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Mo. Senate panel to work on criminal code
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Legislature has adjourned for the year, but the work will go on for members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The panel will continue meeting until lawmakers return for their next regular session in January. ...
President of Univ. of Ark. system to receive 20 percent raise on July 1
STUTTGART, Ark. (AP) — Trustees of the University of Arkansas system have approved a 20 percent pay raise for its president, calling it a vote of confidence for a leader who did not rise to the school's top position in the ...
Most beaches at Missouri state parks open for Memorial Day weekend
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Swimming season is returning, and most beaches at Missouri state parks will be open for the Memorial Day weekend. The Department of Natural Resources reports two beaches will remain closed for the opening weekend. The day-use beach ...
Foundation funds Joplin butterfly garden, overlook to serve as refuge for tornado survivors
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - Joplin has received a $200,000 grant to build a butterfly garden to serve as a refuge for survivors of the May 2011 tornado. The money comes from the Annapolis, Md.-based TKF Foundation's Open Spaces Sacred Places initiative. The ...
Despite Life Saving Potential, State Reluctant to Mandate Storm Shelters
MOORE, Okla. (AP) - After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery - for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker ...
Old Highway 86 Campground reopens after being closed since 2011
TABLE ROCK LAKE, Mo. - A popular campground on Table Rock Lake is open again after flooding closed the campground at the Old Highway 86 Park two years ago.
The Army Corps of Engineers received federal money to clean up and renovate ...
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MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — A truck hauling a too-tall load hit an overhead girder of a bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below, though all three occupants suffered only minor injuries. 
LONDON (AP) — Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangering an aircraft after a plane carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan to Britain was diverted from its original course Friday, officials said. The incident further rattled the U.K. just days after a British soldier was brutally killed on a London street in a suspected terror attack. 
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey rolled out some of its big guns Friday to proclaim that the shore is back following Superstorm Sandy, using Gov. Chris Christie and the cast of MTV's "Jersey Shore" to tell a national audience the state is ready for summer fun. 
By Rhys Jones and Peter Griffiths LONDON (Reuters) - British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft. Passengers were leaving the plane and no one was hurt in the incident, a spokesman for the airport said. Flight PK709 from Lahore in Pakistan had been due to land at Manchester in northern England with 297 passengers on board, but was diverted shortly before arrival. ... 