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Tech roundup Google inquiry iPhone urinalysis the Amazon paradigm
Get caught up on the days biggest tech news: The feds have cranked up a new antitrust investigation into how Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) handles its advertising sales, Reuters reports. Google seems to be following the lead of online e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), getting into the business of selling industrial and B2B goods, The Wall Street Journal reports. Will wonders never ...
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Top of the List General Contractors
This week, the Kansas City Business Journal ranks the areas top general contractors based on 2012 local billings. See the top 5 >> For the full list, subscribers can take a look at the print edition of the Kansas City Business Journal. The list also includes 2011 local billings, number of employees, areas of specialty, top local executives, and a re-ranking based on revenue. (Subscribers, click ...
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Bank lobbyists arent leaving financial reform to chance
Bank lobbyists looking to ease the financial burden of government regulations are taking matters into their own hands, writing the legislation for lawmakers in Congress to advance, The New York Times reports. The lobbying campaign shows how Wall Street has rallied in Washington in the three years since Congress passed the Dodd-Frank legislation, the report ...
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ACAs unexpected consequences may turn backer into opponent
Unions helped President Barack Obama push for passage of his landmark Affordable Care Act, but now they worry that an unpredicted consequence of the law could cost workers health benefits, The Washington Post reports. Unions plans already are complex, unique and more expensive than other plans, and the ACAs provisions have added to that cost, the report says. That may tempt some small employers ...
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Ex-Arnold officer settles suit against city
Ott was hired as a patrol officer in Arnold in 1999 and became a detective 10 years later. She alleged that another officer began sexually harassing her in 2009. After her complaints to superiors she was eventually demoted, then fired in ...
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Coroner Ill. judge died of cocaine overdose
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A coroner says a former prosecutor who died at the cabin of a fellow southwestern Illinois judge now under federal investigation succumbed to a cocaine ...
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McCarthy adds office in Kansas City
McCarthy Building Cos. Inc. has increased its presence in the Kansas City market with two nearby construction projects underway and an announcement earlier this spring of a new downtown office. According to REJ Blog, McCarthy now has more than $1.4 billion worth of construction underway in the region. Two major projects for McCarthy include work on a $80 million National Bio and Agro-Defense ...
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Budweiser Black Crown boosts beer sales
Beer sales in dollar terms inched up 1.5 percent. Despite a tough few months for the beer business, overall sales in dollar terms inched up in May, due in part to the new upmarket Budweiser Black Crown's introduction to consumers. According to Nielsen data, volume of beer sold in the four weeks to May 11 dropped 0.6 percent, but sales in dollar terms were up 1.5 percent, boosted by Black ...
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Missourinet Mornings–my idea for replays used overseas
Ahhh…vacation. Four days off for me, no getting up at 4 a.m. until Tuesday morning and no big travel plans. Just my wife and I are celebrating our 17 year anniversary on Saturday. I did have time to squeeze in one more video. Today I leave you with a fun video on instant replay in baseball. I’ll first describe what Major League Baseball should be doing, then show you a funny way my ...
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Long balls doom Royals
-Robert Coello got the final out with the potential tying and winning runs on base Thursday, preserving a 5-4 win for the Los Angeles Angels over Kansas City. The Royals scored twice in the ninth inning to throw a scare into the Angels, who scored all their runs on homers and extended their longest winning streak of the season to five games. Los Angeles had won no more than three in a row ...
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Budget bill includes money for new lake in north-central Missouri
This map shows where the new lake would go upon completion of the East Locust Creek Reservoir Project. (images courtesy; John Holmes, Allstate ...
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Senators lament exemptin in Chloe’s Law
One of the proposed laws waiting for the governor’s signature could save the lives of hundreds of Missouri newborn children every year. But it has a provision for parents who don’t want to know about their baby's condition. Chloe’s Law, it’s called, named for Chloe Manz of Lee’s Summit, who is now four years old. She was born with a congenital heart problem ...
