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Regional news from the KBIA newsroom, including:

• Bid protest halts construction at Birds Point Levee
• Truman State to consider adding sexual orientation to non-discrimination policy
• The Missouri Supreme Court says two candidates for state Legislature can be on this year's ballot.
• Missouri Gaming Commission has a new chairman

Restoring the Birds Point-New Madrid Levee to its original height may take a little more time.

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded contracts to three firms for work to repair the Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri, a levee intentionally breached by the corps at the height of spring flooding in 2011.