(AP) — Authorities say a driver attempting to elude Kansas City police has been involved in a deadly crash.

A police helicopter was following the fleeing vehicle when it struck a pole. Police said one of the four people inside the vehicle died Saturday.

Kansas City Police Chief Darryl Forte said in a Tweet that no police cruisers were involved.

 (AP) – A Kansas City man has been charged with killing another man during a handgun exchange.

The Jackson County prosecutor’s office announced Saturday night that 19-year-old Chan O. Brown faces one count each of second-degree murder and armed criminal action. Prosecutors are requesting a bond of $250,000. It isn’t immediately clear if Brown has an attorney.

The probable cause statement says 25-year-old Marcel Buchanan was found dead earlier this month inside a parked vehicle. A witness told detectives he and Buchanan met Brown to exchange firearms. The witness said that after the trade, Brown pulled out another handgun and announced that he was going to rob them.

Court documents say a struggle ensued over the firearm, and Buchanan was shot. The witness later identified Brown from a police lineup.

(AP) Women seeking an abortion in Missouri would need to wait an additional two days under legislation proposed in the state Senate.

Republican Sen. David Sater says it would offer more time to consider the decision and could reduce the number of abortions. He said he thinks some people have too hastily decided to have an abortion and ultimately regretted the decision.

The legislation has been proposed for the 2014 legislative session starting Jan. 8.

Missouri is among many states with a 24-hour informed consent law, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights. Extending the period to 72 hours would put Missouri in line with South Dakota and Utah.

The 72-hour wait was enacted in Utah in 2012 and passed in South Dakota in 2011. The South Dakota law took effect this year after Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota dropped a legal challenge to that provision. South Dakota legislation signed into law this year means weekends and holidays do not count toward the waiting period.

Opponents of lengthening the waiting time in Missouri contend it would not decrease the number of abortions but simply cause them to be performed later in pregnancy, which can increase risks.

“This is an affront to women who can make good, informed decisions without politicians telling them what they should do and how long they need to wait and how many hoops they need to jump through,” said Paula Gianino, the president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri.

The only facility currently performing elective abortions in Missouri is in St. Louis, and Gianino said one-fifth of patients travel more than 100 miles to the clinic. She said Planned Parenthood will fight the legislation and that its top legislative priority for the upcoming session is expanding eligibility for the Medicaid program.

A provisional figure from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services shows there were 9,027 abortions performed on Missouri residents in 2012. State figures show the number of abortions for Missourians has declined each year since 2008.

Sam Lee, of Campaign Life Missouri, said requiring additional time would make it easier to digest information provided before an abortion. He said Missouri consumer protection laws allow three business days to cancel a contract with a travel club and five days to reverse a time-share plan. Lee said 72 hours is reasonable.

“If she is going to be given this informed consent information _ be offered the ultrasound, be offered a chance to hear the heartbeat of her baby, which is already in the law, plus all this information on alternatives to abortion agencies _ she should have the opportunity to go there, not be rushed,” he said.

(AP) A program adapted from campaigns in several coastal U.S. states that enlist marinas to keep pollution and trash out of the ocean is getting its first test on a sprawling lake in southwest Missouri.

Two nonprofit groups have chosen Table Rock Lake for a pilot program of the Missouri Clean Marina campaign, with hopes of spreading the effort to other large lakes in the state.

Ten marinas have expressed interest so far, Ozarks Water Watch project manager Ronna Haxby said.

Haxby, whose organization has offices in Kimberling City, Mo., and Rogers, Ark., called the project a “win-win” for the lake and the participating marinas. Those that pass an inspection will be given a Missouri Clean Marina flag and a plaque attesting to their support to keep Table Rock Lake clean.

“The participating marinas get free promotion and bragging rights. Patrons can feel good about doing business at a facility they know is a good steward of our water, with Table Rock Lake being the big winner,” she told the newspaper. “Keeping our lake clean and beautiful is the ultimate goal.”

Haxby expects flags to begin flying over some of the participating marinas by early 2014, with others gaining the distinction before the summer boating season. She said the program also aims to educate recreational boaters about ways to keep pollutants out of the lake.

The program is partially funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, with additional funding from the Table Rock Lake Marina Association and the Ozarks Rivers Heritage Foundation.

(AP) Deer in Missouri are dying from a rare but fatal disease, and the Missouri Legislature is expected to consider conflicting ways to contain the problem in the 2014 session.

Since the first case in 2010 on a private hunting ranch in Linn County, 20 more dead deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease, or CWD, all within a two-county area of north-central Missouri. Ten of the deer were at an affiliated hunting ranch in Macon County; the rest were wild deer taken by hunters near the Macon ranch.

The Missouri Whitetail Breeders and Hunting Ranch Association plans to ask lawmakers to declare the captive deer “livestock.” That would mean they would be regulated by the Missouri Department of Agriculture, not the conservation department, which currently regulates all 1.4 million deer in the state.

Sam James, association president, said his group will seek help from the Legislature in the session that begins Jan. 8.

“I think Conservation is trying to put us out of business,” said James, who owns the two Whitetail Dreams hunting ranches near Fulton. “There are people (in the department) who don’t approve of what we do, and we’ve had enough of it. Putting us under one state agency makes much more sense, and Agriculture can do the better job.”

Missouri is home to more than 40 private hunting ranches.

Aaron Jeffries, assistant director of the conservation department, said the agency does not object to hunting ranches but represents all of Missouri’s hunters and wildlife enthusiasts.

“With captive deer being transported across our landscape, we need to enhance our fencing standards,” Jeffries said. “To define a captive deer as livestock is not a good road to go. Our job is to protect deer on both sides of the fence.”

CWD is caused by a mutated protein, or prion, that attacks the nervous system. It does not harm humans but is fatal to deer or elk. The prion can be spread by live deer or carcasses, even from soil in which they decompose. There is no cure.

The disease was first found in Colorado in 1967 and has been confirmed in 21 other states.

Joe Humphrey, owner of Beaver Creek Ranch near Poplar Bluff, said ranch operators already have strong business reasons not to let CWD spread in any herd, captive or wild.

“How does it fix this by killing our industry?” he said.

(AP)  A bus driver for a south-central Missouri church has been charged with having sex with a teenage passenger.

51-year-old Lester Robert Ishman of Lebanon faces multiple counts of statutory rape and statutory sodomy. He was released from the Laclede County Jail after posting bond Thursday.

A Lebanon Police Department incident report says the alleged victim and her grandmother reported to police this month that Ishman had sex with the teen from the end of summer through September. The girl is younger than 16.

(AP) Authorities say a man who died this week after a shootout with Kansas City police killed himself.

In announcing Friday that 26-year-old Joel Bravard committed suicide, police cited a medical examiner’s report.

Police said gunfire erupted Dec. 19 when officers went to a house to talk to Bravard about the death of Michelle Russell. She was shot at a motel and her body was found hours later in a car near Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence. Bravard also had an outstanding Platte County warrant.

When officers were able to make their way into the home, Bravard was found suffering from life-threatening injuries and died several days later. Police said one officer also was struck in the leg during the shootout.

(AP) Authorities say a 5-year-old boy has died in a weather-related crash in east-central Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash happened Friday morning in Montgomery County when car the boy’s mother was driving struck a patch of ice. The car went off the side of the road, overturned several times and came to rest on its left side at the bottom of an embankment.

The patrol identified the victim as Alan K. Knoepflein of Montgomery City. His 32-year-old mother and a baby were taken to a Columbia hospital with non-critical injuries.