Kansas City StarMore News MARBLE HILL, Mo. | A southeast Missouri woman faces up to 15 years in prison after admitting her role in a plot that killed a mother, her unborn child and a 15-year-old boy. Forty-year-old Michelle Lawrence, of Chaffee, pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to commit murder. The Southeast...
Insurance NewsnetPotential crop value lost when the Birds Point levee was blown in southeast Missouri totaled $85.2 million, according to a report by the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI). The Army Corps of Engineers opened a 133,000-acre floodway between Birds Point, Mo., and New Madrid, Mo.,...
Yahoo Daily NewsThe U.S. Senate voted to in place since 1978. The White House has promised to veto any legislation before President Barack Obama's desk that would repeal the financial advantages for ethanol plants that give incentives for those who produce higher volumes of ethanol for fuel. Many Midwestern...
Business WireCHICAGO - Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ratings on the following Cape Girardeau County Industrial Development Authority bonds issued on behalf of Saint Francis Healthcare System (SFHS): --$49.6 million series 2009A bonds, at 'AA-'; --$24.8 million series 2009B bonds, at 'AA-'; --$51.8 million...
The Daily MailIt would be hard to imagine a more intelligent and brilliant group of people, let alone all these great minds in the same room together. However this was the case in 1927 when Einstein and his venerable colleagues gathered at the Solvay Conference on Electrons and Photons in Brussels. The...
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Houston ChronicleNEW ORLEANS - While scientists have been battling to keep a ravenous, invasive fish species out of the Great Lakes, some worry that spring floods along the Mississippi River may be spreading the Asian carp downstream. Duane Chapman, a U.S. Geological Survey biologist and Asian carp expert, says the...