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		<title>Voters approve tax to sustain emergency operations at rural Missouri hospital through 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OSCEOLA, Mo. — Voters have approved a property tax to keep the emergency room open and ambulances running at a rural western Missouri hospital that had warned of possible deaths if the measure failed.

But Sac-Osage Hospital in Osceola already has laid off staff and is operating on a $370,000 deficit. And the hospital&#8217;s CEO says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For rural hospitals, move to digitize records on federal incentive carries costs, and risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David A. Lieb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[OSCEOLA, Mo. — Electronic medical records are a life-or-death issue at Sac-Osage Hospital — not necessarily just for the patients, but for the hospital itself.

Facing a budget shortfall, the 47-bed hospital in rural western Missouri is borrowing nearly $1 million to pitch its paper medical charts and purchase a state-of-the-art electronic health records system. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sheriff to take new look at 20-year-old murder of Mo. farm wife after AP investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scher Zagier</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIA, Mo. — A Missouri sheriff said Monday that he will take a fresh look at the 1990 slaying of a farm wife after an Associated Press review raised questions about the investigation.

Mark Woodworth was 16 when his neighbor, Cathy Robertson, 41, was shot to death in her home in the northern Missouri town of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 killed in head-on collision on rural Mo. highway; corner says there were no skid marks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FARMINGTON, Mo. — Five people were killed in a head-on collision on a two-lane highway in rural eastern Missouri.

St. Francois County Coroner Jim Coplin said authorities found no skid marks at the crash site on Missouri Route 00 in an area surrounded by wooded farmland about 70 miles south of St. Louis. Coplin also says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay-rights activists: Struggle continues for basic rights; marriage equality is secondary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Wittenauer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CLAYTON, Mo. — Gay marriage and gays in the military may dominate the headlines, but activists in many states say their fight is much more fundamental: basic rights and protections against discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation.

Activists from state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organizations from throughout the U.S. are meeting in Missouri [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KC Southern reports steep drop in second-quarter profits as shipments and fuel surcharges fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Regional railroad operator Kansas City Southern reported a much smaller second-quarter profit Thursday as the economy and lower fuel prices slashed revenue by 30 percent.

The Kansas City-based company said it earned $6.7 million, or 7 cents per share, during the three months ending June 30. By comparison, it earned $50.5 million, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession helps Missouri wine school lure grape growers hoping to turn hobby into career</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scher Zagier</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIA, Mo. — Soured on the real estate market, Columbia broker Bob Walters has found what he hopes is a more fruitful pursuit: growing grapes for wine. Downsized banker Mary Becker also is dabbling in the business, planting vines on the 120 acres south of Kansas City.

The aspiring vintners recently joined more than 60 others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sprint Nextel reports larger loss in 2nd-qtr as revenue, subscribers sink</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Investors pummeled Sprint Nextel Corp.&#8217;s shares Wednesday after the nation&#8217;s third-largest wireless carrier said it continued to hemorrhage some of its most valuable customers during the second quarter despite the introduction of the glitzy Palm Pre smartphone.

The Overland Park, Kan.-based company&#8217;s shares closed down 54 cents, or 11.7 percent, to $4.05 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kansas City to pay $550,000 to settle discrimination lawsuit over comments by mayor&#8217;s wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — City officials agreed Thursday to pay a former mayoral aide $550,000 to settle a lawsuit over comments made by the mayor&#8217;s wife, who has faced criticism for her role in her husband&#8217;s administration.

The Kansas City Council voted 7-3 to approve the settlement with former aide Ruth Bates, the day before jury [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEMC Electronic Materials&#8217; 2nd-quarter profit plunges on continued economic slump</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. PETERS, Mo. — Silicon wafer maker MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. said Thursday its second-quarter profit plunged as sales were cut in half.

The company earned $6.5 million, or 3 cents per share, compared with profit of $176.1 million, or 76 cents per share, during the same period a year ago. Revenue fell 47 percent to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA plan for Missouri lead waste worries residents; &#8216;treated like second-class citizens&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Salter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LEADWOOD, Mo. — 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.

