FREMONT COUNTY, Iowa (AP) — Authorities are investigating after deer hunters discovered a man’s body underneath a highway bridge in southwest Iowa over the weekend.

The hunters found the body under a U.S. Highway 2 bridge in Fremont County’s Waubonsie Access Wildlife Management Area.

The Fremont County Sheriff’s office says the death appears suspicious and an autopsy is planned.

DIXON, Mo. (AP) — A south-central Missouri sheriff is hoping new information could help identify the remains of a child found three years ago.

Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long says he wants to try one last time before closing the case of the remains of the child found near Dixon in the fall of 2013. The remains, which consisted of the child’s skull, were discovered by a photographer.

Recent test results from the University of Arizona-Tucson showed the child died sometime between 1967 and 1972, which is earlier than authorities had originally believed.

The child, whose gender hasn’t been determined, would have been born between 1957 and 1959 and would have been between about 10 and 12 years old at the time of death.

ANITA, Iowa (AP) — Authorities believe snow contributed to a crash that killed three people and injured eight in a multiple-vehicle crash on Interstate 80 in western Iowa.

The Des Moines Register reports a westbound semitrailer truck crossed into oncoming traffic about three miles west of the Anita, Iowa, exit on Saturday morning in snowy conditions.

Iowa State Patrol Sgt. Nathan Ludwig says the semi crashed into a minivan and continued into the ditch, but the truck’s trailer remained on I-80 and an SUV smashed into it.

The collisions killed 41-year-old Rodney Sanborn of Greta, Nebraska, and 14-year-old Jameson Steckler and 11-year-old Gavin Steckler. The Stecklers from Audubon, Iowa, were in the minivan. Sanborn was in the SUV.

Ludwig says the 31-year-old driver of the semi was driving too fast. He wasn’t hurt.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A new state trail extension will soon enable cyclists to access the Katy Trail from Columbia and ride nearly all the way to Kansas City, Missouri.

The Missourian newspaper reports that the first 47.6 miles of Rock Island Trail State Park will open Saturday. The trail will connect to Katy Trail in Winsor and continue west to Pleasant Hill, which is about 30 miles southeast of Kansas City.

The distance between the trail system’s western end and Columbia is 135 miles.

There are plans to eventually build a cross-state trail along the old Rock Island corridor. It’ll intersect the Katy Trail at both ends to form a nearly 460-mile loop.

Bike enthusiast Mark Bendel has been riding the Katy Trail since the first section opened in 1990. He says he’s looking forward to the new routes.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A woman assaulted as a girl during a 1982 attack that killed her mother wants Missouri’s governor to free the man imprisoned the past three decades for the crimes, insisting he’s innocent.

Melissa Neal DeBoer, now 42, wrote in an application for executive commutation to Gov. Jay Nixon this week that she’s “heartbroken” that her now-recanted testimony helped convict Rodney Lincoln.

Seventy-two-year-old Lincoln has served 33 years of a life sentence since being convicted of manslaughter in the 1982 death of 35-year-old JoAnn Tate, who was killed in her home. Her two young daughters, including DeBoer at the age of 7, were assaulted.

Lincoln, originally was charged with capital murder, consistently has professed his innocence.

A Nixon spokesman, Scott Holste, says any commutation applications Nixon gets are reviewed.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon will work as a private attorney at a suburban St. Louis law firm when his term ends in January.

Nixon spokesman Scott Holste confirmed on Friday that the outgoing governor will work for the Dowd Bennett firm in Clayton.

Nixon’s new job first was reported by Missouri Lawyers Weekly.

The Democratic governor was barred by term limits from seeking re-election this year and will be succeeded Jan. 9 by Republican Gov.-elect Eric Greitens.

Nixon received his law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

He practiced law in DeSoto before being elected in 1986 to the Missouri Senate and has been in public office since then. He served 16 years as attorney general before winning election as governor in 2008.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former director of Missouri’s unemployment benefits agency has agreed to a $2 million settlement to drop a discrimination lawsuit against Gov. Jay Nixon’s administration.

Settlement documents provided Friday under open-records laws show the state is to pay $1.2 million to Gracia Backer and an additional $800,000 to her attorneys at Roger Brown and Associates.

Backer claimed she was fired in March 2013 as director of the Employment Security Division in retaliation for complaining to the governor’s office about her boss, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Director Larry Rebman. Backer had alleged that Rebman was creating a hostile work environment and discriminating against older female employees.

Rebman denied the allegations.

The settlement includes no admission of wrongdoing and says Backer cannot reapply for a state job.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Colleges that expel students whom they suspect of sexual assault are being asked to specify the reason for expulsion on their transcripts, but opponents say that would be unfair.

Two states require their schools of higher learning to make such notations and a California congresswoman introduced a measure Thursday that would require them nationwide while allowing them to eventually be expunged.

Supporters say they’re critical to ensuring a sex offender doesn’t end up on other campuses without the new schools knowing of the potential risk.

Opponents point out that such students are often never criminally charged and that the bar for schools to find someone culpable is lower than the criminal justice system’s standard of beyond a reasonable doubt.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican Gov.-elect Eric Greitens spent more on his campaign than what’s been spent total on any other gubernatorial race in state history.

Campaign finance records released Thursday show Greitens spent more than $28.7 million during a race that broke records for its price tag.

That’s about $1 million more than what all three candidates combined spent during what previously was the state’s priciest race for governor in 2004.

Greitens’ Democratic rival, Chris Koster, spent about $25 million.

Greitens has continued to rake in money. He received at least $1.6 million in a final blitz of contributions made before new voter-imposed campaign contribution limits kicked in Thursday.

Donors gave at least $3.2 million to state candidates on Wednesday, the last day before the $2,600 limit per election took effect.