(AP) – Kansas City officials want the state to replace the Broadway Bridge and overhaul a tangled intersection to its south that often causes long backups during rush hour.

The steel-truss bridge carrying U.S. 169 traffic into the city from the north opened in 1956 as a toll bridge run by the city. The toll ended in 1991 and the bridge was handed over to the state.

City Manager Troy Schulte said it’s the last of the city’s four main bridges that need repairs. A Missouri Department of Transportation spokesman says finding money to pay for such a project is a challenge.

The cost to repair the bridge is estimated at $20 million, while the broader program sought by city leaders would run more than $200 million.

(AP) – Kansas City police say a man is being treated at a hospital after he was shot by officers.

Three officers are on routine administrative leave after the shooting early Monday.

Police say the man was shot in east Kansas City after a carjacking at a nearby convenience store. His condition was not immediately available.

Springfield police are looking for the driver in a hit-and-run accident that killed a bicyclist.

Witnesses told police the bicyclist was crossing an intersection near Missouri State University Sunday evening when he was hit by a white vehicle. The car then left the scene.

(AP) – The Missouri attorney general’s office says a tax policy for certain gay couples recently announced by Gov. Jay Nixon appears to comply with Missouri law.

Nixon has directed Missouri’s Department of Revenue to accept joint tax returns from same-sex couples who were legally married in other states.

The Missouri Constitution recognizes marriage only between a man and a woman.

But Nixon noted the federal government is now accepting joint income tax returns from legally married gay couples. He said Missouri law links the state tax code to the federal one.

Attorney general’s spokeswoman Nanci Gonder says Nixon’s policy appears to follow the requirements of Missouri tax law.

But state Rep. Chuck Gatschenberger, a Republican from Lake St. Louis, says he is seeking a formal opinion from Attorney General Chris Koster.

(AP) – A new exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City will highlight the role of artists and musicians played in the civil rights movement.

The exhibit, called “History & Hope: Celebrating the Civil Rights Movement,” opens Friday and will run through May 18, 2014.

Photographs, drawings and prints will showcase the work of artists and musicians in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. There will also be a response station where visitors can express their own memories of the civil rights movement.

The exhibit is a collaboration with the American Jazz Museum and the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City, and was planned to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.

(AP) — Officials from three southeast Nebraska counties have held preliminary talks about establishing a regional jail.

Gage, Jefferson and Saline county officials met earlier this month and said the meeting was productive.

Under one scenario under discussion, inmates awaiting trial and unable to make bond and sentenced inmates from the three counties would be housed in a Saline County facility while 96-hour holding facilities would house other inmates.

Jefferson County Commissioner Michael Dux says he thinks “it’s something certainly worth looking into and it seems to me Saline County has space.”

Severe Missouri storms have left thousands without power, destroyed a mobile home and damaged numerous roofs.

Ameren Missouri reported a high of about 37,000 outages Sunday afternoon, mostly in the St. Louis area. Power was gradually being restored.

A trained spotter reported that a mobile home in Scott County was destroyed, but no one was injured.

The damage comes as forecasters issue a series of tornado and thunderstorm warnings across a large swath of eastern Missouri and several other Midwestern states. Extensive damage has been reported in several Illinois communities.

(AP) — A Kansas fossil hunter has unearthed the remains of what is believed to be a half-grown Tyrannosaurus rex from Montana that could help fill a void in paleontologists’ understanding of the king of the dinosaurs.

Robert Detrich, of Wichita, Kan., unearthed the fossil dubbed “Baby Bob” in July in a fossil-rich area near the town of Jordan. It’s generating excitement because its femur measures about 25 inches. If all the preliminary data pans out, that would make it among the smallest T.rex specimens ever found.

Scientists say that only a handful of juvenile T.rex specimens have been discovered. And they’re eager to learn more about the years before the carnivore reached its terrifying full size of about 40 feet from head to toe.

(AP) – Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has taken a new, more left-leaning approach in his second term.

Nixon has long been a Democrat. But he could have passed himself off as a moderate Republican during his first four years as governor. He cut taxes, spending and thousands of government jobs. And Nixon shied far away from President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

Since he won re-election a year ago, however, Nixon has sought to expand Missouri’s Medicaid eligibility under Obama’s health care law. He vetoed a big income tax cut and numerous other bills passed by the Republican-led Legislature. And this past week, Nixon came out in support of gay marriage.

Some political scientists say Nixon appears to be re-positioning himself to appeal to national Democrats.

(AP) — As the technology to print 3-D firearms advances, a federal law that banned such guns is about to expire.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer says he’s seeking an extension of the law before it expires Dec. 9.

He says the technology of so-called 3-D printing has advanced to the point anyone with $1,000 and an Internet connection can access the plastic parts that can be fitted into a gun. That weapon can’t be detected by metal detectors or X-ray machines.

Schumer says that means anyone can download a gun cheaply, then take the weapons anywhere, including high-security areas.

The Democrat is pushing the extension along with Sens. Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Bill Nelson of Florida.