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In 2011, Missouri law enforcement busted about five meth labs each day on average – almost double the number of any other state. The state spends more…
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Columbia has lots of community gardens, and several school gardens. But school-community gardens? On Tuesday at Ridgewood Elementary, the school and…
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Back in the late 1980s, while the nation was in the grips of the war on drugs, some courts started experimenting with alternative sentencing programs they…
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Afghan war veteran Jacob George is a self-proclaimed hillbilly farmer from the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas. After three tours as a combat engineer, he…
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Planning a road-trip this summer? In this week's Health & Wealth update, the best way to see the country might be to run across it.In 2004, John Wallace…
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You have probably heard the statistic: Missouri has the lowest cigarette tax in the nation – just 17 cents a pack, compared to the national average of…
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Debate continues in the Missouri legislature over the Obama administration's "contraception mandate," which will require health insurance to include…
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According to the latest estimate from the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 88 children in the United States has autism, almost double the rate ten years…
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Health care reform is in the cross-hairs at the U.S. Supreme Court this week. In this Health & Wealth update, as the nine justices hear oral arguments on…
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Sixty-two percent of working-age women have jobs, but they still earn just 74 cents on the dollar, compared to men. But that disparity varies by region;…