A group of angry Rockwood parents attending a school board meeting and brought this message to the superintendent: don't hire your old co-workers and expect a tax increase to be approved.
7/15/2011
Album ID: 1286077
Farmers in Missouri floodway race to salvage growing season
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In May the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used explosives to breach levees in the Birds Point New Madrid Floodway to lower floodwater on the levee protecting Cairo, Illinois. When the levee was breached it flooded 130,000 acres of fertile Mississippi County and New Madrid County farm land. Most of the floodwater has now receded from the land and farmers are surveying the damage and rushing to get new crops planted.
6/24/2011
Album ID: 1274284
Photos by David Carson
Rep. Weiner caught in a Twitter scandal
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After days of denials, a choked-up New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to "inappropriate" exchanges with six women before and after getting married.
6/8/2011
Album ID: 1263375
Vice President Joe Biden tours storm damage in Berkeley
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Gov. Jay Nixon arrived at Lambert International Airport to greet the Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday. From the airport, Nixon and Biden traveled to Berkeley, where they toured damage from last month's tornadoes.
5/11/2011
Album ID: 1245552
Photos by Dawn Majors
In Times Square: Pure euphoria after the killing of Osama Bin Laden
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Joyous crowds gathered at the White House and elsewhere to celebrate the death of Osama Bin Laden
5/1/2011
Album ID: 1238270
White House annual Easter Egg roll
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President Barack Obama and his family hosted the annual White House Easter Egg roll, Monday on the South Lawn of the White House.
4/25/2011
Album ID: 1234235
Photos by Wire Services
Look Back: The origins of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners
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In January 1861, Claiborne Fox Jackson, Missouri’s new governor and a slaveholder, schemed to push Missouri into the Confederacy.
He fished from state files a bill that had failed in the Legislature the year before. It proposed managing the city police with a Board of Police Commissioners, modeled after Baltimore’s supposedly progressive system. Jackson liked the clause that let the governor appoint commissioners in St. Louis, a city that backed Lincoln’s election.
3/18/2011
Album ID: 1194208
Photos by from the archives of the Missouri History Museum
Gov. Nixon gives State of the State Address
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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon delivers his State of the State Address to a joint session of the Missouri legislature, the Missouri Supreme Court and cabinet members in the House of Representatives' chamber.
1/19/2011
Album ID: 1155484
Photos by Christian Gooden
Photo gallery: Shooting rampage in Arizona
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Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot Saturday by a gunman who opened fire just outside a grocery store during a meeting with voters, killing a federal judge and four others in a rampage.
1/8/2011
Album ID: 1148647
Photos by Wire Services
Kallie Hartigan
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Kallie Hartigan, 22, of St. Joseph, Mo. had cataract surgery when she was 6-months-old. Her doctor David E. Braverman made what she calls a prolonged misdiagnosis, when she had problems post surgery. Scar tissue from the surgery has left her legally blind in her right eye and with low vision in the left.
