A police officer at Fort Indiantown Gap is on suspension after two other officers claimed he shot several deer and a bobcat while on duty.

The state's free-ranging white-tailed deer population supports 12,000 jobs and generates more than $1 billion in economic activity annually in Missouri.

Poachers have killed a large buck and wounded at least three deer in a tiny fishing village where residents' feeding of the animals has made them easy targets.

Hunters harvested more than 243,000 deer in New York state during the 2013 hunting season, nearly the same as the take for the previous year.

North Dakota hunters had a smaller chance of downing a doe or buck last season among the lowest deer population in three decades, and wildlife officials say stemming the decline of the animals' habitat is key to restoring both.

Missouri conservation officials say tests of deer from the fall hunting season have indicated no new cases of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging deer.

A new trial date has been set for a Louisiana business and three men accused of smuggling white-tailed deer into Mississippi in 2011 and 2012.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission reports a near record number of deer were taken during the 2013-14 deer hunting season.

New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation is starting an aerial survey of the deer population of the Bronx.

There are an estimated 800 to 1,000 deer on the 9.5-square-mile island. Officials had hoped to reduce that number by 200 this winter.

Ohio wildlife officials have proposed hunting policies that would reduce the bag limit for deer for most of the state's counties.

The state is attributing a large drop in the number of deer bagged by Ohio hunters to the effect of liberal bag limits in past years meant to bring down the number of deer.

According to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, the numbers reflect the stability of the state's deer population. In the 2012-13 seasons, hunters harvested more than 176,600 deer.