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Federal wildlife officials are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the shooting of a Florida panther.

Visitors can walk through a man-made cypress swamp, go bowling or shoot arrows at the archery range. A 105-room hotel designed like a hunting lodge has balconies overlooking the indoor swamp. There are also live ducks, alligators and fish.

Three more deer have been found shot and left to waste in open fields in Maine and one state game warden is calling the killings a “selfish, barbaric act.”

Michigan lawmakers sent Gov. Rick Snyder legislation that would relax the state's restrictions on air guns by repealing an age limit and no longer regulating them like firearms.

“It's kind of a unique area in terms of the Continental Divide on the Helena National Forest,” said John Gatchell, MWA conservation director. “It's proximity to rich wildlife habitat and what we've seen showing up with the diversity of life, it's a neat thing for people to get engaged with.”

A second coyote has been captured in New York, this time in Queens.

The South Carolina House passed a bill that would eliminate the need to get a concealed weapons permit to carry guns in public in the state.

The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife is cutting by almost half the number of muzzle-loader antlerless deer hunting permits that will be issued for this fall's hunts.

Minnesota's Senate added language to a bill that would legalize gun silencers — a surprise development as majority Democrats had shown little interest in changing the state's gun laws and a direct challenge to Gov. Mark Dayton's promise that such a measure would meet his veto pen.