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Nations poor migrate to unlikely place suburbs
The Brookings Institution reports a 64 percent increase in the number of impoverished people living in the suburbs in the past decade, growing at twice the rate of the urban poor, The Kansas City Star reports. By 2011, the suburban poor outnumbered the urban poor by almost 3 million, the report says. In Johnson County, for example, 4.5 percent of children younger than 5 lived below the poverty ...
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Driver killed when truck slams into tree in Washington County
A vigil was held by family and friends for 15-month-old Jay'lah Keith in East St. Louis on Sunday, May 19, 2013. The child was killed in ...
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Quinn wants Illinois to ban high-capacity ammo magazines
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Storm knocks out power to thousands in St. Louis County
A vigil was held by family and friends for 15-month-old Jay'lah Keith in East St. Louis on Sunday, May 19, 2013. The child was killed in ...
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McClellan offers investigative tips for law firm looking into Meramec attack
The Board of Trustees of St. Louis Community College announced Thursday that it has hired the law firm of Armstrong Teasdale to investigate the administration's handling of an assault last month on the Meramec campus. In the assault, a female student was attacked by a male student in a women's restroom, according to police.Good. This is a case that begs for an investigation.However, I ...
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SIRV to crack down on crime
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - A new group known as SIRV will work to reduce crime in the St. Louis-area. SIRV stands for Saint Louis Initiative to Reduce Violence. It's a partnership between police departments, church groups and schools. The group plans to release additional information at 10 a.m. Monday. It hopes to target neighborhoods known as crime hot spots. Their first area of concern is to ...
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Daily physical touch important for couples
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Couples who work opposite schedules still need to make time for physical touch every day. NewsChannel 5 relationship referee and psychotherapist Patricia Cashman explains how just 20 minutes can make a difference. Click on the video player to watch the interview. ...
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Learning cant stop during summer vacation
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - It's time for summer vacation! Kids love it, but some parents worry about it. Teachers deal with the consequences in the fall. Summer Brain Drain is a real phenomenon. Kids forget the skills they worked so hard on during the school year, especially in math and reading. Educators have a message for parents. Get your kids involved in a reading program. Go over math facts ...
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Bridgeton landfill work begins Monday
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KSDK) - The smell from the Bridgeton landfill will intensify as work begins to reduce the smell in the area. Workers on Monday will start to extricate six underground concrete columns before work on the plastic cap can begin. They will have to move soil, which means the smell will intensify. Republic Services and Attorney General Chris Koster agreed to a relocation project ...
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Top 3 Deals Today $25 Pet beds 55 off cameras cooler
ST. LOUIS -- Today we start one of the top deal weeks of the year. It's kind of like Black Friday week in the middle of May and I assure you the deals that drop between now and Friday will be the best ones you'll see this season. Last week, I made several deal predictions. I want to remind you that if you're in the market for a new luggage set, I expect 60% price drops on ...
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Man shot in face after leaving midtown club
St. Louis, MO (KSDK) - A man who told police he was leaving a midtown St. Louis night club around 1:30 a.m. Monday morning is hospitalized after he was shot in the face. The unidentified man told investigators he had left the Loft and was walking in the 500 block of Cardinal near Olive when he heard gunfire, and realized he had been struck. Police were called and attended to the victim before ...
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Missouri lawmakers to study Medicare other issues before 2014 session
In the last few years, the Kansas City-based video production firm T2 Studios and its so-called Experience Lab have gained a growing reputation for creating what are called immersion experiences. In a world of way-too-much stuff passing before our eyes, what all these flashy sights are about is an elevated form of ...
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Petro chiefs lawsuit hurt by guilty verdict
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A former prosecutor says the head of Petro America has little chance of prevailing in a civil lawsuit against the federal government after he was convicted on six criminal ...
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25-year-old Columbia man shot to death
Police said in a news release that they were called to a home in Columbia early Sunday and found Brandon R. Coleman suffering from a gunshot. He later died at a Columbia ...
