OSAGE COUNTY— Law enforcement authorities are investigating a dog attack that sent a child to the hospital.

Just after 4p.m.m June 23, the Osage County Sheriff’s Office and Osage County EMS responded to 1954 W. 253rd in rural Lyndon after report of a dog bite, according to Sheriff Laurie Dunn.

EMS transported a juvenile victim in critical condition to Stormont Vail Hospital.  The dog and the juvenile both reside at the residence. The sheriff’s office released no new information on the child’s condition Wednesday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police have identified a transgender woman whose body was found at a Kansas City home.

Police say 32-year-old Brooklyn Lindsey was found dead early Tuesday on the porch of a home in northeast Kansas City.

The cause of her death has not been released.

Neighbors told police they heard an argument and gunshots around the time Lindsey’s body was found.

FBI spokeswoman Bridget Patton says the agency is aware of the death but it is currently being investigated by police.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The organization sponsoring a mock state legislature for boys is apologizing after this year’s teenage governor proposed eliminating women’s right to vote.

The American Legion Boys State of Kansas Leadership Academy said in a statement that the student’s pretending to issue an executive order repealing the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote does not reflect the organization’s values.

The Boys State Legislature voted down the proposal in both its Senate and House of Representatives.

The teenager from Leavenworth made the proposal in the final moments of his term during the annual Boys States gathering at Kansas State University on June 2-7.

Spokesman Brad Biles says the student ignored staff members who told him not to introduce the executive order.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s only abortion clinic on Tuesday asked a state panel for an extension to continue providing abortions after its license is set to expire Friday.

The state health department last week refused to renew the St. Louis Planned Parenthood affiliate’s license, and a court order protecting abortions at the clinic is set to expire Friday.

If the Administrative Hearing Commission doesn’t act before then, Missouri could be the first state without a functional abortion clinic since 1974 — the year after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.

“Missouri has 1.1 million women of reproductive age who will have no access to abortion care anywhere in the state if a stay is not granted,” attorneys for the clinic wrote in a legal filing to the assigned commissioner, former Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon appointee Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi.

Other services could continue at the clinic if it loses its license to perform abortions.

The state has said concerns about the clinic arose from inspections in March. Among the problems Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services investigators have cited were three “failed abortions” requiring additional surgeries and another that led to life-threatening complications for the mother, The Associated Press reported last week , citing a now-sealed court filing.

Planned Parenthood has said Missouri is using the licensing process as a weapon aimed at halting abortions and sued in response.

A St. Louis judge on Monday issued a court order shielding abortions at the clinic through Friday and then kicked the issue to the Administrative Hearing Commission , which handles licensing fights and other disputes between state agencies and businesses.

Commission decisions can later be appealed in court.

An Administrative Hearing Commission hearing on Planned Parenthood’s license is set for Aug. 1 in St. Louis. In the meantime, Planned Parenthood wants Dandamudi to rule on its request for a stay before Friday.

A hearing on Planned Parenthood’s request has not yet been scheduled.

Missouri is among several conservative states, emboldened by new conservative justices on the Supreme Court, to pass new restrictions on abortions in the hope that the high court will eventually overturn Roe v. Wade.

Republican Gov. Mike Parson signed legislation on May 24 to ban abortions at or beyond eight weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for medical emergencies but not for rape or incest.

The number of abortions performed in Missouri has declined every year for the past decade, reaching a low of 2,910 last year. Of those, an estimated 1,210 occurred at eight weeks or less of pregnancy, according to health department data.

More Missouri women are getting abortions in Kansas than in Missouri. Information from the state of Kansas shows that about 3,300 of the 7,000 abortions performed there last year involved Missouri residents.

Kansas has an abortion clinic in Overland Park, a Kansas City suburb just 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the state line.

The nearest clinic to St. Louis is in Granite City, Illinois, less than 10 miles (16 kilometers) away. Executive Director Dr. Erin King has previously said Hope Clinic for Women is open to Missouri women and staff will “do everything in our power to make sure that further barriers associated with seeking abortion care out of state are minimized.”

Illinois does not track the home states of women seeking abortions so it’s unknown how many Missouri residents have been treated there.

SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after accepting a plea deal in a Missouri drug-deal shooting that left one man dead and another wounded.

The Sedalia Democrat reports that 30-year-old Antonio Harper, of the Chicago suburb of Maywood, was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to one count of first-degree burglary. Harper originally was charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal action, first-degree robbery and unlawful use of a weapon in the April 2018 shooting death of 42-year-old Maurice Harper Sr. in Sedalia.

Court documents say Antonio Harper implicated himself in the shooting, telling a deputy that he only fired after he came under fire.

His brother, 26-year-old Eric Harper, of Chicago, is charged with first-degree assault, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a Columbia woman has been arrested after swimming across a river to escape capture.

25-year-old Jasmine Bronger initially took off while deputies were arresting a 55-year-old Sedalia man on outstanding warrants. The Cooper County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release that Missouri State Highway Patrol helicopters assisted in the search after she allegedly swam across the Lamine River.

The release says she was arrested just before 5 p.m. Monday on an outstanding Boone County burglary and theft warrant after she was spotted walking toward a home. She is being held in the Cooper County Detention Center on suspicion of drug possession, property damage, resisting arrest and receiving stolen property. She hasn’t yet been formally charged in that case.