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Bleak picture for Mo. youth unemployment

Agencies remain locked in efforts to hire young adults for the summer and beyond, in the face of a stubborn jobless rate for the demographic in Missouri.

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Kansas death penalty has cobwebs

It may be weeks before Kansans know if prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Kyle Flack, accused of killing four people in Franklin County this spring.

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Divers flock to Missouri's Table Rock Lake

Doug Baker peers into the depths of Table Rock Lake on a recent morning and can't believe what he is seeing.

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Prosecutor: Feds probe southwestern Ill. judge

A southwestern Illinois judge was booted Thursday from his docket of hundreds of cases because he's under an unspecified federal investigation apparently aided by the county's top prosecutor.

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2 Ind. hospital systems cutting jobs, other costs

Two Indiana hospital systems said Thursday that they are cutting an undisclosed number of jobs by July 1 because of increasing economic and competitive pressure on the health care industry.

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Mo. woman indicted on civil rights charges

A western Missouri woman has been charged with violating the civil rights of a black family by their home on fire.

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Driver in Ill. van wreck had license suspension

A New Jersey man behind the wheel of a van that careened off of an Illinois freeway and overturned, killing five passengers returning from a California ministry gathering, had his driving privileges suspended last year for administrative reasons, motor vehicle records show.

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Vandals hit Joplin park ahead of ceremony

Police in Joplin are looking for the vandals who damaged a city park on the eve of a ceremony for the second anniversary of the May 2011 tornado.

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County sheriff's pot busts draw ire in Columbia

A local ordinance that in some cases treats marijuana possession as a minor municipal violation isn't being followed by Boone County sheriff's deputies who have stepped up patrols within Columbia's city limits, an attorney says.

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Mo. motorcycle riders had good legislative year

Missouri motorcyclists would benefit from several bills awaiting the governor's signature this year, but a top-tier priority to waive the state's helmet law for most adults didn't make it out of the proposal parking lot.