JIM SALTER

Associated Press Writer
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Plea deal reached in store scuffle case

A black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace has agreed a plea deal with prosecutors convicting her of two misdemeanor counts.

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Fate of black teacher in Mo. case rests with jury

A jury is deliberating the fate of a black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers in Missouri

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Editors see financial gains from cutting frequency

The Hannibal Courier-Post proclaims that it is "Missouri's oldest daily newspaper, serving since 1838." But it isn't quite as daily as it used to be.

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Meth-scourged Mo. towns crack down on drug makers

The meth problem in Union has gotten so bad that someone with a drug habit stole the light shades outside Marilyn Roark's house. She got them back, but they were unusable.

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Drug czar kicks off anti-meth ad campaign

Josh Palmer's story has played out countless times here in the heart of meth country. Introduced to methamphetamine as a teenager, he soon became addicted, couldn't keep a job, lost his house, lost his family.

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Japanese-American graduate recalls wartime ordeal

Yoshio Matsumoto was among the 110,000 Japanese-Americans seemingly bound for an internment camp soon after America entered World War II when a university he knew nothing about from a far off part of the country agreed to take him in.

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Honoring career of man who delivered a fatal pitch

Carl Mays peered in from the mound and noticed Ray Chapman shifting his back foot. The speedy Cleveland shortstop had a habit of fidgeting when he was about to drop down a bunt.

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Burger King: No shoes rule taken too far with baby

Like most restaurants, the Burger King in this St. Louis suburb has a no shoes, no shirt, no service policy. And baby, do they enforce it. Too much so, the company admitted, after apologizing for restaurant workers who asked a mother to leave because her 6-month-old wasn't wearing shoes.

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Burger King: No shoes rule taken too far with baby

Like most restaurants, the Burger King in this St. Louis suburb has a no shoes, no shirt, no service policy. And baby, do they enforce it. Too much so, the company admitted, after apologizing for restaurant workers who asked a mother to leave because her 6-month-old wasn't wearing shoes.

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EPA plan for Missouri lead waste worries residents

For generations, people in Leadwood have lived near huge piles of dangerous, lead-contaminated mining waste. Now the EPA has decided the answer to the problem is to pile on more lead-tainted earth.

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3 plead guilty in BetOnSports online gambling case

Three former executives of the online sports gambling Web site BetOnSports, including two of the company founder's siblings, pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges.

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Officer accused of killing 4 in wreck charged

An off-duty Missouri police officer who investigators said killed four people in a drunken driving accident has been charged in their deaths.

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Baseball manager Tony La Russa sues Twitter

St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is suing the social-networking site Twitter, claiming an unauthorized page that used his name to make light of drunken driving and two Cardinals pitchers who died damaged his reputation and caused emotional distress.

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Mo. meth labs still rampant despite tougher rules

Authorities continue to find more meth labs and dump sites in Missouri than in any other state — by far — despite a new state law that has made it tougher to buy key ingredients.

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Missouri carries out first execution in 4 years

Missouri early Wednesday executed a man who killed a good Samaritan who had stopped on the road to help him, ending a nearly four-year period without an execution in the state. Texas, meanwhile, executed its 15th prisoner this year.

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Ag secretary: Rural areas need to promote benefits

The federal government needs to help rural areas promote their advantages to the American public and find ways to create higher-paying jobs outside of urban areas, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says.

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Child recovering after 52-hour trek in Mo. woods

Little Joshua Childers survived chilly nights, ponds and creeks, hills and boulders, ticks, bears, mountain lions and snakes in his two days of wandering the Missouri woods.

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'Tough' toddler found alive after 2 days in woods

Thirsty, dirty and tired after spending two days and nights barely clothed in the wet, chilly woods of Mark Twain National Forest, 3-year-old Joshua Childers was ready to go home.

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AmerenUE suspends plans for 2nd nuclear reactor

The power company AmerenUE has suspended plans to build a second nuclear reactor at its central Missouri plant.

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Remains of Mo. soldier coming home 58 years later

The remains of a soldier who was captured by enemy forces during the Korean War are returning to Missouri, 58 years after he was reported missing.

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Man who died re-elected mayor of Missouri town

Voters in the small northeastern Missouri town of Winfield re-elected their mayor for a fourth term on Tuesday, about a month after his death.

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Task force looks into floodplain management

The name has a bureaucratic ring to it — the Interagency Levee Task Force. But advocates say the group is hardly wrapped up in red tape.

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Woman pleads guilty in St. Louis vote fraud case

A former get-out-the-vote worker accused of submitting false and forged voter registration cards pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal mail fraud charge.

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Mo. town outraged over killings, illegal immigrant

A Hannibal police officer was finishing up mundane paperwork on a quiet Saturday morning when Manuel Cazares walked into the station, blood splattered on his hands and shoes.

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House calls back in vogue for some doctors

Pediatrician Natalie Hodge spent seven years in a hectic doctor's office. Some days, she'd see 40 sick kids, 10 minutes at a time. Moms calling for advice about sore throats or ear aches had to wait. Hodge could only find time to return those calls as she drove home.

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