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Gingrich Won't Be On Missouri Ballot

Omission not a Team Gingrich fumble, spokesman says

(Newser) - Newt Gingrich is riding high in the polls but you won't find his name on the ballot for Missouri's Republican primary in February. Gingrich, unlike the other seven leading GOP candidates and three lesser-known ones, didn't file the necessary paperwork by this week's deadline. Convention delegates...

Stripper Trouble Muddies Missouri Race

Penthouse pet may derail bid by GOP Lt. Gov. Kinder for state's top job

(Newser) - When the people of Missouri choose a governor next year, they may need to ask themselves: Would you believe a man who says he stopped at a "pantless bar" just to use the bathroom? Peter Kinder, the state's Republican lieutenant governor, has been caught up in the latest...

3-Year-Old Vanishes Riding Bike

Pink bicycle with training wheels is all that's left behind

(Newser) - Another girl has vanished and the FBI has been called in again—this time to aid in the search for a 3-year-old Missouri tyke who disappeared as she rode her pink bike outside her home. BreeAnn Rodriguez vanished when her 5-year-old brother went into their home in the small town...

Law Bars Kid-Teacher Facebooking, Row Erupts

Missouri passes first major social media speech restriction

(Newser) - Missouri has passed a law barring private Facebook messages between children and teachers, and lots of people aren't happy about it. The first law of its kind in the nation will still allow messages easily viewed by the school community between teachers and children concerning assignments, but all exclusive...

Congressman Apologizes for Winehouse Tweet

Missouri's Billy Long drew connection to debt ceiling debate

(Newser) - Ah, the Amy Winehouse-debt ceiling connection. Don't see it? Missouri GOP Congressman Billy Long thought it was obvious: ""No one could reach #AmyWinehouse before it was too late. Can anyone reach Washington before it's too late? Both addicted - same fate???" he tweeted. Now he's...

Gargantuan Mansion Sparks Ozarks Mystery

Some say it's a home for aliens, or possibly Brangelina...

(Newser) - Deep in the hills of the Ozarks, between Springfield and Branson, Mo., a 72,000-square-foot house is being built—and locals aren’t quite sure why. Some suggest it may be a military bunker, while others propose it’s a nuclear shelter for “important people”; still others wonder whether...

US Sizzling in Record Heat
 US Sizzling in Record Heat 
Jul 4, 2011 2:20 AM CDT

US Sizzling in Record Heat

Fireworks canceled as skiers hit slopes above sweating throngs

(Newser) - The US is still sizzling in triple-digit temperatures as record heat threatens fireworks displays. Santa Barbara County has set up special cooling centers in libraries, senior centers and other community facilities as California struggles in 100+ degree heat, along with much of the Southwest and the lower Mississippi Valley. Several...

Missouri Health Officials Nix Cicada Ice Cream

New flavor bugs food code enforcers

(Newser) - The 13-year cicadas are out in Missouri but an ice cream parlor's attempt to turn the bugs into a seasonal treat has been thwarted. Health officials descended on Sparky's Homemade Ice Cream after its first batch of cicada ice cream sold out and told them not to make...

Joplin Fallout: Everyone Accounted For

Death toll now at 124

(Newser) - Joplin has crossed all the names off its list of missing people. Everyone has now been accounted for, the Missouri Department of Public Safety announced today, saying it was the final report they'll be issuing on the matter. The "confirmed deceased" toll now stands at 124, NPR reports.

Smashed Midwest Faces 2nd Round of Tornadoes

As Joplin struggles with the aftermath, more bad weather likely

(Newser) - Even as rescue crews continue to search for survivors in devastated Joplin, Missouri, residents of the Midwest must steel themselves for more severe weather to come. Weather forecasters say the area could see a repeat of the April tornadoes that killed more than 300 people in the South over a...

Joplin Tornado: Death Toll in Missouri Rises to 116

 Joplin Death Toll 
 Climbs to 116 
UPDATED
May 23, 2011 5:15 PM CDT

Joplin Death Toll Climbs to 116

And more fatalities expected as gas leaks cause fires, more weather looms

(Newser) - Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars today in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital. At least 116 people died, making it the nation's deadliest single tornado...

At Least 89 Dead in Joplin as Tornado Shreds Town

'75% of Joplin is gone', says Red Cross rep of Missouri town

(Newser) - The latest savage slash of US tornadoes ripped up the Midwest last night, flattening the town of Joplin, Missouri. At least 89 are dead, and that number is expected to rise. "I would say 75% of Joplin is virtually gone," said a spokeswoman for the American Red Cross...

Corps Blasts Through Missouri Levee

US Supreme Court rejects Missouri's request to halt operation

(Newser) - The Army Corps of Engineers lit up the Missouri skyline last night, blowing a two-mile gap in a levee, and activating a 1920s flood plan that has not been used since 1937. The explosions along the levee near drenched Cairo caused water to gush over prime farmland, the Wall Street ...

Big Tobacco Beats Hospital Lawsuit
Big Tobacco Beats
Hospital Lawsuit
Apr 30, 2011 7:30 AM CDT

Big Tobacco Beats Hospital Lawsuit

Landmark Missouri suit fails

(Newser) - It was a "case of David versus Goliath," as hospitals took on tobacco companies in Missouri, a hospital lawyer says—and Goliath won. A jury decided yesterday that tobacco companies aren't liable for money spent on patients with tobacco-related illnesses who can't pay their bills, reports...

Missouri Sues to Prevent Demolition of Levee

It wants the Army Corps of Engineers to consider other options

(Newser) - The Midwest is keeping a nervous eye on its levees—and now on the courts as well. Missouri's attorney general today filed suit in federal court to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from blowing up a levee on the Mississippi River, reports Reuters . The corps is preparing to...

Security Footage Shows Harrowing Airport Tornado

Thanks to early warnings, no one was killed in St. Louis

(Newser) - Miraculously, no one was killed by the Friday night tornado that ripped through the St. Louis airport . But that doesn't make the experience, captured by security cameras and reported by KMOX , any less terrifying. (Hat tip to Gawker for the find.) How is it that—even though 2,...

Tornado Rips Through St. Louis Airport

'Grown men were crying,' say witness

(Newser) - St. Louis' main airport was closed for business today while crews cleaned up after an apparent tornado tore through a terminal, causing several injuries and sending people scurrying for shelter as plated glass shattered around them. Last night's storm at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport ripped away a large section...

Welcome to the New Center of America

It's Plato, Missouri, according to Census calculations

(Newser) - Plato, Missouri, population 109, is the new center of the United States, notes the Kansas City Star . At least in that weird Census Bureau kind of way: “The place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if all 308,745,538...

GOP Files Ethics Complaint on McCaskill

They want investigation into use of tax money for flight

(Newser) - Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill is the target of a GOP-filed ethics complaint over her personal plane, Politico reports. McCaskill has acknowledged that she mistakenly used taxpayer money to cover the cost of one purely political trip last year, and she reimbursed the Treasury Department for it last week. Today, Missouri...

No Snow Yet, but Midwest Still 'Freaking Out'

Residents, officials brace for storm early

(Newser) - That “potentially historic” winter storm hasn’t really started yet, but that didn’t stop Missouri from declaring a state of emergency. All across the Midwest, residents are preparing early—and, in some cases, enthusiastically—for the storm, with schools closing, airlines canceling flights, and emergency generators selling out...

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