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COCA presents Mrs. Mannerly
KSDK - If you're looking for an indoor activity this holiday weekend, COCA presents a comedy inspired by the playwright's memories of a childhood etiquette class. The play "Mrs. Mannerly" is set in the late 60s. Donna Weinsting, who plays "Mrs. Mannerly," joined NewsChannel 5's Kay Quinn with details. ...
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St. Louis Social Media-Driven Saga of Larry Conners and KMOV
affiliate KMOV-TV, let's recap. After the news broke about the IRS targeting Tea Party groups during the 2012 election, Conners, the longtime KMOV anchor, hopped on his ...
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Carnival worker accused of stabbing co-worker
The two men work for the Southeast Amusement Carnival Co. of Farmland, Ind. Police say they were in Missouri working at a fair in St. Charles ...
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Joplin bankers share disaster recovery experience
Left: Rebecca Dunham, sales manager for Arvest Bank's three locations in the Joplin area Right: Stuart Puckett, loan manager for Arvest in Joplin Two years ago, with huge swaths of Joplin, Mo., leveled by a massive tornado, Arvest Bank's Stuart Puckett learned the personal side of the banking equation. Friends, neighbors and longtime customers were streaming into the bank in great ...
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St. Clair County judge held pending drug charge
FAIR: Winning re-election to his fourth term this year cost St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay about $3.2 million -- or roughly $126 per vote. Mr. ...
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Illinois House guns bill passes committee
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Illinois legislation allowing public possession of concealed guns has passed the House Judiciary Committee. It was a compromise backed by Speaker Michael Madigan. The measure was endorsed Thursday 13-3 and goes to the full House Friday. It comes two weeks before a June 9 deadline set by a federal appeals court for Illinois to abandon its prohibition on the public ...
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Report Kids need an hour of exercise at school
Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY Kids need to break a sweat at school. Students should be doing at least 60 minutes of vigorous or moderate-intensity physical activity at school, with more than half of the activity occurring during regular educational hours and the remaining amount before and after school, says a report released Thursday by the Institute of Medicine. Estimates suggest that only ...
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Photos from Obamas 1979 prom surface
David Jackson, USA TODAY One of the less great things about being president: all those old photos that surface publicly. President Obama, who has had to deal ...
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The Boy Who Cant Eat to throw out first pitch for Grizzlies
Florissant, MO (KSDK) -- A big honor Thursday night for a little Florissant boy. Ryker Smith and his family will throw out the first pitch at the Gateway Grizzlies game at GCS Ballpark in Sauget, ...
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Competition Fierce During Chiefs OTAs
The Kansas City Chiefs close out another week of OTAs today, with practice starting at 11:20 am CDT. If today's practice is anything near what they have been like, competitive and energetic throughout, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid and his staff won't be disappointed. As for the team's ...
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Sarah Spear firing splits startup community
Sarah Spear, former executive director of Arch Grants A split has emerged in the fledgling St. Louis startup community in the wake of the firing of Sarah Spear, who was the executive director of the Arch Grants business plan competition until she was fired last week. One the one side are the entrepreneurs and young innovators, who see her firing, and especially the way it was done, as an ...
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Springfield police end investigation into death
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Springfield police say the death of a woman whose body was found in a trash can has been ruled a homicide but no further action will be taken because the suspect is ...
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Fruit growers battle to protect plants from pests diseases during planting season
Growing fruit is a labor of love that can be a constant battle against bacterial diseases, fungi, and insects during the Spring planting season. Horticulture specialist Michele Warmund with the University of Missouri Extension suggests thatfolks plant disease resistant fruit plants to prevent pests and a common bacteria known as fire blight, which occurs early in the Spring planting season. ...
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St. Charles County man shot by brother during argument police say
FAIR: Winning re-election to his fourth term this year cost St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay about $3.2 million -- or roughly $126 per vote. Mr. ...
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Two unsolved rape cases still under investigation
The St. Louis County Police Department continues to investigate two unsolved rapes that police said are connected. The first rape happened on April 4, 2011 in the 10300 block of Sannois Drive. The second incident happened 10 the 12800 block of Fee Fee Road on September 9, 2012. Police said physical evidence links the crimes. Both crimes also involved victims of Asian descent. Police said the ...
