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Highway N reopens in Cottleville after flooding shutdown
COTTLEVILLE o Rain-spurred flooding Monday night has forced the closure of Highway N in a low-lying area west of downtown Cottleville.Linda Wilson Horn, a spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Transportation, said it's unknown when the road will reopen.Horn said the water on the road is from ditches that drain into nearby Dardenne Creek.The highway is closed west of Weiss Road, she ...
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Former prison guard at Greenville gets 6 months for tax fraud
A former guard at the federal prison in Greenville will spend time on the other side of the bars after pleading guilty to a tax crime, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.Attillah Ruffin, 43, was also ordered to repay $22,108 to the IRS.Ruffin pleaded guilty in January and admitted filing false tax returns for the years 2005-2010, claiming a false filing status and false exemptions, prosecutors ...
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Preservation group close to saving two Belleville buildings
BELLEVILLE oA historic preservation group in Belleville is closing in on a deal to avert demolition of a pair of buildings of more than a ...
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Five killed in van crash near Vandalia Ill. were from Baltimore
o Five men killed in a van crash along Interstate 70 near here were finally identified as residents of Baltimore, the coroner said Tuesday.It took more than a day to determine who they were and notify relatives because none carried identifications, said Fayette County Coroner Bruce Bowen.Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said the 11 men in the vehicle were bound for ...
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Jillys sends sweets and supplies to Oklahoma
ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KSDK) - One of the most famous bakeries in St. Louis is sending some sweet treats to the tornado victims in Oklahoma. Jilly's Cupcakes is sending cupcakes to the storm ravaged area to bring a little light. The bakery is also sending supplies, bottled water, diapers, hygiene products, dog and cat food, and other necessities down with people from St. Louis who are heading ...
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Ameren Missouri working to finish restoring power to residents
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Fewer than 800 customers are still without power in Missouri from Monday nights storms. Ameren Missouri has approximately 800 crew members helping with restoration efforts. The Ameren Missouri Emergency Operations Center will stay open through Tuesday night because of storms that are expected throughout parts of the state. "By keeping the EOC open, we remain ready and ...
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Mother of local woman killed in Moore Okla. tornado
MOORE, Okla. (KSDK) - A St. Louis woman was hoping for the best after Monday's storms, but on Tuesday she found out her mother had been killed. Angeletta Santiago was planning to move to Oklahoma City Tuesday morning to be closer to her mother, who was suffering from several health issues. Santiago's mother, 45-year-old Tewauna Robinson, lived in Moore, Okla. near Plaza Towers ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 21
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...
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Oklahoma tornado brings back fear in recovering Joplin Missouri
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Less than three hours after a deadly twister on Monday flattened a swath of Moore, Oklahoma, tornado warning sirens sounded in Joplin, Missouri, 215 miles to the ...
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Vote-by-videoconference bill passed too late for Paul Wynn
A newly-passed state bill allowing local elected officials to vote in meetings via videoconferencing came too late for former St. Charles County Councilman Paul Wynn.Wynn, R-O'Fallon, lost his re-election bid in the GOP primary last August after getting criticism for working in Afghanistan and Iraq as a military contract employee during big chunks of his four-year term.While he was outside ...
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Lindenwood University-Belleville gets first president
Jerry Bladdick was named the first president of Lindenwood University's Belleville campus last week.Since 2009, he has been vice president and chief administrative officer for the young campus. During his tenure, the campus has moved from an extension to a full-service campus, which just had its first commencement ceremony.Bladdick joined the main Lindenwood campus in 1987 as director of ...
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Oakville man claims $1 million prize from Powerball drawing
o Remember the Powerball drawing last Wednesday? The letdown drawing, when no one won the big $360 million prize and everyone had to go into work like normal?Well, Christopher Henson, 30, of Oakville, came close. He matched all the numbers except the Powerball for the drawing on May 15, good for a $1 million prize he claimed this week, according to the Missouri Lottery.Henson told the Missouri ...
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Missouri Baptist University student charged with setting car fires at campuses in Creve Coeur
o A Missouri Baptist University student and former missionary has been charged with setting four parked cars on fire on and near campus earlier this month.Andrew Wos, 21, of the 5200 block of Sunflower Drive in Eureka was charged today with four counts of knowingly burning or exploding after Creve Coeur police say he set four cars ablaze on two parking lots at the university on May 1.Two cars ...
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Fire chief says search almost complete after Oklahoma EF5 tornado
Austin Brock holds cat Tutti, shortly after the animal was retrieved from the rubble of Brock's home, which was demolished a day earlier when a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled ...
