the program. It is estimated that the top five recipients of fraudulent money were each paid more than $100,000. The top recipient, who received $274,500, is currently being criminally prosecuted. The third highest recipient, who received $208,500 in payments, plead guilty. The fraud was not limited to enlisted soldiers-more than 200 officers (including several Generals and Colonels) are currently under investigation.

McCaskill and Gen. Grass also focused their discussion on upcoming budgetary concerns that may impact Missouri. McCaskill expressed the importance to Missouri’s 139th Airlift Wing of new C-130 J models to replace the existing older H model aircraft. Additionally, the two discussed the Army’s proposal to move the Guard’s fleet of AH-64 Apache helicopters to the active service.

Last month, McCaskill and fellow Missouri Senator Roy Blunt held a joint roundtable discussion with base and community leaders at the Air National Guard base in St. Joseph, Mo., to talk about the role of Missouri’s military bases in our national defense and the impact of the recently proposed Pentagon budget cuts. McCaskill and Blunt also have teamed up to urge the Air Force to bring additional C-130 aircraft to Rosecrans, touting the base’s “personnel, expertise, and resources to house additional aircraft.”

VAN BUREN, Mo. (AP) — The National Park Service plans to renovate a popular southern Missouri summer lodge first built by Depression-era workers eight decades ago.

Big Spring Lodge and Cabins in the Ozarks National Scenic Riverways dates to the early 1930s, before the Current and Jack’s Fork rivers were part of the national park system. Civilian Conservation Corps crews built the lodge and cabins.

The cabins and lodge will remain open for the rest of 2014 but then close for an undetermined amount of time.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – The Missouri House has advanced legislation designed to clear up possible legal confusion about the state’s funeral protest law.

Current law requires protesters to stay 300 feet away from funeral sites, from an hour before they start until an hour after the services end. But a federal appeals court ruled the buffer zone could not apply to funeral processions.

The bill given first-round approval Tuesday specifies that processions are not included in the protest ban.

The appeals court sent the case to another federal judge who upheld the rest of Missouri’s law last month. Sponsoring Rep. Stanley Cox says his bill would prevent future legal complications.

The legal challenge was brought by a member of a Kansas church that denounces homosexuality and frequently protests at funerals.

(AP) Federal safety investigators say General Motors failed to respond to more than one-third of its requests for information about a faulty ignition switch linked to 13 deaths by an April 3 deadline.

In a letter to GM’s top lawyer sent Tuesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration imposed its maximum allowable fine for the delay of $7,000 per day. That adds up to $28,000 so far, and the fines will continue to accrue until GM responds.

According to the letter, GM was granted extra time to answer “technical engineering questions” posed by the agency. But NHTSA contends many of the questions GM failed to answer are not engineering ones, and should have been answered by the deadline.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Missouri’s presidential primary could be pushed back from February to March under a proposal endorsed by the state Senate.

The legislation given initial approval Tuesday is a response to a confusing situation that occurred in Missouri during the 2012 presidential election.

Although Missouri law required a February primary, the national political parties sought to discourage most states from voting that early.

So the Missouri Republican Party chose to disregard the results of the primary and instead use later caucus meetings to determine who its delegates would support for president at the Republican National Convention.

State senators said Tuesday that the caucuses were “a flop” that upset a lot of people and resulted in lower voter participation than a primary.

The bill needs another vote to go to the House.

MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press

The Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to ensure that shoppers who buy honey are getting the real deal.

New guidance issued Tuesday would prevent food companies from adding sugar or other sweeteners to pure honey and still calling it “honey.”

The agency said enforcement action is possible against U.S. food businesses or importers if companies try to cut those sweeteners into real honey and do not label the product correctly. If those sweeteners are added, the label should read “blend of sugar and honey” or “blend of honey and corn syrup.”

The FDA regularly detains honey imports and tests them after finding drug residues and unlabeled added sweeteners.

DENVER (AP) — The construction industry says it’s in danger of not having enough people to keep up with demand for building projects, as workers age and more teens are pushed to go to college.

That worry comes after 2 million construction workers were laid off during the recession.

One trade group, the Associated General Contractors of America, announced a plan in Denver on Tuesday to draw more people into building trades. That plan included establishing charter schools focused on technical training, starting non-union apprenticeship programs and pushing for immigration reform.

The group believes many of the laid off workers have since found work in other fields or retired.

Denver was picked for the announcement because it has been one of the top 10 metro areas for adding new construction jobs in the past year.