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Jefferson City man gets 7 years for child abuse

A Jefferson City man was sentenced to seven years in prison for putting a 4-year-old boy into a freezing shower because the child spilled his cereal.

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Body found in river treated as homicide

Authorities in northeast Missouri say a homicide investigation is under way after a woman's body was found floating in the Mississippi River.

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Democratic lawmaker plans Mo. auditor campaign

A Missouri House member plans to seek the Democratic nomination for state auditor next year.

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Family wakes up to find drunk stranger passed out on couch

A Maries County family found quite a surprise when they woke up Saturday morning.

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KC school officials request accreditation upgrade

The Kansas City school district says it is showing rapid improvement and wants Missouri education officials to upgrade it from unaccredited to provisionally accredited.

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Columbia truck accident causes traffic delays

A truck driver suffered minor injuries after he crashed his tractor-trailer at the intersection Interstate 70 and Highway 63 just after noon today.

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Missouri adds jobs while unemployment rate increases

A new report says Missouri's unemployment rate edged higher last month while the state gained 6,200 payroll jobs.

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Doe Run settles lead liability cases

The Doe Run Lead Co. has settled lawsuits by several families alleging their children suffered health problems from lead contamination in eastern Missouri's St. Francois (FRAN'-sihs) County.

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Missouri curators deny role in RB's ouster

Two members of the University of Missouri' s governing board say they did not order football Coach Gary Pinkel to dismiss a star running back after the player's 2010 arrest on sexual assault charges.

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Rescue list includes people and a pig in Colorado

 Dozens of people, a pot bellied pig, and a turtle are among the evacuees from flooded areas in Colorado.

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Hunter dies after falling into 70-foot sinkhole

Updated with pictures. A deer hunter in Pulaski County died after falling into a sinkhole on Monday evening.

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Jefferson City Council fires city administrator

Jefferson City is will conduct a nationwide search for a new city administrator after the City Council voted 8-2 Monday to terminate the contract of Nathan Nickolaus.

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Person of interest questioned in decomposing body case

The body discovered on a back porch of a Camdenton home has been confirmed as a female.

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Special Olympics moves to mid-Missouri

The Special Olympics Missouri State Outdoor Games is moving to mid-Missouri for the next four years.

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MU Provost Foster retiring as of next January

The provost at the University of Missouri-Columbia is retiring at the start of next year.

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Nixon heading to New York for disaster response event

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon plans to head to New York to meet with business leaders and talk about disaster response efforts at an event sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative.

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Senator Kurt Schaefer plans to run for Missouri attorney general

Missouri State Senator Kurt Schaefer is seeking the 2016 Republican nomination for Missouri attorney general. 

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Obama traveling to Kansas City-area auto plant

Missouri's automotive industry will be getting renewed attention this week when President Barack Obama visits a Ford Motor Co. plant near Kansas City.

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No charges for Obama overpass protesters

A pair of St. Charles County men won't face criminal charges after their recent arrests during an anti-Obama protest on an Interstate 70 highway overpass.

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Columbia Police search for convenience store robber

Columbia Police are looking for a man who robbed a convenience store in Columbia early Wednesday.

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