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Larry Conners attorney preparing for lawsuit
Larry Conners Larry Conners' attorneys are gathering the necessary documents for a lawsuit on the heels of Conners being fired from KMOV. Conners' lawyer, Merle Silverstein, sent a letter to KMOV asking them to "carefully preserve and not destroy" all papers relating to Conners' employment and termination, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The letter to KMOV President and ...
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Southwestern Illinois judge probed by feds
Federal prosecutors are preparing at least one drug possession charge against 20th Circuit drug court judge Michael Cook. The charge is believed to be associated with the death of one of the countys associate judges, Joseph Christ, whose body was found March 10 in the Cook familys hunting lodge near Pleasant Hill, Ill. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, cocaine was found under Christs ...
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Covidiens board gives green light to MNK
Mallinckrodt President Mark Trudeau Covidien's board has approved the spin off of Mallinckrodt as a separate public company, which will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol 'MNK.' As part of the spinoff, Covidien shareholders will receive one share of Mallinckrodt for every eight shares of Covidien they hold. That distribution is slated to occur on June 28, and ...
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City moves city-county economic partnership forward
The St. Louis Board of Alderman advanced a bill Thursday that would create a new economic development agreement between the city and county. The agreement would bring together 10 employees from the city's St. Louis Development Corp. and 30 employees from the Economic Council of St. Louis County in one office based in Clayton. Bill sponsor Alderman Fred Wessels told St. Louis Public Radio ...
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Foundation funds Joplin butterfly garden overlook
The foundation also has awarded $320,000 to study the effect of time spent in nature at the Joplin Butterfly Garden and Overlook and a New York project. That New York project is a $65,000 park the foundation is funding to help residents recover from Superstorm ...
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Soccer fans kick in $2 million to St. Louis economy
Manchester City may have beat rival Chelsea 4-3 last night at Busch Stadium, but it appears the city of St. Louis will come out as the big winner. Brian Hall with the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission told KTVI the soccer game last night was the equivalent of a first round playoff game that draws some 46,000 fans downtown. He said those fans spend between $1.5 million to $2 ...
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Mizzou drops Super Regional opener
Washington scored a run in both the seventh and eighth innings and rallied from down, 1-0, to defeat sixth-seeded Mizzou, 2-1, Thursday night (May 23) in game one of the NCAA Columbia Super Regional. Mizzou carried a 1-0 lead into the bottom of the seventh inning after scoring a go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI infield single from sophomore 1BKelsea Roth(Yorba Linda, Calif.), ...
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McCellan Missourahs legislators get a good grade from this Billy Bob
My name is Billy Bob McClellan, and I am proud to be from Missourah. I live in the St. Louis region, which happens to be a blue dot in a red state, but I mind my own business and git along just fine with most of my neighbors. Sometimes we speak a different language, that's all. They talk about their houses. I talk about my compound. But for the most part, we git along just fine.I was ...
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Only a few students defy a schools high turnover rate
It was a zippy, innovative idea -- inject a few bells and whistles into a couple Cardinals telecasts, on an experimental basis, to see how ...
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War World II medals turn up mysteriously in Goodwill store
Ron Scanlon thought the shadow box sitting in a bin at a Chesterfield Goodwill store seemed out of place, so he took a closer look.Behind a flimsy piece of plexiglass was a picture of a smiling Marine surrounded by gold medals taped to a red velvet liner.One was in the shape of a star.A tattered scrap of paper told the story.The medals and picture, which were discovered on Wednesday, belonged to ...
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Soda maker Excel expanding beer sales to St. Louis
After significant local progress in protecting the public and employees from secondhand smoke, St. Charles city and county remain behind the ...
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Arnold agrees to $450000 settlement in suit filed by fired officer
The city has agreed to a $450,000 settlement to end a lawsuit filed by a police officer who alleged she was sexually harassed and wrongly fired.The officer, Alicia Ott, got $266,000, according to the settlement released Thursday. The law firm that represented her, Dobson, Goldberg, Berns and Rich, received $184,000.Ott was hired in 1999 as an Arnold patrol officer. She became a detective in ...
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Busch Stadium crowd gets big kicks from soccer
Entertaining a full house at Busch Stadium, Manchester City and Chelsea brought some great action to thousands of fans who came out for 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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