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The city of St. Louis has spent $3 million over the past 15 years cleaning up graffiti that is unwanted by the property owners. How do these marks differ from the art that can still be found on the flood wall?
People in Winfield try to cope as they wait for FEMA or start to clean what they can. Clarksville residents breathe easier as they won, this time. The mud-soaked flag (photo by Kristen DiFate) speaks to fewer celebrations in river towns.
Fireworks will be going off from barges near the Arch, but the area offers many other places to see the pyrotechnics.
St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke will become the top administrator of the Catholic Church's high court and move in August from St. Louis to Rome
full time. Bishop Robert J. Hermann will be administrator until the pope names another man to lead St. Louis
Catholics.
Tourism to the Lake of the Ozarks is down so far this summer. The culprits seem to be high gas prices, rainy weather and flooding. Still, lake tourism officials think that there's plenty of time for the season to rebound.
Editors' Picks
- Economy
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St. Louis-area unemployment reaches 7.2 percent -- passing national average of 6 percent: 105,000 area people can't find work as national credit and housing troubles ripple across the nation. | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Chillicothe, Mo., bank takes over after regulators close Columbian Bank of Topeka: Citizens Bank of Chillicothe buys insured deposits, other assets of failed Kansas institution. | MarketWatch
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Amtrak strains to meet growing rider demand: Illinois Sen. Durbin wants to boost train service and revive rail-car manufacturing. | Chicago Tribune
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Gassed up and ready to go: Missouri S&T unveils state's first fueling station for hydrogen vehicles; Rolla event is part of Maine-to-California tour of hydogen cars. | Missouri University of Science and Technology
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- Govt./Politics
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New Missouri law bans big trucks from far-left lane: Provision of new transportation bill bars trucks weighing more than 48,000 pounds from traveling in the left lane of urban highways with at least three lanes carrying traffic in the same direction. | Columbia Tribune
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Huntsville, Mo., woman wants area to post "Trail of Death" signs: Similar to "Trail of Tears" marking forced march of American Indians in 1830s across nation's South to Oklahoma, "Trail of Death" recalls 660-mile route from Indiana to Kansas where members of Potawaomi tribe lost their lives in 1838. | Moberly Monitor-Index
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Iowa Republicans urge flood recovery over prison construction: Democratic House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says cancelling new prison won't save money, charges GOP with political ploy. | Des Moines Register
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Email suit against Blunt is revived: The judge who threw out the first suit appointed Democrat Joe Maxwell and Republican Louis Leonatti to investigate whether the governor violated Missouri's sunshine law by destroying emails. They filed an amended suit Monday. | AP/Missourian
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- Other news
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Champaign, Ill., man wins $5 million judgment from Belleville Diocese in sex abuse case: James Wisniewski sued Catholic Church over assaults when he was an altar boy; church removed Raymond Kownacki from ministry in 1995 after years of shifting him to other parishes. | Belleville News-Democrat
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Chicago man, four others, face bribery charges over Afghanistan defense contracts: Justice Department says Maj. Christopher West of Illinois National Guard took $30,000 in bribes from Afghan companies that supplied material at Bagram Airfield. | Chicago Tribune
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Herrin, Ill,, man's yard sinks into subsiding coal mine: Subdivision road also falls, home appears safe. | Southern Illinoisan
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Former Branson Mayor Wade Meadows dies at 89: Mayor from 1987 to 1994, Meadows earned credit for much of the tourist attraction's growth. | Springfield News-Leader
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Voices
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Beacon Columnists
Are college presidents who are proposing a national discussion of lowering the drinking age slackers or realists? Do fatality numbers so a correlation between a lower drinking age and more deaths or are other factors at play. M.W. Guzy puts the issue in perspective.
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In the News
Just a small difference in productivity and tax rates can make a big difference in just a few years. Is the lack of an income tax the main reason Tennessee has pulled ahead of Missouri in per capita gross state product? Joseph Haslag of the Show-Me Institute outlines the case.
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Editorial Cartoons
Nothing like a convention to sharpen the pencils of editorial cartoonists. From the contrast between Biden and Obama to the steadfastness of Hillary Clinton suports, Mike Thompson, Scott Stantis, John Sherffius, Gary Markstein and Chris Britt have plenty to say.
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U.S. Elections Picks
John McCain should resist temptation and not select Joe Lieberman as his running mate. | Robert Novak, townhall.com
The Lens
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Who's the leader of the club that sues for excess use?
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