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By Gene Hartley

SPRINGFIELD -- City police say a former health worker is suspected of convincing four women, two of them teenagers, to weigh themselves naked so he could secretly videotape them. The man apparently claimed this would provide a more accurate weight.

The man was fired from his job with St. John's Hospital and Clinics but has not been charged. He could face invasion of privacy in a state court and child pornography charges in a federal court.

Police say found the tapes in the man's trash.
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JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- A dentist faces 13 felony counts accusing him of submitting false Medicaid reimbursement claims on pediatric patients. Law enforcement officers say Samuel Miller was taken into custody on Thursdday and records were seized from his office.

Prosecutors say Miller billed Medicaid for X-rays, root canals and other procedures that were never performed.
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CLINTON, Mo. -- A prayer breakfast on Monday will celebrate the reopening of a building after a deadly collapse a little more than two years ago. Tony Komer, 32, died and nine others were injured when the old Elks Lodge crumbled to the ground in June 2006.

The lodge was built in the late 1800s. It took rescuers 10 hours to free people from the ruins.

The new lodge occupies the same site on the Clinton square.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Sun Microsystems says it plans to cut up to 6,000 workers, 18 percent of its staff around the world.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -- Retail sales plunged by the largest amount on record in October as the financial crisis and the slumping economy caused consumers to sharply cut back on their spending.

The Commerce Department says retail sales fell by 2.8 percent last month, surpassing the old mark of a 2.65-percent drop in November 2001 in the wake of the terrorist attacks in September.

The decline in sales was led by a huge drop in auto purchases, but sales of all types of products from furniture to clothing fell as consumers retrenched.
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BRANSON, Mo. -- People in Stone and Taney counties can get free flu shots on Friday. They're being offered at Skaggs Community Health Center from 9 to 10 a.m. You have to be 18m, not pregnant, and live or work in Stone or Taney County.
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