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MAC to expand campus for nursing programPARK HILLS — Governor Jeremiah “Jay” Nixon visited the campus of Mineral Area College recently to announce a $380,000 grant as part of his Training for Tomorrow education initiative. The MAC Board of Trustees met Thursday and approved hiring a general contractor to expand the main campus nursing department to house the program offered by the governor.
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Bank robbery case movedOne of the men charged in the Dec. 2 bank robbery has been granted a change of venue.
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Would you try green eggs and ham?Cooper Dunn looked warily at the green scrambled eggs on the paper plate in front of him, his brow furrowed as he looked them over.
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Turner Chevrolet gets letter of reinstatementPARK HILLS — Joe Turner has hopes that his car lot will soon be receiving brand new cars, trucks, SUVs, and vans from GM.
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Fill out census and keep scammers awayThe U.S. Census is underway and reminders to fill them out are mingled with concerns about identity theft.
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Tour of Mo. supporters seek private donations
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Organizers for the Tour of Missouri bicycling race launched a campaign to solicit private donations for the event while Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder and his office lessen their involvement....
Missouri stifles Booker, beats Clemson 86-78
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Trevor Booker's stellar career at Clemson ended on a sour note. You can thank "The Fastest 40 Minutes in Basketball" for that....
Blunt, Steelman announce coalition in St. Charles
ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- One-time potential political foes Roy Blunt and Sarah Steelman announced her selection Friday to head a coalition of Missouri business people to advise Blunt's U.S. Senate campaign on what's needed to expand and sustain small businesses and jobs....
St. Louis County awarded $7.5M federal grant
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) -- St. Louis County has been awarded a federal grant of more than $7.5 million to help smokers quit the habit and deter young people from taking it up....
Marlins pound Carpenter in 7-6 win over Cardinals
JUPITER, Fla. (AP) -- Albert Pujols hit his first home run of the spring, but right-hander Chris Carpenter was pounded for seven runs Friday in the St. Louis Cardinals' 7-6 loss to the Florida Marlins....
Top AP News
End in sight, health care battle tilts Obama's way
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One by one, Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama's direction....
Final health bill omits some of Obama's promises
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was a bold response to skyrocketing health insurance premiums. President Barack Obama would give federal authorities the power to block unreasonable rate hikes....
World diplomats urge resumption of Mideast talks
MOSCOW (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested Friday that the United States and Israel have found a way around the worst disagreement the two allies have faced in years while international diplomats set goals for new U.S.-backed peace talks aimed at establishing an independent Palestinian state....
Little fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Seven years after the first bombs in the war to oust Saddam Hussein, Iraqis went about their business Friday with little observance of the anniversary, looking to the future with a mixture of trepidation and hope....
Pope's Irish letter faces critical Catholic world
DUBLIN (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI addresses Ireland on Saturday in a letter apologizing for the sex abuse scandal here - a message being watched closely by Catholics from Boston to Berlin to see if it also acknowledges decades of Vatican-approved cover-ups....
U.S.
Calif. police dodge bullet in booby trap attacks
HEMET, Calif. (AP) -- Police officers in this retirement town in rural Riverside County have been on edge in recent weeks. Someone is trying to kill them....
Wash. man charged in ex-wife's killing at church
SEATTLE (AP) -- A Washington man accused of shooting his ex-wife to death during a counseling session at a Federal Way church has been charged with first-degree murder....
APNewsBreak: Calif boosts sex offender tracking
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California parole officials said Friday they have ordered increased monitoring of all sex offenders after recent high-profile lapses, most notably in the case of a young woman who was held captive for 18 years by a convicted rapist....
185 drug cases dropped after Camden police probe
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) -- Charges have been dropped or convictions vacated in 185 drug cases in one of the nation's most crime-ridden cities because information gathered in a criminal investigation of five police city officers suggests evidence could have been tainted, a prosecutor announced Friday....
American released from Myanmar returns to US soil
CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) -- A pro-democracy activist jailed for months in Myanmar after trying to visit his sick mother in prison arrived home in the United States on Friday, capping weeks of discussions between the ruling military junta and the U.S. State Department....
World
Ex-leader won't return to Venezuela, wife says
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- The wife of former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez ridiculed an attempt to extradite her husband from the United States, suggesting that President Hugo Chavez is attempting to create a spectacle to distract from domestic problems....
Bolivian who captured 'Che' wanted for questioning
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- The retired general who captured legendary revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara was summoned Friday by Bolivian authorities investigating an alleged plot against President Evo Morales....
Military fights drug suspects in Mexico, 3 dead
MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) -- A shootout erupted in the streets of a northeastern Mexican city Friday, killing two suspected drug cartel gunmen and wounding a soldier....
Minister: Sierra Leone rattled by disaster hoax
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- A top official in Sierra Leone's government said he raced to a town in the country Friday after news reports said at least 200 people had been killed in a mining accident there, only to find out it was a hoax....
Is that fare? Steep fee to ride with UK's Brown
LONDON (AP) -- Britain's national debt is the key theme in the country's looming national election - but it's now news organizations, not just the country's government, racking up huge bills to meet the cost of covering the campaign....
