POLICE SEEK FAILED THIEVES

JACKSON, Mo. -- Police are looking for two men who, despite having the keys, tried and failed to steal a car at a gas station Saturday.

A 29-year-old woman from Jackson had stopped for gas at Easy Pump at 114 S. Union St. about 3:50 p.m., Sgt. Howard Hammers said. When she went inside the store to pay, she left her keys in the car. Then a man climbed into her Chevrolet Corsica and attempted to drive off.

As the woman came out of the store, she saw the man and yelled "What are you doing?" Hammers said. The man fled to a white '80s model Ford Mustang where another man was waiting and drove off.

The Mustang's license plates were described as either from Florida or Tennessee, Hammers said.