OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Criminal charges have been amended against a supremacist accused of fatally shooting three people at suburban Kansas City Jewish sites.

The Kansas City Star reports that 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. faces a single capital murder count for all three victims after Johnson County prosecutors dismissed a separate first-degree murder charge.

Cross, also known as F. Glenn Miller Jr., is accused of killing 69-year-old William Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park, Kansas, on April 13. Prosecutors said Cross then went to the nearby Village Shalom senior care facility and killed 53-year-old Terri LaManno of Kansas City, Missouri.

The amended charges say the three were killed as part of a common scheme or course of conduct.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A 6-year-old Kansas City girl has died in a drive-by shooting at a convenience store in the southern part of the city.

Police said in a news release that Angel Hooper was wounded Friday night when someone in a passing vehicle fired multiple rounds into the parking lot of a 7-Eleven store. She was rushed to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Several people were in the parking lot when gunfire erupted. The girl was with a family friend.

Police are reviewing surveillance footage and urging anyone with information to call a special hotline. Police Chief Darryl Forté also used Twitter to urge the shooter or shooters to surrender. The message said that Forté didn’t believe the girl was the intended victim.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Sprint Corp. says it has cut 452 jobs from its Overland Park headquarters as part of a previously announced cost-cutting effort.

The Kansas City Star reports that the layoffs were disclosed Friday in a notice that the nation’s third-biggest cellphone carrier filed with the Kansas Department of Commerce. The report doesn’t cover any job losses outside the headquarters campus, although they are believed to be happening too.

The company said earlier this month in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it was cutting an unspecified number of jobs to reduce costs. The filing said the company would book a $160 million charge in its fiscal second quarter to cover this round of layoffs.

Another 477 Sprint employees in Overland Park were laid off earlier this year.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – The Missouri Constitution gives the governor some of the broadest budget-balancing powers in the nation.

But a proposal on the November ballot would flip that around. If approved, proposed Constitutional Amendment 10 would give the Missouri Legislature some of the broadest powers to cancel gubernatorial budget decisions.

The proposal would allow the Legislature to override a governor’s decision to reduce spending by getting a two-thirds vote of each chamber. That’s the same threshold already required to override vetoes.

Some Republican supporters of the amendment say the Democratic governor has abused his budget-balancing powers in recent years by temporarily freezing spending in an attempt to persuade legislators not to enact tax breaks.

But opponents of the measure say it could allow lawmakers to bust the budget with new spending.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The challenge of recruiting math and science teachers is expected to increase in Kansas as more of them approach retirement and demand for the courses they teach rises.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that job growth is strong in the so-called STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math. That’s led to an enrollment surge.

The head of the University of Kansas’ Center for STEM Learning and a colleague analyzed six years of data on the state’s middle- and high-school math and science teachers. They found that nearly 20 percent will become eligible to retire in three more years.

Experts say there aren’t enough new teachers being recruited to take their place. As of Aug. 1, Kansas’ secondary schools were still seeking at least 36 math and science teachers.

MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas has gotten the go-ahead from the Supreme Court to use its strict voter ID law in the November election.

The court’s action early Saturday comes even after a judge said the law was the equivalent of a poll tax and threatened to deprive many blacks and Latinos of the right to vote this year.

The high court acted two days before the start of early voting in Texas.

The move appears to be based on the justices’ view that changing the rules so close to an election would be confusing.

Texas has conducted several low-turnout elections under the new rules. Those rules set seven forms of approved photo ID, including concealed handgun licenses, but not college student IDs.

The court’s brief unsigned order offered no explanation for its action.