(AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is launching an advertising campaign targeting at-risk youth highlighting the dangers of smoking.

The federal agency said Tuesday the campaign called “The Real Cost” is set to launch Feb. 11 and will include ads on TV and radio. It also will use print and social media.

Officials say the $115 million campaign will target more than 10 million young people ages 12 to 17 that are open to, or are already experimenting with, cigarettes.

The FDA says more than 700 kids under the age of 18 become daily smokers every day.

The ads will run in more than 200 markets throughout the U.S. for at least one year. Tobacco companies will foot the bill through user fees paid to the FDA.

(AP) — An attorney for a Missouri death row inmate is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn his conviction because prosecutors failed to disclose evidence that he was beaten by police before confessing.

The attorney for Reginald Clemons on Tuesday urged the high court to use the findings of a specially appointed judge to set aside Clemons’ conviction for the 1991 deaths of sisters Julie and Robin Kerry. Prosecutors say the sisters were shoved off the Chain of Rocks Bridge into the Mississippi River in St. Louis after being raped.

Clemons was one of four people who were convicted or pleaded guilty in the case.

Special Judge Michael Manners concluded last year that prosecutors suppressed evidence that police may have beaten Clemons while questioning him.

(AP)  A Good Samaritan in southwest Missouri is being hailed as a hero for jumping into an icy pond to pull two young women from a submerged car.

The rescue happened about 8:20 a.m. Tuesday in Springfield. Donovan Hensley had just dropped off his wife at work when he saw skid marks leading into a pond and two women standing on a sinking vehicle.

He realized there was no time to call 911 and went into the water. He convinced the women to jump to him, one at a time. He helped both to shore, warmed them in his car, then drove them home. No one was hurt.

The driver, Amy Osborn, said she was driving slowly, no faster than 20 mph. She said she tried to stop the car but it kept going.

Once the car was in the water, the doors wouldn’t open because of the pressure, Osborn said. She and her passenger were able to roll down the windows and climb to the roof.

Hensley, of nearby Nixa, Mo., said he was glad he was the one who saw the sinking car.

“I grew up in the country. I fish year round and I’m used to being in the river,” he said. “You kind of know how to swim in wet jeans if that’s what you have to do.”

 (AP) — A Missouri House committee is considering a one-cent sales tax increase to fund state transportation projects.

Transportation officials said Tuesday the penny tax could generate $8 billion over the next decade. They say the tax increase is necessary for the state to maintain roads and bridges, and to fund new infrastructure projects.

If approved by the Legislature, the tax would go on the statewide ballot in November. The tax would need to be re-approved by voters after 10 years to remain in effect. Ten percent of funds raised by the sales tax would go toward local transportation projects.

The measure cleared both the House and Senate but failed to win final passage in the waning days of last year’s legislative session.

(AP)  Another Missouri town is placing restrictions on pseudoephedrine sales as part of the fight against methamphetamines.

The Kirksville City Council on Monday voted to enact a law requiring a prescription to purchase pseudoephedrine-based drugs. The law is effective in three months.

Adair County had 55 meth lab incidents through October and was on pace to top the county record of 57 incidents in 2003.

(AP)  A Cole County judge will appoint a special master to oversee a lawsuit stemming from the collapse of a proposed artificial sweetener plant in Moberly.

Judge Patricia Joyce said after a hearing Monday that she did not have time to oversee the case as it becomes more complex.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Monday’s hearing involved a lawsuit pitting Shelter Insurance Co. against the banking firm Morgan Keegan, which was the bond underwriter on the project.

Shelter Insurance alleges in the lawsuit that the Mamtek project was sold on misleading information provided largely by Morgan Keegan.

It’s one of more than a dozen civil cases filed after the project collapsed.

(AP) — An autopsy indicates that a 23-year-old University of Kansas student died last December from a fall after he had been drinking.

The autopsy released Tuesday said Gianfranco Villagomez-Saldana suffered skull fractures, bruising on the brain and broken ribs that suggested he fell on a hard surface.

Coroner Erik Mitchell says the death was an accident.

Villagomez-Saldana, from Lima, Peru, was found dead on Dec. 9, two days after he was seen leaving a party. The autopsy concluded he died Dec. 7.

His body was frozen when it was found but the coroner ruled he did not die from the cold. His blood alcohol level was 0.18 percent. No drugs were found in his system.