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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has filed two lawsuits accusing businesses of allowing sewage to be dumped into the Lake of the Ozarks. Full Story »

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Less than a month after buying Wyeth, drug giant Pfizer Inc. has mapped out a new structure for its research and development operations. Full Story »

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Casino operator Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.'s CEO and chairman resigned Monday, less than a week after allegedly telling a St. Louis County Council member that voting in favor of another company's casino was the worst move of the council member's career. Full Story »

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -- East St. Louis has a new city manager. Robert Betts had held the job for more than three years before being fired Sunday night by the city council, which said East St. Louis needed to go in a new direction. Full Story »

ALBION, Ill. (AP) -- A southern Illinois couple have been ordered to stand trial in the death of a 5-year-old boy last spring. Full Story »

MARION, Ill. (AP) -- Health officials in southern Illinois' Williamson County say they've confirmed their first death from swine flu. The Franklin-Williamson Bi-County Health Department isn't identifying the victim by name, gender, age or hometown. Full Story »

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Three people have pleaded guilty to a marijuana conspiracy in Jefferson County. Full Story »

PARK HILLS, Mo. (AP) -- Two people have died in a head-on crash in eastern Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victims as 44-year-old Larry D. Murrow of St. Charles and 17-year-old Kyle-Laine Bolte of Potosi. Full Story »

JERSEYVILLE, Ill. (AP) -- Kathryn Gowin was already spooked after she hit a deer with her Ford Explorer last week in southern Illinois. Then 10 minutes later, she hit another one. Full Story »

CHICAGO (AP) -- A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 1978 killing of a security guard believe they have evidence that shows prosecutors put the wrong man behind bars. Full Story »

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) -- Investigators believe a man accused of killing three women at an East St. Louis gas station acted alone. The suspect was arrested Sunday in St. Louis after an intensive manhunt. Full Story »

HAZELWOOD, Mo. (KMOV) -- Hazelwood police are looking for an 82-year-old woman who has shown early signs of Alzheimer's disease. Police said Lela Mierisch was last seen around 3 p.m. Saturday when she left her home for a store. Full Story »

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) -- A former Democratic strategist will be spending more time in prison. Milton "Skip" Ohlsen III, 38, was sentenced Friday in St. Louis County Circuit Court to four years in prison. Full Story »

BROOKLYN, Ill. (AP) -- A shootout in the parking lot of a southern Illinois strip club has left one man wounded and five in jail. Brooklyn police Chief Delbert Marion says the shooting happened early Saturday outside the Bottoms Up Nightclub. Full Story »

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- Some Missouri Southern State University nursing school students are upset about an admission policy barring visible tattoos. The Joplin Globe reports that the policy is included in the 2009 school handbook for nursing students. Full Story »

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Chuck DeProw had job offers from the Police Department and the U.S. Steel plant in Granite City. He chose the higher-paying factory job because he needed the money. Full Story »

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A 65-year-old Georgia man accused of killing a former University of Missouri student more than 30 years ago is a devoted father who "absolutely" didn't commit the crime, his attorney said. Full Story »

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Investigators are looking into the behavior of Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.'s CEO during a zoning vote by the St. Louis County Council this week on a casino complex being developed by another company. Full Story »

MASCOUTAH, Ill. (AP) -- After a monthlong hiatus, the weekly flights of flowers flown straight in from South America to MidAmerica St. Louis Airport in Mascoutah are set to resume by the end of November. Full Story »

KMOV - A Centreville man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for selling cocaine. Patrick Thompson pled guilty in July to a possession charge with intent to distribute. Full Story »

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has announced it is laying off 48 employees in its Division of State Parks and Historic Sites, far fewer than the 100 the agency originally estimated it would lose. Full Story »

KMOV - A Metro-East man was sentenced Friday for distributing Ecstacy. Centreville native Demarco Williams will serve 33 months in jail for selling MDMA, commonly known as "Ecstacy." Full Story »

GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) -- A man accused of killing eight people during a two-state rampage said Friday that he does not want to plead guilty in the first of the deaths to go to trial -- his second about-face on his guilt in the case. Full Story »

(KMOV)-- Missouri gamblers will soon have more chances to win tens of millions of dollars. The state lottery commission voted to start selling Mega Millions lottery tickets. Full Story »

(KMOV)--An accident involving a tractor trailer has westbound lanes closed on Interstate 64 in St. Clair County. Full Story »