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Some of Krajcir's victims survived
(03/17/08)
ST. LOUIS -- An accused serial killer who confessed to killing nine women in four states and about a dozen rapes, murdered some of his victims, but did not try to kill others. Timothy Krajcir, 63, was brought to Cape Girardeau, last week to face 13 charges, including the murders of five women between 1977 and 1982. He has been in prison since 1983, but recently told authorities about more of his attacks...
Budget used by Mo. lawmakers as means to make political points
(03/17/08)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Republican House members have made a political point by cutting the budget of Democratic Attorney General Jay Nixon. But it may be a dull point when it comes to state law. Republicans on the House Budget Committee voted late at night last week to cut $3.3 million and more than 50 employees from the attorney general's office and instead give the money and people to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations...
More testing needed on drugs in drinking water, many say
(03/17/08)
Test it, study it, figure out how to clean it -- but still drink it. That's the range of reactions raining down from community leaders, utilities, environmental groups and policy-makers in reaction to an Associated Press investigation that documented the presence of pharmaceuticals in major portions of the nation's drinking water supplies...
Halle Berry gives birth to a baby girl
(03/17/08)
The 41-year-old actress had a baby girl Sunday, and "is doing great," her publicist Meredith O'Sullivan told People.com, the Web site of People magazine. It is her first child. The father is 32-year-old model Gabriel Aubry. The two met while shooting a Versace ad in Los Angeles two years ago...
Scott City students find pen pals in Iraq
(03/17/08)
At Scott City Middle School, students have spent months exercising their communication skills in an uncommon way -- as pen pals to soldiers in Iraq. Scott City students in Leanne Grant's eighth- and ninth-grade communication arts class became pen pals with Missouri National Guardsmen of the 35th Engineer Brigade, stationed at Camp Liberty, Iraq, in September. The brigade oversees route clearance and construction projects around Baghdad...
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