07/16/11 A significant marijuana operation has been discovered in Platte County, and the size and characteristics of the operation are indicative of Mexican drug trafficking organization, the Platte County Sherriff's Office said.
07/16/11 The first Stars-and-Stripes jerseys of the 2011 USA Cycling Mountain Bike Cross-Country National Championships were awarded Friday, following the under-23 and junior races at the Sun Valley Resort in Ketchum, Idaho.
07/16/11 MEXICO — Troop trains on the North Missouri Railroad were arriving with wounded soldiers after coming under attack near Wentzville and other locations. Bushwhackers also were burning bridges, tearing out culverts and tearing up tracks on the line between St. Louis and Macon.
07/10/11 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Several hundred thousand acres of rich Midwestern farmland and even some urban areas near the Missouri River are at risk of flooding this summer during months of historically high water that experts fear will overwhelm some levees, especially older ones.
07/10/11 Minna Dennis let out a groan Saturday morning as her bright yellow disc clanged off the front railing of the basket on the 17th hole at Albert-Oakland Park’s back course.
07/09/11 A sign welcomes visitors to the flooded Riverview State Recreation Area in Nebraska City, Neb., Tuesday, July 5, 2011. Hundreds of tributaries that feed the congested Missouri River face a greater-than-normal flood risk this summer because of water levels that have kept them from draining.
07/09/11 Several hundred thousand acres of rich Midwestern farmland and even some urban areas near the Missouri River are at risk of flooding this summer during months of historically high water that experts fear will overwhelm some levees.
07/09/11 This year's torrent of natural disasters is providing a mini-windfall for Satellite Industries, a Plymouth, Minn., company that claims to be the world's largest supplier of portable toilets.
07/06/11 The Logan-Magnolia alumni banquet was held June 6 at Lo-Ma High School. Linda Hennessy of the Class of 1991 was the master of ceremonies for the evening. Mickels Restaurant of Harlan catered the meal.
07/01/11 The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has listed the following construction projects that will have an impact on travel on major highways beginning today and extending through Tuesday.
07/01/11 It has been an almost biblical year for the United States, with multiple natural disasters hitting throughout the country. Here is a partial list of what the nation has experienced from January through June 2011.
07/01/11 A suspected drug kingpin named on the U.S. Marshals' "15 Most Wanted" fugitives list, who was sought on charges of conspiracy to distribute drugs, running a continuing criminal enterprise and conspiracy to launder money, has been captured in Los Angeles by the Marshals' Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force. Keith ...
07/01/11 The threat of wildfire reaching the Los Alamos nuclear lab and the town that surrounds it eased as crews made progress under cloud cover and rain Friday. The fire has blackened more than 162 square miles.
07/01/11 CHICAGO -(Dow Jones)- Bayer AG (BAYRY, BAYN.XE) agreed Friday to a $750 million settlement with U.S. rice farmers who had sued the company after two of its genetically modified traits contaminated the crop.
06/16/11 Jane Smiley, Carl Hiaasen, James Lee Burke and Alan Furst all return with novels in which the characters gradually awaken to the toxicity of their choices, while in nonfiction, Sonia Shah looks at how malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years.
06/16/11 KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Rising food prices are causing poor children and families in developing countries to sink deeper into hunger and malnutrition, according to Children International, a leading U.S.-based humanitarian organization. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr ...
06/16/11 PHOENIX (BP)--Attendance at the 2011 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting June 14-15 slumped below 5,000 for several reasons, registration officials said.
06/16/11 I've been traveling a lot in recent weeks and had the pleasure of meeting policymakers in a number of countries. Perhaps the most interesting of those meetings occurred in a small workshop attended by a couple of policymakers who had worked with Timothy Geithner to bail-out Wall Street .
06/16/11 HAMBURG, Iowa (Reuters) - Missouri River floodwaters have reached a levee built up this week to protect Hamburg, Iowa, after the main protection along the river failed, a county emergency official said on Thursday.
06/16/11 An upstate New York jury has convicted a man of sexually assaulting a girl for four years starting when she was 10, an ordeal the girl was only able to describe while testifying with a companion dog at her side. | 
