TOPEKA, Kan.  - Coyote hunters have killed a wolf in northwest Kansas, the first documented wolf in the state since 1905.
     The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/Ts3XMX) reports that the wolf was killed in December. The animal weighed more than 80 pounds, more than twice as much as a large coyote.
     A Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism game warden contacted U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents. The federal officials confirmed through tissue testing that the animal was a full-blooded Great Lakes gray wolf.
     Officials say there have been several wolves killed in Missouri, most recently in November.