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4:40 pm
Mon June 4, 2012

New testing at Times Beach site

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Route 66 state park pond.

Nearly 30 years after Times Beach, Mo., was evacuated in one of the nation's most notorious environmental disasters, scientists with the Environmental Protection Agency are returning to the site for a new round of soil sampling.

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Science, Health and Technology
8:36 am
Mon June 4, 2012

Venus viewing event planned at MU observatory

Venus
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Venus - Computer Simulated Global View

Astronomy enthusiasts and members of the public are invited to MU’s campus observatory Tuesday to watch the rare planetary passage of Venus.

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Science, Health and Technology
8:17 am
Mon June 4, 2012

Charity care at Missouri hospitals on the rise, new report finds

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Health systems in urban regions are generally more equipped to handle charity care than rural regions, according to new findings from the Missouri Foundation for Health.

Missouri hospitals are providing more charity care, according to a new analysis from the Missouri Foundation for Health. But, community health centers have also been easing the strain.

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Science, Health and Technology
5:19 pm
Fri June 1, 2012

MU School of Medicine Dean to retire amid billing fraud probe

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Harold A. Williamson, Jr. of the University of Missouri Health System announces the investigation into billing fraud within the university’s Department of Radiology.

The dean of the University of Missouri School of Medicine is retiring following an internal investigation by the university’s Health System revealing possible billing fraud by the Department of Radiology.

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Science, Health and Technology
9:20 am
Fri June 1, 2012

Corps grants contracts to firms to rebuild Birds Point levee

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The repair work is worth $20 million.

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded contracts to three firms for work to repair the Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri, a levee intentionally breached by the corps at the height of spring flooding in 2011.

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