FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A yearly festival in Ferguson that was postponed last summer in the wake of the police shooting death there of Michael Brown is gearing up to return this weekend.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the St. Louis suburb’s StreetFest is scheduled to take place from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday. That’s the same day city launches the Ferguson Farmers Market summer season.

The event will include food and specialty vendors, a morning workout class, relay races, karaoke, children’s activities, and bands throughout the day with the Soulard Blues Band as the headliner.

The festival was to have taken place last September but was put off because of unrest that followed the Aug. 9 shooting death of 18-year-old Brown by a white Ferguson police officer.  (Click the graphic to visit the Ferguson Farmers’ Market Web site.)

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) Authorities say a southwest Missouri man impersonated a police officer so he could pull over drivers that irritated him and lecture them on their bad driving habits.

Twenty-year-old Jacob Trammell of Willard is charged with impersonating a police officer after he allegedly used red and blue lights on his personal vehicle to stop other drivers.

The Springfield News-Leader reports court records show Trammell told Greene County Sheriff’s deputies he was a student at the Missouri Sheriff’s Association Law Enforcement Academy. He said he stopped several people and also helped at traffic accidents.

He was arrested when a driver realized he was not driving an official police vehicle and called authorities.

Trammell’s bond is $2,500. He does not have a lawyer listed in online court documents.

MAIZE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas highway has reopened after cowboys helped round up cattle that escaped a semitrailer that had rolled over near Wichita.

The Kansas Highway Patrol says Kansas 96 near Maize reopened about noon. It was closed when the truck crashed around 4 a.m. Wednesday northwest of Wichita. The driver was not hurt.

The driver was hauling about 60 cattle from Hutchinson to Eureka. About five cattle died in the accident. Several others escaped the truck and roamed near the highway.

Cowboys and animal control workers were called in to corral the cattle and get them into another truck.

Authorities say heavy rain may have contributed to the accident.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Kansas City is likely to pay another $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit over overtime pay for public safety workers.

The City Council’s finance committee approved the proposed settlement Wednesday of a lawsuit brought by 113 public safety workers who say they did not receive all required overtime pay.

The settlement comes nearly a year after the city agreed to pay nearly $2 million to 123 paramedics and emergency medical technicians who once worked for the Metropolitan Ambulance Services Trust.

The paramedics and technicians said they should have been paid overtime after working 40 hours in a week but the city didn’t pay them overtime until they worked more than 49 hours.

The Kansas City Star reports the City Council is expected to approve the settlement Thursday.

ST. LOUIS (AP) Two Missouri lawmakers are introducing legislation to reform federal programs providing military equipment to police, addressing concerns raised by those who believe that police overreached during protests in Ferguson by using armored vehicles and high-caliber weapons in a military-style response.

Sen. Claire McCaskill on Thursday introduced the Protecting Communities and Police Act. U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay of St. Louis plans to introduce a companion bill in the House next week. Both are Democrats.

McCaskill says the goal is to protect both police and the communities they serve by revising federal programs that send equipment and funding to police.

Clay says the bill addresses what he calls “excessive militarization of local police,” something that he says he witnessed during protests in Ferguson that followed the shooting death of Michael Brown.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Service and technology companies based in Missouri will have the option of calculating their taxes in a way that supporters of the measure say avoids double taxation.

Governor Jay Nixon signed a bill Wednesday that gives more companies a tax calculation option that lawmakers say they always intended to apply to all businesses, not just manufacturing companies.

The measure updates a 2013 law that Republican Senator Will Kraus, the bill sponsor, says was interpreted incorrectly by the state Department of Revenue.

Nixon says the clarification guarantees a level playing field for technology and service-based businesses.

Representatives from H and R Block and Cerner testified in support of the measure in a Senate hearing earlier this year.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican-controlled Legislature has passed a bill barring cities from adopting ordinances on plastic bags and employee benefits.

House members voted 105-48 Wednesday for the bill, which passed the Senate a day earlier. It now goes to Democratic Governor Jay Nixon.

The bill would bar ordinances such as one considered in Columbia prohibiting grocers from using plastic bags. It also would bar policies such as a Kansas City proposal setting a “living wage” above the state minimum wage, or local ordinances requiring certain employee benefits.

Missouri law already bars cities from requiring wages above the state’s minimum wage.

Democratic lawmakers criticized Republican supporters of the bill for stripping local control.

Republicans defended the bill as protecting business from having to comply with a variety of different local policies.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Senate has approved a bill that would cap fines for minor traffic violations, set minimum standards for cities and change municipal court procedures.

The proposal approved Wednesday is one of several seeking to address concerns raised by some residents in the St. Louis area following last year’s fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer.

A federal Justice Department report found that Ferguson’s municipal courts were used to generate money for the city.

The Missouri legislation would lower the percentage of revenue cities could get from traffic violations from 30 percent to 20 percent. Municipalities in St. Louis County would be subject to a 12.5 percent limit.

The measure now awaits a final vote in the House after passing the Senate 31-3.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A strain of bird flu responsible for the deaths of millions of chickens and turkeys in several states is spreading across Missouri.

The Missouri Department of Agriculture confirmed Wednesday that a backyard flock of mixed poultry in northeast Missouri’s Lewis County has been found to be infected with a strain of H5N2 flu.

The department says a dozen birds were infected, and an additional 130 birds were quarantined and destroyed.

The bird flu virus is carried by wild waterfowl that aren’t sickened by it, and human infections are unlikely.

Missouri last month lifted quarantines involving a turkey farm in central Missouri’s Moniteau County and another in southwestern Missouri’s Jasper County. Roughly 51,000 birds were destroyed as part of those outbreaks.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says continued revenue growth means he can release an additional $67 million he initially restricted for this year’s budget.

The money released Wednesday includes $10 million in transportation aid for local school districts, $15 million for college scholarships and millions more in matching funds for building projects at public universities.

Nixon had restricted the money last summer to keep the budget balanced but he says state revenues now are sufficient to spend it.

Revenues have grown 7.7 percent this fiscal year, which runs through June 30.

But that’s still short of what Nixon’s administration says is needed to fully fund the budget. So he is continuing to block the expenditure of $269 million in the budget.