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Improvements to greet visitors to fair
BETHANY, MO - In its 94th year, the Northwest Missouri State Fair promises even more fun and surprises for fairgoers when the gates open this afternoon (Wednesday) for an expanded six-day program.
Several new events will be making a debut at this year’s fair. Chonda Pierce, a Christian comedian, will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon in front of the grandstands. And the “Wild World of Animals” will be presenting free shows on the fairgrounds all through the weekend.
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Bethany reservists to be deployed to Afghanistan
BETHANY, MO - A farewell ceremony was held Tuesday morning at the Cpl. Jesse N. Funk Army Reserve Center for the 387th Resource Company which will be sending 21 of its members to Afghanistan.
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Questions raised about horse deaths
BETHANY, MO - The Missouri Department of Conservation has been investigating the death of horses on a farm in the Mitchelville area, south of Bethany.
Two horses were found dead in a pasture and two others were injured in early August, leading to concerns that wild animals may have been involved.
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Boy Scout carries out flagpole project for high school
BETHANY, MO - Boy Scout Zach Gannan, presents an American flag to South Harrison High School Principal Dennis Eastin during a ceremony Friday night prior to the South Harrison-Plattsburg football game. Zach, His parents Rob and Kerry Gannan, carried out an Eagle Scout project to install a new flagpole at Memorial Stadium.
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Expanded fair program opens next Wednesday with parade, talent show
BETHANY, MO - The Northwest Missouri State Fair will get an early start next Wednesday, Sept. 1, as the fair expands to six days over Labor Day weekend.
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Grade school enrollment exceeds 500
BETHANY, MO - South Harrison school officials will be preparing for a large surge of students through the local school system over the next few years, based upon a large enrollment increase in the lower grades.
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American Legion’s bikers, 350 strong, visit Bethany on national Legacy Ride
BETHANY, MO - More than 350 bikers rolled into Bethany Monday afternoon during the American Legion’s 1,400-mile Legacy Ride to raise money for scholarships.
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Chamber to sponsor chili cook-off during Bethany fall festival
BETHANY, MO - The Bethany Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a chili cook-off during the Northwest Missouri State Fall Festival and Car and Motorcycle Show on Oct. 9-10.
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Power plant facing deadlines in meeting environmental rules
BETHANY, MO - Bethany’s main power plant will face a number of deadlines in meeting environmental regulations during the next couple of years, City Administrator Jan Hagler told the City Council Monday night.
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School board, on 6-1 vote, rejects proposal for ‘tobacco-free campus’
BETHANY, MO - Saying they were concerned about whether it would be possible to enforce a smoking ban, South Harrison school board members Thursday night rejected a committee’s recommendation to make the school campus tobacco-free.
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Family coping skills course to be in Bethany
BETHANY, MO - NAMI Missouri will sponsor the NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program specifically for families of person diagnosed with serious mental illness. The 12-week series of classes will start in Bethany on Thursday, September 9, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m., at the Harrison County Health Department at 1700 Bethany Ave.
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Highway 136 bridge project causes headaches in planning bus routes
BETHANY, MO - South Harrison has had to adopt alternate travel routes for school buses because of bridge closures in the New Hampton and Mt. Moriah areas.
Superintendent Larry Linthacum told the school board Thursday night that the bus traveling to New Hampton is being detoured onto Route BB and onto graveled West 342nd St. and 345th St. to West 140th Ave. and to Route ZZ, south to Highway 136, because of the closure of the White Oak Bridge on U.S. 136.
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US investors seek pay for pre-WWII German bonds
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">CURT ANDERSON </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-06T17:16:08Z">2010-09-06T17:16:08Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">MIAMI (AP) -- More than 80 years ago, Germany sold tens of thousands of bonds to American investors in an effort to recover financially from World War I. Later, Adolf Hitler used some of the money raised by those bonds to build the powerful Nazi war machine that would ravage Europe during World War II....</div>
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Army: Ex-soldier takes 3 hospital workers hostage
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">RUSS BYNUM </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-06T21:44:34Z">2010-09-06T21:44:34Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -- A former Army soldier seeking help for mental problems at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before authorities persuaded him to surrender....</div>
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US won't say if blowout preventer on way to shore
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">HARRY R. WEBER </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-06T20:24:41Z">2010-09-06T20:24:41Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Justice Department won't say if the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from gushing from BP's undersea well into the Gulf of Mexico is on its way to shore....</div>
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Colorado fire destroys homes, triggers evacuations
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">DAN ELLIOTT </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-07T00:27:45Z">2010-09-07T00:27:45Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">DENVER (AP) -- A wind-driven wildfire broke out in the rugged Colorado foothills and quickly spread across 4 square miles Monday, destroying some homes and triggering evacuations of hundreds of others....</div>
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NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">CAROLYN THOMPSON </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-06T18:00:25Z">2010-09-06T18:00:25Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">CATTARAUGUS INDIAN RESERVATION, N.Y. (AP) -- As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American rights....</div>
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Little Rock 9 member Jefferson Thomas dies in Ohio
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">TOM PARSONS </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-07T00:06:17Z">2010-09-07T00:06:17Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Jefferson Thomas was fast and athletic and often played pickup basketball with white students while growing up in Little Rock in the 1950s....</div>
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Colleges buy land they don't know how they'll use
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">MARC BEJA </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-06T19:18:05Z">2010-09-06T19:18:05Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">NEW YORK (AP) -- Colleges and universities are buying up chunks of land at bargain prices, sometimes without a clear idea how they'll be used....</div>
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Plane crash on NV street kills 1, injures 3
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"></span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-06T21:06:10Z">2010-09-06T21:06:10Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) -- A small plane crashed and burst into flames on a street in a southern Nevada residential neighborhood Monday, killing one person and badly injuring three others, authorities said....</div>
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1 'censored' bar won't stop online prostitution
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">DAN STRUMPF </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-05T23:41:52Z">2010-09-05T23:41:52Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">NEW YORK (AP) -- Craiglist's "adult services" section has been shut down in the U.S., but prostitution on the Internet is alive and well - even, quite possibly, on Craigslist....</div>
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9 years gone, everyone's a ground zero stakeholder
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By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn">SAMANTHA GROSS </span></span>
<span class="updated" title="2010-09-05T16:27:44Z">2010-09-05T16:27:44Z</span>
<div class="entry-content">NEW YORK (AP) -- It is a place of sacrifice. A place of mourning. A place people pass by on their way to grab lunch. It's a place where tourists crane their necks to snatch a glimpse around barriers walling off an enormous construction site - which is also what it is....</div>
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