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First class of Kauffman Scholars college graduates
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The first class of Kansas City students who were given a free college education through the Kauffman Foundation is graduating from college this ...
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Delay in corn planting season could cause decline in corn yields
Rainfall and cold temperatures have caused delay in the corn planting season and a worry for corn producers looking to plant their crops. University of Missouri Extension corn specialist Brent Myers says the optimal planting window for corn producers in Missouri is about a month long and ranges from the second week of April to the end of the first week in May; but due to excessive rainfall and ...
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GEHA employees suits against JPMorgan come back to state court
As word came this week that the Government Employees Health Association Inc. would consolidate its 1,200 employees in Independence, a pair of lawsuits involving many of them also were being moved to the same city. GEHA employees filed two suits last year against JPMorgan Retirement Plan Services LLC, an Overland Park-based subsidiary of the Wall Street investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: ...
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Reinsurance Group of America to Hire Hundreds in St. Louis Area
A St. Louis, Mo.-based insurance company has vowed to add at least 300 employees within five years. The Reinsurance Group of America discussed the hiring spree while breaking ground on a new, $140 million headquarters complex in suburban Chesterfield. RGA sells insurance to other insurance companies. Its president and CEO, Greig Woodring, says the company would hire actuaries, accountants, ...
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Take two Clearwire board backs Sprints new offer
Clearwire Corp.s board and special merger committee are asking shareholders to back Sprint Nextel Corp.s offer again. On Wednesday, Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR) said both groups supported Sprints new offer to acquire Clearwire. Sprint is majority owner of Clearwire, holding just more than 50 percent of its stock. Soon before Clearwire shareholders were set to vote Tuesday on Sprints prior offer of ...
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Exclusive Spear ousted at Arch Grants
Sarah Spear was fired as executive director of Arch Grants on May 15. Sarah Spear has been forced out as the executive director of the Arch Grants business plan competition. Spear said that last Wednesday, one day after a very public ceremony where the organization awarded $1 million in equity-free grants to 20 startups, she had a meeting with Arch Grants founding board members Joe Schlafly and ...
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Missouri gets C- for state of its bridges dams and other infrastructure
ST. LOUIS o Missouri earned subpar grades for the condition of its primary roadways, energy-transmission systems and airports, according ...
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Lead Bank offering free business advice
It's hard running a business, and if you need some advice on how to improve, Lead Bank is offering a way to get it. Lead Bank will host a resource fair for local entrepreneurs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on May 30, in its branch office at 9019 S. Missouri Highway 7 in Lee's Summit. The event is free and open to local entrepreneurs and businesses of all ages, whether startup or established. ...
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Cardinals tickets on sale for $4
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Cardinals fans can buy select tickets to the club's upcoming home series against the Arizona Diamondbacks at nearly an 80 percent discount. Starting Wednesday at 10 a.m., the team's 'Cards Win, You Save' promotion kicked in, cutting the price of $19 tickets down to $4 apiece. As part of the promotion, the team took $3 the ticket price for each victory ...
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Game app makes algebra easier for students
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Summer vacation is getting into full swing and one major challenge for parents during this long stretch without sitting in a classroom is to keeping their child's math skills sharp during the break. Homework during the school year is difficult enough, so how do you motivate a child to do algebra during the summer? A math teacher named Jean Baptiste Huynh is on a mission ...
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No Place Like Home for Chiefs LB Chad Kilgore
to join the team's LB corps, coached by Gary Gibbs. Since arriving and putting on the Chiefs helmet, one thing has immediately stood out. "I don't know what it was like here, last year, but it just feels like a competitive environment," Kilgore said. "They definitely have a lot of competitiveness in the linebacker corps; a lot of guys in there that are competing for ...
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Civil engineers issue weak grades for Missouri Kansas
Burt Bacharach knew writing a memoir would be emotional not because of his never-heard backstage tales or his tumultuous marriages. The famed pop composer, who was born in Kansas City, knew that being honest would force him to come to terms with the death of his ...
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Fireworks show back on in Cape Girardeau
The Southeast Missourian reports that Isle Casino Cape Girardeau on Tuesday donated $6,000 for the show, pushing donations to the $12,000 amount needed to fund it. The Southeast Missourian and Rust Communications chairman Gary Rust were revealed Tuesday as the source for the other ...
