(AP) — A judge in Santa Fe is expected to decide Monday whether a Roswell company can start slaughtering horses.

State District Judge Matthew Wilson is hearing a request from Attorney General Gary King to issue a preliminary injunction against Valley Meat Co.

King has filed suit against the company, alleging its operations would violate state environmental and food safety laws.

The plant was blocked from opening last year after animal protection groups filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Agriculture for issuing permits to Valley and two other companies that would become the first domestic plants to slaughter horses in seven years. A federal judge in Albuquerque threw out that lawsuit. And after a federal appeals court declined to keep the plants shuttered, King filed the state suit.

(AP) — Emergency crews have responded to a gasoline leak at a fuel distribution terminal in Kansas City, Kan.

The gasoline spilled Sunday at the Magellan Midstream Partners petroleum terminal. No injuries were reported.

Magellan spokesman Bruce Heine in Tulsa, Okla., says the spilled gasoline is being controlled in a containment area at the facility. He says the company reported a loss of 100 barrels of gasoline but that figure could change.

The fuel leak occurred at a valve connected to an above-ground storage tank. Heine says the cause of the leak is under investigation. The Environmental Protection Agency have been notified.

Magellan’s Kansas City terminal provides distribution services for gasoline and other fuels.

(AP) – Springfield police are looking for a the driver of a car that struck and killed a 45-year-old Springfield woman.

The woman was hit early Sunday while she was crossing a street. Springfield police Lt. Grant Dorrell says the woman was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

He says police are looking for the driver of the car, which left the scene.

The victim’s name hasn’t been released.

 (AP) — The Supreme Court is refereeing a politically charged dispute between President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans over the president’s power to temporarily fill high-level positions.

The case being argued at the high court Monday is the first ever to consider the meaning of the Constitution’s provision that lets the president make temporary appointments to positions that otherwise require Senate confirmation — but only when the Senate is in recess.

The court battle is an outgrowth of increasing partisanship and the political stalemate that’s been a hallmark of Washington for years, and especially since Obama took office in 2009.

(AP) – For the first time in a decade, Missouri’s top officials can’t agree on how much money will be available for the state budget.

Gov. Jay Nixon plans to use a larger revenue projection than lawmakers when he proposes a budget as part of his annual State of the State address Jan. 21.

Nixon says he is “optimistic” about Missouri’s economy.

Republican legislative leaders say they are being “realistic.”

Nixon’s revenue projections could be about $140 million higher than lawmakers’.

Legislators already are planning to make cuts to Nixon’s budget plan because of the different revenue assumptions.

The disagreement marks a reversal of recent circumstances in which Nixon has repeatedly cut the budgets passed by lawmakers while asserting that he’s being realistic about the state’s finances.

At the invitation of U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno will visit Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., on Monday, where he will meet with community members, visit the Special Victims training unit with the military police, hold a meeting on integration of women into combat roles, and review other missions that make Fort Leonard Wood a critical installation for our nation’s defense.

McCaskill wrote to Odierno last month inviting him to visit the Missouri installation and see firsthand “the excellent training that is occurring at Fort Leonard Wood,” adding, “I believe this training can serve as an effective model as you and other Army leaders make critical decisions on how to successfully expand combat jobs to women while ensuring our soldiers continue to be the best trained in the world.”

“I’m thrilled that General Odierno will be able to see firsthand the outstanding contributions that Missouri is making to our country’s national security,” said McCaskill, a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Fort Leonard Wood is a vital resource to its surrounding communities, to the state, and to the U.S. military-and General Odierno will be able to see and hear how directly from folks on the ground.”

McCaskill and Odierno will speak by phone today to preview his visit to Fort Leonard Wood on Monday.

In 2012, the Pentagon requested a new round of Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) that could have affected Missouri’s military installations, including Fort Leonard Wood. McCaskill led the fight to reject another BRAC round after Pentagon officials failed to make a convincing case that another round of base closures would benefit American taxpayers or national security.

(AP)  The trial for a central Missouri man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl has been moved out of Miller County.

Miller County Judge Kenneth Hayden has granted the change of venue for the trial of Steven Neal Henderson. Henderson has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the June death of Macala Shelton.

Henderson is being held on a $500,000 bond in the Miller County jail.

Shelton was the subject of a Missouri State Highway Patrol endangered person advisory after being reported missing by family members in June. Her body was found in a heavily-wooded area on June 23.