By BOB CHRISTIE (PHOENIX, AP) — A billionaire business owner who died along with four others in a 2010 helicopter crash apparently allowed his 5-year-old daughter to sit on his… Read more »
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Pot votes in CO, WA raise specter of weed tourism
By KRISTEN WYATT (DENVER, AP) — Hit the slopes — and then a bong? Marijuana legalization votes this week in Colorado and Washington state don’t just set up an epic… Read more »
Missouri S&T team competes in satellite challenge
(ROLLA, Mo., AP) — A team at the Missouri University of Science and Technology is competing to have a spacecraft launched into orbit. The Rolla school says it’s one of… Read more »
Mo. nonprofit takes emergency aid to Sandy victims
(SPRINGFIELD, Mo., AP) — A Springfield-based nonprofit has sent 38 tractor-trailers filled with emergency supplies to people recovering from Hurricane Sandy. By next week, Convoy of Hope expects to have… Read more »
KKK sues another Mo. town over leafleting
(DESLOGE, Mo., AP) — For the second time in recent weeks, the Ku Klux Klan is suing a Missouri town over the right to hand out leaflets. A judge ruled… Read more »
KCP&L to recover some conservation losses
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri regulators will allow Kansas City Power & Light to increase some customers’ rates to recover losses from a new energy conservation program. The utility… Read more »
Prop B foe says proposed tax hike was too steep
By BILL DRAPER (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A day after Missouri voters barely rejected a sharp increase in the state’s tobacco tax for the third time in a decade,… Read more »
Mo.’s young hunters bag 19K deer
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s younger hunters bagged more than 19,000 deer in the first youth weekend deer hunt of the season. The state Conservation Department says hunters ages… Read more »
Mo. chamber touts success in legislative elections
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Some Missouri business leaders are hoping that a newly enlarged Republican majority in the state House can help them enact their agenda. The Missouri Chamber… Read more »
Obama campaign savors hard-fought victory
By JIM KUHNHENN and JULIE PACE (CHICAGO, AP) — President Barack Obama’s campaign was relishing a hard-fought victory for the presidency, capping a re-election bid that hinged heavily on aggressive… Read more »