(AP) – A Missouri House panel isn’t going along with Gov. Jay Nixon’s plan to tackle a waiting list for hundreds of developmentally disabled people seeking in-home care services.

Nixon asked lawmakers for $24 million for the services for people qualifying for Medicaid, which state officials estimate would cover 970 people. The wait list currently stands at 1,400 people.

But the House health and social services funding panel didn’t include the money in its recommendation to the full Budget Committee on Monday.

The panel’s chairman, Rep. Sue Allen, said discussions were ongoing about whether to include the funding in the upcoming fiscal year that begins in July.

The panel did recommend funding increases in other services for the developmentally disabled that Allen says would partially reduce the wait list.

(AP) — Missouri House members have endorsed the first change in Missouri’s income tax brackets since the Great Depression.

A bill given initial approval Monday would require Missouri’s tax brackets to be adjusted annually for inflation starting in 2015.

Republican House member Paul Curtman, of Pacific, is sponsoring the tax-bracket legislation. He says that while $9,000 may have been a decent income during the Great Depression, it now falls below the poverty level.

Legislative researchers estimate the tax-bracket adjustment could reduce state tax revenues by $26 million when it’s fully in effect.

 (AP) – An apple a day keeps the doctor away – at least that’s what the backers of a Missouri bill to reimburse healthy food purchases are hoping.

A Missouri House panel heard testimony Monday on legislation that would give bonus dollars to food stamps users who buy fruits and vegetables at farmers’ markets.

Supporters say the measure would cut down on obesity in low-income households and reduce costs for obesity-related illnesses.

Under the bill, the state would set up a testing program for participating markets where welfare recipients could be reimbursed up to $10 per week for buying fruits and vegetables.

No one spoke in opposition Monday, and the House Government Oversight and Accountability Committee took no further action on the bill.

(AP) – U.S. attorneys have filed a lawsuit against the Missouri National Guard alleging it shortchanges civilian employees when they are called to active duty.

The lawsuit announced Monday says the Missouri National Guard has been requiring civilian employees to resign before allowing them to go on active duty.

The lawsuit says that effectively denies the employees 15 days of annual paid military leave that they are entitled to under federal law. The civilian employees could receive the benefits if they were allowed to take a leave of absence or go on furlough for active duty.

U.S. attorneys are asking a judge to retroactively order benefits for the employees.

A Missouri National Guard spokeswoman referred questions to the state attorney general’s office, which had no immediate comment.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Governors have broken into a partisan on-camera feud at the White House after meeting with President Barack Obama.

Leaders of the National Governors Association appeared Monday before the media claiming harmony and wide agreement, but immediately broke into a partisan dispute.

Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal said if Obama were serious about growing the economy he would approve the Keystone XL pipeline project and take other action. But he said instead Obama “seems to be waving the white flag of surrender” on the economy by focusing on a minimum wage increase.

Connecticut Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy responded sharply that the white flag statement was “insane” and the most partisan of their weekend conference.

Colorado Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper called Jindal a “cheap shot artist.”

(AP) – A southwest Missouri woman has been sentenced to life in prison for suffocating her 2-month-old son to death.

Twenty-seven-year-old Titianna Light was sentenced Friday for second-degree murder in the death of her infant at their Springfield home.

Light was charged in October 2010 after police found the child dead at her home.

KOLR-TV reports that probable cause statement says Light initially claimed her son died after she put him down for a nap and later found he had rolled over on his stomach and was not breathing.

The court documents indicate Light later told investigators she held pillows over the infant’s face for about one hour, until he was no longer breathing or moving.

(AP) – Attorneys for Missouri death row inmate Michael Taylor continue the effort to spare his life, even as a federal judge has turned down some of his requests for a stay of execution.

U.S. District Judge Beth Phillips on Monday refused to halt the execution based on separate claims that Missouri’s one-drug execution method could cause a painful death, and that the state in three recent executions put inmates to death while court cases were still pending. Taylor’s attorney, John Simon, appealed to a federal appeals court.

Phillips is still considering another stay request, a claim that Taylor had an ineffective attorney at his original trial.

Taylor faces execution at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday for abducting, raping and killing a 15-year-old Kansas City girl in 1989.

SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Services have been scheduled for a 10-year-old Springfield girl who was abducted and killed last week.

The Springfield News-Leader reports visitation for Hailey Owens will be Tuesday from 4-8 p.m. at Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Springfield. The funeral will be Wednesday at 2 p.m., also at the church.

The fourth-grader was killed last Tuesday after being abducted in her neighborhood.

Craig Michael Wood is charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and armed criminal action in her death. The 45-year-old is being held without bond in Greene County Jail.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has turned away appeals from the National Rifle Association which complained about resistance by governments and judges to the high court’s recent seminal rulings declaring that Americans have a constitutional right to own a gun.

The justices on Monday let stand rulings that upheld a federal law that prevents young adults ages 18-20 from purchasing a handgun or ammunition from a licensed federal firearms dealer and a Texas regulation that prohibits most 18-to-20 year olds from carrying a handgun outside the home.

The NRA said the laws make it difficult, if not impossible, for young adults to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

The court did not comment in denying the appeals.

Chelsea Clinton is speaking today at an event at UMKC. The event will celebrate a new hall of fame that will recognize women from the Kansas City metropolitan area.

The University of Missouri-Kansas City says the former first daughter will speak at the school’s Swinney Recreation Center. The event is sold out.

The Starr Women’s Hall of Fame is the work of 24 women’s organization from the area. It bears the name of Martha Jane Phillips Starr, a Kansas City philanthropist who died in 2011. She was one of the first women to become a member of the UMKC Board of Trustees.

The first class won’t be inducted until the fall, but details about the application process, criteria and deadlines will be announced at this today’s event.