SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A large fish kill has been reported a southwest Missouri hatchery.

The Springfield News-Leader reports that foul-smelling water coming out of Table Rock Lake dam killed scores of trout at the Shepherd of the Hills Hatchery. The state conservation department says the fish kill can be traced to heavy rains, hot weather and an algae die-off that depleted water quality.

The hatchery is located near the base of the dam and is Missouri’s largest trout hatchery, producing 1.25 million fish a year. Most of the fish are stocked into Lake Taneycomo downstream from the hatchery.

Hatchery officials are working to determine how many fish died.

Hatchery staff members have been moving some of the surviving fish to other hatchery areas with better water quality.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A woman is suing St. Louis County and an officer for injuries she sustained when she says she was shot in any eye with a stun gun.

Twenty-two-year-old Melnique Logan’s lawsuit in U.S. District Court in St. Louis alleges the March incident left her with eye damage and at risk for blindness in one eye.

Logan says she was being pummeled by two women as another filmed. After the attackers complied with demands by responding officers to halt the attack, the lawsuit says Logan was shot by Officer Lewis Bouwman with a stun gun after she tried to stop the attackers.

Online court records don’t show whether Bouwman has an attorney. A message was left Tuesday with the St. Louis County counselor, whose office represents the county in legal matters.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A woman has died after the car she was in collided with a Kansas City police vehicle.

Kansas City police said in a release that 48-year-old Chandra Weaver of Kansas City died early Tuesday in the accident.

Police say Weaver’s vehicle had been stopped at a stop sign but then pulled out into the intersection as the police car approached. Police say the officer driving tried to avoid striking the car.

Police say Weaver, who wasn’t wearing a seatbelt, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The two officers suffered minor injuries.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.- Hallmark Cards, Inc. is among 407 major U.S. businesses to achieve a perfect 100 percent score on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality.

The CEI is an annual survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest advocacy group for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans. The 2016 CEI rated 1,027 businesses in the report, evaluating the businesses on LGBT-related policies and practices including non-discrimination workplace protections, domestic partner benefits, transgender-inclusive health care benefits, competency programs, and public engagement with the LGBT community.

Organizations receiving a score of 100 are recognized as one of the “Best Places to Work” for LGBT equality.

“Hallmark is honored to have earned a top rating on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index,” said Bob Bloss, Hallmark senior vice president – human resources. “This recognition by the HRC reflects our continued commitment to create an environment in which diversity is embraced and diverse traits are leveraged as strengths, where every employee can perform to his or her potential, and in which his or her contributions are respected and appreciated.”

“In this 2016 Corporate Equality Index, hundreds of major businesses responded to our new standards for workplace equality with exceptional
leadership,” said Deena Fidas, HRC Foundation Workplace Equality Program Director. “Hallmark not only meets these standards, it goes above and beyond the call of duty, making commitment to equality a fundamental aspect of its corporate values.”

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — An Independence woman has had her foot amputated after being attacked by her 110-pound American bulldog.

The Kansas City Star reports that 55-year-old Dora Pennington’s condition worsened during an operation to remove a foot that was badly damaged. She remained in the hospital Tuesday.

During the attack, Jackson County Sheriff’s Department deputies answered the call for help and killed the dog. They report the animal was still “actively aggressive” when they arrived at the scene.

Deputies say both of Pennington’s feet were severely damaged, much of her hair was ripped out and most of her clothing was torn off. They used a tourniquet on one of her legs.

The dog’s remains will be tested for rabies. Independence Animal Control officers say the dog bit two people previously.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors in Missouri have accused a Texas woman of causing the death of another woman with an illegal cosmetic injection into the victim’s buttocks.

St. Louis County prosecutors charged 44-year-old Nitica Deonte Lee of Dallas with first-degree involuntary manslaughter, alleging she recklessly caused Daysha Phillips’ death in July by injecting her with a silicone substance.

Authorities said 22-year-old Phillips of Florissant, Missouri, died four days after the procedure at a hotel in Edmundson, a tiny St. Louis suburb abutting Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.

Online court records do not show if Lee has an attorney.

A judge has set Lee’s bond at $200,000 cash.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — If the University of Missouri succeeds in meeting a student demand for a faculty that’s 10 percent black in two years, it will likely be alone among its peers.

An Associated Press analysis of 2013 federal data found that no state’s “flagship” public university campus had a black faculty population approaching that level, and only a handful topped even the 5 percent mark.

The data shows the norm on most of the campuses is a faculty that’s between 2 percent and 4 percent black.

Administrators say they’re well aware that staff and student bodies often don’t match, and some systems, including the State University of New York, have launched initiatives to try to change that.

Students say they learn better from instructors who seem to understand them and their experiences.

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Missouri man who was clocked at more than 100 mph while trying to outrun a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper has been sentenced to 47 months in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine.

U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom says 22-year-old Miguel Torres of Kansas City, Missouri, admitted Monday that on March 14 a trooper tried to stop his BMW, which he was driving west on Interstate 70 in Geary County, Kansas.

During the chase, the trooper clocked Torres’ speed at 111 miles an hour. Once Torres stopped, the trooper found 22 pounds of methamphetamine in the trunk of his car.

Grissom says Torres was paid $6,000 to drive the drugs from Riverside, California, to the Kansas City area.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Nigeria native living in St. Louis faces possible deportation now that he’s admitted in federal court that he’s stolen $734,000 in government funds by filing more than 50 bogus tax returns.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 30-year-old Olufunsho Adeshina pleaded guilty Tuesday in St. Louis.

Prosecutors say that from January 2013 until last May, Adeshina used personal information belonging to others to file the false tax returns.

Adeshina faces roughly five years or more in prison and will have to repay the money. But U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel warned Adeshina on Tuesday there was a “significant likelihood if not certainty” that he would be deported because of the conviction.

Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 26.