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Area residents, state and local leaders paused Monday to pay tribute, in a grand way, to one of their own -- 2008 Olympic gold medalist Dawn Harper. It seemed everything and everybody in the city Monday were all about celebrating the city's latest Olympic gold medalist.
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Four kindergarten-age children were sent to area hospitals Monday afternoon when the school bus they were riding in left the road and landed in a ditch.
Two Japanese citizens and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for discoveries that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.
A northwest Missouri lawyer will spend four years and two months in federal prison for defrauding a bank of nearly $867,000.
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I know it is German-American Week in Belleville because I attended the ceremony Monday where Mayor Mark Eckert signed the proclamation making it so.
Stocks fell in quiet trading Tuesday as enthusiasm over the Federal Reserve's latest efforts to inject frozen credit markets with a dose of much-needed confidence gave way to concerns about the balance sheets of some financial companies. Trading remained fractious, and the major indexes alternated between gains and losses a day after the market suffered another huge drop.
A Thai official says Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has tendered his resignation to take responsibility for violent clashes outside Parliament between police and protesters.
