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Agriculture
5:37 pm
Thu September 27, 2012

Mud and Moonscape: Missouri towns struggle with flood recovery

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"It is pure sand dunes," Atchison County Sheriff Dennis Martin said, of Corning, Mo. land still covered with sand a year after surging Missouri River waters receded. "Before the weeds started growing up, it looked like the moon."
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Down the road, St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is one of the flood's casualties. It closed after waters rose three feet high. Then the water sat there for months.
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A mud line marks how high the waters went on the 1893 Gothic Revival building.
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A toilet graveyard sits behind the church.
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The one-room 1912 schoolhouse behind the church is still caked with dried-up mud the river left behind. It also sustained water damage in 1952 and 1993.
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The waters put this schoolhouse stove under water. Church elders don't know if and how they will re-open the church.
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But Sheriff Martin says Corning is resilient. "We're going to see crop ground ... that has been renovated and the expense they are going to try to get this back in production has got to be phenomenal. But it is their life … it’s their home."
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Back in April, Harvest Public Media’s Grant Gerlock headed to Tekamah, Neb., to see how planting was going for farmers on the Missouri River floodplain. The river's surging waters put thousands of farm acres in Nebraska under water last summer, causing more than $100 million in crop losses in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.

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AM Newscasts
10:11 am
Fri June 22, 2012

Newscast for Friday, June 22, 2012

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Regional news coverage from the KBIA newsroom, including:

  • Nixon to address 2013 budget
  • Columbia Police release internal complaint numbers
  • Yahweh's Restoration Ministry to broadcast on national television
Politics
8:26 am
Wed May 30, 2012

Bill before Nixon criminalizes disturbing religious services

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Nixon needs to sign the legislation before it becomes state law.
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Among the 115 bills sent to Governor Jay Nixon this year is one that would make it a crime to deliberately disturb worship services in Missouri.

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AM Newscasts
9:19 am
Thu March 22, 2012

Newscast for March 22, 2012

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Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

  • House legislators examine new death penalty rules in Missouri
  • The controversy surrounding failed development of sweetener factory Mamtek in Moberly continues.
  • Senate leaders endorse bill making disturbances of religious worship a crime.
Politics
11:28 am
Tue February 21, 2012

Legislators debate bill punishing unruly behavior near worship centers

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Legislation inside of the general assembly would punish unruly behavior near religious centers.
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Sparked by past events around the nation, one Missouri senator is trying to make disrupting a house of worship punishable by up to 15 days in jail and a three hundred dollar fine for first time offenders.

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AM Newscasts
11:10 am
Tue February 21, 2012

Newscast for February 21, 2012

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Legislation in the Missouri general assembly requires English to be the sole language on driver's exams.
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Regional news coverage from the KBIA News room, including:

  • The UM Curators approve tuition increases.
  • Missouri legislators push law making English the only language on driver's license tests.
  • A law in the general assembly punishing unruly behavior at religious centers.
Politics
4:14 pm
Wed February 15, 2012

State senator seeks public funding for religious schools

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Missouri state Sen. Scott Rupp is sponsoring legislation to abolish language in the Missouri Constitution that prohibits public funding for religious groups to operate schools.
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A Missouri state senator says religious groups should not be barred from receiving state funds to operate their schools.

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