ST. LOUIS (AP) – A Midwest environmental group is questioning the ability of the country’s largest coal producer to guarantee it has enough money for future cleanup of its Illinois mines. State regulators allow St. Louis-based Peabody Energy to pledge it has adequate assets to pay for the estimated $92 million needed to reclaim three…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The University of Missouri system has announced more than $920,000 in spending on diversity efforts as it seeks to recover from racial unrest on its Columbia campus. The four-campus system also announced Wednesday that it is planning forums with finalists for the role of the first ever system-level chief diversity, equity…
Partial treatment could begin as soon as next month, but MSD officials say that is an optimistic estimate
The Columbia Missourian reports that the American Association of University Professors sent a letter Tuesday to the Columbia campus’ interim chancellor, Hank Foley
Scientists say you can’t just blame one thing for an outbreak and caution that it is too early to link this one to climate change or any single weather event
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is being joined on the campaign trail by Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Cantor introduced Bush Wednesday to a large crowd on the campus of Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H. Cantor praised Bush for his record as Florida’s governor, commending his education reforms and…
CATONSVILLE, Md. (AP) – President Barack Obama is meeting with Muslim-American leaders from around the country as he pays his first visit to a mosque in the United States. The White House says Obama plans to argue during the visit that the U.S. will more successfully confront extremism if it works with the Muslim community…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Rand Paul is dropping out of the 2016 race for president. Paul said in a statement that he will turn his full attention to his Senate re-election campaign in Kentucky. The 52-year-old ophthalmologist is favored to win that race. The first-term senator from Kentucky exits the race having never caught on with…
A measure to transfer the clean up of the West Lake Landfill to the Army Corp of Engineers is moving forward. On Monday the U.S. Senate passed  Senate Bill 2306.  The EPA has overseen the landfill since the 1990’s, but has yet to act on the clean up. Senator Roy Blunt, who co-sponsored the legislation…
