Council members advance crackdown on convenience stores

Members of the Springfield City Council advanced a proposal at their committee of the whole meeting Tuesday evening that would crack down on convenience stores that have become a late-night nuisance in certain areas of the city.The proposal would bar convenience stores that do not sell gasoline from operating from between 1 and 5 a.m., ban the sale of anything not in original packaging and restrict gatherings inside such establishments to less than five people at a time between 10 […]