12:05 p.m. (AP) — Police say two southeast Kansas teenagers who hadn’t been seen since Monday were found safe in Kansas City.

Zachary Furechting and Alanna Ardanche, both 15, voluntarily left Andover Central High School Monday.

Kansas City police say the teenagers were found together at a fast-food restaurant Wednesday morning. They are in good condition and were not with anyone else.

Further details were not immediately available.

 

(AP) — Police are asking the public for help finding two southeast Kansas teenagers.

Andover police say Zachary Furechting and Alanna Ardanche, both 15, voluntarily left Andover Central High School Monday. They were last seen in Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday. They are carrying a handgun.

Fruechting is white, about 6-feet tall and 165 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes. He was last seen wearing a dark brown Carhart-type jacket, black jeans, black high tops with colored stripes, a t-shirt and a beanie.

Ardanche is white, 5-feet-2-inches and 120 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes and her left ear is pierced. She was wearing black leggings, a red American Eagle long sleeve t-shirt, black ballet slipper-type shoes and a black leather jacket with gray sweatshirt material sleeves.

 

(AP) – A Missouri man has been given 77 months in federal prison for robbing a bank in southwest Iowa.

Federal prosecutors say 48-year-old Nathan Smith was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Council Bluffs. Smith had been convicted in October of robbing a Great Western Bank branch in Hamburg in June 2012.

Prosecutors say Smith gave a teller a plastic bag and demanded that it be filled with money. Then the Lexington, Mo., man ran from the bank.

Smith was arrested the same day in Buckner, Mo., which is about 125 miles southeast. Authorities say his vehicle matched the description of the bank robber’s get-away vehicle.

(AP) — Kansas City business leaders told an advisory group that Kansas City International Airport has become outdated and gives visitors a mediocre first impression.

Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce president Jim Heeter told the KCI Terminal Advisory Group on Tuesday that many chamber members want a more modern airport that will appeal to businesses.

Heeter told the group that KCI lacks restaurants, shops and ample restrooms that corporate executives are accustomed to finding in other big-city airports.

Several Kansas City residents have said they oppose the idea of an expensive new airport terminal. Preliminary estimates are that a new terminal, close parking garage and other features could cost $1.2 billion.

The advisory group expects to issue its recommendations in April.

 

(AP) – University of Missouri Libraries officials are trying to decide what to do with about 600,000 books damaged by mold at an off-campus storage site.

Libraries Director Jim Cogswell says the volumes were stored at Subtera, an underground storage site in north Columbia. The damage was discovered last October.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1jILYhw ) a health and safety officer said last week that the mold involved didn’t endanger public health.

Cogswell says it’s likely fewer than half the books will be saved because it would cost $3 per volume to remove the mold – a tab of about $1.8 million.

He says the goal is to save books published before 1870.

(AP) – A new online map could make it easier for people to find out details about scores of hazardous waste sites throughout Missouri.

The interactive map developed by the Department of Natural Resources puts the sites in several categories, from ones undergoing remediation to those that have already been cleaned up and are available for public use.

The website features summaries of past or current problems at the sites, as well as Internet links to more detailed documents.

Until recently, most information about Missouri’s hazardous waste sites was available only by reviewing paper documents.

The department said the new website marks its first use of Google’s mapping platform and is part of an effort to improve access to environmental information.

(AP) – Advocates for the homeless are asking why Springfield police shut down several homeless camps.

Police say they responded to a complaint Tuesday when they asked two people to leave a camp on city property and then cleaned up the area. But homeless advocates say at least three other camps on private property also were evacuated Tuesday.

Advocates were helping several people find shelter from the cold temperatures.

Councilwoman Cindy Rushefsky asked city officials who is giving the order to clear the camps on private property. The police answered in an email only about clearing one camp that was marked “no trespassing.”