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ST. LOUIS, MO - MAY 27: Carlos Beltran #3 of the St. Louis Cardinals rounds second base after hitting a three-run home run against the Philadelphia Phillies at Busch Stadium on May 27, 2012 in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Although the Missouri legislature did not cut its budget for higher education this year, Timothy M. Wolfe, the university system’s president, said it was essential ‘to be good stewards of public funds, to use those funds to achieve our strategic priorities, and to re-evaluate those activities that are not central to our core mission.’
More than 20,000 miles of pipeline, carrying oil and petroleum products, cross the states of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska in EPA’s Region 7 ... A frequent cause of pipeline breaks is the action of third parties during farming and excavation. This settlement requires the defendants to honor a schedule of pipeline inspections on the ground and from the air, and reach out to local agencies, contractors and excavators to make sure they are more fully aware of pipeline locations and depths.
The Missouri Democrat Party sent an email through the Internet email addresses at UMSL, and it said please send us interns ... Would all professors please tell their students to come and volunteer for Claire McCaskill? That went through taxpayers-sponsored Internet.More quotes »
Newsday's coverage
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Cargo flight clips passenger plane at O'Hare
(AP) -- Officials say no one was hurt when the wing of a cargo plane taxiing at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport clipped the rudder of an American Eagle flight arriving from Missouri . Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Tony Molinaro says th 5/31/12 Read more »
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Gyory: Election Day = independents' day
When tea party stalwart Richard Mourdock defeated longtime incumbent Republican Sen. Richard Lugar in last week's Indiana primary, he proudly proclaimed himself an enemy of bipartisanship. "The time for being collegial is past," he said. "It's time for c Read more »
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Guatemala mom to ask US court help on adopted girl
(AP) -- A Guatemalan mother who says her child was stolen and later turned over to a U.S. couple for adoption said Tuesday that she will go to a Missouri court seeking to get her daughter back now that the U.S. State Department has said it doesn't have j Read more »
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Bettman: Blues status brighter with new ownership
(AP) -- NHL commissioner Gary Bettman gave his stamp of approval to new St. Louis Blues ownership, saying the franchise's financial picture is much improved.Bettman spent time at the podium alongside Tom Stillman, a beer distributor who heads an all-loca Read more »
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Should teachers and students be Facebook friends?
Should students and teachers ever be friends on Facebook? School districts across the country, including the nation's largest, are weighing that question as they seek to balance the risks of inappropriate contact with the academic benefits of social netw Read more »
Around the web
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Coming Sunday: Flood's lingering impact
aerial look north at farmland on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River west of Little Sioux, Iowa, on May 21, 2012. The Missouri River has long since returned to its banks, after a summer of flooding last year, but its impact lingers. Sand still buries flooded-out 42 m ago from Omaha.com Read more »
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League presidents to vote on new SEC schedule
Carolina. This would mean Missouri of the East and Texas A&M of the West would become permanent opponents by default when a Missouri-Arkansas game would make more border sense. Little of the SEC's rotation past and probable future make sense to Miles. "If 46 m ago from The Monroe News Star Read more »
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Column: America and future wars
— On Sunday, Sept. 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri at the end of ceremonies marking the unconditional surrender of Japan and the formal end of World War II, Gen. Douglas MacArthur spoke for a world weary of war and hoping for peace: “Let us pray 1:43 AM from Worthington Daily Globe Read more »
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Red flags for motorists as construction projects begin
one of the region's busiest routes. It carries about 160,000 cars a day. Similar closures are expected again later this summer. Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Al Nothum on Thursday warned that troopers will be on the lookout for speeders in highway construction 1:25 AM from St. Louis Post-Dispatch Read more »
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State pulls fee office license from St. Louis County Council member
Missouri Department of Revenue on Thursday withdrew the fee office contract it awarded last month to St. Louis County Council member Kathleen Burkett, saying her application failed to meet financial requirements. The decision to give the contract to Burkett, 1:25 AM from St. Louis Post-Dispatch Read more »
