CASSVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon kicked off trout fishing season with a bang of a gun at Roaring River State Park, marking the moment in which anglers could reel in the fish.

The Cassville Democrat reports that Nixon spent Monday night in a cabin and fired the gun at the park’s gazebo at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Nixon said state parks had record attendance last year and that trout parks heavily contributed to the numbers. Afterward, Nixon fished for about 30 minutes, reeling in at least three trout.

The park sold more than 1,000 adult and nearly 200 children fishing tags for the event. Those numbers are less than the approximately 1,200 adult tags and 250 children’s tags in significantly colder temperatures in 2011, the last Tuesday opening.

KEOKUK, Iowa (AP) — Authorities say a man who escaped from a Missouri county jail was captured after officers blocked the vehicle he was driving on a highway bridge into southeast Iowa.

Twenty-six-year-old Jessie Sturm was taken into custody without incident Tuesday morning. Authorities say Sturm had kicked his way through a cell ceiling at the Clark County Jail in Kahoka and eventually walked out the jail’s front door late Monday night. It’s believed he stole the pickup he was driving when spotted and then chased by Hamilton, Illinois, police, early Tuesday.

The Illinois officers pursued Sturm onto the Hamilton-Keokuk Bridge, which the Keokuk officers had blocked during the morning commute.

He’d been jailed while awaiting a hearing on an eluding charge filed after his September 2015 arrest for a Clark County chase.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Catholic high school in Columbia, Missouri, will no longer purchase its school uniforms from Lands’ End after the company featured feminist and political activist Gloria Steinem in its spring catalog.

The Columbia Missourian reports that Fr. Tolton Regional Catholic High School cut ties to the Wisconsin-based company soon after receiving the catalog. Principal Kristie Wolfe says it would be contrary to the school’s identity to support a company that celebrates the work of someone who backs abortion.

Steinem, a longtime advocate for reproductive rights, was featured in the company’s print and online catalog.

The retailer issued an apology and removed the Steinem feature from its website last week after customers complained about her support for abortion rights.

The school has purchased uniforms from Lands’ End since it opened in August 2011.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been charged with advertising on Craigslist for the identities of children he could claim as dependents on his taxes.

The U.S. attorney’s office says 37-year-old Raheem McClain, of Ozark, was charged in a three-count indictment that was unsealed Tuesday. The indictment alleges that he was behind a January 2015 Craigslist posting that said: “If you have some kids you aren’t claiming, I will pay you $750 each to claim them on my income tax.”

He is accused of filing in February 2015 false returns for 2012, 2013 and 2014 in which he listed three purported dependents. Prosecutors say there was inconsistency in whether the children were identified as sons or daughters.

His public defender didn’t immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press.

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — A cat is being credited with alerting a Cedar Falls resident to an apartment fire.

A resident told Fire Chief John Schilling that a pet cat kept meowing at the ceiling of an apartment Monday night, prompting the resident to notice heat coming from above. Fire crews found a fire in the attic of the building that caused significant damage to the roof structures.

Residents of one unit were displaced but there were no injuries. The investigation revealed that the fire was caused by an electrical problem in a bedroom light fixture.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (AP) — Authorities have arrested two men in what the state patrol is calling a murder-for-hire plot. The Nebraska State Patrol says 37-year-old Robert Honken, of Aurora, was arrested Monday after he agreed to pay an undercover investigator to kill his estranged wife.

Authorities say Honken gave the investigator a cash deposit and agreed to pay the rest after the murder.

Honken drove away after the deal, but was stopped by a state trooper and taken to Hall County Jail on a conspiracy to commit murder charge.

Another man, 30-year-old Derrick Shirley, of Bradshaw, was also taken into custody on the same charge. Officials say Shirley was involved in a previous arrangement to kill Honken’s wife.

Court records don’t list attorneys for the men.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A bill that would let Nebraska adults suffering from a terminal illness legally end their own lives has stalled in committee, but its sponsor says he’s confident the Legislature will still debate it this year.

The Legislature’s Judiciary Committee voted 4-4 Tuesday on the bill by Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha.

Chambers says he will talk to committee members individually to try to secure another voter on the bill.

If committee members hold their positions, Chambers says there are other ways to get the issue debated on the floor, such as amending it to another bill or making a motion to pull it from committee.

Chambers has designated the measure his priority.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and Republican hopeful Marco Rubio are planning to come to Kansas this week ahead of the state’s presidential caucuses.

Sanders state director Shelby Iseler said Tuesday that the Vermont senator plans to have a rally Thursday evening in Lawrence at the 4H Building on the Douglas County Fairgrounds.

Some Kansas Democrats are predicting a close race in Saturday’s caucuses between Sanders and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Rubio’s campaign says he will be traveling Friday to Wichita for a rally, but the details haven’t been settled. The event would be the day before Kansas Republicans also caucus.

The Florida senator is battling businessman Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for the state’s national convention delegates.

HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say hypothermia killed a kidnapping suspect whose body was found in a wooded area of northeast Kansas.

On Monday, Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse released the findings of an autopsy report on the death of 32-year-old Jon Sumpter, of Silver Lake.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that a hunter found Sumpter’s body Jan. 31 about a half-mile south of the Nebo State Fishing Lake.

Morse said Sumpter was believed to be the suspect in a December kidnapping in which the victim escaped. The following day, the stolen sport utility vehicle that was believed to have been used in the kidnapping was found. It was located about three-fourths of a mile from where Sumpter’s shirtless body was later found.

Authorities believe Sumpter died weeks before his body was discovered.