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OsteoGeneX gets nearly $500K grant for bone disease work
The National Institutes of Health awarded $475,076 to OsteoGeneX Inc., a Kansas City, Kan., private pharmaceutical company focused on developing a treatment for osteoporosis. The award is a Small Business Innovation Research grant from a division of NIH called the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. It will be used to continue developing an oral treatment for ...
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GeneriCo raises $435000 toward $2.5 million funding round
St. Louis-based GeneriCo LLC is in the middle of a $2.5 million fundraising round, according to a recent filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Generico develops and markets generic pharmaceuticals. It focuses on generics that have been neglected by mid and large generic companies and also have an embedded drug delivery technology making the formulation challenging and ...
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Stink-fighting work begins on Bridgeton landfill
rain delay earlier in the week. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources said the landfill's owner, Republic Services Inc., notified the state that work was set to begin Wednesday morning. "Due to heavy rains in the last few days some preparation work will be completed this morning prior to the intrusive work into the cap of the landfill beginning, which is now planned to start at ...
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Front desks at some hotels are checking out
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - When you walk into a hotel, the first thing you do is go to the front desk, get your keys, and go to your room. But the front desk may not be staying for long. At the St. Louis Airport Marriott, they're in the process of getting rid of the front desk. The reason is because it's big and some hotels believe it's a barrier between guests and employees. So, the ...
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Stan Musials home up for sale
Musial died in January at age 92, and his wife, Lillian, died in 2012. The couple's 10-room, four-bedroom home in Ladue is now for sale for about $1.8 ...
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Grocery chain pushes to shift venue of breach suit
BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- A supermarket chain wants an Illinois lawsuit related to a security breach affecting up to 2.4 million credit and debit cards of its customers moved to a federal ...
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BizNext 7 things you need to know 05.22.13
Apple is spending $100 million to set up a plant in Texas to manufacture Mac computers, with some of the components coming from Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan and Florida. Microsoft unveiled its new Xbox at an event Tuesday. The new console is billed less as a gaming machine and more as an entertainment and television box. Wall Street wasn't impressed. The NFL just signed Microsoft to a ...
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Breakfast with Bernie Bill DeWitt Jr is best owner in MLB
In today's breakfast meeting Post-Dispatch Sports Columnist Bernie Miklasz explains why he believes Cardinals' chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. is ...
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Museum offers a look at life in the Missouri State Penitentiary
oVisitors to Jefferson City will be able to get a glimpse of life at the Missouri State Penitentiary at a new museum.The Missouri State Penitentiary Museum is scheduled to open on Tuesday, at the Jefferson City Convention and Visitors Bureau.Museum officials say the idea for the facility out of the popularity of tours of the penitentiary in Jefferson City.The museum features artifacts and ...
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Shots fired into home kill woman in St. Louis County
A 22-year-old woman is dead after someone fired shots into a home in north St. Louis County on Tuesday night.The shooting happened at about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday in the 2100 block of Chambers Road. Her name has not been released.The woman was dead when officers arrived. Several other people were inside the house, too, but no one else was hurt, Vaughn said.St. Louis County Police Officer Randy ...
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Trial ordered for captain in deadly Costa Concordia shipwreck in Italy
FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS - FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2012 file photo released by the Guardia di Finanza (border Police), the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia leans on its side after running aground off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy. The luxury cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany, sending water pouring in through a 160-foot (50-meter) gash in the hull and forcing ...
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Arias holding out hope jury will spare her life
Jodi Arias gives her first interview since pleading with jurors for her life May 21 at the Maricopa County Estrella Jail in Phoenix, Ariz. (Photo: Rob Schumacher, The ...
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St Louis high-speed rail link to Chicago breaks ground
St Louis, Chicago and the state governments of Missouri and Illinois have taken the first step in constructing the Mid West Hub of high-speed rail connections with the building of a high-speed line between the two cities which will quadruple capacity and spur economic development, according to proponents of the high-speed rail line.
Work on the high-speed rail link between St Louis and Chicago has begun, signalling the first step of a mammoth project that is intended to ultimately see Chicago become the hub of a national high-speed railway network that will change the nature of overland transport in the country. Read more
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