More than 90% of Missouri's land is privately owned. State conservationists say they rely on landowners buying the seeds for reforestation and erosion control.
Posters with hundreds of faces lost to overdoses lined the fence of Concordia Lutheran Church. Along the bottom were shoes to represent each victim taken too soon.
Tishawn Washington was arrested in 2021 by U.S. Marshals in Harris County, Texas. The victim was shot and killed in St. Louis' first homicide of that year.
"These teachers will be highly beneficial to our district in many ways. We're excited to welcome them," said Ishmael Sistrunk, the school district's spokesman.
Group called Sensible Missouri wants to put ballot measure to voters asking to give local governments power to write gun laws that don't violate second amendment