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HIGH RIDGE, Mo. — Due to road construction on I-44, shooters using the Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Jay Henges Shooting Range located at Antire Road will have to use a modified route to access or exit the range, depending on their direction of travel.
ST. LOUIS — Area educators will have a chance to expand their professional credentials and acquire helpful educational resources with the upcoming Missouri Department of Conservation’s (MDC) Discover Nature Schools Conservation Workshop for Teachers.
KANSAS CITY, Mo -- Rising air currents held a peregrine falcon aloft above this city’s skyscrapers. To onlookers atop the 30-story Commerce Tower at 911 Main St. the bird was a distant, dark shape floating effortlessly in mid-air. But then, the raptor cupped its wings into an aerodynamic "V" and dived in a 200-mph “stoop” toward the onlookers. In an eye blink the falcon went from distant to near and then veered overhead back into blue sky.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo -- The Missouri Office of Administration, Division of Personnel, recently announced winners of the 2012 Missouri State Employee Awards of Distinction in the categories of Public Service, Leadership, Safety and Heroism. Winners were recognized and awarded at a special ceremony on Thursday, May 10, in the Governor’s Office.
PERRY, Mo – A little luck nabbed a record size largemouth bass for 20-year-old Dylan Gilmore of Perry. Gilmore and his friend, Austin Lake, had set their trotline on April 27 using goldfish as bait, hoping to catch some catfish at Ka-Tonka Lake, located in Ka-Tonka Game Preserve and Sporting Clays Club in Ralls County. When they returned the next day to check their line, Gilmore realized they had caught something. When pulling the line to their boat, what he assumed was a catfish instead turned into something a little more.
LAKE OF THE OZARKS, Mo — Rachel Davis, 35, of Climax Springs was enjoying an evening of fishing on the shores of Lake of the Ozarks April 14 with her husband, David, and a friend when her newly purchased Zebco 202 fishing pole snagged something.
“When I caught it, I thought I had a 20-pound fish. I yelled to my husband to fetch a net to help haul it out,” Davis recalled. “It felt like it was bigger than it was and even jumped out of the water a couple times.”