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Man pleads guilty to child pornography charges
BENTON, Ill. (KSDK) - A Glen Carbon man pleaded guilty Monday to federal child pornography charges, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois Stephen Wigginton said. According to court documents, FBI agents in separate states were able to download images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct from a computer linked to 54-year-old Arlynn Georgeson in September 2011. ...
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Forensic work could lead to girls ID killer
Scientists at the St. Louis morgue will try to extract fresh DNA and consider if specialized testing might shed light on her identity. The testing may determine the area where she grew up, which could lead to an identification and possibly her ...
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Haith adds Phelps to Mizzou staff
Mizzou Head Basketball Coach Frank Haith announced the hiring of former Drake University Head Coach Mark Phelps as an assistant coachon Tuesday. Phelps enjoyed more wins (77) than any Drake head coach in his first five seasons with the program and led the Bulldogs to a pair of postseason berths, including the team's first postseason win since 1975. A veteran presence on the bench and on ...
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Missouri couple fighting ex-soldiers bid to see child he had with girl 14
Here's how former Missouri Sen. Matt Bartle, R-Lee's Summit, once described the state's love affair with tax credits as an economic development ...
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Glen Carbon man admits collecting child porn feds say he had at least 16282 photos
A Glen Carbon man pleaded guilty today in federal court to child pornography charges after federal authorities said they found 16,700 photos and videos on his computer.Arlynn G. Georgeson, 54, pleaded guilty to charges of receiving and possessing child pornography. Federal prosecutors said Georgeson had stored on his laptop at least 16,282 pictures and 512 videos of children, including infants, ...
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Breakfast with Bernie Molina should start All-Star Game
On this episode of Breakfast with Bernie, the Post-Dispatch's Bernie Miklasz explains why Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina should start in the ...
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McCaskill supporting Hillary-for-president group
oMissouri Sen. Claire McCaskill says she is supporting a super political action committee encouraging Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president in 2016.McCaskill is the first sitting member of Congress to endorse the group, called Ready for Hillary.The organization does not have official ties to the former secretary of state but it's trying to lay the foundation for another Clinton ...
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UPDATE Driver killed after being thrown in SUV crash
ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - One person was fatally injured after being thrown from a sport utility vehicle crash in north St. Louis Tuesday morning. The out of control SUV hit a pole on Page between Belt and Kingshighway, then rolled over. Accident reconstruction investigators were called to the scene to evaluate how the crash unfolded. The injured victim was dead at the crash scene. Officials say the ...
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Man sentenced for rape of disabled Joplin girl
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) - A New Mexico man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a developmentally disabled 8-year-old girl in Joplin. Fifty-nine-year-old Robert L. Newton pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree statutory rape, first-degree statutory sodomy and felony failure to appear in court. Prosecutors say Newton, from Las Cruces, N.M., was visiting Joplin in 2010 when the ...
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Muny opens with rousing performance of Spamalot
"Monty Python's Spamalot" managed its Muny debut in style, a knockabout comedy with the perfect attitude for a performance that nearly didn't ...
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Masters of Sex to feature St. Louis researchers
pictures from the series show that Michael Sheen, the guy playing Dr. William Masters, has quite a bit more hair than the real gynecologist did.Famous researchers Williams Masters and Virginia Johnson were based in St. Louis and recruited members of the community for their work. The co-workers had an affair, then married (and later divorced). They started their work at Washington University and ...
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Fewer adults are smoking as rate dips to 18 percent report says
oFewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government report says.Last year, about 18 percent of adults participating in a national health survey described themselves as current smokers.The nation's smoking rate generally has been falling for decades, but had seemed to stall at around 20 to 21 percent for about seven years. In 2011, the rate fell to 19 percent, but that might have been a ...
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McCaskill endorses Ready for Hillary group
WASHINGTON -; Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill says she is supporting a super political action committee encouraging Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president in ...
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Obama Dont compare me to Cheney on NSA programs
David Jackson, USA TODAY President Obama is defending National Security Agency surveillance programs, and disputing the notion that he is following in the footsteps of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. In a PBS interview with Charlie Rose, Obama said efforts to track terrorists through phone and Internet surveillance have safeguards to prevent abusing the civil liberties of innocent Americans. ...
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Marriage rate may be low but more weddings predicted
Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY The marriage rate is at its lowest point in more than a century, and the number of marriages across the USA fell more than 5% during the recession. But a new analysis projects that pent-up demand and the large population of marriage-eligible Millennials, ages 18-34, means more will be headed to the altar over the next two years. Cultural changes about whether and when ...
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Woman admits role in prearranged funeral fraud
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A St. Louis County woman has admitted to a role in a pre-arranged funeral scam that allegedly bilked customers out of as much as $600 ...
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Former soldier seeks custody of child
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A central Missouri couple is concerned that a former soldier will be granted visitation or custody of the child he conceived with their 14-year-old ...
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St. Louis County businesses apartments destroyed in Cook fire
Fire has destroyed two businesses and eight apartments in the St. Louis County community of Cook. Authorities say the building that housed the Dollar Barn and Gilley's Naturals, as well as the apartments, is a total loss and will be torn down. The Red Cross is assisting those who lived in the apartments, a report from WDIO-TV said. Five fire departments worked the blaze Monday night, ...
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Motorist killed in SUV crash in St. Louis
o A motorist was thrown from an SUV and killed in a crash this morning on Page Boulevard.St. Louis police got the call at about 6:40 a.m. Tuesday. An accident-reconstruction team was investigating the crash in the 5400 block of Page Boulevard on Tuesday morning.No further details were immediately ...
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Sen. McCaskill backs Hillary Clinton presidential bid
Paul Singer, USA Today Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill endorsed an effort to organize a potential 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, becoming the first sitting member of Congress to back the ...
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France St-Louis added as Olympic assistant chef de mission
Olympic hockey silver medallist and former Team Canada captain France St-Louis will be an assistant chef de mission at Sochi. (Kevork Djansezian/Associated ...
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Frogging season almost here in Missouri
Here's how former Missouri Sen. Matt Bartle, R-Lee's Summit, once described the state's love affair with tax credits as an economic development ...
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Calling Illinois lawmakers back to session will cost $40000 a day
oThe Illinois Legislature's special session will cost about $40,000 a day, which includes a $111 daily payment to lawmakers to defray the cost of food and lodging while they work in the state capitol.The Springfield bureau of Lee Enterprises newspapers reports ...
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Sorry Mayor Koch tombstone has wrong birthdate
FILE - In this April 18, 2007, file photo, former New York Mayor Ed Koch listens during the 9th annual National Action Network convention in New York. Koch, the combative politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during three City Hall terms, has died at age 88. Spokesman George Arzt says Koch died Friday morning Feb. 1, 2013 of congestive heart failure. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin ...
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Area schools prepare to accept students from failing St. Louis County districts
The law, upheld by the Supreme Court last week, allows students in unaccredited school districts to transfer to any district in the same county or an adjacent county. Their home districts pay the ...
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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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