JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A state Senate committee is considering three bills that would update Missouri’s deadly force laws.

The News Tribune reports that the three bills presented to the Judiciary and Criminal and Civil Jurisprudence Committee on Tuesday have slightly different approaches to the issue.

Bill supporters say the current state law is outdated.

Missouri law allows police to use deadly force because of “reasonable belief” that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others. But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1985 that law officers may not use deadly force to prevent escape without “probable cause.”

Republican state Senator Bob Dixon, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, says the three bills will likely be combined into one before being presented to the full Senate for debate.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri and Peru have agreed to trade $300 million worth of products over the next four years.

Economic Development Director Mike Downing signed the pact Thursday with an official from Peru’s export and trade promotion board. The agreement comes two days after Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced a $750 million trade deal with Colombia.

Peru imported more than $25 million worth of Missouri goods and commodities in 2014. Food, chemicals, non-electrical machinery and fabricated metal products were the biggest exports to the South American country.

Nixon’s trade delegation is scheduled to return to the United States on Friday. The Hawthorn Foundation, a nonprofit organization that frequently finances gubernatorial trade missions, paid for the travel expenses of the governor and his wife.

FESTUS, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis-area man is accused of stealing a Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor from a pet store, then losing it inside a Lowe’s home improvement store.

Authorities say surveillance photos posted on the pet store’s Facebook page led to the suspect, 20-year-old Marshall Parsons of Festus. He was charged Wednesday with stealing an animal, and is jailed on $5,000 bond.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that snake remains missing — Parsons allegedly told authorities he lost it inside a Lowe’s in Festus.

Charging documents say Parsons was seen on surveillance cameras taking the snake from its case Nov. 30 at the Exotic Amphibian & Reptile Center in Lemay. The owner posted surveillance photos of the man he suspected taking the snake. Facebook friends identified the suspect as Parsons.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Agents with the Missouri Department of Conservation are investigating the shooting deaths of two bald eagles over the span of less than a week.

Both eagles were found dead in southeast Missouri late last month. Conservation agents say both were likely less than 4 years old.

Bald eagles are the national bird, protected by the federal Eagle Protection Act. Killing them can result in a $250,000 fine and up to two years in prison.

Conservation agents say the first eagle was found Jan. 25 near Patterson in Wayne County. It died a short time later.

The second eagle was found Jan. 29 in Reynolds County. It was dead by the time conservation agents arrived.

Agents don’t yet know if the two shootings are related.

NIXA, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri police building has reopened after a box of the potentially toxic chemical sodium cyanide was taken to a medical drop box there.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that a man took the box to the Nixa Police Department last Friday in an attempt to dispose of it. Lt. Jeff Lofton, of the Christian County Sheriff’s Department, says the man found the box after a move.

Whitney Weaver, of the Nixa Fire Protection District, says the man wound up taking the box with him when he left the police building.

Weaver says a clerk who handled a bottle in the box thought she felt ill effects. She and another clerk went to the hospital, but were OK. The building was closed for several days before reopening Wednesday.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Senate has voted to bar cities, counties and law enforcement agencies from setting traffic-ticket quotas.

Senators on Thursday unanimously passed legislation that would make it a crime for a public official to require any police officer to write a certain number of citations. The proposal would also prohibit supervisors from suggesting their subordinates issue more tickets.

A Republican and a Democrat from the St. Louis area sponsored the legislation. Sen. Eric Schmitt said politicians shouldn’t be pressuring police to bring in more revenue.

The Glendale Republican said this bill continues reforms launched after the unrest in Ferguson, pointing to proposed limits on ordinance violations and traffic fines that passed the Senate last week.

The bill now heads to the House.

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A former Olathe high school teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student has pleaded guilty in the case.

The Kansas City Star reports that 33-year-old Jeana Marie Fleming pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual relations on Wednesday in Johnson County District Court. Prosecutors say Fleming and the student had sex in December 2014 while she was a teacher in the Olathe school district’s alternative education program for high school students.

Assistant District Attorney Keith Henderson said that the boy reported the relationship to school officials in May.

Under Kansas law, it is illegal for a teacher to have sex with a student at the same school, even if the student is above the age of consent. In Kansas, the age of consent is 16.

Fleming is scheduled to be sentenced April 12.

HOUSTON (AP) — A second anti-abortion activist indicted after making undercover videos about Planned Parenthood is expected to turn himself in to Texas authorities.

Attorneys for David Daleiden (dah-LY’-din) say he’s scheduled to appear in a Houston courtroom Thursday after posting bond.  The other indicted activist, Sandra Merritt, turned herself in Wednesday and was freed on a $2,000 bond.

Both were charged with tampering with a governmental record. Daleiden also was indicted on a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs.

The videos alleged Planned Parenthood illegally sold fetal tissue to researchers for profit.

The grand jury that indicted the two on Jan. 25 also investigated Planned Parenthood but concluded it committed no wrongdoing.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker wants to make it easier for Missouri women to get birth control.

Representative Sheila Solon told a House committee Wednesday that pharmacists should be able to prescribe oral contraceptives because fewer unwanted pregnancies would lead to fewer abortions.

Those under 18 would have to show pharmacists a previous doctor’s prescription. The bill would allow women to receive birth control in one-year increments after their first three-month prescription.

Under the measure, a woman would be required to visit a doctor within three years of the pharmacist’s initial prescription to continue receiving the contraceptives.

Solon said a pharmacist could still refer someone to a physician, if necessary.

Oregon, California and Washington, D.C., have passed comparable policies, with at least four other states considering similar bills.