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(WARSAW, Mo., AP) — More than 30 years after a Forbes publishing subsidiary conducted a worldwide campaign to market land in central Missouri as a “lakeland paradise” the area is… Read more »
Category: Business
Company seeks tax break for $114 million expansion project
(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — Kraft Foods is asking for a 75 percent property tax break on a planned $114 million expansion that will result in a cut of about 150… Read more »
Looted Ferguson store to be transformed into training center
(FERGUSON, Mo., AP) — The effort to erect a Ferguson job training center at the site of a former convenience store that was looted and burned after last summer’s fatal… Read more »
Dog deaths during grooming revive calls for regulations
By SUE MANNING (LOS ANGELES, AP) — Curly, a toy poodle, was 17 years old when he died. But old age didn’t kill him — grooming did, his owners and… Read more »
Hallmark to hire at Missouri plant; close Connecticut plant
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Hallmark Cards says it plans to add about 400 employees in the next year at its distribution plant in Liberty, Missouri, while phasing out a… Read more »
Raid spotlights Subway pitchman’s ties to ex-foundation head
By TOM MURPHY and RICK CALLAHAN (ZIONSVILLE, Ind., AP) — A raid at the home of a well-known Subway restaurant pitchman is casting a glaring spotlight on his relationship with the… Read more »
Pitt Children’s Hospital chief doc named St. Louis med dean
(ST. LOUIS, AP) — The physician-in-chief and scientific director at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has been named dean of a St. Louis medical school where he used to teach. Washington… Read more »
Amtrak’s future in Kansas hinges on satisfying mandate
(NEWTON, Kan., AP) — Kansas could lose its Amtrak service unless funding is found to satisfy a federal requirement to install positive train control systems along its lines by the… Read more »
Farm use of drones to take off as feds loosen restrictions
By MARY CLARE JALONICK (CORDOVA, Md., AP) — Mike Geske wants a drone. Watching a flying demonstration on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the Missouri farmer envisions using an unmanned aerial vehicle… Read more »
Let’s make a deal: mega-mergers drive M&A frenzy
By STEVE ROTHWELL (NEW YORK, AP) — Deal makers from New York to London had a busy first half of the year, and mega-mergers drove the frenzy. Companies around the… Read more »
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