(AP) A southeast Missouri man has given a harrowing story about how he rode out a tornado face-down in a field.

The storm hit Sunday in the area around Morley, Mo., part of a series of deadly storms that moved across the Midwest.

Miles says he was dodging flying debris, including pieces of metal. A large piece of wood flew over his head and through a window of the office building.

A neighboring mobile home was blown off its foundation, and another nearby was destroyed.

A mid-Missouri man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for attacking a police officer and a woman with a medieval-type club and a golf club.

The sentence for 23-year-old Scott Davis Jr. of St. James was handed down Monday in St. Charles County. He was convicted of assault and armed criminal action in September.

During testimony at the sentencing hearing, victim Catherine Naber testified that she gave Davis a drug she thought was LSD on the day of the incident. Naber suffered a broken jaw and incurred thousands of dollars in dental bills.

O’Fallon officer Thomas Kenyon was also injured in the attack.

(AP) — The Unified Government of Kansas City, Kan., and Wyandotte County is considering buying the ballpark that is home to the T-Bones baseball club.

If that happens, the independent minor-league baseball team would agree to stay in Wyandotte County for 20 years.

Unified Government officials said Monday they are would use STAR bonds to buy CommunityAmerica Ballpark from Ehlert Development, which also owns the team.

The Unified Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing next month on the proposed deal.

The government officials say the deal was justified because of the team’s economic benefit for the county.

More than 265,000 people attended T-Bones games this year, and the team generates more than $5.5 million a year for the economy.

(AP) – One of five people charged in the shooting death of a Joplin man has entered a plea deal that will require him to testify against the alleged shooter.

Seventeen-year-old Marcus Stephens pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder and first-degree burglary in the July death of Jacob Wages. The deal will limit his prison term to 15 years for murder and five years for burglary.

Under the deal, Stephens will be required to testify against Daniel Hartman, the only suspect charged with first-degree murder and burglary.

Prosecutors say the suspects broke into Wages’ home because they believed he had $5,000 and a pound of Ecstasy pills.

Testimony at earlier hearings indicated Wages woke up and grabbed a gun but was shot before he could defend himself.

 (AP) – A federal grand jury has indicted the director of a program for disabled people in a northwest Missouri town for allegedly embezzling more than $385,000 from the organization.

Federal prosecutors announced on Monday that 50-year-old Terri Arlene Marr of Warrensburg is charged in a 22-count indictment.

Marr was the director of the Progressive Alternative Living, Inc. from 1991 through 2013. The organization operates a home in Higginsville for disabled people and is reimbursed by Medicaid. Marr was responsible for keeping financial records for the organization.

Prosecutors allege that Marr used the organization’s bank account to pay off her personal credit cards and issued payroll checks to an unindicted co-conspirator, who is not identified in the indictment.

It was not immediately clear if Marr has an attorney.

(AP) — The future of state laws that regulate everything from the size of a hen’s cage to safe consumption of Gulf oysters may be at stake as farm bill negotiators work to resolve a long-simmering fight between agriculture and animal welfare interests.

The House Agriculture Committee added language to its version of the farm bill that says a state cannot impose certain production standards on agricultural products sold in interstate commerce. The provision authored by Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa is aimed at a California law that will require all eggs sold in the state to come from hens that inhabit cages in which they can spread their wings.

Opponents say that depending on how it is interpreted, the provision could lead to challenges of dozens of other state laws.

(AP) – The Springfield City Council will wait at least a month to vote on a bill that would allow residents to have some marijuana offenses removed from their records.

The council was scheduled to vote on the bill Monday but tabled it to allow more time to work on its language.

The bill would allow first-time offenders to have a municipal marijuana possession or paraphernalia charge removed from their records.

The ordinance would apply only to municipal violations involving 35 grams of marijuana or less. A person would have to complete community service or probation and avoid any other crimes for two years.

(AP) – A southeast Missouri woman was sentenced to seven years in prison for backing over and killing her girlfriend during an argument.

Thirty-year-old Angelia Hanson was sentenced Monday for the July death of 43-year-old Jody Lane in Cape Girardeau. She pleaded guilty in October to first-degree involuntary manslaughter.

The Southeast Missourian reports Hanson dragged Lane several feet before realizing she had hit her. Testimony at a preliminary hearing indicated that Hanson believed Lane had gone back into the house after the argument and thought she had run over a curb when she backed up.

Prosecutors acknowledged Hanson had no criminal intent but said she had a pattern of reckless behavior including several drug and alcohol-related charges and a 2005 assault on a law enforcement officer.