KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 28-year-old man is jailed on $1 million bond after being charged in connection with the shooting deaths of three people in Kansas City, Kansas.

Prosecutors in Wyandotte County on Thursday charged Jason R. Tucker with capital murder, attempted burglary and violating a protection order.

Tucker is also charged with attempted capital murder for allegedly wounding a man.

Police have said that survivor was struck in the head and shot in the back late Tuesday at a home, where officers later found the bodies of 47-year-olds Bernadette Gosserand and Vincent Rocha, and 26-year-old Jeremy Rocha.

Police say three children who were at the home during the shootings were unharmed.

It was not immediately clear Thursday if Tucker has an attorney. He has no listed home telephone number.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas legislators are hoping to advance a proposal to increase spending on public schools even though some lawmakers question whether it would be adequate.

A special House committee planned to vote Friday on a bill that would phase in a $762 million increase in aid to the state’s 286 local school districts over five years.

The bill also creates a new per-student formula for distributing the money to see that enough goes to programs for at-risk students.

Kansas spends more than $4 billion a year on aid to its public schools. But the state Supreme Court ruled in March that education funding is inadequate.

Lawmakers must also close projected budget shortfalls totaling $887 million through June 2019. They expect to raise income taxes but haven’t settled on a plan.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol is turning over information to the state attorney general for a review of its involvement with a trucking technology company.

The Highway Patrol on Thursday announced it’s cooperating with Attorney General Josh Hawley. The patrol and the Missouri Department of Transportation are under scrutiny for potential conflicts of interest because officials served on the board of the nonprofit HELP Inc.

It had been the only company providing technology allowing truckers to bypass Missouri weigh stations, although the state recently contracted with another company.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has reported that current and former Missouri regulators have worked for the nonprofit and that the Transportation Department and Highway Patrol had blocked competitors from coming to Missouri.

The agencies pulled members from the board Wednesday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A second teen has been charged in the drug-related shooting death of an 18-year-old in a neighborhood near Kansas City’s Zona Rosa shopping area.

Seventeen-year-old Keith Spencer was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and attempted distribution of a controlled substance in the death of Tim Durden. No attorney is listed for him in online court records.

KMBC-TV reports that Durden died at a hospital after he was found wounded Monday behind the home of 17-year-old Dominic Pineda, who also is charged in the killing.

Pineda told investigators he was measuring out marijuana to sell when Durden grabbed a handgun from another person pocket, loaded it and threatened to shoot. Court records say gunfire then erupted, with Durden and both suspects accused of shooting.

BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison in the shooting death of his mother.

KVOE-AM  reports that 30-year-old Daniel Harris was sentenced Thursday in Coffey County District Court for involuntary manslaughter in the death of 61-year-old Niki Harris.

Court documents say Daniel Harris’ mother came to his Burlington home on Feb. 1 after he argued with his wife over alcohol use. Two guns were present, and Niki Harris picked up one of them. Her intoxicated son then retrieved the second gun, threatened to hurt himself and turned the handgun on his mother. When she advanced toward him, he fired once, hitting her in the abdomen. The bullet also narrowly missed Harris’ wife and baby. Niki Harris died several days later.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Legislature has passed a bill to create adult high schools for people older than 21 who haven’t earned a high school diploma.

The proposal now goes to Gov. Eric Greitens after passing the House on Thursday.

The bill would allow the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to authorize a nonprofit that would start four adult high schools.

The schools would offer industry certification programs as well as high school diplomas. They would also offer on-site childcare.

Four classes of counties would be eligible for the schools, and the counties could bid if they meet certain criteria including a $2 million investment.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas regulators are asking for an extra year to implement new amusement park rules that lawmakers passed in reaction to a boy’s death last year on a water slide.

The House Federal and State Affairs Committee met Thursday afternoon and advanced a bill making tweaks to the new law. The bill also would delay the law’s implementation until July 1, 2018, rather than this July.

Committee Chair Rep. John Barker says the Department of Labor and some county fair operators were concerned about implementing the law so quickly.

GOP Gov. Sam Brownback signed the law less than three weeks ago. It requires that amusement rides be inspected annually by a qualified, outside inspector.

Department of Labor Communications Director Barbara Hersh said late Thursday afternoon that the agency would comment later.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri System has decided to cut 12 percent of its budget from all schools, colleges and divisions on campus in fiscal year 2018.

The Columbia Missourian reports that budget plans for 2018 were released by all four University of Missouri System campuses on Wednesday.

Interim Chancellor Garnett Stokes sent an email outlining the cuts and noted personnel losses and the reallocation of certain programs. She didn’t say which departments or programs specifically stood to face the most cuts.

Stokes says she won’t provide more specifics on the cuts to protect personnel. Final details won’t be shared until after June 1.

Until then, the system will hold two forums next week for feedback before the budget is submitted to system President Mun Choi on May 19.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A judge has told Kansas’ top elections official to disclose proposed changes to federal voting laws that he took to a meeting with President Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson says she reviewed the materials and found no error in the magistrate’s earlier ruling that required Secretary of State Kris Kobach to turn over the documents.

Robinson ordered Kobach to produce them by Friday to the American Civil Liberties Union in a lawsuit challenging a state law requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship when voting.

An Associated Press photo of that November meeting showed Kobach holding a paper outlining homeland security issues. The order also requires him to produce a related internal document about proposed changes to the National Voter Registration Act.

xternal review of a police chase that ended in a crash that killed a 9-year-old boy as his family was leaving an airport after a trip to Disney World.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Normandy Chief Frank Mininni believes his officer acted within his department’s policy last month but wants the review to be sure.

Caleb Lee died Friday from injuries sustained April 25. His mother, aunt and 5-year-old brother also were hurt but survived. The chase began when an officer saw a sport utility vehicle commit a moving violation on Interstate 70 and realized the vehicle had been reported as taken in an armed carjacking.

The SUV’s 16-year-old driver exited near the airport and struck the family’s car.