To many folks, that makes no sense at all.
&#8220;They&#8217;re going to bring in more dirt that&#8217;s poisoned and bring it down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Residents in Leadwood, Mo. fight plan to top heaps of hazardous waste with more waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Salter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LEADWOOD, Mo. — The folks in this aptly named southern Missouri town know full well they&#8217;re living amid giant piles of what amounts to hazardous waste. To them, that doesn&#8217;t make the logic of trucking in tons of lead-contaminated soil from a neighboring county to cover it up sound any less ridiculous.

&#8220;They don&#8217;t want it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Ozark Woodstock: Fans, foes recall &#8216;74 festival that rocked Missouri town</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEDALIA, Mo. — Baby boomers in America&#8217;s heartland are reminiscing about one of the biggest, yet least-known music festivals of its time that rocked the Missouri State Fairgrounds.

It was essentially an Ozark Woodstock.
Promoters of the 1974 festival told officials in Sedalia that it would be a soft-rock event with less than 50,000 fans. But a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mo. governor unfreezes $1.5M in state funds for Tour of Missouri, says race should go on</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/mo-governor-unfreezes-15m-in-state-funds-for-tour-of-missouri-says-race-should-go-on-109453/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says the 2009 Tour of Missouri should go on.

Nixon announced Tuesday that $1.5 million in state funds can be spent on the September race.
The Democrat&#8217;s administration had blocked the money last week and was considering eliminating it altogether. Race organizers said cutting the money would have forced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mo. jail to host &#8216;bed and breakfast&#8217; event to pay for new mattresses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HILLSBORO, Mo. — Want to spend a night in jail? And how about paying for the privilege? The Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Department in eastern Missouri has come up with a novel way to pay for mattresses at a new jail addition.

Officials are offering the public a chance to stay overnight on July 31 at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H&amp;R Block&#8217;s Smyth receives $5.3 million in fiscal 2009 compensation as he takes over as CEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Twiddy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — H&#038;R Block Inc. CEO Russell Smyth received compensation valued at $5.3 million in fiscal 2009, the year he took over leadership of the nation&#8217;s largest tax preparer.

Smyth, 52, was named CEO of the Kansas City-based company in August 2008, replacing interim CEO Alan Bennett.
According to a proxy statement filed with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-cons mediate in rough neighborhoods from Kansas City to Chicago before feuds turn violent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andale Gross</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An argument earlier in the day between teens from rival neighborhoods had Jason Broom worried as he stood in a pothole-riddled parking lot pondering his next move.

Broom was released from prison last year after serving time in two killings and is now a conflict mediator on Kansas City&#8217;s gang-infested east side.
He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilot practicing aerial acrobatics dies when propeller plane crashes in northwest Missouri</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TARKIO, Mo. — A pilot has died after her propeller plane crashed into a bean field in far northwest Missouri while she practiced acrobatics for an air show.

The Missouri Highway Patrol says the Edge 540 crashed Friday afternoon near U.S. 136 about 75 miles southeast of Omaha, Neb. An Edge 540 is a propeller-driven plane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri charged in quadruple killing, bodies were left in apartment with wandering toddler</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RAYTOWN, Mo. — A Kansas City, Mo., man has been indicted in the March killing of his ex-girlfriend, her boyfriend and her two young nephews. Their bodies were found in an apartment with the woman&#8217;s toddler wandering among the corpses.

Gevante D. Anderson, 24, is charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond. Anderson&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mo. tourism commission reaffirms Tour of Missouri support in face of potential funding cut</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 07:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri tourism officials and professional cycling teams are reaffirming support for the Tour of Missouri race in the face of budget cuts that could force its cancellation.

Gov. Jay Nixon&#8217;s administration has frozen $1.5 million in tourism funding for the September race. And he&#8217;s considering whether to eliminate the money to help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free speech vs. cultural sensitivity: Missouri campus program seeks balance when views collide</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/free-speech-vs-cultural-sensitivity-missouri-campus-program-seeks-balance-when-views-collide-106122/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scher Zagier</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIA, Mo. — They call it Speakers&#8217; Circle, a First Amendment gathering spot at the University of Missouri where just about anything goes.

