| January 13, 2009 | - More Missourians were eating raccoon.
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The other dark meat: Raccoon is making it to the table
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| June 21, 2007 | - An eight-year-old two-headed hermaphrodite albino rat-snake named “We” died of natural causes at the City Museum in St. Louis.
- An eight-year-old two-headed hermaphrodite albino rat-snake named “We” died of natural causes at the City Museum in St. Louis.
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St. Louis Post Dispatch
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| April 28, 2007 | - A television station in St. Louis received a letter full of misspellings from a woman who claimed that she “was in dept” and requested the station pay her $10,000 not to kill her children and her boyfriend; a 29-year-old mother whose name was signed on the letter denied writing it.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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| January 13, 2007 | - Federal agents in Missouri found two kidnapped adolescent boys in the apartment of Michael Devlin, a 41-year-old pizzeria manager. “I still feel like I'm in a dream, only this time it's a good dream, not the nightmare I've had to live for the past four-and-a-half years,” said the mother of one of the boys.
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New York Times
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| November 9, 2006 | - The walls of a prison in Missouri were painted pink and accented with stenciled teddy bears. “We made it like a day care,” explained Sheriff Mike Rackley.
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CourtTVNews
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| October 30, 2006 | -
St. Louis was named America's most dangerous city. “You made my day!” said Mayor Gwendolyn Faison of Camden, New Jersey, which was formerly ranked most dangerous. “There's a new hope and a new spirit.”
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 7, 2006 | - Two teens in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, attacked a man and beat him with his own prosthetic leg.
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CNN
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| April 3, 2006 | - Thunderstorms--along with at least 63 tornadoes--killed 27 people in Tennessee, Missouri, and Illinois.
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CNN.com
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| March 22, 2006 | -
St. Louis talk show host Dave Lenihan, discussing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a potential NFL commissioner, said: "She loves football. She's African-American, which would kind of be a big coon." He repeated: "A big coon." Lenihan apologized, said that he meant to say "coup," and was fired.
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FOX News
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| January 25, 2006 | - Several women in Missouri were sick with infections after receiving tattoos from a door-to-door tattoo salesman.
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TheKansasCityChannel.com
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| December 24, 2005 | - A Missouri woman swallowed a cell phone to keep it away from her boyfriend.
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AP
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| October 28, 2005 | - A 56-pound mushroom was found in Missouri.
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News Leader
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| October 13, 2005 | - An eight-year-old St. Louis boy was killed in a hail of gunfire as he attempted to catch a praying mantis with a jar.
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AP
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| August 27, 2005 | - A judge in Missouri decided a new statewide ban on semi-nude lap dances was unconstitutional.
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AP
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| April 20, 2005 | - A rabbi had a fistfight with a man wearing a swastika
T-shirt in the Kansas City, Missouri, airport.
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Kansas.com
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| April 12, 2005 | - Brewer Anheuser-Busch, America's number one buyer of rice, announced that it will no longer buy rice from Missouri if that state allows genetically modified rice to be grown within its borders.
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CNN.com
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| January 10, 2005 | - The Supreme Court ruled that the Ku Klux Klan could adopt a highway in Missouri.
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Reuters
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| December 28, 2004 | -
Missouri legalized bare-handed catfishing.
| Source: Associated Press
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| August 4, 2004 | -
Missouri's voters approved a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
| Source: Reuters
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