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Flooded mobile home park becomes city park in Hollister HOLLITER, Mo. - Holland Mobile Home Park flooded in both the spring of  2008, and the spring of 2011.  Lake Taneycomo couldn't take any more rain, and flooded the neighborhood. "Both times we  had to do water rescues of families that did ...

Alleged cheating on MAP tests prompt district, state investigations CAMDENTON, Mo. -- School administrators are looking into allegations that a teacher helped students cheat on a state-mandated test. Two staff members at Camdenton Middle School are on administrative leave while the district looks into claims that testing procedures were violated ...

Gas line rupture leads to evacuations at the University of Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - The University of Arkansas says evacuations at its Fayetteville campus have ended after a leak was stopped following a gas line rupture. The school said an emergency crew stopped the leak at about 12:10 p.m. Wednesday. The ...

Older generation teaches younger generation how to give back Springfield, Mo. -- One day each month dozens of volunteers get together for a type of old-fashioned sewing circle.  They make thousands of specialty items meant for people in the hospital.  For the first time Wednesday, Cox Health expanded that program ...

Greene County deputy's alertness led to 2 arrests for 4 stolen vehicles SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A man and a woman are in custody and suspected of stealing two cars and two motorcycles in southwest Missouri.  They were arrested on Wednesday morning about 7:30 after a Greene County sheriff's deputy patrolling north of Springfield ...

Missouri woman wins $13 million judgment against Vatterott College in lawsuit KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri woman has won a $13 million judgment against Vatterott College in a lawsuit over advice she was given during enrollment at the school. Jennifer Kerr of Belton alleged that she was misled when she ...



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France to maintain nuclear arsenal after Obama call
PARIS (Reuters) - France is not ready to reduce its nuclear arsenal for now, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Barack Obama offered to cut deployed weapons as part of a global push to lower stockpiles. Speaking in Berlin, Obama urged Russia to help build on the "New START" treaty that requires both countries to cut stockpiles of deployed nuclear weapons to 1,550 each by 2018. "Barack Obama is proposing to Russia that together they reduce. ...

Obama challenges Russia to agree to deeper nuclear weapon cuts
U.S. President Obama makes dinner speech at Chralottenburg Castle in BerlinBy Roberta Rampton and Stephen Brown BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama used a speech in Berlin on Wednesday to call on Russia to revive the push for a world without nuclear weapons, offering to cut deployed nuclear arsenals by a third, but Moscow immediately poured scorn on his proposal. Speaking in Berlin where U.S. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan gave rousing Cold-War speeches, Obama urged Russia to help build on the "New START" treaty that requires Moscow and Washington to cut stockpiles of deployed nuclear weapons to 1,550 each by 2018. ...

10 Things to Know for Today
FILE - In a Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 file photo, gun violence protesters participate in a lie-in during an anti-gun rally at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. Nearly six in 10 Americans want stricter gun laws in the aftermath of last month's deadly school shooting in Connecticut, with majorities favoring a nationwide ban on military-style, rapid-fire weapons and limits on gun violence depicted in video games and movies and on TV, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. A lopsided 84 percent of adults would like to see the establishment of a federal standard for background checks for people buying guns at gun shows, the poll showed. President Barack Obama was set Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 to unveil a wide-ranging package of steps for reducing gun violence expected to include a proposed ban on assault weapons, limits on the capacity of ammunition magazines and universal background checks for gun sales. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

Pirelli, Mercedes in dock over F1 tire tests
FILE - In this Friday, June 7, 2013 file photo, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain backs to the pits as FIA members watch at the end of the second practice session at the Gilles Villeneuve racetrack, in Montreal, Canada. A tire testing session involving Mercedes and Pirelli that was criticized by rival Formula One teams will be referred to the FIA's international tribunal as a possible breach of the sport's rules. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)PARIS (AP) — The governing body of motorsport argued Thursday that Mercedes broke the rules and got an unfair advantage over other Formula One teams by taking part in private in-season tire testing with Pirelli.

Sam Taylor-Johnson to direct '50 Shades' movie
LONDON (AP) — Producers say British visual artist and filmmaker Sam Taylor-Johnson has been signed to direct the movie version of erotic best-seller "50 Shades of Grey."