ST. LOUIS (AP) — A member of the grand jury that declined to indict a Ferguson police officer in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown is challenging a federal judge’s dismissal of her lawsuit that sought to allow her to speak publicly about those secret proceedings.

That woman identified as “Grand Juror Doe” wants the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn U.S. District Judge Rodney Sippel’s May decision to throw out her bid to speak out about her time on the panel.

Sippel sided with lawyers for St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch in ruling that the former grand juror needs to go to a state court to seek permission to talk publicly, saying it is a state matter.

The grand juror’s lawsuit in state court is pending.

RUDD, Iowa (AP) — Iowa poultry farmers are bracing for the possibility that bird flu will return this fall when wild birds migrate, but they hope the disease won’t return.

The industry that had to slaughter more than 35 million chickens and turkeys earlier this year is just starting to recover.

But agriculture officials say migrating birds might bring the disease back. The Iowa Poultry Association’s Randy Olson says the industry is doing everything it can to prevent another outbreak.

Tony Halsted says he’s grateful that his hatchery near Rudd escaped bird flu in the spring.

Halsted says he has divided his birds up and moved some flocks into Missouri to make sure that a bird flu infection at one location wouldn’t cripple his operation.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities say a man has been found fatally shot near a St. Louis park where an anti-violence march had ended just hours earlier.

The man was found shot in the head and torso shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday near Rauschenbach Park. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A “Stop the Violence” march had drawn several hundred people to the area earlier in the day.

This year has been particularly violent in St. Louis, with the man’s death marking the city’s 127th homicide so far. There were 159 in all of 2014.

Authorities are urging anyone with information to come forward.

GIDDINGS, Texas (AP) — Record beef prices have led to increases in the number of missing or stolen cattle.

The nearly 5,800 livestock reported stolen in Texas last year was the most in five years. And the value of the animals — more than $5.7 million — was the most in a decade.

The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association sees the trend this year much the same. The nearly 140-year-old association has a team of 30 Special Rangers that investigates thefts covering 76 million acres in Texas and Oklahoma.

The executive director of law enforcement for the organization, Larry Gray, says any time the price of a commodity goes up, the theft of that commodity also rises.

Through July this year, the Special Rangers have worked nearly 400 theft cases.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jury selection is expected to take up to a week in the capital murder trial of a Missouri man who claims he was morally obligated to kill three people at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites.

Frazier Glenn Miller Jr, also known as Glenn Cross, has publicly admitted firing the shots that killed 69-year-old William Corporon, 14-year-old Reat Griffin Underwood and 53-year-old Terri LaManno on April 13th, 2014. The 74-year-old avowed white supremacist says he didn’t know none of the victims was Jewish.

Miller is representing himself in a case that could result in the death penalty. Johnson County Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan has warned him that any outbursts in front of jurors could result in a mistrial.

Ryan ruled last month that Miller can’t use “compelling necessity” as a defense for the killings.

WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) — A freight train has struck and killed a pedestrian along a stretch of railroad tracks in western Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victim as 22-year-old David Lindequist of Warrensburg.

The collision happened early Saturday in Johnson County. A coroner pronounced Lindequist dead at the scene.

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a man in a southeast Missouri auto part store burglary after he left his heart monitor in front of the cash register.

Police stopped the suspect after the NAPA Auto Parts store in Poplar Bluff was robbed early Saturday.

Police say he was carrying $270, the same amount stolen from the store.

A police report says he told police he was missing his heart monitor and needed to go back and look for it. A patrolman wrote in the report that when the suspect was told the device was found in the store, he responded, “Even though that may be the case, I still need my heart monitor.”

The man was booked into jail on suspicion of second-degree burglary and stealing.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri beef processor has shut down, leading to shortages of its grass-fed beef as well as heritage-breed pork and pasture-raised chicken for the groceries and restaurants that sell and serve them.

The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service says the Rain Crow Ranch processing plant in Jackson is currently under active federal suspension. The agency the suspension will continue until “acceptable corrective actions are submitted and approved.”

Doctor Patricia Whisnant, the veterinarian who operates Rain Crow Ranch with her husband, Mark, and their children, confirmed that the farm’s processing facility has been closed temporarily “to restructure and remodel.” She says the farm had outsourced its processing and that the shortages of its products should be short-lived.

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Six decades after “Gunsmoke” debuted on television, several actors who appeared in the show, including Burt Reynolds, are scheduled to reunite in Dodge City.

The Wichita Eagle reports the actors will attend Wild West Fest on Sept. 25-27. The event is hosted by the Boot Hill Casino & Resort, the Wild West Heritage Foundation and the Roundup Rodeo.

Besides Reynolds, who portrayed blacksmith Quint Asper from 1962 to 1965, also attending are Bruce Boxleitner, Buck Taylor, Jess Walton, Lane Bradbury and Merry Florene.

“Gunsmoke” ran on CBS from 1955 through 1975 and was nominated for more than a dozen Emmys.

Other key actors from the show have died, including James Arness, who starred as Matt Dillon; Amanda Blake, who played Miss Kitty; and Milburn Stone, who was Doc Adams.