KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Federal prosecutors plan to dismiss charges against a man who allegedly made a threat at Kansas City International Airport on the 2011 anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

The Kansas City Star reported Thursday prosecutors say in court records that Anthony Falco Jr. suffers from schizophrenia and is not likely to become competent to stand trial.

Federal prison authorities have twice determined Falco is not a danger to society, which prevents him from being committed to a mental institution without his consent.

Prosecutors say that forces them to ask a judge to dismiss the indictment.

Falco, whose last known address was East Petersburg, Pennsylvania, was taken into custody since Sept. 11, 2011, when he was accused of trying to carry bags filled with fake bombs through an airport checkpoint.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — An ex-Fort Riley soldier will appeal his first-degree murder conviction next week to the Kansas Supreme Court.

Daniel Parker was sentenced to life in prison in October 2013 for the death of a 21-year-old Frederick Beverly at a Manhattan clubhouse. Prosecutors say a bullet fired from Parker’s M4 rifle ricocheted off a metal fence and hit Beverly at a New Year’s party in 2012.

The Manhattan Mercury reports prosecutor Barry Disney said Parker was charged with first-degree murder because Kansas law allows it a felony act is inherently dangerous, even there is no intent to kill anyone.

Parker said he was intoxicated during the shooting but Riley County District Court Judge David Stutzman said voluntary intoxication was not a defense.

HUTCHINSON — Hutchinson Police are investigating a stabbing and asking for the public’s help to identify suspects.

Just after 8 p.m. on Thursday, police responded to the 700 Block of East 3rd Avenue and found 30-year-old Anthony Mendoza with a stab wound to his left hip.

He was taken to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center where he was treated and released.

No arrests have been made.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The trial of a young woman charged with killing her 52-year-old roommate in Lawrence will not be held in January as scheduled.

Prosecution and defense attorneys agreed on Thursday to delay the first-degree murder trial of 20-year-old Sarah Gonzales McLinn, which was scheduled to start Jan. 5.

McLinn is charged with killing and nearly decapitating 52-year-old Harold M. Sasko in January at his home. Investigators allege she put sleeping pills in Sasko’s beer, bound him and cut his neck with a hunting knife.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports  that McLinn’s attorney has said he is seeking a plea deal because his client has a mental illness and has never denied killing Sasko.

The court will set a new trial date at her next court appearance on Dec. 18.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Caleb Stegall is preparing to join the Kansas Supreme Court after serving as a judge on a lower court and as a top aide to Gov. Sam Brownback.

The Supreme Court was having a special session Friday for Stegall’s swearing in.

Brownback elevated the 43-year-old Stegall to state’s highest court in August after naming him to the Kansas Court of Appeals last year.

Previously, Stegall served as Brownback’s chief counsel. Before joining the administration in January 2011, Stegall was Jefferson County’s elected prosecutor for two years.

It is the conservative Republican governor’s first appointment to the seven-member Supreme Court.

Stegall will replace former Justice Nancy Moritz. President Barack Obama appointed her to the federal appeals court for Kansas and five other western and Plains states.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s new Orion spacecraft is on its way to orbit.

The unmanned orbital test flight began Friday with a sunrise liftoff witnessed by thousands of NASA guests gathered at Cape Canaveral for the second morning in a row. The crowd size and excitement were reminiscent of the shuttle-flying days.

This high-stakes mission is meant to usher in a new era of human exploration leading ultimately to Mars.

Orion’s debut will be brief — just 4½ hours from launch to splashdown, with two orbits of Earth. But for the first time in 42 years, NASA is sending a spacecraft built for humans farther than a couple hundred miles from Earth. The previous time was the Apollo 17 moon shot.

And it’s NASA’s first new spaceship since the shuttle.

Thursday’s launch attempt was foiled by wind and balky valves.

ALAMOSA, Colo. (AP) — A woman in southern Colorado was surprised when she gave birth to a baby girl that tipped the scales at almost 14 pounds.

Mia Yasmin Garcia was born by cesarean section in Alamosa on Monday, weighing 13 pounds, 13 ounces. She was flown to a hospital outside Denver because she had low glucose levels and trouble breathing. Her father says she’s doing well and the family hopes to take her home soon.

KUSA-TV in Denver reports her mother, Alisha Hernandez, was expecting a 7-pound baby.

Mia’s father, Francisco Garcia, says the newborn’s size shocked everyone, including hospital staff. He says “they were like, ‘Whoa!’ They opened their eyes like they’ve never seen a baby like that.”

Four older sisters are welcoming Mia. Garcia says their mother announced: “I’m done!”