JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Lottery officials say someone who purchased a Powerball ticket in St. Louis for the Fourth of July drawing has won the $70 million jackpot.

Lottery spokeswoman May Scheve Reardon says that as of Wednesday, nobody has come forward to claim what is the state’s ninth-largest lottery prize.

The winning ticket was sold at a St. Louis Gas Mart, which will receive a $50,000 bonus for selling the jackpot winner.

Reardon encourages the winner to get professional tax and legal advice before taking the signed ticket to lottery headquarters in Jefferson City.

She says the winner has until Dec. 31 to claim the prize.

The winning numbers from the drawing were: 3, 6, 14, 18, 24 and the Powerball number was 21.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City man is dead after a tire flew over the concrete barrier in the median of Interstate 70 and crashed through his windshield.

The Kansas City Star reports the 23-year-old Independence man was eastbound on the interstate near the Blue Ridge Cut-Off on Monday evening when witnesses saw his car go off the highway and crash into a tree line around 7:30 p.m.

Investigators determined the car had been hit by a tire from a westbound vehicle, possibly from a trailer.

Police say the victim was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died Tuesday evening. His 20-year-old female passenger sustained nonlife-threatening injuries.

The tire hit a second vehicle but that driver was uninjured.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Republican candidate for Missouri secretary of state now can gather signatures for an initiative petition to allow lawmakers to require voter identification.

Democratic Secretary of State Jason Kander on Tuesday announced the proposed constitutional amendment can begin circulating.

St. Louis Republican Jay Ashcroft is pushing the initiative petition. It would allow the Legislature to require voters to present photo identification at the polls.

Ashcroft is beginning a tour of Missouri to promote the initiative petition.

Ashcroft faces fellow Republican state Sen. Will Kraus, of Lee’s Summit, in a bid for secretary of state in 2016. Kraus also has introduced measures to place voter ID on the ballot.

Kander is running for U.S. Senate in 2016. So far there is no Democratic candidate for secretary of state.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hallmark Cards says it plans to add about 400 employees in the next year at its distribution plant in Liberty, Missouri, while phasing out a plant in Enfield, Connecticut.

The company said Tuesday the moves will consolidate its warehouse and distribution operations. About 570 employees in Enfield were told Tuesday their jobs will end during the next few months. The center, which has operated for 62 years, will close by June of 2016.

Dave Hall, president of Hallmark North America, says the Liberty plant was chosen to be the only distribution site because it’s the larger of the two plants with a central location.

The Liberty warehouse is expected to employ between 1,100 and 1,200 full-time workers by this time next year.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is joining at least one other state in offering a tax exemption for stillbirths.

Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon this week signed legislation allowing parents with a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth to exempt $1,200 from their income taxes, starting this year.

Arizona appears to be the only other state with a similar policy.

Republican Sen. Ed Emery of Lamar offered the proposal. He says his wife miscarried three times. Emery says families have medical expenses even if a pregnant woman does not deliver a live baby.

The bill received overwhelming support in Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature.

But some Democrats raised concerns that it could fuel broader definitions of personhood, which some say could restrict access to abortions.

The law takes effect Aug. 28.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. (AP) — Lincoln County Sheriff Jerome Kramer says car that carried two teenagers into the rushing waters of the South Platte River has been recovered with two bodies inside.

Rescuers pulled the car from the river Tuesday morning after building a temporary road to allow an excavator to approach the car.

Kramer says dental records will be used to identify the bodies found in the car over the next few days.

Officials have said 17-year-old Alexis Wiezorek and 18-year-old Noah Ramos have been missing since May 18, when they drove into the river, which had washed out a road on the south side of North Platte.

The rushing waters of the river made it difficult for authorities to recover the car before this week.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Food manufacturer General Mills Inc. has updated its animal welfare policy to include a major move toward cage-free eggs.

Minnesota-based General Mills says it’s committed to going to 100 percent cage-free eggs for its U.S. operations, following several other large companies recently announcing similar moves. The company says it will work with its suppliers to determine a reasonable timeline, given the disruption that bird flu has caused to the U.S. egg supply.

Eggs are an important ingredient in many products for General Mills, whose brands include Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Progresso soups and Hamburger Helper.

The updated policy also affects General Mills’ milk, pork and poultry suppliers.

General Mills worked with the Humane Society of the United States, which calls it a major victory to improve the lives of farm animals.

WARRENTON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a St. Louis-area man wrote his own name and address on an envelope he used to send a painkiller to a jailed inmate.

KMOV-TV reports that Warren County prosecutors have charged 58-year-old Kenneth Dufrenne of St. Charles with felony drug distribution.

Investigators say in a probable-cause statement included in court records that Dufrenne alleged put six squared strips underneath three stamps on an envelope last November.

Authorities allegedly had the strips tested and found them to contain a controlled painkiller.

Online court records don’t show whether Dufrenne has an attorney.

ZIONSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Subway says a raid at the Zionsville, Indiana, home of its spokesman Jared Fogle is likely linked to an investigation into an employee at the foundation he founded to combat childhood obesity.

In a brief emailed statement, the restaurant chain expresses shock and concern at the raid on Fogle’s home.

Subway says the company believes the raid “is related to a prior investigation of a former Jared Foundation employee.”

In May, federal prosecutors in Indianapolis charged 43-year-old Russell Taylor with seven counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. Taylor is the former head of the Jared Foundation.

Fogle became a Subway spokesman after losing 245 pounds by regularly eating Subway sandwiches.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a Kansas father and son were injured when their car exploded.

The explosion Sunday near Topeka had such force the roof of the car was peeled back.

Authorities say Jacob Schell and his 4-year-old son, Roman, were injured in the explosion.

Jacob Schell’s brother, Alex, says the car exploded because of fireworks inside. He said the family had been celebrating the Fourth of July and the two victims were headed home when fireworks they had in the car went off.

They were flown to the University of Kansas Hospital, where their conditions were not immediately available.

The Kansas Fire Marshal is investigating.