KANSAS CITY (AP) – A Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $330,000 from automated teller machines he was supposed to be maintaining for U.S. Bank.

Federal prosecutors say 46-year-old Anthony T. Civella Jr. entered the plea Thursday to bank larceny and money laundering.

From 2011 through 2013, Civella owned and operated C Management Group, which maintained ATMs in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The money in the ATMs belonged to U.S. Bank.

He admitted he obtained a maintenance code to access the machines. He moved money between the ATMs to conceal the thefts and commingled the stolen money by depositing most of it into his personal checking account.

Civella faces a sentence of up to 30 years without parole, plus a fine up to $750,000 and an order of restitution.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three cities in the West and three in Ohio are among the eight finalists to host the Republicans’ presidential nominating convention in 2016.

Party leaders will consider the Republican National Committee’s list of potential host cities in the coming months.

The cities are Las Vegas, Denver, Phoenix, Dallas, Kansas City, Mo., and three in Ohio — Columbus, Cleveland and Cincinnati.

The finalists largely represent swing states that will help decide the 2016 presidential election.

The RNC already is considering several changes to its presidential selection process. GOP officials expect to hold their convention in the early summer of 2016, roughly two months sooner than has become the norm.

Democrats have yet to identify potential convention sites.

(AP) – Legal interpretation of a three-letter word could sink the results of countless alcohol breath tests in drunk driving cases across Missouri.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that several St. Charles County defense lawyers have successfully challenged blood-alcohol level test results over a linguistic error that remained in state regulations for 14 months before it was fixed in late January.

State Department of Health and Senior regulations say the machines must be periodically tested at one of three blood-alcohol levels: 0.10 percent, 0.08 percent or 0.04 percent.

Before the fix, the rules included the word “and” rather than “or.” Some defense attorneys successfully argued that police had to conduct tests at each of those three levels.

The legal limit for blood-alcohol levels for Missouri drivers is 0.08 percent.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says it has filed a lawsuit against a large for-profit college chain alleging that it pushed students into high-cost private student loans knowing they would likely end in default.

The bureau says Indiana-based ITT Educational Services projected a default rate of 64 percent on the loans it provided, some of which had interest rates as high as 16 percent. ITT Educational Services has about 150 institutions in nearly 40 states, according to the bureau.

This is among the first such actions the bureau has taken against a for-profit college. It seeks restitution for victims, an injunction against the company and a civil fine.

An ITT company spokeswoman says the bureau’s claims are without merit, but she wouldn’t comment further on pending litigation.

Following U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill’s show of support for two federal weather centers to retain their operations in Kansas City, Missouri, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that the both facilities will continue to operate in the city-maintaining good-paying jobs in the Kansas City region.

The upcoming closure of the Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City, which houses both NOAA’s National Weather Service National Logistics Support Center and the National Reconditioning Center, is forcing both centers to relocate. Today, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced that beginning in spring 2014, it will help NOAA find new operating space in Kansas City, Missouri.

Earlier this year, McCaskill made the case in a letter to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that retaining the two centers in the region is the best fiscal and strategic choice for the agency.

“Kansas City’s central location and highly skilled workforce makes retaining these facilities a fiscally responsible decision,” McCaskill said. “This will continue to provide good jobs for Missourians who are providing a critical service to their country by protecting Americans from severe weather.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Those “Nutrition Facts” labels on nearly every food package in grocery stores are getting a new look.

Calories would be in larger, bolder type, and consumers for the first time would know whether foods had added sugars under label changes being proposed by the Obama administration.

Serving sizes would be updated to make them more realistic. A serving of ice cream, for example, would double to a full cup, closer to what people actually eat.

The new nutrition labels are likely several years away.

While fat was the focus two decades ago when the labels first were introduced, nutritionists are now more concerned with how many calories we eat.

First lady Michelle Obama is joining the Food and Drug Administration in announcing the proposed changes Thursday.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri House committee has advanced legislation that would block the state from implementing new education standards.

The measure endorsed Wednesday would prevent schools from using the Common Core Standards, unless the Legislature passes a bill to adopt them. The Missouri State Board of Education voted to adopt the standards in 2010.

Missouri students are scheduled to take Common Core-aligned tests this fall. Many other states have also adopted the standards.

The measure now heads to the House Rules Committee.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators have given initial approval to legislation seeking a potential truce in an economic competition with bordering Kansas.

Under legislation endorsed Wednesday, Missouri would stop offering incentives aimed at getting businesses to come from several Kansas counties. The moratorium would take effect if Kansas enacts a similar moratorium through legislation or executive order.

The proposal would apply to Jackson, Clay, Platte and Cass counties in Missouri, and to Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas and Miami counties in Kansas. The states have waived hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenues competing with each other for businesses around Kansas City.

Missouri’s legislation requires another vote before it moves to the state House.

(AP) – The Missouri House has endorsed legislation attempting to reinstate limits on the amount of money people can receive from medical malpractice lawsuits.

The bill given initial approval Wednesday seeks to re-impose a $350,000 cap on noneconomic damages in medical practice cases.

The state Supreme Court struck down the limit in 2012, ruling that it violated a right to a jury trial that it said had been embedded in the Missouri Constitution since in 1820.

The legislation seeks to get around that ruling by declaring that medical malpractice claims are not covered through common law in place at the time the constitution was adopted. The bill would instead subject medical malpractice claims to state law.

The House passed a similar measure last year, but it stalled in the Senate.

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Governments and clinics nationwide are striving to put a drug that can reverse an opiate overdose in the hands of more paramedics, police officers, even everyday Americans.

No one disputes that Narcan can help save people who have overdosed if it’s administered in time though a shot or nasal spray.

But the drive to raise its profile has created tensions between those who say it could save potentially thousands of lives and critics who say the promise of a nearby antidote would only encourage drug abuse.

At least 17 states and the District of Columbia allow naloxone to be distributed to the public. At least 10 of those states allow for third parties, such as a family member or friend of an intravenous drug user, to be prescribed naloxone.