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Joplin hit by devastating tornado, recovery underway

Updated at 8:20 a.m. May 24: According to the Missouri Department of Public Safety, 117 people are now confirmed dead. The latest information from DPS is available here . Updated at 7:19 a.m. May 24:...

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Morning headlines: Monday, August 8, 2011

Mo. changes child care rules to further prevent SIDS For the first time in two decades, Missouris child care rules have been updated. Effective this month, licensed child cares must put infants to...

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Mo. Senate committee holds public hearing on possible state health exchange

Reporting from KCURs Elana Gordon used in this report. An interim state senate committee is trying to figure out whether, and, if so, how Missouri should create a state health exchange. During the...

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Study: Fewer smokers in the Show-Me state

Reporting from KCURs Elana Gordon used in this report . A decade ago, more than one in four Missourians smoked. Now, only about one in five smoke, and those who do smoke are doing so less often . Thats...

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Mo. housing panel approves tax credits for Berkeley, Joplin, those with...

Updated at 12:38 p.m. with information on tax credits for those with special needs Reporting from KCURs Elana Gordon used in this report. Missouris low-income housing agency has approved $100 million...

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For Joplin's children, tornado's effects persist

The tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., in May destroyed a third of the town and killed 162 people. While the storm lasted just minutes, the psychological damage continues, and the community is mobilizing to...

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Mo. gets $20M grant to train underemployed for health services sector

Reporting from KCURs Elana Gordon used in this report. Missouri has received a $20 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to train more than 4,000 underemployed adults in the health services...

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Kansas City-area bishop charged for not alerting police about porn

Reporting from KCURs Dan Verbeck used in this report. A state grand jury empanelled in Kansas City has indicted the Bishop and the Catholic Diocese on charges of failing to report child abuse. It is...

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Morning headlines: Monday, October 17, 2011

Cardinals win 18th pennant The St. Louis Cardinals are the National League champions following an outstanding offensive display in Milwaukee last night. David Freese belted one of the Cardinals three...

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Tobacco tax petitions seek approval for circualtion

Reporting by KCURs Elana Gordon was used in this story. Two petitions that would affect taxes on tobacco products in Missouri are going through the approval process for circulation. One would give...

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Words "inevitable" and "job-losses" used together in U. of Mo. system budget...

Reporting from KCURs Dan Verbeck used in this report. The word inevitable is being teamed with job-losses if the University of Missouri system is unable to work its way out of an expected 12.5 percent...

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Ill. legislative commission rejects Quinn closures

Updated at 6:15 am Wednesday. Reporting from Amanda Vinicky in Springfield and Jacob McCleland in Cape Girardeau was used in this report. An Illinois legislative commission has signaled its opposition...

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Coming to a Missouri ballot this fall: another health care referendum

A report from KCURs Elana Gordon. This fall, voters in Missouri will face a number of decisions: picking state and congressional representatives, the President. But also on the ballot will be a measure...

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Morning headlines- Thursday, June 28, 2012

Nixon defends, clarifies comments on health insurance mandate Elana Gordon contributed reporting from Kansas City, Mo. With a decision on the federal health law nearing, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon...

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Kinder announces plans to challenge Mo. health care ballot language

Elana Gordon of KCUR reported for this story. Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder is once again filing suit against a health care measure. He and some other Republican lawmakers have announced plans to...

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Morning headlines - Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Patriot Coal files for bankruptcy protection St. Louis-based Patriot Coal has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the company lists about $3.6 billion in...

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Mo. Supreme Court throws out caps on medical malpractice

Updated 4:33 p.m. with reporting by KCURs Elana Gordon. Missouris Supreme Court has effectively overturned state caps on non-economic damages that can be awarded in medical malpractice cases. The court...

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Morning headlines: Thursday, August 9, 2012

McCaskill gears up for campaign against Akin Senator Claire McCaskill stopped at a sheet metal shop in Kansas City, Mo. Wednesday morning to kick off her campaign for the general election. The...

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Morning headlines: Friday, September 7, 2012

Search ongoing for man who shot police officers overnight St. Louis police are searching for a suspect who shot an officer in the arm. The 30-year-old officer was was not seriously injured. He returned...

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Federal judge blocks two of Missouri's abortion restrictions

Updated at 11 a.m. April 20 with Gov. Eric Greitens' comment — A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Missouri’s restrictions requiring abortion doctors to have hospital admitting privileges and abortion...

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