Story Published:
Aug 28, 2008 at 7:43 AM CST
Story Updated:
Aug 28, 2008 at 9:56 AM CST
SPRINGFIELD -- An argument apparently led to a homicide at an apartment complex early Thursday. A resident says she heard shouting and then gunfire at Glenwood Manor around midnight. When police arrived, they found a man dead.
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HUMANSVILLE, Mo. -- A cigarette apparently started a deadly fire at an apartment late Wednesday. It broke out around 11:30 p.m. in the Circle Drive Apartments, a complex for senior citizens.
The apartment manager says the victim was overcome by smoke. Police and firefighters hadn't released his name by Thursday morning.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- A government safety group warns parents not to use a Pennsylvania company's baby bassinets after babies in Kansas and Missouri were trapped and strangled in the product.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says infants can slip through the "close-sleeper/bedside sleeper" bassinets, made by Simplicity, and suffocate.
Simplicity's 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 convertible bassinets contain metal bars spaced farther apart than federal standards allow. In September, a 4-month-old girl from Noel, Mo., became trapped in the product's metal bars and died.
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SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- A former security officer's decision to point his electric stun gun at a visitor at the Greene County Judicial Courts Facility cost him his job a few months ago. Now the county has agreed to pay $25,000 to settle a complaint by a law firm employee.
The employee said then-Sgt. Robert Green, an employee of the sheriff's department, pointed a stun gun at her in April, and even shined the infrared aiming device at her chest. She said Green took offense at something she said as she was being screened at the security entrance.
The settlement was reached after negotiations between the woman's attorney and an attorney for Greene County.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- For the seventh straight year, more
students than ever are attending the University of Missouri. That means more tuition dollars, and a higher national profile.
the spoils of record enrollment (29,761 as of Monday) also bring on headaches. Among them are inadequate dorm space and crowded classrooms.
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LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Once again, copper thieves hit Curran Hall. Officials say thieves took two copper downspouts from the 166-year-old building in downtown. The city uses Curran Hall as its official visitor information center.
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