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4:57 pm
Thu May 24, 2012

New bus route to run between MU, downtown Columbia

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Columbia Bob McDavid explains the new FASTCAT route which will improve service by creating a new hub.
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The new FASTCAT route makes several stops downtown and on the MU campus
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By Chloe Dake

The city of Columbia announced Thursday the addition of a new city bus route that will directly connect the University of Missouri and downtown Columbia.  Mayor Bob McDavid calls the plan FASTCAT –“CAT” being short for Campus Access Transit. The new route will bypass Wabash station creating a new central hub.

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Business
12:00 pm
Thu May 24, 2012

Films, events, donations fund other aging prisons

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Eastern State Penitentiary
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By Samantha Sunne

The Missouri State Penitentiary is one of the oldest prisons in the country, but there are even older ones that survived both centuries of inmates and decades of decay. The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield and the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia are now fully operating tourist sites.

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5:48 pm
Wed May 23, 2012

"Neglect" at MSP could be trouble in Jefferson City

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The entrance to the prison’s female department is slowly crumbling. This wing of the administration building is one stop on the popular MSP ghost tours.
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An update on the EEZ in Columbia. Plus, some say the situation at the old Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City is getting desperate.

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Business
5:20 pm
Wed May 23, 2012

"Neglect" a threat for Missouri State Penitentiary

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Water damage threatens the stability of Housing Unit 3, which once housed Martin Luther King Jr’s killer, James Earl Ray. MSP officials worry roof leaks will eventually cause the historical buildings to crumble.
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Plaster hangs from the ceiling of a cell in Housing Unit 4, which housed inmates for 136 years. Resident Joshua Kezer says the building was in horrible shape even before it was shut down in 2004
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The administration building is one of the oldest on the prison site. Its decaying façade sits opposite a recently-opened federal courthouse across the street.
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Tour guide and MSP historian Mark Schreiber entertains a tour group with stories from his days as an MSP corrections officer. Many of the guides for the history and ghost tours used to work in the prison.
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Tom Hahn poses for his mom’s camera in the prison’s 74-year-old gas chamber. He’s part of one of the year’s first tours at MSP. The Convention and Visitors Bureau hopes the upswing in tours will eventually turn into profit for MSP.
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The entrance to the prison’s female department is slowly crumbling. This wing of the administration building is one stop on the popular MSP ghost tours.
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Jayma Sutton, left, and her husband Jeff Sutton sit down to a meal at Prison Brews after their tour. They traveled from Lake of the Ozarks to see the prison, and visited other tourist spots while in the city.
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By Samantha Sunne

The Missouri State Penitentiary closed in 2004 due to deteriorating conditions at the 150-year-old facility. KBIA’s Samantha Sunne explains how this deterioration has continued into the prison’s life as a Jefferson City tourist destination and historic landmark.

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Business
6:08 pm
Mon May 21, 2012

GM breaks ground on expansion at Wentzville Assembly plant

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General Motors broke ground Monday on 500-thousand square feet of new factory space at its Wentzville, Mo. Assembly plant.

According to the company the expansion will cost $380 million.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon was on hand for the event and said the decision was a smart one for GM, given its long history in the St. Louis area.

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5:26 pm
Wed May 16, 2012

Columbia lawyer seeks to bring “immigrant investors” to mid-Missouri

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Karla Klingner Diaz
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By Eva Dou

When it comes to jobs in Missouri, Karla Klingner Diaz believes that immigration is not the problem -- but rather the solution.

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