MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal and state health officials say a multistate outbreak of salmonella bacteria that is resistant to several drugs has been linked to infected dairy bull calves purchased in Wisconsin.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 21 people have been infected in eight states from Jan. 11 through Oct. 24. Eight of the 21 people sickened were hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported.

Those who were sickened ranged in age from 1 year to 72. Wisconsin has the most cases with 12 people infected in eight counties.

The CDC says its investigation identified dairy bull calves from livestock markets in Wisconsin as the likely source of infections. Minnesota and South Dakota each have two cases and California, Iowa, Idaho, Missouri and Oklahoma each have one.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Police say a 19-year-old Missouri woman allowed her intoxicated boyfriend to drink her blood then stabbed the wannabe vampire during a subsequent argument.

Victoria Vanatter of Springfield pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action in the Nov. 23 incident.

Police say Vanatter told them she agreed her boyfriend could slice her arm with a box cutter and drink her blood. But then the two argued and Vanatter stabbed her boyfriend in the shoulder.

When police arrived at their home, they discovered the bloodied couple and “I’m sorry” inside a heart scrawled in blood on the wall. Vanatter warned an investigator that she has the potential to become a serial killer.

Both were treated at a hospital. Vanatter is jailed on $150,000 bond.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A southeast Missouri woman is accused of posing as a man while committing three robberies.

The Southeast Missourian reports that 59-year-old Elizabeth Heilman of Cape Girardeau is facing robbery and drug possession charges.

Police say Heilman used pepper spray while stealing a woman’s purse Oct. 24 in a church parking lot. She allegedly brandished pepper spray at a business called Chocolate Works on Oct. 28 but left when employees did not give her money.

Police say Heilman returned to Chocolate works on Nov. 17 brandishing a large piece of wood and robbed the store of an undisclosed amount of money.

Cape Girardeau Police Sgt. Adam Glueck says in a news release that the robber covered her face in each incident. Victims believed the suspect was a man.

GARDNER, Kan. (AP) — Motion-activated cameras intended to capture images of mountain lions in a Kansas park have instead snapped pictures of pranksters dressed as animals, monsters and Santa Claus.

Police said they found the images on the two cameras at the park in Gardner on Monday.

Interspersed among images of skunks and coyotes were photos of people wearing costumes pretending to be lions wrestling, a gorilla, various monsters and an old person with a walker. And of course Santa made an appearance during the three nights of high jinks.

Cpl. Robert Huff said it was “pretty comical” and “creative.” The pranksters have not come forward.

The cameras were established this month to investigate reports of mountain lions. No mountain lions were detected.

Gardner is 30 miles southwest of downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

PALMYRA, Mo. (AP) — Theft of road signs is a common problem in rural Missouri, but officials in northeast Missouri’s Marion County were puzzled when nearly 50 went missing, until a group of young men fessed up.

The Hannibal Courier-Post reports that six young adults recently came forward to confess they stole 49 road signs as a prank.

County road superintendent Mike Schaefer says the men felt remorse and went to the sheriff’s department to turn themselves in, before also apologizing to Schaefer. They asked if there was anything they could do to make amends.

Schaefer and Sheriff Jimmy Shinn planned to talk to determine if the men should be prosecuted or simply allowed to pay restitution.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Striking workers are protesting in Kansas City for a higher minimum wage as part of rallies nationwide.

The Kansas City Star reports that dozens marched around a McDonald’s restaurant shortly before 6 a.m. Tuesday before heading to a Burger King restaurant.

The rally participants included the Rev. Donna Simon, of St. Mark Hope and Peace. She says that no one can live on $15,000 a year.

The rallies in Kansas City and elsewhere commemorate the day four years ago that the Fight for $15 movement began in New York City when a group of fast-food workers walked off the job.

The national minimum wage rate is $7.25 an hour, where it has been since 2009. Some states have passed higher minimums; Missouri’s rises to $7.70 an hour in January.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri Supreme Court spokeswoman says one of the court’s judges has died.

Court spokeswoman Beth Riggert announced Tuesday morning that 69-year-old Judge Richard B. Teitelman died.

Teitelman had served on the court since March 2002 and was chief justice from July 2011 through June 2013. Before joining the Supreme Court he served on the Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District for four years.

The court cancelled oral arguments scheduled for Tuesday. Funeral arrangements are pending.

Under Missouri’s nonpartisan court plan, a special panel will screen applicants for Teitelman’s replacement and nominate three candidates to the governor, who then will make an appointment.

CHICAGO (AP) — Workers at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport are expected to walk off the job over union rights and an hourly wage of $15.

About 500 workers have committed to the strike today. They include cabin cleaners, janitors, wheelchair attendants and baggage handlers.

The workers are employed by private contractors. Strike organizers say many work for minimum wage. They’re trying to unionize with the help of Service Employees International Union Local 1.

Organizers say they expect delays and disruption, particularly for United and American airlines. But Chicago Department of Aviation officials say they don’t anticipate disruptions.

The strike is part of a nationwide campaign for higher hourly wages, including for workers at other airports and fast-food restaurants. Thousands plan to walk off the job at McDonald’s restaurants.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri corrections officials are seeking bids from funeral homes in an effort to reduce the state’s cost of burying inmates who die behind bars and have nobody to claim their bodies.

Bid documents request the cheapest wood boxes and least expensive grave liners as the Department of Corrections tries to spend less than the $62,000 it spent to bury unclaimed prisoners in 2015.

Burial arrangements for unclaimed inmates now are left up to local prison officials who work with a local funeral home. The state wants to formalize that process.

More than 1,400 Missouri’s roughly 32,000 prison inmates are over the age of 60. Last year 104 of those inmates died while incarcerated, including 55 whose remains were not claimed by family.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Officials say at least 73 confirmed and probable cases of mumps have been reported at the University of Missouri.

The Columbia Missourian reports that many of the cases of the viral infection are linked to the school’s Greek life community.

The outbreak began in early November with four confirmed cases.

The executive director of the university’s health center says all infected students have been vaccinated, but the vaccine does not prevent 100 percent of infections.