Politics
Dodd asks for Justice investigation of Lehman
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd is asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the circumstances that led to the spectacular collapse of Lehman Brothers....
Medicare fix would push health care into the red
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional budget scorekeepers say a Medicare fix that Democrats included in earlier versions of their health care bill would push it into the red....
US military deaths in Afghan region at 939
As of Friday, March 19, 2010, at least 939 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count....
Product recalls: frozen potatoes
The following products are being recalled because they could be contaminated with salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children and others with weakened immune systems:...
Science
Geneva atom smasher sets record for beam energy
GENEVA (AP) -- Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe....
Cloak of invisibility takes a step forward
WASHINGTON (AP) -- From Grimm's fairy tales to Harry Potter, the cloak of invisibility has played a major role in fiction. Now scientists have taken a small but important new step toward making it reality....
Export ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna rejected
DOHA, Qatar (AP) -- Fishing nations won a victory over environmentalists Thursday when a U.S.-backed proposal to ban export of the Atlantic bluefin tuna was overwhelmingly rejected at a U.N. wildlife meeting....
Arctic animals doing better, but not close to pole
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The overall number of animals in the Arctic has increased over the past 40 years ago, according to a new international study. But critters who live closest to the North Pole are disappearing....
NASA finds shrimp dinner on ice beneath Antarctica
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a surprising discovery about where higher life can thrive, scientists for the first time found a shrimp-like creature and a jellyfish frolicking beneath a massive Antarctic ice sheet....
Health
Testing overseas may explain big drop in TB cases
ATLANTA (AP) -- An unexpected big drop in new U.S. tuberculosis cases is probably because of stepped up screening and treatment of immigrants before they leave their native countries, health officials say....
Report: USDA lax in watching organics market
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Agriculture Department has failed to enforce penalties against some who falsely marketed foods as organic, according to an internal department investigation....
Doctors, AARP support new health overhaul bill
CHICAGO (AP) -- The nation's largest association of doctors and the AARP senior citizens' lobby are endorsing President Barack Obama's revised health overhaul legislation....
Correction: WHO drug-resistant TB story
LONDON (AP) -- In a March 18 story about drug-resistant tuberculosis, The Associated Press reported erroneously that there were no U.S. cases in 2008 of extensively drug-resistant TB. There were four cases in 2008 and no cases in 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
FDA panel backs implant for mild heart failure
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) -- Federal health advisers said Thursday an electronic heart implant should be approved for a large group of heart-disease patients who currently aren't eligible for the device....
Strange
Colo topless gardener complaints prompt new rules
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- A woman gardening wearing only a yellow thong and pink gloves has brought neighborhood complaints and new rules from a housing authority in Colorado....
UK library receives book overdue by 45 years
LONDON (AP) -- It's common to return a library book late - but not by half a century....
Elderly NYC pair familiar with 'Police! Open up!'
NEW YORK (AP) -- An elderly Brooklyn couple say they're tired of hearing the phrase, "Police! Open up!" World War II veteran Walter Martin and his 82-year-old wife, Rose, said police have come looking for criminals at their house about 50 times in the past eight years. It's not clear why....
Cops: Burglar logs into MySpace on store computer
KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) -- A burglar who spent about five hours on a store's computer after breaking into the business gave police all the clues they needed to track him down. Investigators said the 17-year-old logged into his MySpace account while at Bella Office Furniture and that made it easy for them to find him. He also spent time looking at pornography and trying to sell stolen items, all while using the business' computer....
Man who accidentally lit match on plane faces heat
BOSTON (AP) -- A man from Maine who struck a match on a U.S. Airways flight to Boston's Logan International Airport is facing some heat - but not over matches. Massachusetts State Police detained 50-year-old Paul Prater of Sanford on Wednesday over an outstanding identity fraud warrant in Canton, Ga. State police spokesman David Procopio said no charges have been brought for the match lighting, which Prater called an accident....
Tech
FCC seeks comment on rules for TV-cable talks
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators are seeking public comment on a petition by cable, satellite and phone companies for new government rules that would give them more clout in negotiations with TV broadcasters over programming....
Summary Box: Yelp under fire in business' lawsuits
THE ALLEGATIONS: Since late February, at least three lawsuits seeking class-action status have been filed against Yelp, a site that asks people to review businesses. The cases claim that reviews on Yelp are manipulated, depending on which companies pay to advertise on the site and which don't....
Review site Yelp under fire in business' lawsuits
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yelp, one of the most popular Web sites that let people post opinions about restaurants, shops and local services, is being sued by several small businesses that claim they've been pressured to advertise on the site in exchange for getting negative reviews squashed....
Judge: Site must delay copying of broker reports
NEW YORK (AP) -- Settling a copyright dispute closely watched in the financial news industry, a judge on Thursday ordered a Web site to delay disseminating the stock recommendations of financial services firms long enough so that the firms can alert their clients first....
Parents oppose Philly school webcam spying lawsuit
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Some suburban Philadelphia parents are seeking to halt a potential class-action lawsuit accusing their school district of using cameras in school-issued laptops to spy on students at home....
