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TOPICS Progressive Politics Action In case you haven't heard, the Million Can March is a counter protest to the teabagging protest redux scheduled for the Fourth of July.

As childhood obesity rates continue to increase, experts agree that more information is needed about the implications of being overweight as a step toward reversing current trends.

AASP of Missouri, ASA MOKAN and SCRS MOKAN completed the 4th Collision Industry Forum for the Midwest on June 17, 2009 in Columbia, Mo.

Statement of Missouri Farm Bureau President Charles Kruse on Passage of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act We are extremely disappointed with the U.S. House of Representatives' passage of H.R. 2454, also known as "cap-and-trade." Billed as landmark legislation for reducing the threat of man-induced global climate change, H.R.

Executions in Missouri are on hold - again. Any delay is to be applauded. The death penalty is expensive and impossible to mete out fairly.

Three dozen youths with eight adult chaperones from the Union Church of Lake Bluff took their annual work trip to Wonderland Camp in Missouri from June 14-19, counseling and helping disabled children as well as repairing homes for the poor and elderly.

I went back and re-read Justice Thomas's concurrence in NAMUDNO . I just now noticed that Justice Thomas, like Heather Gerken and Ellen Katz, reads the majority opinion as a warning to Congress: "The Court quite properly alerts Congress that s 5 tests the outer boundaries of its Fifteenth Amendment enforcement authority and may not be ...

The 139th Airlift Wing recently installed solar panels on the roof of the aircraft engine shop.

In addition, the Governors signed a Missouri-Illinois Memorandum of Understanding to solidify the bi-state partnership on this critical recovery project.

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft referred to U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt as a man of integrity, commitment and confidence on Monday in his endorsement of Blunt for the U.S. Senate.

U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill announced Tuesday that the Corporation for National and Community Service will provide the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education with $311,626 in a Learn and Serve America School-Based Formula Grant.

Cape Girardeau County improved in five of the indicators of child well-being in the 2008 Kids Count in Missouri statistics but declined in the other five.

The latest record catches were a smallmouth buffalo and a shorthead redhorse. Lucas Dement, of Ste.

U.S. Senator Kit Bond Thursday announced that Congress reversed the President's dangerous defense cuts and approved $2.2 billion for C-17's - a victory for our national defense and Missouri workers.

Over $18.6 Million in federal grant funding coming to Missouri for repairs from devastating storm in January '09 U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill announced today that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is providing the state of Missouri with $18,633,351.39 in federal grant money for disaster recovery projects.

Monett business leaders heard a review of current legislation pressing lawmakers in Washington, D.C., by their representatives, shown above.

A beetle that has destroyed more than 70 million trees from Missouri to Quebec has been found in southwestern New York, threatening shady urban sidewalks, ancient Native American traditions and the Louisville Slugger.

The National Park Service has proposed several new management plans for the 45-year-old Ozark National Scenic Riverways, and wants the public to weigh in.

The bad economy has more Missourians vacationing at home and enjoying what their own state has to offer.

House Republicans on Wednesday presented what they called a "sorely needed" alternative to Democrats' proposals to overhaul health care.