Local, state briefs

Area couple win $100,000 in lottery

A Poplar Bluff, Missouri, couple are $100,000 richer after the wife bought a winning Crossword Doubler ticket the day after Christmas. Charlotte Aldridge bought the ticket at Darnells Green Forest Grocery on Township Line Road after the holiday Scratchers tickets her husband, Mike, gave her yielded $20 in prizes, according to a news release from the Missouri Lottery. "I was in my kitchen when I scratched it," Charlotte was quoted as saying. "I think I double-checked it eight times." She is an administrative assistant, and her husband is self-employed. The two claimed their winnings Dec. 29 at the regional Lottery office in St. Louis.

Club to host advisory board member

The Cape County Republican Women's Club will host Mike Seabaugh, chairman of the Cape Girardeau County Facility Study Advisory Board, at noon Friday at Dexter Bar-B-Que, 236 Broadview St. in Cape Girardeau. The Cape Girardeau County Commission formed the board last year to review three options by Treanor Architects, which call for improving or replacing county court and administrative facilities. Seabaugh will discuss the board's findings and recommendation, which is scheduled to be delivered to the county commission Jan. 26. The event is open to the public.

Bill on deer-farm oversight returns

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri lawmaker again is pushing legislation that would shift regulation of farm-raised deer to state agriculture officials. Republican Sen. Brian Munzlinger of Williamstown refiled a bill to define farmed deer as livestock instead of as wildlife. The measure failed after it was combined with other agricultural proposals during the last session. Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed the bill because of the captive deer provision. Legislative leaders have said they plan to address agriculture measures individually instead of as a package to avoid another veto. If passed, the deer-farming bill would allow farmers to sell the animals' meat, which wouldn't be subject to sales taxes. Farms couldn't keep more than seven deer per acre and would be subject to annual Department of Agriculture inspections.

-- From staff and wire reports