Confrontational evangelists condemn abortion and gay marriage. Conservative students bash President Obama&#8217;s bailout plan. The rhetoric is heated, and the discussions not always polite.
College campuses have long been hotbeds of activism, from Vietnam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sprint Nextel signs $5 billion networking deal with Ericsson, transfers 6,000 employees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Twiddy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sprint Nextel Corp. on Thursday announced it will transfer operation of its wireless and wireline networks to Swedish telecommunications equipment maker LM Ericsson.

The seven-year deal, valued between $4.5 billion and $5 billion, will transfer about 6,000 Sprint employees later this year to an Ericsson-owned subsidiary, based at Sprint&#8217;s Overland Park, Kan., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missed revenue forecasts could mean more troubles ahead for state budgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David A. Lieb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — With its IOUs and plans to close state offices three days a month, California gets all the attention as lawmakers fight to write a budget set off balance by a $26.3 billion deficit.

But the dozens of states that made spending cuts, tapped into reserves or relied on federal stimulus funds to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former KC Chiefs player Rich Baldinger won&#8217;t be charged in Mo. car collision that killed woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman Rich Baldinger will not face charges in a traffic accident that left a 61-year-old woman dead.

Jackson County (Mo.) prosecutor&#8217;s office spokeswoman Velda Cook said Monday that investigators have determined that a car collision Saturday in Blue Springs between Baldinger and Marilyn Walters of Grain Valley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>H&amp;R Block reports strong fourth-quarter profit on higher bank income, tax prep fees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — H&#038;R Block, the nation&#8217;s largest tax preparer, has reported better-than-expected profit for its fiscal fourth quarter as higher fees and more consumer financial services income offset a decline in the number of tax returns it prepared.

The Kansas City, Mo.-based company says it earned $706.9 million, or $2.09 per share, during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax preparer H&amp;R Block Inc. set to release fourth-quarter results</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/tax-preparer-hr-block-inc-set-to-release-fourth-quarter-results-93226/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Twiddy</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CIY, Mo. — Financial services company H&#038;R Block Inc. is scheduled to report earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter Monday afternoon. The following is a summary of key developments related to the period.

OVERVIEW: Kansas City-based H&#038;R Block, the nation&#8217;s largest tax preparer, relies on its third and fourth quarters to generate the majority of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mo. inmate who used cardboard toilet paper holder to escape recaptured</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIA, Mo. — Columbia police have captured an inmate who allegedly escaped from the Howard County jail using a cardboard toilet paper holder. Curtis Jones of New Franklin was captured Wednesday afternoon.

Columbia police officers, who were responding to a tip, went to where Jones was believed to be located, but he had fled on foot. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kansas City man found sleepwalking and urinating in apartment closet stabbed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A sleepwalking episode led to a stabbing. The Kansas City Star reported on its Web site Wednesday that the 24-year-old victim suffered a stab wound to his face and shoulder. Police said the victim&#8217;s girlfriend awoke around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday to find her boyfriend urinating in the closet. He was intoxicated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incoming Mo. chief justice says executions on hold because of federal stay in inmate&#8217;s case</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/incoming-mo-chief-justice-says-executions-on-hold-because-of-federal-stay-in-inmates-case-90219/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David A. Lieb</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The state&#8217;s incoming chief justice said Tuesday that it was unlikely any executions would be scheduled in Missouri while the courts assess an inmate&#8217;s lawsuit challenging the state&#8217;s lethal injection procedure.

Executions had been on hold in Missouri for four years until the state executed an inmate last month. Reginald Clemons&#8217; execution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mo. measure would rename highway adopted by neo-Nazis after rabbi who fought for civil rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Sudekum Fisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The state&#8217;s litter prevention program got an unusual ally last year: A neo-Nazi group adopted a half-mile section of highway in Springfield and picked up the trash.