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Lawmakers’ discussion of Medicaid could carry into legislative break
Representative Jay Barnes (foreground, on mic)and Senator Jamilah Nasheed carried proposals for a joint interim committee on Medicaid reform in their respective chambers. (photo courtesy; Tim Bommel, Missouri House Communications) The discussion of the future of Medicaid in Missouri has likely not ended with the close of the legislative session. The General Assembly has approved legislation ...
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Mizzou softball hosting Washington in Super Regionals
The Mizzou softball team, seeded sixth in the NCAA Division I Softball Championship, will host No. 11 Washington in the Super Regional round Thursday, May 23 and Friday, May 24 at University Field. The Tigers take on the Huskies in a best-of-three series, with Thursday's game set for 8 p.m. CDT on ESPN and the Friday game scheduled for 5 p.m. on ESPNU. A third game, if necessary, would ...
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Belleville Memorial battling UnitedHealthcare
Mark Turner Belleville Memorial Hospital and UnitedHealthcare are locked in a contract dispute over hospital and physician reimbursement rates. If the two parties cannot soon come to an agreement, Memorial and its physicians group will no longer be in the network of the nation's largest insurer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Memorial recently sent its patients a form letter, signed by ...
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Liquor bill blocked as Missouri legislative session ends
Liquor law stalls in Senate. A much-debated bill to regulate the distribution of alcohol in Missouri didn't make it to a vote before the legislative session ended on Friday. The proposed legislation, which would have prevented alcohol suppliers from terminating wholesalers without "good cause," was blocked in the Senate, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Missouris franchise law ...
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United Airlines to restart 787 flights on Monday
United Airlines is putting its Boeing 787 Dreamliners back in the air. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded Dreamliners in mid-January after separate incidents when on-board lithium-ion batteries overheated in Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways jets. The grounding forced United to delay planned international flights and hurt its first-quarter earnings by $11 million, the Associated ...
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MEMC seeks funding for solar plant in Chile
MEMC CEO Ahmad Chatila MEMC Electronic Materials Inc.'s SunEdison unit is seeking funding from the World Bank's private-sector financing arm for the $120.5 million solar plant it plans to build in Chile. The International Finance Corp.'s board plans to make a decision on the financing on June 18, according to an investment proposal on its website, Bloomberg reports. World Bank did ...
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Tornadoes slam Plains Midwest 1 dead in Okla. violent weather expected today
SHAWNEE, Okla. -- Hearing on the radio that a violent storm was approaching her rural Oklahoma neighborhood, Lindsay Carter took advantage of the advanced warning, gathered her belongings and fled. When she returned, there was little left of the community she called ...
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Metrolink riders prepare for delays in Metro East
Construction on the Metrolink rail system in the Metro East could cause delays of up to 25 minutes for passengers beginning Monday. To preform track work between College and Shiloh-Scott stations, regular Metrolink service will end at College Station for the Red Line at 8 p.m. Monday through Thrusday and Sunday, the Belleville News-Democrat reports. Eastbound Red Line passengers traveling to the ...
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Atlanta council considers 20-story Ferris wheel
ATLANTA - The Atlanta City Council is expected to consider a request to construct a Ferris wheel once used in Paris that would soar 20 stories over downtown Atlanta.The council is set to vote on the request Monday.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/18XOpG3) that Skyview Atlanta would be the latest tourist attraction near Centennial Olympic Park, joining the Georgia Aquarium, ...
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Woman sought after car vandalized home torched
St. Louis, MO (KSDK) - St. Louis Police have identified a person of interest they'd like to talk to after two calls to a north city home overnight. The first call was a property destruction crime involving the victims car. Police arrived around 1:45 a.m. this morning after the victim told police someone had smashed all the glass out of his car parked outside his home in the 1400 block of ...
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Man killed after his vehicle crashes into building
St. Louis, MO (KSDK) -Police and accident reconstruction experts continue to investigate why a driver lost control of his vehicle overnight, colliding with a building, and leaving the man dead. The accident occurred at 12:40 a.m. Monday in the 1100 block of Hamilton in the Wells Goodfellow neighborhood of north St. Louis. Authorities say the 57 year old victim lost control of the SUV and ...
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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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