UPDATE: Audit reports elk program cost 3 times original estimate

Wednesday, December 28, 2011 | 4:53 p.m. CST; updated 9:04 p.m. CST, Wednesday, December 28, 2011

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri's elk restoration program has cost about three times more than initially estimated, to a cost of about $30,000 per animal, the state auditor's office said in a review released Wednesday.

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