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Parks popular place to be for FourthPARK HILLS — Andrew Wyrick’s head was the only visible part of his body as he hung out on the beach at St. Joe State Park Tuesday afternoon.
Celebrate the Fourth
There will be music, games, a parade, fireworks in Bonne Terre again this year on the Fourth of July.
Police say Park Hills man assaulted girlfriend
PARK HILLS — A Park Hills man is facing charges after he assaulted his girlfriend and then broke into an apartment next door where she fled to.
Man gets second chance at probation after road rage incidentFARMINGTON — A Bonne Terre man will have another chance at probation after admitting to violating his original probation.
Desloge approves $8 million budgetDESLOGE — The Desloge Board of Aldermen approved an $8 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year.
Fireworks sellers hope it's a 'backyard' FourthMARYSVILLE, Wash. (AP) — Even in a scorched economy, there’s still some money to burn.
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Wellemeyer shuts down Giants in 5-2 victory
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Todd Wellemeyer rebounded from his shortest start of the season with a solid 7 1-3 innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Francisco Giants 5-2 on Thursday night....
Companies recall products linked to milk processor
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Food distributors across the country announced on Thursday they are recalling nonfat dry milk, cocoa and other products that are linked to a possible salmonella contamination at a Plainview, Minn., milk processor....
Cardinals sign highly regarded Latin teen
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- The St. Louis Cardinals gave a $3.1 million signing bonus to 16-year-old outfielder Wagner Mateo, considered to be among the top amateur free agents from Latin America....
Nixon vetoes Mo. motorcycle helmet repeal
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed legislation Thursday that would have relaxed a law that requires motorcyclists in Missouri to wear helmets at all times, citing concerns about highway safety and health care costs....
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Obama to tell Putin: Time to move past Cold War
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Days from his first Moscow summit, President Barack Obama declared Thursday that former Russian President Vladimir Putin "still has a lot of sway" in his nation and needs an in-person reminder the Cold War is over....
Marines suffer first casualties in Afghan campaign
NAWA, Afghanistan (AP) -- U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan. One Marine was killed and several others were injured or wounded on the first full day of the assault, the largest military operation in Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban government in 2001....
Jackson ex-wife shows interest in custody of kids
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The future of Michael Jackson's children was thrown into question Thursday when his ex-wife emerged and won a delay in a custody hearing while she decides whether she wants to raise her two offspring....
Senate bill fines people refusing health coverage
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority....
Los Angeles police under scrutiny in Jackson death
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The investigation of Michael Jackson's death is widening as questions intensify about the drugs he took, the doctors who provided them and the actions of police....
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Companies recall products linked to milk processor
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Food distributors across the country announced on Thursday they are recalling nonfat dry milk, cocoa and other products that are linked to a possible salmonella contamination at a Plainview, Minn., milk processor....
SC gov's wife may be able to forgive affair
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford says she may be able to forgive her husband's much-publicized affair with an Argentine woman, but true reconciliation will take more time....
Sheriff: Same person has killed 3 in northern SC
GAFFNEY, S.C. (AP) -- A sheriff says the shooting deaths of a peach farmer and two women in a rural area of South Carolina the past week have been linked to the same killer....
Wolf pups rescued; some found dead
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Wildlife agents rescued two Mexican gray wolf pups found abandoned in a New Mexico forest, but three others from the same litter were found dead, officials said Thursday....
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SC senator defends ouster of Honduran president
WASHINGTON (AP) -- South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is defending the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and says the rule of law is working in Honduras....
Companies recall products linked to milk processor
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Food distributors across the country announced on Thursday they are recalling nonfat dry milk, cocoa and other products that are linked to a possible salmonella contamination at a Plainview, Minn., milk processor....
Obama to tell Putin: Time to move past Cold War
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Days from his first Moscow summit, President Barack Obama declared Thursday that former Russian President Vladimir Putin "still has a lot of sway" in his nation and needs an in-person reminder the Cold War is over....
Documents describe chaos of Gitmo's early months
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly released Defense Department documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, portray a chaotic and sometimes violent operation that its own commanders described as dysfunctional....
Senate bill fines people refusing health coverage
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama's top domestic priority....
Business & Finance
Mass. firm gets loan for NY energy storage system
TYNGSBORO, Mass. (AP) -- A Massachusetts company says the federal government has approved a $43 million loan guarantee to help finance a 20-megawatt energy storage system for New York's electrical grid....
Judge will consider Stanford request for money
HOUSTON (AP) -- A federal judge in Dallas says he will consider a modest request for money to pay lawyers and accountants to comb through R. Allen Stanford's personal assets to find money untainted by an alleged $7 billion fraud....
AEG boss says Jackson insurance covers overdose
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Concert promoter AEG Live's chief executive said Thursday that insurance will help cover any losses on the now-canceled Michael Jackson concert series if the pop star died accidentally - including of a drug overdose - but not if he died of natural causes....
Feds seize Madoff penthouse, wife leaves
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff's $7 million Manhattan penthouse on Thursday and forced his wife to move out and leave her possessions behind, including a fur coat she had asked to take with her, an official told The Associated Press....
