ST. LOUIS (AP) — More than 100 St. Louis businesses will keep paying workers at least $10 an hour, even though a law takes effect later this month that rescinds the city minimum wage and returns it to the same wage as the rest of Missouri.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that dozens of restaurants and stores have signed on to a “Save the Raise” campaign to persuade employers to disregard the change back to the state minimum. Organizers have threatened boycotts against companies that cut pay.

St. Louis’ higher minimum wage was implemented in May. The Republican-led Missouri Legislature then passed a measure barring local government from enacting minimum wages different from the state minimum. The St. Louis wage reverts to the state minimum effective Aug. 28.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police say two men wanted in a fatal shooting in Tulsa have been arrested, one in Missouri and one in North Dakota.

Police said Sunday that 24-year-old Maurice Sanders was arrested Saturday in Bismarck, North Dakota, and 27-year-old Justin Brooks was arrested Friday in Kansas City, Missouri.

They and 23-year-old Cedric Warrior are charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 1 shooting death of 39-year-old David Jones.

Warrior was arrested shortly after the shooting. Court records do not list an attorney for any of the suspects.

Police say Jones was dead, sitting in the driver’s seat of a sport utility vehicle after it crashed into the bedroom of an east Tulsa home.

An 8-year-old boy and his mother were sleeping in the room, but were not injured.

MARSHFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Marshfield man has been convicted of killing a woman and leaving her body near a southwest Missouri creek, where it was discovered nearly a year later.

The Springfield News-Leader reports 36-year-old Kevin Newman was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old Ashley Onescu.

Onescu was reported missing in the summer of 2014. Her bones were found in April 2015 by Panther Creek near Rogersville.

Prosecutors say the victim had been bound before she was stabbed to death. They say Onescu was killed because she owed Newman money.

Jill Porter, Newman’s attorney, argued the prosecution witnesses never saw the murder and were unreliable and inconsistent.

She also said Newman had no motive to kill Onescu because he believed it was a man who took money from him.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas State Board of Education is set to take the first official step toward enacting sweeping changes in the way the state’s public schools are accredited and held accountable.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the 10-member board is expected to receive a set of new regulations Tuesday that represent the first overhaul of an accreditation system that has been in place since 1992.

The system known as Quality Performance and Accreditation grew out of a movement in the 1970s and 1980s known as outcomes-based education, in which individual schools were held accountable for the results they produced. The new Kansas Education System Accreditation represents a massive change, in part by accrediting whole districts instead of individual schools.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dunkin’ is thinking about dumping “Donuts” from its name.

A new location of the chain in Pasadena, California, will be simply called Dunkin’, a move that parent company Dunkin’ Brands Inc. calls a test. The Canton, Massachusetts-based company says a few other stores will get the one-name treatment too.

The chain wants people to think of its stores as a destination for coffee, not just doughnuts. Dunkin’ Donuts says it won’t make a decision on whether it will change its name until late next year, when it expects to start redesigning stores.

News of the test was first reported by Nation’s Restaurant News.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis-area branch of the NAACP is pushing back against an advisory supported by state and national NAACP members that urges caution while traveling in Missouri.

St. Louis County NAACP President Esther Haywood said in a statement Thursday that the advisory could end up hurting workers in the state’s hospitality industry.

The Missouri NAACP issued the advisory in June to warn travelers to be careful because of what it called a danger that civil rights won’t be respected, and national delegates also voted in favor of it. The advisory cites a new law to make it more difficult to sue for housing or employment discrimination, among other things.

Haywood says the local branch doesn’t approve of the legislation but cautioned the travel advisory could harm NAACP members.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A new Missouri law has made 183 St. Louis teachers eligible for retirement, though the district’s top administrator and union members don’t expect an exodus of teachers.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the school district is sending teachers a letter signed by Superintendent Kelvin Adams and the American Federation of Teachers’ local president, Sally Topping, urging retirement-eligible teachers to stay.

Adams and the union say many of the teachers would have to pay hundreds of dollars a month out-of-pocket for health care if they retire early from the district that already has about 45 teaching vacancies.

A small provision of a new pension law that takes effect Aug. 28 allows teachers to retire when their years of service plus age total 80, down from 85.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — An Illinois woman is accused of stealing more than $77,000 from the suburban St. Louis day care she directed.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that St. Louis County prosecutors have charged 35-year-old Sara Carle of Freeburg, Illinois, with felony count of receiving stolen property.

Authorities allege that Carle stole the money from the Bright Star Academy day care center in Overland between September 2014 and August of last year.

Carle served as the center’s director from July 2012 until she resigned in March.

Court documents show that Carle told police she didn’t steal from the center.

Messages left by The Associated Press with Carle’s attorney, Patrick Ochs, were not immediately returned.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A fire official says about 10 people were sickened by a suspicious package in the mailroom of a sprawling IRS building in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.

Kansas City Fire Department spokesman James Garrett says 10 people complained of feeling ill, including vomiting and sweating, after the package arrived at the building early Friday. He says two people were taken to the hospital.

Garrett says the Fire Department was checking for gasses and fumes, but investigators have not determined what was in the package that caused the symptoms. He says the package was isolated from the public.

The building was not evacuated and has returned to normal business.

Garrett says the investigation has been turned over to the IRS and other federal authorities.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City mail carrier pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing gift cards and checks from postal customers in Independence.

Federal prosecutors say 34-year-old Audrey Odell, of Blue Springs, pleaded guilty Thursday to theft of mail by a postal employee.

Odell admitted she stole about 150 gift cards and 150 checks from routes in Independence, causing an estimated loss of $2,500 from about 75 customers.

After receiving complaints about possible mail theft, postal inspectors placed test pieces with gift cards addressed to fictitious addresses along Odell’s route. The mail should have been returned as undeliverable. In February 2017, Odell was arrested after several pieces of mail, including the test mailings, in Odell’s vehicle.

No sentencing date has been scheduled.