Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is channeling proceeds from a Justice Department settlement with Standard & Poor's to bolster a public-private state partnership for technology entrepreneurship.

The Environmental Council of the States announced that the Department of Natural Resources' new ePermitting program is one of three State Program Innovation Award winners for 2013.

JEFFERSON CITY - Executive orders signed by Gov. Jay Nixon in February have been before the General Assembly for more than sixty days and will now go…