CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A southeastern Missouri woman is jailed after being accused of hitting an 18-year-old woman with a baseball bat.

The (Cape Girardeau) Southeast Missourian reported that 59-year-old Larcene Robinson of Cape Girardeau is charged with second-degree assault and armed criminal action.

Police say the victim of the attack Saturday afternoon was conscious when emergency responders arrived, though she complained of head pain and dizziness. The victim was taken to a hospital. Her medical status was not immediately clear Tuesday.

Authorities have not released a possible motive.

Online court records do not show whether Robinson has an attorney who can speak on her behalf.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — An audit shows Missouri’s revenue department didn’t pay nearly $20 million owed to closed businesses.

The state audit released Tuesday shows the agency had not returned about $19.4 million in cash bonds as of June 2014.

Businesses must submit a bond or letter of credit to the Department of Revenue before they can collect sales tax. Businesses can get that money back after two years of properly paying sales taxes or if they close and don’t owe taxes.

But Democratic Auditor Nicole Galloway says the Revenue Department only returns the cash bonds when businesses request a refund.

The agency in a response included in the audit said it recently started returning bonds. An automatic refund system is set to take effect next year. An agency spokeswoman didn’t immediately comment further.

HILLSBORO, Mo. (AP) — One of two Missouri men charged with killing a southwest Florida doctor is scheduled for a court hearing that could decide whether he’ll be returned to Florida to face prosecution.

Forty-seven-year-old Curtis Wayne Wright Jr. is jailed in Missouri. He’s to appear in court Tuesday morning in Jefferson County, south of St. Louis.

Wright and 25-year-old Jimmy Ray Rodgers of Cadet, Missouri, are charged in the June killing of 46-year-old Teresa Sievers. The body of that holistic physician and mother of two was found in her Bonita Springs, Florida, home.

Wright grew up with Sievers’ husband in Hillsboro.

Rodgers was sentenced this month to six months in prison for violating probation in a 2011 case in which he pleaded guilty to being a felon in unlawful possession of a firearm.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The Columbia School Board has unanimously approved the addition of gender identity and gender expression to the district’s anti-discrimination policy.

The issue was first brought to the board’s attention in May, and it took a final vote Monday night, the first meeting of the new school year.

Superintendent Peter Stiepleman says there are eight students attending Columbia Public Schools this year who identify as transgender.

The Columbia Missourian reports that he sought the policy change to ensure the district makes transgender students feel safe and comfortable at school.

The district’s anti-discrimination policy is in place to protect both students and faculty.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is ordering a ban on sales of four cigarette brands from R.J. Reynolds because they do not meet the agency’s safety review requirements.

Under FDA rules, companies that launch new cigarettes must show that the products are essentially the same as older products in terms of health risks. The FDA said four brands from R.J. Reynolds failed to show that they don’t raise new safety concerns.

The brands are Camel Crush Bold, Pall Mall Deep Set, Pall Mall Deep Set Menthol and Vantage Tech 13.

In 2009 the FDA gained authority to regulate some aspects of cigarettes and other tobacco products. The agency can evaluate new tobacco products for their health risks and ban those that raise uncertain health risks.

An email was sent seeking comment from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A Joplin councilman resigned the same day a censure hearing was scheduled to resolve ethics questions.

Councilman Mike Woolston reached an agreement with the City Council Monday to resign, while the council acknowledged Woolston did not benefit financially from real estate transactions involving the city.

Woolston, a real estate agent, was mayor during the May 2011 tornado.

A council investigation report early last year accused him of using his knowledge of city redevelopment plans to broker property. The allegations also were included in a state audit of the city of Joplin released in August.

The council said Woolston did not use private information or the prestige of his office for his personal benefit, although he could have been more transparent about his business dealings.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republicans are changing the way they award delegates in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Republicans traditionally have awarded all of the state’s presidential delegates for the Republican National Convention to whoever gets the most votes in the statewide primary. But in 2016, that will occur only if one candidate gets greater than half of the statewide vote.

Otherwise, Republicans plan to divide their 52 delegates. The top vote getter statewide will get nine delegates and the top vote getter in each of the state’s eight congressional districts will get five delegates. The state party chairman and two national committee members also will each get a delegate vote at the national convention.

State Republican officials say they hope the change will make Missouri a more competitive place to campaign.