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By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — The Obama administration on Friday proposed new rules to clamp down on oil companies that burn off natural gas on public land, arguing the… Read more »
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Missouri unemployment rate falls to 4.4 percent
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest point in more than a decade. The state Department of Economic Development announced Wednesday that Missouri’s seasonally… Read more »
Court overturns tobacco company victory over FDA on menthols
By MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that tobacco companies had no basis to challenge a Food and Drug Administration report on menthol cigarettes, which… Read more »
Noranda slashing over half of smelter workforce
(NEW MADRID, Mo., AP) — More than half of the 850 employees at a southeast Missouri aluminum plant are being laid off. And the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (bit.ly/1Psqilb) reports that Noranda Aluminum… Read more »
Missouri seeks refunds of Macaroni Grill gift cards
(SPRINGFIELD, Mo., AP) — The Missouri attorney general’s office says people who bought gift cards from any Missouri Romano’s Macaroni Grill locations in 2014 can receive a refund of remaining balances. The… Read more »
Paris cafe reopens after attacks as wounded city revives
By SILVIE CORBET Associated Press (PARIS, AP) — With the blood and bullets now swept away, the Carillon cafe is reopening its doors for the first time since it was among the… Read more »
Kansas City couple gives $2 million to University of Kansas
(LAWRENCE, Kan., AP) — The University of Kansas will use a $2 million donation from a Kansas City, Missouri, couple to establish an architecture scholarship and to help a reading… Read more »
US recruits tech leaders to help disrupt Islamic State group
By BRANDON BAILEY and JULIE PACE Associated Press (PALO ALTO, Calif., AP) — With extremists finding fertile ground for recruitment online, the White House is dispatching top national security officials to Silicon… Read more »
Macy’s closing Bridgeton call center, Columbia store
(BRIDGETON, Mo., AP) — Macy’s plans to close a store in Columbia that employs 81 people and a call center in Bridgeton that employs 750 people. The closings are among… Read more »
Monsanto expands cost-cutting plan to eliminate 1,000 jobs
By MATTHEW PERRONE (WASHINGTON, AP) — Monsanto says it will eliminate another 1,000 jobs as it expands a cost-cutting plan designed to deal with falling sales of biotech-corn seeds and… Read more »
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