The state said it had no way to reject the group&#8217;s application, saying membership in the Adopt-A-Highway program can&#8217;t be denied because of a group&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mo. board approves deal to move Chiefs training camp from Wis. to Missouri for 10 years</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri officials have approved a deal to bring the Kansas City Chiefs training camp back to Missouri for at least 10 years.

The agreement approved Thursday by the Missouri Development Finance Board guarantees the Chiefs will train in Missouri over that span in exchange for $25 million in tax credits. If the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midwest storms cause flooding, leave thousands without power; reported tornado hits Minn. town</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/midwest-storms-cause-flooding-leave-thousands-without-power-reported-tornado-hits-minn-town-85249/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, Minn. — Another round of storms in the Midwest has damaged homes and businesses, flooded streets and knocked out power to thousands.

In Minnesota, an apparent tornado struck the town of Austin on Wednesday, uprooting trees, knocking down power lines. At least one person was reported with minor injuries.
The National Weather Service said the storm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midwest storms cause flooding, leave thousands without power; 2 tornadoes confirmed in Neb.</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/midwest-storms-cause-flooding-leave-thousands-without-power-2-tornadoes-confirmed-in-neb-83198/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DREXEL, Mo. — Storms that spread across the central U.S. brought heavy rains, wind and at least two tornadoes, renewing flooding concerns in already soggy areas and leaving thousands of people without power.

No injuries were reported from the two storm systems that hit the central part of the U.S. on Monday and early Tuesday.
Heavy rain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midwest storms cause flooding, knock out power, damage buildings; 1 tornado confirmed in Neb.</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/midwest-storms-cause-flooding-knock-out-power-damage-buildings-1-tornado-confirmed-in-neb-83156/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DREXEL, Mo. — Midwestern storms raised flooding concerns in already soggy areas and spawned at least one tornado.

No injuries were reported from the two storm systems that hit the central part of the U.S. on Monday and early Tuesday.
Heavy rain brought new flooding concerns to areas of central North Dakota hit by flooding earlier this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-WWII immigration files to be saved, opened to public at federal facility near Kansas City</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/post-wwii-immigration-files-to-be-saved-opened-to-public-at-federal-facility-near-kansas-city-82419/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Millions of files containing detailed information about U.S. immigrants — including their spouses&#8217; names, as well as personal photographs and letters — will soon become available to the public through a federal facility in suburban Kansas City.

Preservationists had been worried that the documents providing an important picture of immigration after 1944 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mo. woman who pleaded guilty to videotaped sex killings pleads guilty to kidnapping 5-year-old</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — A suburban Kansas City woman who already pleaded guilty to murder in a spree of videotaped sex killings has also pleaded guilty to kidnapping a 5-year-old while fleeing police in 2006.

Dena Riley, of Independence, Mo., pleaded guilty on Monday to kidnapping a southeast Kansas girl from a family member of her boyfriend, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temporary closure of Harry Truman home beginning in August</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — If you&#8217;re a Harry Truman fan, you have until Aug. 2 to visit his home in Independence before it closes for renovations.

The work by the National Park Service, including new heating, ventilation, cooling and fire suppression systems, is expected to continue at the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site until spring of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US to spend $50 million in stimulus on fish food to help acquaculture farmers after feed spike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OSAGE BEACH, Mo. — The United States is about to spend $50 million in stimulus money on fish food to help fish farmers who have been struggling since feed prices jumped 50 percent last year.

The money could provide algae to nourish clam and oyster larvae along the Pacific coast, fill the bellies of tilapia in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missouri man sentenced to 33 years for killing man in fight over tossed bottle of hot sauce</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City man has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for killing a man during a melee that erupted when someone threw a bottle of hot sauce.

The Kansas City Star reports that 29-year-old Jarvis T. Williams was sentenced Thursday for his convictions on second-degree murder, three counts of assault [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former Bush staffer Schweich says he will not run for Missouri Senate seat in 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A former official in President George W. Bush&#8217;s administration says he will not run for the U.S. Senate seat for Missouri being vacated by Kit Bond.

