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Ameren Missouri opens Emergency Operations Center
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Ameren Missouri's Emergency Operations Center is open to provide support to communities impacted by Monday night's severe storm throughout most of our service territory. About 9,800 Ameren Missouri customers are without power. Service is expected to restored to everyone by the end of the day. People are reminded to stay away from downed power lines and call Ameren ...
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Futures fall as markets await hints from Fed
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stock futures are down in light trading ahead of an appearance this week by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke before Congress. Dow Jones industrial futures slipped 4 points to 15,315. S&P futures have given up 1.1 points to 1,663.50. Nasdaq futures are up 1.75 points to 3,019.25. Wall Street will also be keeping an eye on J.P. Morgan's annual meeting, where shareholders ...
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2 plead guilty to wire theft after Joplin tornado
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- Two men admit they stole copper wire from utility poles while the city of Joplin recovered from a devastating tornado in May ...
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Monsanto stung by drop in bee population
Monsanto is hosting a "Bee Summit" in June. Monsanto Co., Bayer AG and Syngenta AG are all launching initiatives focused on the declining number of honeybees in the United States, as critics place the blame for the bees' demise on the agrichemical giants. The companies' efforts come as the pesticides they produce are under fire from environmental groups who claim the chemicals ...
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Macys will close downtown St. Louis store
Two years after downsizing its downtown St. Louis store, Macys Inc. (NYSE: M) will close the location, which dates to 1924. The St. Louis Business Journal reports that the Cincinnati-based department store chain cites low customer activity for the decision. There are eight other Macys locations in the St. Louis ...
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Boeing could increase 787 production
The production cycle for the 787 Dreamliner could get a boost in order to chip away at a backlog of 840 jets. Boeing Co. CEO James McNerney told Bloomberg the faster production rate could allow Boeing to attract new customers. Airlines have purchased 52 jets, which start at a list price of $206.8 million. According to Boeing officials, production is now running at a rate of seven a ...
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Laclede Gas nears settlement in rate case
Laclede Group President and CEO Suzanne Sitherwood Laclede Gas has reached an agreement in principle with the Missouri Public Service Commission staff and the Office of Public Council regarding its request to increase natural gas rates by $48.4 million. Laclede filed a notice of the agreement with the PSC on Monday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The utility filed for the rate increase in ...
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Burwell Why are Cards waiting on Wacha
Michael Wacha up from Class AAA Memphis. Well, lead us not into temptation.At least not yet.With every breathless dispatch that comes up from Memphis that regales us with Wacha's exploits (4-0 with a gaudy 1.89 earned-run average in eight starts), the 21-year-old righthander is the obvious move of every fantasy-league loving fan who doesn't have to consider anything beyond the right ...
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Jay is at home lower in lineup
St. Louis Cardinals' Jon Jay hits an RBI-double during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff ...
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Matheny praises Marquis as New York-tough
San Diego Padres starting pitcher Jason Marquis works against the St. Louis Cardinals in the first inning of a baseball game in San Diego, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Lenny ...
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Blues swap of AHL affiliates is hard for Peoria
Blues prospects will have a new home next season, a development that has stirred emotions considerably in the long-time minor-league base of the franchise. In early April, the Blues announced that they had sold the Peoria Rivermen of the American Hockey League to the Vancouver Canucks, after which the Blues unveiled a three-year agreement with the independently owned Chicago Wolves.The move has ...
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Senior PGA lets club pros dream big
Things have changed in golf since the 1990s, when a number of club pros made headlines on the Senior PGA Tour, now know as the Champions Tour.Players such as Tom Wargo, Allen Doyle and Dana Quigley lived the dream, left their club pro careers behind and gained full-time residence on the professional senior circuit. But for the most part, that horse has left the barn.The Champions Tour is close ...
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Guard transfers to Mizzou from Baylor
Missouri basketball coach Frank Haith is taking on another transfer. Deuce Bello, a 6-foot-4 reserve guard for Baylor the last two seasons, will transfer to Missouri, he said Monday in a phone interview from his native North Carolina."I really like their style of play," said Bello, who verbally committed to Mizzou over Florida and Florida State among others.Bello, rated the No. 54 ...