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Casey Nolen reports from Moore Okla.
MOORE, Okla. (KSDK) - NewsChannel 5's Casey Nolen was one of the first reporters to arrive in Joplin, Mo. in 2011, and overnight he arrived in Moore, ...
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Stan Musials house hits the market
Stan Musial's Ladue home hit the open market May 21 and the residence is listed for $1.795 million. Built in 1962, the 5,286-square-foot mid-century estate features 4 bedrooms and 7 baths. The master suite connects to a library and den via brick patio. The residence opens to a grand foyer featuring a checkerboard marble floor and transitions to a living room lined with French doors. A ...
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Oklahoma tornado was top-of-the-scale EF-5
Trevor Hughes, Rick Jervis, Jonathan Shorman and John Bacon, USA TODAY MOORE, Okla. - Rescuers dug through the debris of destroyed homes, schools and businesses Tuesday in a desperate search for survivors of the massive tornado that blasted through this Tornado Alley ...
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2 new lawsuits filed over priest sex abuse
Plaintiff's attorney Rebecca Randles says the latest suits bring the total number of cases filed over the Rev. Shawn Ratigan's conduct to seven. Ratigan pleaded guilty in August to producing child pornography after police learned of hundreds of images of children, most of them clothed, with the focus on their crotch areas. Ratigan's case led Bishop Robert Finn to be charged with ...
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Malpractice suit against Husch Blackwell restored by appeals court
The Husch Blackwell LLP St. Louis headquarters at The Plaza in Clayton. An appeals court ruling Tuesday allowed a legal malpractice lawsuit against Husch Blackwell LLP to go forward. The dispute dates to 2001, when MTW Corp., a software company formerly based in Mission Woods, Kan., was sold to a British company for $85 million. Brian Nail, who had been MTWs CFO, sought advice from attorneys at ...
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Mo. counties to receive aid after April storms
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Gov. Jay Nixon says federal help is being offered to residents and businesses in several eastern Missouri counties affected by severe weather in ...
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Weather Service confirms five tornadoes in Missouri no touchdown in Hannibal
National Weather Service assessment teams have confirmed five tornado touchdowns in Missouri from storms yesterday. Tornadoes with winds topping out at between 90 and 100 miles per hour caused damage near Knob Noster in northwest Missouri and near Carthage in southwest Missouri. Trees were uprooted, power lineswere downed and outbuildings destroyed near Carthage. Those tornadoes rate EF-1 on ...
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Suzsanne Singer dies her volunteers visited nursing home residents
Suzsanne Singer, who died this week at age 88, was a psychologist who trained volunteers to visit nursing home residents who had no visitors.She started her Senior Connections program when she noticed many elderly living their final years in isolation. She and her daughter-in-law, Sandy Roeder Singer, trained volunteers to visit nursing homes.They modeled the program after the extended family of ...
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Stan Musial slept here and so can you — for $1.8 million
, one of Musial's grandchildren, said his fondest memories of the house are "all the times I played catch with (Musial) down by the pool."Not that long ago, I kind of tried to compute how many times I'd been there, and it's eerie how close it comes to 3,630," Schwarze said, referencing the number of hits Musial amassed in his career.It is not, however, the home in ...
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St. Louis police arrest a dozen Peabody protesters
ST. LOUIS o Police arrested a dozen protesters who were representing the United Mine Workers of America earlier today for blocking a city street outside of bankruptcy court downtown.Ten men and two women were among those arrested along the 100 block of South 10th Street after they disobeyed an officer's order to disperse because they were sitting in a street, police said.Police said the ...
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Schnucks says credit-card breach could cost it $80 million just in Illinois
The cost of the massive payment card hack that struck Schnucks in recent months could cost the company $80 million in Illinois alone, according to a court filing.In a motion filed last week, the Maryland Heights-based chain asked that a lawsuit against the company be heard in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, rather than in St. Clair County Circuit Court, because the ...
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Missouri just as good for travelling as far away places
Missouri is known as the Show-Me State, and although the exact origins of this odd term are as varied as they are uncertain, there certainly is much that the state of Missouri has to show tourists, both local and out-of-state alike. During these times of recession, when distant travel is prohibitive, now might be the time for Missourians to turn their attention to destinations closer to home.
Missouri is a tourist destination of diversity; it may not rank up there with Florida, California, New York and Louisiana, but it home to two of the largest metropolitan areas in the country (Kansas City Metropolitan Area and Greater St Louis). There are also interesting smaller towns that have made a name for themselves as being visitor friendly, while several significant natural areas make the state a popular destination for nature lovers. Read more
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