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Belleville woman dies in head-on crash
A Belleville woman died in a crash in St. Clair County Wednesday morning. Illinois State Police said Karen Kollmeyer, 65, was driving south on Illinois Route 163 near Praire duPont Creek when she swerved in to the northbound lane of Route 163 and hit another vehicle head-on. Kollmeyer died at the scene. No one else was injured in the crash. ...
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Would you rather lose $1000 or gain 20 pounds
Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY More than half of Americans say they'd rather lose $1,000 than gain 20 pounds, a new survey shows. Women (63%) are more likely to feel that way than men (48%). "Twenty pounds outweighs a thousand dollars because it could cost more than a thousand dollars to lose the weight if you consider the price of weight-loss programs, and those extra pounds could take a ...
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Ameren donates $25000 for tornado relief
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Ameren Corporation and its employees donated $25,000 to the American Red Cross to help Oklahoma tornado victims. "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of Moore, Oklahoma, and surrounding areas who have experienced the loss of loved ones and property from this devastating tornado," said Warner Baxter, president and CEO of Ameren Missouri. "As ...
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Kansas City Chiefs OTAs are More Than Competitive
The Kansas City Chiefs close out another week of OTAs today, with practice starting at 11:20 am CDT. If today's practice is anything near what they have been like, competitive and energetic throughout, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid and his staff won't be disappointed. As for the team's ...
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Electrochea wins $500000 in grants for energy-to-gas projects
Mich Hein, president and CEO, Electrochaea Electrochaea LLC, a portfolio company of Nidus Partners, has received two European grants worth some $500,000 to develop its energy-to-gas technology. The startup received a grant from the Danish electricity and gas grid company Energinet.dk and will work through a technology demonstration program there to develop its energy-to-gas technology for the ...
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Talking Chiefs football with Adam Teicher of the KC Star
On this Google Hangout, I talk with Adam Teicher of the Kansas City Star, the beat writer for the Chiefs. The team is in their second week of OTAs and Adam talks about their revamped offense as well as a recap of the draft and how the new players will impact the team. How patient will fans be with QB Alex Smith and Adam says while it’s hard to imagine how this team only won two games last ...
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Former St. Louis County jail could be set for films
Several filmmakers and musicians will be jailed June 1 during the Duluth Superior Film Festival. That's what Grant Carlson is banking on. The owner of the former St. Louis County Jail on West Second Street in Duluth has teamed up with festival planners in creating an invitation-only reception at the jail that has sat empty for 18 years. The goal is to inspire artists to use the unusual ...
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InnovateVMS startups report $43 million in 2012 revenue
Phyllis Ellison, executive director, Innovate Venture Mentoring Service Innovate Venture Mentoring Service (IVMS) last night celebrated its sixth birthday and released an annual report that tracks the progress of the companies the organization has mentored. The mentor group is part of the non-profit Innovate St. Louis and has actively mentored 187 companies since its inception. The event last ...
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Durbin strange bedfellows eye wealthy farmers subsidies
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Monday it wants to see more cuts to agriculture subsidies in a massive farm bill moving ...
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U.S. unemployment aid applications fall to 340K
o The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 23,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, a level consistent with solid job growth.The less volatile four-week average ticked down just 500 to 339,500, the Labor Department said Thursday. That's close to the five-year low of 338,000 reached during the first week of May. The four-week average is 9 percent lower than ...
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Kansas City women focus on micro-finance
Kansas City women are trying to make an impact in the world by teaming up with micro-finance providers for people living in poverty.
All too often charitable causes and organisations looking for funding focus on symptomatic poverty, responding to the causes of poverty worldwide in a similar manner to a doctor giving a patient painkillers for a cancer tumor instead of removing the tumor. We donate so that children in poverty around the world can get food, education, clothing, medicines and various other basic needs. But it doesn’t solve the problem of why they’re in poverty in the first place. Read more
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