JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers pushing to change the state’s loose ethics laws next will turn to ways to clamp down on the flow of unlimited gifts from lobbyists to lawmakers.

A bill to ban lobbyist gifts to public officials is up for review Tuesday in a House committee.

Lobbyists can spend whatever they want on sports tickets, meals, drinks and other gifts to Missouri lawmakers. Last year, lobbyists doled out nearly $220,000, including more than $800 worth of Cardinals baseball tickets to one lawmaker.

Legislative leaders have cited ramping up state ethics laws as a priority this session after two former lawmakers who were accused of inappropriate behavior toward interns resigned last year.

Pushback so far has primarily centered on concerns from Democrats that the proposed changes don’t go far enough.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say an officer fatally shot a suspect in an armed robbery of a St. Louis fast-food restaurant.

A citizen flagged down an officer in a marked car Sunday evening and reported the robbery at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.

The officer went to the KFC and confronted the 52-year-old suspect, who raised a handgun toward the officer.

St. Louis Police Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence O’Toole says a says the suspect refused orders to drop the weapon and the officer fired two shots, killing the man.  The 42-year-old officer is a 13-year veteran. He was not injured.

O’Toole says there is video from the restaurant and there were witnesses inside.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports about 40 onlookers gathered at the scene after the shooting, with some chanting protests against police.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 14-year-old girl has been fatally shot in a St. Louis home.

The Post-Dispatch reports that police found the injured girl around 1:15 p.m. Sunday at a friend’s home. She had been shot in the back.

The girl was pronounced dead at a hospital.

St. Louis Police Lieutenant Colonel Lawrence O’Toole says no one has been arrested. He didn’t characterize the shooting as intentional or accidental.

Marie Black, a woman who lives at the home, says the girl had spent the night with Black’s daughter, as she often does on weekends. She says she was at work at the time of the shooting and doesn’t know how the girl was shot.

Black says police were interviewing her daughter and an adult to determine what happened.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A new study shows Kansas’ high sales taxes on groceries have people crossing state lines to shop, particularly residents living in border counties.  The trend hurts low-income families, rural grocery stores and local governments.

Wichita State University’s Kansas Public Finance Center analyzed the latest available food sales data and estimated that Kansas lost $345.6 million in food sales in 2013. The data does not include last year’s sales tax hike that boosted Kansas’ food sales tax to one of the highest in the nation.

The state’s largest county, Johnson County, suffered the biggest losses with an estimated $93 million loss in food sales. But the losses on a per capita basis hit the smaller border counties the hardest.

Kansas is one of only 14 states that taxes groceries. Neighboring Nebraska and Colorado do not.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new measure in the Kansas Legislature is aimed at compensating people wrongfully convicted of crimes.

The bill was inspired by the case of a man whose murder conviction was recently vacated.

Rep. Ramon Gonzalez presented draft legislation to the House Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice on Thursday. Hearings on the measure haven’t been scheduled.

Gonzalez works as a special prosecutor for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. He spent several months reopening an investigation into the 1999 murder of Camille Arfmann in Oskaloosa. Floyd Bledsoe spent 16 years in prison for Arfmann’s murder but had his convictions vacated by a Jefferson County judge in December.

Gonzalez says other states allow compensation for the wrongfully convicted.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 19-year-old man faces charges accusing him of fatally shooting his adoptive father.

The shooting happened outside a suburban Kansas City fast-food restaurant where both men worked.

The Jackson County prosecutor’s office said in a release Saturday that Shaquil Roland of Kansas City is charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death Friday of his adoptive father, 33-year-old Antonio Dennis. Dennis was the manager of the Lee’s Summit restaurant, where Roland also worked.

The prosecutor’s office says Dennis was shot Friday outside the restaurant after he and Roland had an argument inside the restaurant and then moved outside. The victim was found in the restaurant’s parking lot and died at an area hospital.

Prosecutors have requested a bond of $200,000 cash.

It’s unclear if Roland has a lawyer.

CRAWFORD, Neb. (AP) — A company that runs the Crow Butte uranium mine in the Nebraska Panhandle wants to open as many as three expansion mines in the area.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that applications for the expansion sites near Crawford are under review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Cameco America spokesman Ken Vaughn says the company hopes to make significant progress this year toward opening one of the new mines, called the Marsland expansion.

Cameco began commercial operation of the Crow Butte mine in 1991, where it employs about 40 people.

The company is seeking the expansion because it says it’s running out of ore, reducing productivity.

Cameco produces uranium concentrate at the Nebraska site, which is then sent to other facilities to be turned into nuclear fuel.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The state will begin accepting applications this week for the energy assistance program.

The Kansas Department for Children and Families says it will start accepting applications Tuesday for its annual Low Income Energy Assistance Program to help qualifying households pay winter heating bills.  The agency says the primary groups assisted are people with disabilities, older adults and families with children.

The Wichita Eagle reports that income eligibility requirements are 130 percent of the federal poverty level. Applicants also have to be responsible for direct payment of their heating bills to qualify.

The agency says in a release that nearly 48,000 households received an average payment of $412 last year. The energy assistance is a once a year benefit.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A U.S. Airman from Kansas has died in a non-combat related incident while serving in Qatar.  The Department of Defense says that 42-year-old Air Force Major John D. Gerrie died Saturday in Al Udeid Air Base.

The exact cause of his death has not been released.  The department says Gerrie was supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.

He is a native of Nickerson, Kansas, and was assigned to 453rd Electronic Warfare Squadron, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Tex.

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