Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:16 PM EST
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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Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:35 PM EST
A jury is deliberating the fate of a black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers in Missouri
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Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:29 PM EDT
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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Wed Oct 14, 2009 4:33 PM EDT
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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Tue Sep 1, 2009 3:22 PM EDT
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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Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:43 PM EDT
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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Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:40 AM EDT
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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Thu Aug 6, 2009 5:21 PM EDT
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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Thu Aug 6, 2009 4:43 PM EDT
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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Fri Jul 17, 2009 12:57 PM EDT
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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Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:41 PM EDT
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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Tue Jun 9, 2009 8:41 PM EDT
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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Thu Jun 4, 2009 12:28 PM EDT
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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Wed Jun 3, 2009 3:40 PM EDT
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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Tue May 19, 2009 11:12 PM EDT
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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Fri May 15, 2009 4:25 AM EDT
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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Thu May 7, 2009 10:56 PM EDT
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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Thu May 7, 2009 5:06 AM EDT
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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Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:11 PM EDT
The power company AmerenUE has suspended plans to build a second nuclear reactor at its central Missouri plant.
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Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:03 PM EDT
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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Wed Apr 8, 2009 1:13 AM EDT
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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Wed Mar 25, 2009 5:20 AM EDT
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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Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:34 PM EDT
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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Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:50 PM EDT
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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Thu Feb 26, 2009 4:01 AM EST
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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