Judge dismisses Constellation appeal in EdF case
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Constellation Energy Group Inc. lost a round in its battle with Maryland regulators over its proposed deal to sell half its nuclear operations to France's EdF when a judge ruled Thursday it could not appeal the decision to review the agreement while the review was under way....
Health
Advocates are back with real health care stories
CHICAGO (AP) -- When carpenter Greg Douglas rolled his pickup truck, his toolbox hit him and smashed his ribs and collarbone. After a month in the hospital, the medical bills hit him even harder, totaling $165,000....
Federal probe finds problems with chelation study
A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death....
Study: New flu inefficient in attacking people
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is - so far - more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science....
CDC: US swine flu cases rise to nearly 34,000
ATLANTA (AP) -- The number of U.S. swine flu cases has reached nearly 34,000, and deaths have risen 34 percent in the past week to 170, federal health officials reported Thursday....
Holder having surgery for cracked tooth
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Holder had emergency oral surgery Thursday to remove a cracked tooth....
Science
Baaad news? Global warming now shrinking sheep
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep....
NASA astronaut takes Twitter to space en Espanol
WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He'll tweet from space in Spanish and English....
Myanmar fossil may shed light on evolution
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Fossils recently discovered in Myanmar could prove that the common ancestors of humans, monkeys and apes evolved from primates in Asia, rather than Africa, researchers contend in a study released Wednesday....
Group: World failing to halt biodiversity decline
GENEVA (AP) -- Governments are failing to stem a rapid decline in biodiversity that is now threatening extinction for almost half the world's coral reef species, a third of amphibians and a quarter of mammals, a leading environmental group warned Thursday....
Idaho F&G plan to kill pelicans hits obstacles
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Federal officials have told the Idaho fish and game officials that their plan to halve the number of pelicans nesting in southern and eastern Idaho by 2013 to boost fisheries is an "eradication program" that needs more work....
Strange
Police: Conn. teens mishear sex screams, beat man
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- A 16-year-old girl thought she heard her mother being assaulted by her boyfriend and rounded up some friends who beat him up, only to learn later that the couple actually were having sex, the woman and police said. The girl misinterpreted the woman's amorous screams, and she and four other teens went to the woman's bedroom in the Torrington home on June 6, police Lt. Bruce Whiteley said Thursday....
Va. woman rides to landfill in trash bin
WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) -- Workers at the Frederick County Landfill were surprised by what they found in a large trash bin trucked in from a Goodwill Industries store: a woman who had apparently gotten trapped. "They opened the door and she got out," said landfill manager Ron Kimble....
Man says bear mugged him for his Italian sandwich
VERNON, N.J. (AP) -- A northwestern New Jersey man said he was mugged in his driveway by a sandwich-craving bear. Henry Rouwendal said he was packing his car last Friday when he was hit from behind and knocked to the ground. He said the culprit was a black bear who took his Italian sandwich....
New Swiss firefighting tool: TV remote control
ZURICH (AP) -- It must rank among the easiest fires ever to put out. Zurich authorities say police and firefighters were called to the house of an elderly woman early Thursday after she reported her television set was burning. When they arrived, they discovered no signs of fire or smoke....
Conn. woman's encounter with 'Big Foot' a hoax
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut woman's close encounter with the mythical beast, Sasquatch or Big Foot, turned out to be nothing more than a boy in a costume. Fairfield police said a woman driving last Tuesday night called police to report that she "almost hit Sasquatch," which was standing in the middle of the road....
Technology
Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules
NEW YORK (AP) -- In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence....
AP unveils 'treasure trove' of historical footage
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Associated Press is digitizing and has begun to release a "treasure trove" of historical film footage from the 1960s and '70s that had been sitting in Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's former World War II headquarters in London....
TV stations struggling with viewer loss on DTV
NEW YORK (AP) -- The government is helping two dozen TV stations that became difficult to receive by antenna when they switched to new frequencies as part of the digital TV transition, the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday....
Tech expert: Nagin e-mails disappeared
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A technology expert said Wednesday that potentially years' worth of Mayor Ray Nagin's e-mails have been deleted....
PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in China
BEIJING (AP) -- Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory....
Weather
AP Interview: Snowe seeks bipartisan health bill
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Sen. Olympia Snowe, a key figure in shaping federal health care legislation, said Monday that a government-run plan that would take effect if the private insurance market fails to deliver affordable coverage could bridge the partisan divide that threatens to derail President Barack Obama's efforts to reform the system....
Gale Storm, perky star of 1950s TV, dies at 87
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Gale Storm, whose wholesome appearance and perky personality made her one of early television's biggest stars on "My Little Margie" and "The Gale Storm Show," has died at age 87....
Heavy sandstorm blankets Iraq, delays oil bidding
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A heavy sandstorm has blanketed Iraq's capital, closing the Baghdad airport and delaying the country's first oil bidding process in 30 years....
Sophisticated weather satellite rockets into orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A sophisticated new weather satellite rocketed into orbit Saturday, giving forecasters another powerful tool for tracking hurricanes and tornadoes....
Strong thunderstorms batter southeast Michigan
HADLEY, Mich. (AP) -- Severe thunderstorms have moved through southeast Michigan, leaving about 100,000 electrical customers without service....
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