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Kinder files lawsuit over "bad language" for ballot wording
(Local News ~ 07/11/12)
Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder signaled his intention Tuesday to file a legal challenge to ballot language crafted by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, calling her wording biased with an aim at skewing the outcome of the Nov. 6 election. The Cape Girardeau Republican was in his hometown Tuesday morning to discuss the lawsuit he planned to file in Cole County later in the day. It was the first of several stops in Missouri that were to include Springfield, Joplin, Jefferson City and St. Louis...
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Nixon signs more than 2 dozen bills
(Local News ~ 07/11/12)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Disturbing worship services will be a criminal offense, Missourians no longer will be able to sue co-workers for many on-the-job injuries and child care providers involved in cases of abuse, neglect or the death of children could temporarily be forced to refrain from providing paid child care services under legislation signed into law by Gov. Jay Nixon...
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Gaylon Lawrence dead at 78
(Local News ~ 07/11/12)
A native of southeast Missouri with roots in New Madrid and Stoddard Counties, who made his fortune in the farming, banking, and most recently, the fruit growing industry in Florida, has died. Gaylon Lawrence, 78, reportedly died late Tuesday in a Memphis, Tenn. hospital after a prolonged illness...
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From the candy counter to management...50 years in and counting
(Local News ~ 07/11/12)
Donna West has witnessed a lot of changes in downtown Dexter in her lifetime -- and most of them from a familiar storefront on Stoddard Street. West will turn 68 later this year. For the past 50 of those 68 years, since July 1962, she has been employed downtown at Weber's Ben Franklin variety store...
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