(AP) – A 35-year-old man who’s a former employee of the Joplin school district has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually exploiting children.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says the sentence imposed on Ronny Justin Myers also requires him to pay $5,000 in restitution to a 14-year-old victim.

The Joplin resident pleaded guilty earlier to transferring obscene material to a minor and to enticing a minor for criminal sexual activity. Myers was an assistant network systems administrator for the Joplin school district when he was arrested. He’d been with the district since 2005.

Prosecutors said Myers admitted sexually molested three young girls and secretly recording a 17-year-old engaging in sexual activity.

– Reser’s Fine Foods  is voluntarily expanding its recall of refrigerated ready-to-eat products because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria is an organism which can cause serious and sometime fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and individuals with weakened immune systems. Healthy people may suffer only short term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant woman.

The recalled refrigerated ready-to-eat products were distributed nationwide.

The product is sold in retail and food service establishments. The packages will be marked with a Use-by-Date or Best By Date and followed by a plant identifier code of 20. Products affected by this recall are listed below.

There are no confirmed illnesses associated with these products.

The recalled products were manufactured at the Topeka, KS salad manufacturing facility. No other Reser’s Fine Foods, Inc. manufacturing facilities are involved in this recall.

Consumers who purchased the product may take it back to the store for a refund or discard it.

A full list of products being recalled can be found below

CANADA

(AP) – Baxter County authorities say a man wanted on felony assault and kidnapping charges has been arrested in Missouri after shooting himself.

The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that Robert Finch Jr. was taken into custody in Wright County, Mo., about 12:30 a.m. Sunday. The release says Finch was taken to a Springfield, Mo., hospital and is listed in stable condition.

Details of his arrest and shooting himself were not released.

Finch was wanted in Baxter County on felony charges of domestic assault and kidnapping.

 (AP) — Farmers across the country are relying on new cyber tools to help them monitor the weather and their irrigation systems and even map crops.

Longtime dairy farmers in Vermont are now keeping records on their smartphones of their fields and crops — from manure and fertilizer applications to corn and hay harvests, thanks to a savvy University of Vermont researcher.

Agronomist Heather Darby of UVM Extension got the idea as she was working with farmers to develop plans to manage their fields and crops and protect the environment. She said the farmers weren’t very good at keeping records, but they had grown accustomed to using cellphones.

Her goCrop app received about $400,000 more from the federal government this spring to expand for use around the Northeast and in California.

Columbia police are investigating after a body was found along Interstate 70.

Authorities received calls two calls Saturday reporting a large amount of blood, clothing and a shoe along the westbound lanes of the highway. Investigators say it appears the victim was hit by a car.

Perkins says the preliminary ID was based on documents found nearby.

(AP) Taylor Farms is recalling broccoli salad and slaw sold across 25 eastern and southern states because they contain ingredients that may be contaminated with Listeria.

Taylor Farms says the packaged food includes ingredients recalled earlier this week by Reser’s Fine Foods. The food was sold at deli counters in supermarket chains including Price Chopper, Shaw’s, Shoprite, Acme Markets, Stop & Shop and others between Oct. 19 and Oct. 24. Separately, grocers Winn-Dixie and Giant Food say they have removed the items from their stores and are offering customers refunds.

There have been no reports of illnesses.

Reser’s has recalled 109,000 cases of refrigerated, ready-to-eat items that were distributed across the U.S. and Canada because they may contain the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium. Listeria can lead to miscarriages in pregnant women and serious illness for those with weakened immune systems.