JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, April 16 -- The Missouri Department of Conservation issued the following news: After several years of successful antlered-elk hunting seasons for Missouri residents, the Missouri Department to Conservation (MDC) is considering adding a limited antlerless-elk hunting season for residents and wants public input. MDC reintroduced wild elk in portions of Carter, Reynolds, and Shannon counties in the Missouri Ozarks about a decade ago. According to MDC Elk and Deer Biologi  more

KIRKWOOD, Missouri, April 16 -- The Missouri Department of Conservation issued the following news: There's a new "sheriff" in town. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) now has a K-9 conservation agent in the St. Louis region, and the public is invited to meet her. Powder Valley Conservation Nature Center welcomes K-9 Conservation Agent Bertie and her partner, Cpl. Nick Bommarito, for a special program Friday, April 26 from 7 - 8:30 p.m. The event is free and open to all ages. Lincol  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, April 16 -- The Missouri House issued the following news: A House bill passed this week aims to keep students who stand up to bullies in Missouri from being punished along with those bullies. "Our goal is to make sure that a victim of violence, an immediate act of violence, isn't automatically suspended from school for being involved. It also allows a teacher to act in good faith to help a victim of immediate violence," said Representative Tricia Byrnes (R-St. Charle  more

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, April 16 -- The Missouri House issued the following news: House Speaker Dean Plocher and the Missouri House of Representatives are honored to announce the induction of Marie Watkins Oliver into the Hall of Famous Missourians. Marie Watkins Oliver, hailed as the "Betsy Ross of Missouri," played a pivotal role in crafting the Missouri State Flag. In 1908, Oliver, the wife of Senator Robert Burett Oliver and a resident of Cape Girardeau, headed the committee formed by th  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, April 16 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release on April 15, 2024: Attorney General Gentner Drummond and a coalition he is leading have filed a motion to stay the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new methane emissions rule. Filed Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the motion follows a petition introduced last month by Drummond and the coalition of 24 state attorneys general and a stat  more

ST. LOUIS, Missouri, April 15 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri issued the following news release: Three former residents of the St. Louis area accused of fraudulently obtaining $229,000 in pandemic loans in 2021 turned themselves in to authorities Monday in Fresno, California, where they now live. Brianna L. Bell-Maple, 23, Jemyla A. Bell, 38, and Leiah A. Vaughn, 22, were each indicted in U.S. District Court in St. Louis March 27 on two felony counts of   more