BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Police say a man who fled from a Mississippi traffic stop was apparently so focused on getting away he unknowingly ran into a law enforcement academy.

Biloxi Police Chief John Miller Police Chief John Miller tells The Sun-Herald 30-year-old Roger Beasley Jr. was stopped by officers last Wednesday on U.S. 90 in the city. Miller’s statement says Beasley jumped from his vehicle and ran.

According to police, Beasley didn’t notice marked police cars outside the Harrison County Law Enforcement Training Academy. He says Beasley ran into the building while training was in session — and arrested.

Authorities say Beasley was booked on charges including possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, resisting arrest and careless driving. He’s free on bond. It wasn’t immediately known if Beasley has an attorney.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A man charged with 10 shootings on Kansas City-area highways says he can prove he’s innocent.

The Kansas City Star reports Mohammed Whitaker is basing the claim largely on one piece of evidence that tracked which cellphone towers handled calls from his phone on April 2, the day of the sixth shooting.

He says if the time on the report — 5:30 p.m. — is correct, he could not be responsible for a shooting that day near Grandview. The records place his phone about nine miles from the shooting site just six minutes before it happened. He says he could not have covered that distance during rush hour on his way home from Overland Park, Kansas.

Police and prosecutors declined to discuss the April 2 incident or Whitaker’s claims.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — One of the largest shopping centers ever proposed in Lawrence has hit a roadblock.

The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission voted early Tuesday to recommend rejection of the project, which would add more than 500,000 square feet of commercial space in southern Lawrence near the new South Lawrence Trafficway.

The commissioners’ vote does not mean the proposal is dead. Developers could ask to have the Lawrence City Commission vote on it.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports the North Carolina-based developers have not determined how they will respond to the commission’s vote.

Commissioners said before the vote that the location near two major highways was not right for the project. They would prefer it be built in northwest Lawrence near the new Rock Chalk Park sports complex.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — For more than seven decades, farmers and other industries have depended on the Ogallala Aquifer to provide the lifeblood of the western Kansas economy.

There has been concern that irrigation and other uses have depleted the aquifer faster than it can be recharged. It’s been declining each year since irrigation began in the 1940s and 1950s.

The Hutchinson News reports that Kansas Water Office Director Tracy Streeter says some areas in western Kansas already can no longer use the aquifer.

Garden City farmer Rodger Funk says he attended meetings decades ago where state officials were already discussing the water problems, but few people believed them. Now, he and his son have switched to dryland farming, and he wonders what the region will look like in 50 years.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A gridlocked Congress failed to do the big things, such as overhauling the nation’s immigration system, reforming the tax code and stiffening background checks on gun buyers.

Now it’s time to see whether it can just do the basics.

Only two weeks remain before lawmakers’ annual August break. Progress is mixed on several must-pass items due to Capitol Hill partisanship, heightened by midterm elections and the Obama administration’s conflicting signals to Congress.

Lawmakers must find about $10 billion to keep highway projects on track through next spring and ease long wait times for veterans seeking health care. They also must deal with a humanitarian crisis of some 57,000 unaccompanied immigrant children who have entered the U.S. since last fall.

Also looming large is legislation to keep the government operating.