JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri Senate committee has advanced a proposal that could bring Missouri into compliance with federal driver’s license requirements despite some Republican opposition.

The Senate Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted 4-3 Thursday to send the measure to the full Senate.

Missouri law currently prohibits the state from complying with the federal 2005 Real ID Act, which set tougher proof-of-identity requirements in response to the 2001 terrorist attacks. Opponents have raised privacy concerns about provisions requiring states to keep personal information about license recipients.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has said driver’s licenses from Missouri and other non-compliant states will no longer be accepted as identification at airports starting in January 2018.

The new Missouri legislation would give people a choice of getting licenses that are Real ID compliant or not.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is empaneling a committee to study and recommend how to reform the state’s tax rates and credits.

The state’s Republican chief executive signed an executive order Wednesday creating the 10-person “Governor’s Committee for Simple, Fair, and Low Taxes.” He says the current system is “broken,” hurting Missouri’s budget and job creation.

Greitens says the unpaid panel’s tasks will compare Missouri’s tax credit programs and tax rates to “peer” states and assess the economic impact of state tax credits.

Greitens says the committee will hold at least four town hall meetings and recommend reforms to him by June 30.

Committee members will include four appointed by Greitens, and three each selected by the state Senate’s president pro tem and the House speaker. Greitens will designate a chairman.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A former Iowa fire academy manager has been charged with making up scores on tests that were used to improperly certify more than 1,700 firefighters and emergency responders.

A criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday alleges that former Fire Services Training Bureau certification manager John McPhee assigned “random scores to exams” without properly checking or correcting them.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety revealed that the bureau issued nearly 2,300 improper certifications to 1,706 firefighters and emergency personnel between 2012 and 2016. In each case, they were told that they had scored high enough to pass exams when they had not. Many departments require their firefighters to have certification, although it isn’t state-mandated.

Advocates for firefighters said Wednesday they fear the impact will be significant, undermining trust in their profession and requiring hundreds to retake tests they thought they’d passed long ago.

McPhee was arrested Tuesday on charges of misconduct in office and tampering with records. He didn’t immediately return a message left with his wife.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City, Missouri, woman is getting a new prosthetic arm to replace one stolen from her minivan in September.

The Kansas City Star reports that 29-year-old Gaby Carmona had done without since the theft because the $120,000 replacement cost had been too pricey. She had been able to get the high-tech prosthesis because she had health insurance through a full-time job that no longer exists.

But the mother of five got a surprise Tuesday when she arrived at Advanced Arm Dynamics in Overland Park, Kansas, to be assessed for a less costly prosthesis that’s largely for balance. Instead she was getting a high-tech replacement thanks to the generosity of a manufacturer and others.

She says that after seeing the “worst of people,” she’s now “seen the best, too.

OSAGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a bank robbery in northeast Kansas.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says the robbery happened Wednesday morning at the Landmark National Bank in Osage City. The bearded suspect fled the scene in a white pickup truck with an aftermarket front bumper.

Anyone with information is urged to call law enforcement.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kansas Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins says she will retire from Congress when her current term expires in two years.

She announced her decision Wednesday on her campaign’s Facebook page.

She said she will not seek any office in 2018. That surprised some Republicans in the state who anticipated she might run for governor.

Jenkins is serving her fifth House term. She said she will seek private sector opportunities.

The 53-year-old Jenkins has had a low national profile but is a member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee. That panel will be in the middle of this year’s GOP effort to recast President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul and revamp the federal tax code.

NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Tyler Moore, the star of two of TV’s best-loved sitcoms, has died.

Her publicist, Mara Buxbaum, says Moore died with her husband and friends nearby. She was 80.

Moore gained fame in the 1960s as Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” In the 1970s, she created one of TV’s first career-woman sitcom heroines in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

She won seven Emmy awards over the years. She also was nominated for an Oscar for her 1980 portrayal of an affluent mother whose son is accidentally killed in “Ordinary People.”

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A proposal to create education savings accounts for children with disabilities has been expanded to include all Missouri students.

In a Senate committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Ed Emery submitted a new version of a bill that would create a system to distribute money to parents through bank accounts. The money could be used for private or charter school tuition, textbooks, online classes or tutoring.

The original bill said the accounts would apply only to students with learning, developmental or physical disabilities. The new proposal would make all Missouri students eligible for the savings accounts.

Gov. Eric Greitens supported the original proposal in his State of the State address. Emery said he will meet with the governor to talk about the new proposal.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of the House Science panel says Americans should get their news from President Donald Trump and not the news media.

Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas said if Trump were a Democrat, the media would be saying he has tremendous energy. But Smith says the “national, liberal media” won’t print or air such attributes.

The congressman said Monday night: “Better to get your news directly from the president. In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth.”

Trump has repeatedly made false claims about fraudulent balloting costing him the popular vote and disputed the turnout for his inauguration. Kellyanne Conway, an aide to Trump, said this weekend that the White House was offering “alternative facts” to the ones reported by the media.