BELLEFONTAINE NEIGHBORS, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis County woman is now in custody, three years after she allegedly tried to kill her boyfriend in Memphis, Tennessee, by dousing him with gasoline and setting him on fire.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that U.S. Marshals on Friday arrested 38-year-old Tamika Jones of Bellefontaine Neighbor. She is held without bail pending transfer to Shelby County, Tennessee, where she faces attempted murder and assault charges.

Jones is accused of pouring gasoline on Cedric Garrison in May 2012 outside a Memphis convenience store. Authorities say she had been living in Bellefontaine Neighbors under an alias.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — The former director of a women’s shelter in southeast Missouri faces sentencing Sept. 21 after pleading guilty to felony stealing.

The Southeast Missourian reports that 44-year-old Allison Leonard was accused of misappropriating more than $20,000 from the Safe House for Women in Cape Girardeau. She pleaded guilty Monday. Prosecutors agreed to drop a second charge of fraudulent use of a credit device.

Leonard worked for Safe House for a decade before being named executive director in November 2013. She was fired a year and eventually charged for using Safe House’s credit card to buy items for personal use.

AFFTON, Mo. (AP) — Drivers pulled over by police in the Affton area of St. Louis County for a minor traffic violation recently got a surprise: No ticket, but a suggestion to instead donate money to a food pantry or some other worthy cause.

The “pantry ticket” or “courtesy card” are issued only to drivers who would just get a warning anyway. Chief Jon Belmar says he wants to spread the initiative countywide to help improve relations between residents and police.

Last year’s fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a now-former Ferguson police officer brought attention to the tension between police and the public. A Justice Department report criticized many St. Louis County municipalities whose finances depended heavily upon their law enforcement to produce traffic fine revenue.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri state senator has left his credit union job following allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances toward Capitol interns.

CommunityAmerica Credit Union says Sen. Paul LeVota resigned his job as a management trainer at the financial institution.

An Associated Press request to LeVota for comment wasn’t immediately returned Monday.

The Independence Democrat last month also announced plans to resign from his seat as a state senator effective Aug. 23.

His planned departure from the Legislature comes after one intern accused him of sexual harassment. The July release of a Senate investigation into that intern’s complaint led another intern to come forward and claim LeVota made unwanted sexual advances toward her in 2010.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Immunize Kansas Coalition says teenagers in Kansas are among the least likely to be vaccinated against human papillomavirus.

Coalition chairman John Eplee says only 21 percent of teens in Kansas have received all three doses of the vaccine.

That’s one of the lowest rates in the country in 2013. Kansas teens rank in the bottom quarter for meningococcal meningitis vaccination rates.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that boys and girls be vaccinated at age 11 or 12, before sexual activity begins. According to the CDC, most people who are sexually active at some point in their lives contract at least one form of HPV.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska woman’s six backyard chickens have ruffled her neighbors, who want a judge to force her to immediately get rid of the birds.

Stacy Williams has chicken coops, a compost pile and a fruit and vegetable garden in her backyard. Her Trendwood neighbors, Bradley A. and Lynn M. Perry, are suing her over the animals, and their attorney says they’re concerned about property values.

The Trendwood neighborhood has covenants that bar homeowners from raising livestock. But in 1969, Trendwood was annexed by Omaha. The city’s ordinance allows backyard chickens so long as the prospective chicken owner gets a county permit.

Williams got her permit last year. She said she’ll fight for her chickens, largely because her son loves them.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Seven young basketball players in Wichita for a weekend tournament are arrested after police say they went on an assault spree over the weekend.

The boys were from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and ranged in age from 12 to 18 years old.

Police say they were in town for the Mid America Youth Basketball tournament. Police spokesman Lt. James Espinoza says officers responded around 11 p.m. Sunday to a home where a 48-year-old man reported the group of teens approached him as he stood on his front porch.

Espinoza says the youths yelled at him and threw rocks, bottles, bricks and concrete chunks. He says the group beat a 28-year-old man who fled the house, and a later 32-year-old man who was riding his bicycle.

NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — A Taco Bell in Newton has fired an employee who wrote an insult on the wrappers of tacos ordered by a police officer and his fiancee.

Police and Taco Bell officials say the employee wrote “PIG” on the to-go orders for the couple Saturday in Newton.

The officer complained to the restaurant and pictures of the taco wrappers circulated on social media.

Jeff Graves, senior director of operations for Taco Bell, said Monday the worker was fired.

He says Taco Bell strongly supports law enforcement and the company apologizes to the officer, his fiancee and all Newton police officers.

Graves says the restaurant and Newton police are already working together to plan an event to show support for officers and the community.