JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A committee appointed by Gov. Eric Greitens is recommending an overhaul of some of Missouri’s main tax credits, including ones for low-income housing and historic buildings.

The report released Friday says the state should reduce tax credits available for the redevelopment of historic buildings and convert a tax credit for the construction of low-income housing into a loan program.

The final report focuses only on tax credits. It excludes more sweeping recommendations that had been included in an early draft to lower state income taxes, raise fuel taxes and eliminate various sales tax exemptions.

Greitens created the Committee on Simple, Fair and Low Taxes in January.

A previous committee under former Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon also had recommended reining in tax credits, but lawmakers didn’t adopt some of its provisions.

DETROIT (AP) — Mazda is recalling nearly 228,000 cars in the U.S. because the parking brake may not fully release or could fail to hold the cars, increasing the risk of a crash.

The recall covers certain Mazda 6 cars from the 2014 and 2015 model years and the Mazda 3 from 2014 through 2016.

The company says water can get into the brake caliper, causing a shaft to corrode and bind. If that happens, the parking brake can get stuck in the on position or fail to fully engage. That can let the cars roll unexpectedly if parked on a slope.

Dealers will check the rear brakes. If shafts are corroded, they’ll replace the calipers. If not, they’ll replace a boot that keeps water out.

Owners will be notified starting August 21.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A former lottery computer programmer has pleaded guilty in Iowa to running a criminal scheme that allowed him to collect millions of dollars in lottery winnings in four other states.

Former Multi-State Lottery Association security director Eddie Tipton on Thursday admitted that he manipulated the computer software he designed, allowing him to provide winning numbers to his brother and others.

Tipton, his brother Tommy Tipton and Texas businessman Robert Rhodes will repay $2.2 million in prizes they improperly claimed in Colorado, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Kansas.

Iowa prosecutors will ask for a 25-year prison sentence for Eddie Tipton.

Tommy Tipton also pleaded guilty Thursday in Iowa and was sentenced to 75 days in jail.

ADEL, Iowa (AP) — For the first time since the 1930s, Iowa residents can legally buy and set off fireworks this Fourth of July, thanks to a new law.

But in the state’s population center of Des Moines and elsewhere, calls for “fun, freedom and fireworks,” are running into local concerns about the danger and simple annoyance of bottle rockets, roman candles and firecrackers.

Officials in many Iowa cities have approved rules that block most fireworks sales and largely prohibit people from setting off the loud and colorful explosives.

It’s led to complaints by some sellers, court action by a fireworks wholesaler and a threat by a lawmaker to reduce local control in the next legislative session.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri woman has admitted to stealing nearly $210,000 from a company that owns a minor league baseball team in Illinois.

The U.S. attorney’s office says 35-year-old Tricia Siems, of Fenton, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of wire fraud. The thefts occurred from 2010 to 2016 while she was a bookkeeper for Rex Encore LLC of Webster Groves. The holding company owns an auto dealership, the Southern Illinois Miners baseball team, and other assets.

Prosecutors say Siems wrote unauthorized checks and made other unauthorized transactions from the company account for her own benefit. She also was accused of covering up the theft by altering accounting records.

Sentencing is set for Sept. 26.

BYRNES MILL, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri man is charged with forcing his daughter to sleep in a dog crate and hitting her.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 57-year-old Gregory Byrd, of Byrnes Mill, was charged Tuesday in Jefferson County with felony child endangerment and two counts of misdemeanor assault. Byrd declined to comment to the Post-Dispatch. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

Court documents don’t give the daughter’s age, but she told police she was locked up during a school homecoming weekend last year. She told authorities she’d been abused since seventh grade.

Investigators say Byrd admitted to forcing her to sleep in the crate several times “as punishment and to make sure she did not leave the house at night.” She’s been removed from the home.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The baby sitter of a Wichita toddler whose body was found in a field has been ordered to serve 18 months of probation.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Tyerria Miles was sentenced Wednesday for one count of interfering with the investigation of Jhornee Bland’s death. The 2-year-old died in May 2016 during an overnight stay at a local hotel, where she had attended a pool party.

Miles had been caring for Jhornee in the days before her death and initially told the police she had left the child with a friend. She later admitted that she moved Jhornee’s body to a field instead of reporting her death.

The coroner wasn’t able to determine the cause of death. Miles declined to speak on her own behalf in court.

The Republican-dominated Western Governors Association has endorsed the aims of the Endangered Species Act but asked Congress to make changes, including giving states a bigger role and clarifying recovery goals for animals protected by the law.

The association approved a resolution on the act Wednesday during a meeting in Whitefish, Montana.

The association includes 14 Republicans, six Democrats and two independents. The vote count wasn’t released.

Endangered species protection is controversial because it usually brings restrictions on mining, petroleum drilling, agriculture and other activities.

The governors said Western states benefit economically from healthy species and ecosystems but bear the burden of those restrictions and some of the cost of recovery programs.

Wolves, sage grouse, spotted owls and grizzly bears are among the species that have been protected by the law.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A grandmother of a 7-year-old girl critically wounded in a St. Louis shooting that killed her parents and another man says her granddaughter has brain damage but is showing signs of improvement in a hospital.

Lawanda Griffin tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Deniya Irving can move some limbs, cry and tries to talk. Griffin calls it “just a miracle, even though she has a long way to go.”

Deniya was wounded June 2 when a gunman opened fire on the car in which she was riding. Her parents, 27-year-old Derrick Irving and 24-year-old Jessica Garth, were killed, along with 37-seven-year-old Julian Hayes.

Prosecutors have charged 28-year-old Jerome Leon Buress Jr. with three first-degree murder counts and at least 10 other felony counts.