The seat is expected to be one of the most closely contested in the 2010 race as Democrats try to ensure they have a filibuster-proof majority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suburban St. Louis police officer suspected of drunken driving charged in wreck that killed 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Salter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[CLAYTON, Mo. — An off-duty Missouri police officer who investigators said killed four people in a drunken driving accident has been charged in their deaths.

Prosecutors said 41-year-old Christine Miller was charged Tuesday with four counts of involuntary manslaughter-driving while intoxicated.
The veteran Sunset Hills police officer is accused of driving on the wrong side of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Body found in river is that of missing 102-year-old builder, philanthropist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ST. LOUIS — The body of a 102-year-old builder and philanthropist and leader of the region&#8217;s Jewish community was found Tuesday in the Missouri River more than two weeks after a witness saw an elderly man jump from a bridge.

The body was that of I.E. Millstone, State Water Patrol Sgt. Jerry Callahan confirmed.
A barge worker [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group seeking recall of Kansas City mayor fails to get enough signatures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 06:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An effort to recall Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser has fallen just short of the number of signatures needed.

The petition drive collected 16,821 valid signatures, 129 short of the required 16,950 signatures, The Kansas City Star reported on its Web site Saturday.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Funkhouser said he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group seeking recall of Kansas City mayor to learn Saturday whether effort was successful</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 06:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An effort to recall Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser has fallen just short of the number of signatures needed.

The Kansas City Star reported Saturday on its Web site that the petition drive collected 16,821 valid signatures, 129 short of the 16,950 needed.
Funkhouser told The Associated Press that he had expected the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US man who swam to Suu Kyi, prompting new charges against her, left confusion, anger back home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 02:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria Sudekum Fisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FALCON, Mo. — John Yettaw left his 10-year-old and three teenagers in southern Missouri, visited his former wife in California last month and told her he had to go to Asia to work on a psychology paper about forgiveness. That was bad enough for his ex-wife, but it got worse.

Yettaw&#8217;s unexplained swim last week across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economist on leave from FDIC charged with trying to rob Kansas City-area bank</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 01:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An economist on leave from the federal agency that insures bank deposits has been charged with the April 11 attempted robbery of a Kansas City-area bank.

Jeff Walser said he had a bomb in his briefcase and demanded money at the Bank of America branch in Independence, but did not take $41,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violent storms tear through Midwest, spawning tornadoes and killing 3 in Missouri</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scher Zagier</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KIRKSVILLE, Mo. — Violent storms tore through four Midwestern states, killing three people in northern Missouri, damaging dozens of homes and leaving thousands without power.

At least two tornadoes touched down in Adair County Wednesday night, authorities said. In Kirksville, the twister damaged at least 60 buildings and scattered cars and glass across a car dealership. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Violent storms tear through Midwest, spawning tornadoes that kill 3 in Missouri</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 18:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scher Zagier</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KIRKSVILLE, Mo. — Violent storms tore through four Midwestern states, killing three people in northern Missouri, damaging dozens of homes and leaving thousands without power.

Kirksville apparently took the hardest hit Wednesday night. Police Detective Sgt. Ron Celian said the storm damaged 30 to 40 homes and flipped cars and shattered windows at a car dealership. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Severe storms roll through Missouri, Oklahoma and Illinois; 1 dead in Mo. mobile home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Scher Zagier</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[KIRKSVILLE, Mo. — Violent storms that spawned at least one tornado left a path of destruction in northern Missouri on Wednesday, killing a woman and damaging dozens of buildings.

The city of Kirksville apparently took the hardest hit. Police Det. Sgt. Ron Celian said about 30 to 40 homes were damaged, one was destroyed and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Severe storms in northern Missouri leave 1 dead, damage dozens of buildings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KIRKSVILLE, Mo. — Violent storms that spawned at least one tornado left a path of destruction in northern Missouri on Wednesday, killing a woman and damaging dozens of buildings.

The city of Kirksville apparently took the hardest hit. Police Det. Sgt. Ron Celian said about 30 to 40 homes were damaged, one was destroyed and an [...]]]></description>
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