KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The 12-year-old daughter of a man recently deported from Kansas City tried unsuccessfully Thursday to meet with immigration officials to plead for her father’s return from Mexico.

Nayelly Sandoval, a Kansas City area middle school student, has also written to President Barack Obama about her father’s deportation in January.

Members of Communities Creating Opportunity, a Kansas City faith-based organization, joined Nayelly and her 17-year-old brother Eric at ICE’s Kansas City office Thursday. The organization says ICE should show some discretion and allow Sandoval-Perez to return.

LEBANON, Mo. (AP) — One of 11 horses rescued from a south-central Missouri property last week has been euthanized.
The Missouri Humane Society says the horses were “emaciated” and dangerously close to death when they were seized Friday from property near Lebanon in Laclede County.
The Humane Society’s Jeane Jae tells The Lebanon Daily Record (http://bit.ly/1gdhb69 ) the horses were taken to the organization’s Longmeadow Rescue Ranch in Union. One mare was immediately taken to an equine hospital, where her condition continued to deteriorate.
Jae says veterinarians ultimately decided the mare would not recover and had to be put down.
Authorities said the horses had no water, and only limited amounts of poor-quality hay.
The Laclede County sheriff’s office had tried to persuade the owner to either feed the horses or find them new homes.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Texas man faces federal charges of traveling to Missouri to have sex with two underage girls after agreeing to pay $400 to a police officer who posed as their father.

The U.S. attorney’s office says 40-year-old John Paul Christian was unwittingly communicating with a Kansas City officer on a social media site when he made plans to meet the girls, 11 and 15.

Christian’s hometown in Texas was not listed. It wasn’t immediately clear Thursday whether he had obtained an attorney.

WASHINGTON – Under sustained pressure from U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the European Union today reversed its efforts to impose a carbon charge on American air carriers operating flights in and out of Europe.

McCaskill previously joined with Republican Senator John Thune (S.D.), successfully passing bipartisan legislation to protect American consumers from the European Union (EU)’s illegal carbon tax on U.S. air travelers. The Senators subsequently urged the Administration to use all tools at their disposal to prevent the EU from moving forward with imposing such a tax.

Following McCaskill and Thune’s effort, the EU announced late last year that it would delay applying the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) to the aviation industry for one year to allow time for an international agreement. Today, the EU extended that delay through at least 2017.

“It’s a commonsense notion that Americans shouldn’t be forced to pay a European tax when flying in U.S. airspace,” McCaskill said. “It’s refreshing that common sense is prevailing with our European allies.”

EU ETS is a proposed emissions trading program that would levy a tax on U.S. airline carriers’ flights into and out of EU countries. It is related to European countries’ interest in reaching their own internal goals for carbon emissions. The EU program being considered would apply a “cap-and-trade” carbon tax system to all flights originating or landing in Europe-taxing even those emissions that occur over the United States, international waters, and elsewhere outside Europe. Remarkably, these taxes would not be set aside for a specific purpose, and could be used as part of the general fund of any European Union government for virtually any purpose.

The McCaskill-Thune legislation received the support of dozens of organizations, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and unions representing airline employees.

EDGERTON, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas sheriff is alerting the public to a hoax phone call demanding ransom to spare the life of a loved one.

The Johnson County sheriff’s office says deputies were contacted this week by a resident who was on the phone with someone claiming to be holding the resident’s brother hostage.

Authorities said the caller claimed the brother would be killed unless the resident immediately wired $2,000. The money was to pay for damage supposedly caused by the brother in an accident.

Johnson County deputies were able to listen to the call and get the phone number, which they learned had been used in similar scams in other parts of the country.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Five other states are joining Missouri’s fight against a California egg law regulating the living conditions of chickens.

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster last month filed a lawsuit against the measure set to take effect next year. It bars the sale of eggs produced by hens kept in cages that don’t meet California’s size and space requirements.

The state attorneys general contend the California law violates the interstate commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution by effectively imposing new requirements on out-of-state farmers.

The five other states joining Thursday are Nebraska, Alabama, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Iowa. Those states and Missouri produce 20 billion eggs per year, and 10 percent of that production is sold in California.

The Humane Society of the United States criticized the lawsuit, saying it wastes taxpayer dollars.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge in California has denied Apple’s request to permanently ban Samsung from selling 23 older-model smartphones and tablets smartphones that a jury found infringed on patents held by the maker of iPhones and iPads.

Judge Lucy Koh on Thursday said Apple failed to prove that the South Korean company’s patent infringement caused irreparable harm to Apple sales.

Apple accused Samsung of ripping off designs for its iPhone and iPad. A jury in 2012 found that close to two dozen of Samsung’s products used technology controlled by Apple.

Apple’s allegations involved touchscreen features such as tapping and swiping.

Koh said she was not convinced those features drive consumer demand for Samsung products.

The two biggest smartphone makers are scheduled to begin a third patent trial later this month.

WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) — Warrensburg police are asking the public for information on any woman who was close to delivering a child in February or March, and any suspicious circumstances surrounding the birth.

The requested information is part of an investigation into the death of an infant whose body was found Tuesday in a research cave near the University of Central Missouri campus in Warrensburg.

Two college biology students who were studying snakes in the cave found the body inside the cave at Pertle Springs, a public recreation area owned by the university. The decomposing body was left in a pile of trash.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former Missouri State University professor is charged with taking photos of men undressing in two campus locker rooms.

Springfield police say 44-year-old Eduardo Acuna-Zumbado was seen taking photos in a Foster Recreation Center locker room on Jan. 10. They reportedly found additional locker room photos on his cellphone after he was confronted at an Athletics Center locker room later that month and found rummaging through a coach’s locker.

Acuna-Zumba is charged with misdemeanor invasion of privacy. His $2,500 bond requires he stay off campus.

WASHINGTON, Mo. (AP) — After 18 years of searching for lost relatives, a Missouri man has found his half-brother, who turned out to be just 80 miles away.

Late last year about Don Schroeder’s search for his birth father, James White. With help from an analyst at the National Personnel Records Center, he learned that James Carl White died of a heart attack at age 54 in 1989, in Colorado.

He also found that White had a surviving son. James Guy White lived near Washington, Mo., about 80 miles from Schroeder’s home near Jefferson City, Mo.

The men met late last year and are planning a trip to Colorado so Schroeder can meet James Guy White’s family and visit the family burial plot.