AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A self-styled street preacher was sentenced to death Thursday in the killings of three down-and-out men lured by bogus job offers posted on Craigslist.

The jury that convicted Richard Beasley of murder recommended he face execution. Beasley, 53, was convicted of teaming up with a teenager in 2011 to use the promise of jobs on a southeastern Ohio farm to lure them into robberies.

Beasley’s co-defendant, who was 16 at the time of the crimes, Brogan Rafferty, was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole last year.

One victim was killed near Akron, and the others were shot at a southeastern Ohio farm during bogus job interviews. The slain men were Ralph Geiger, 56, of Akron; David Pauley, 51, of Norfolk, Va.; and Timothy Kern, 47, of Massillon.

The survivor, Scott Davis, 49, testified he heard the click of a gun as he walked in front of Beasley at the reputed job site. Davis, who was shot in an arm, knocked the weapon aside, fled into the woods and tipped police.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) — Tyson Foods, Inc. will pay roughly $4 million in civil penalties to settle allegations related to eight accidental anhydrous ammonia releases that caused multiple injuries and one death over four years, the U.S. government and the company said Friday.

The deal, which resolved a federal lawsuit filed in St. Louis by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), involves alleged Clean Air Act violations at Tyson sites in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska. It still faces a 30-day public comment period and must be approved by a federal judge.

As part of the consent decree Friday, Springdale, Ark.-based Tyson vowed to conduct pipe-testing and third-party audits of its ammonia refrigeration systems in all 23 of its sites in the four states. Tyson also will provide $300,000 to help buy emergency response equipment for fire departments in nine Midwest communities where it has plants.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio’s natural resources agency said April 2 it met the second of two court-ordered deadlines to speed up compensation to landowners for losses from flooding near Ohio’s largest inland lake.

At issue is how fast the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has responded to an order by the Ohio Supreme Court to compensate 87 landowners near Grand Lake St. Marys, a 20-square-mile lake between Dayton and Toledo.

The agency met an April deadline for filing lawsuits to take the owners’ property, a necessary step that triggers the action needed for the state to compensate the landowners, according to a DNR court filing. The state said in February it met a deadline to complete remaining appraisals on properties. The state has argued some property owners’ land lies outside a flood elevation line and isn’t eligible for compensation. But of those that are within the line, the state has made fair settlement offers, the DNR said.

The state blamed attorneys representing property owners for their own delays, saying multiple requests to delay court hearings set back the next case to be settled by four months. An attorney for the landowners criticized the state for not putting down deposits to cover remaining cases involving people who sued over the state’s alleged delays.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The nation’s fields and farms rely heavily on illegal labor, and that makes an immigration overhaul critical to the agriculture industry. Growers and farm workers anticipate major changes from bipartisan immigration legislation being crafted in the Senate.

The bill is expected to offer a relatively speedy path to legal status to agricultural workers who are in the U.S. illegally. And it is likely to create a new visa program to bring foreign workers into the country to work in agriculture.

But there’s disagreement over wages and numbers of visas. Negotiators hoped to finalize an agreement in time to include in the overall bill expected to be released this week.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Food aid groups are pushing the Obama administration to overhaul the way the United States helps starving people abroad.

The White House will not say whether President Obama’s budget scheduled to come out this week will propose changing the way foreign food aid is distributed. But food aid groups, farm groups and their allies in Congress are preparing for the possibility.

At issue is whether the government should ship U.S.-grown food overseas to aid developing countries and starving people, or simply help those countries with cash to buy food. Currently, the United States is shipping food abroad, a process many food aid groups say is inefficient.