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Sprint to listen to Dish offer
Wireless company Sprint Nextel Corp. says it can now let Dish Network Corp. see its books and talk with Dish to see whether its competing offer to buy Sprint is better than its current deal with Japan's SoftBank.The companies said late Thursday that SoftBank had waived provisions of its deal with Sprint that will allow Sprint to talk with Dish.SoftBank currently has a $20.1 billion deal ...
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Oil price falls toward $96 per barrel
The price of oil retreated toward $96 per barrel Tuesday as investors waited for the Federal Reserve's latest views on the U.S. economy.Benchmark crude for June delivery was down 28 cents to $96.43 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract gained 69 cents to close at $96.71 on Monday.On Wednesday, Fed chairman Ben ...
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Housing recovery gives boost to Home Depot 1Q
Even though the weather was poor, Home Depot posted an 18 percent increase in its net income for the first quarter thanks to the ongoing housing recovery.The world's biggest home improvement chain also boosted its full-year earnings and revenue forecasts Tuesday, citing its year-to-date performance and outlook for the rest of the year.Shares climbed 4 percent in premarket trading.For the ...
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Bernie Can Cards young starters show the way
Lance Lynn Miller, Gast and Lyons having combined for 211 major-league starts. Waino has made 160 of the 211.Compare that to the more seasoned rotations in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. The Reds' rotation has 802 big-league starts; the Pirates' rotation has 791.The experience level will rise when Westbrook returns --and if the rehabbing Carpenter becomes a member of the rotation later on, ...
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Best Buy reports 1Q loss on restructuring costs
Best Buy Co. is reporting a loss in its fiscal first quarter as it sold its stake in Best Buy Europe and works on a turnaround plan that includes cutting costs and closing some stores. The electronics retailer says net loss for the three months ended May 4 after paying preferred dividends totaled $81 million, or 24 cents per share. That compares with net income of $158 million, or 46 cents per ...
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German central bank Economy to improve markedly
FRANKFURT, Germany -; Germany's central bank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter - a development that could boost the wider eurozone as it struggles to get out of ...
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Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimony
A man under an umbrella walks past an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 20, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to 15,352.84 as evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Koji ...
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Rams Chip Rosenbloom helps kicks off veterans job program
Chip Rosenbloom St. Louis Rams Managing Owner Chip Rosenbloom is among several other directors and advisors that will help journalist and ex-MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan launch a new nationwide job program called the Veterans Job Corps. The program puts combat veterans to work on farms, the Daily Beast reports. The programs first project is a rollout of Archis Acres, a Southern California farm ...
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Home near New Melle damaged in morning fire
New Melle, MO (KSDK) - A home in the New Melle area of St. Charles County was heavily damaged by an early morning fire Tuesday, and sent one person living in the home to the hospital for emergency treatment. Firefighters were called to the home in the 4700 block of Jacob Lane around 3:45 a.m. Tuesday after the family heard smoke alarms going on inside the house during a lightning storm. Fire ...
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Man found shot to death alongside north city curb
St. Louis, MO (KSDK) - St. Louis Homicide detectives are seeking the person or persons responsible for the murder of a man found shot to death in north St. Louis early today. Authorities responded to the 3700 block of Darby Street just before 2:00 a.m. and found the body of the 27 year old man with multiple bullet wounds. Police say the victim was dead by the time they arrived and found him ...
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Intense rescue efforts as 91 feared dead in tornado-hit Oklahoma
A triage area is set up next to the IMAX theatre for people injured by a tornado that struck in Moore, Oklahoma May 20, 2013. A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble. REUTERS/Gene Blevins ...
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Charter Communications ranks No. 2 on satisfaction index
Charter Communications increased 8 percent in the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) in the past year, finishing with an overall score of 64 out of 100, second behind Cox Communications. According to Multichannel News, Cox finished the period up 3 percent to 65, whereas Comcast gained 3 percent to a score of 61. Time Warner Cable dropped 5 percent to a rating of 60 from 63 last ...
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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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