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Two freight trains collide in Missouri bringing down overpass
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in rural Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when at least a dozen rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities ...
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Freight train crash in Missouri triggers highway overpass collapse
Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when at least a dozen rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities said.None of the seven people hurt in the fiery crash - two train workers and five people who had been in the two cars on the overpass - suffered life-threatening injuries, Scott County sheriff Rick Walter said in a statement."One train ...
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Freight trains collide in Rockview Missouri 7 injured
Two freight trains collided, struck a highway support pillar, and collapsed the overpass, injuring several people, though no one suffered severe ...
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Cargo trains collide derail in SE Missouri
CHAFFEE, Mo. - A federal agency has sent investigators to southeast Missouri, where seven people were injured when two cargo trains collided on tracks under a highway overpass, causing the overpass to partially collapse.Scott County Sheriff's Office Dispatcher Clay Slipis said the collision happened around 2:30 a.m. Saturday near Chaffee when a Union Pacific train hit a Burlington Northern ...
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Kimball too sick to attend Indy 500 driver meeting
IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball was sick Saturday and missed the public driver meeting for the Indianapolis 500.A team spokesman for Chip Ganassi Racing said medical personnel gave Kimball fluids as treatment and the illness was unrelated to his diabetes.Kimball is expected to race on Sunday. He'll start 19th and is one of 11 American drivers in the ...
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Movie Review
The Black Cauldron
More than thirteen years after its brief and disastrous showing in U.S. theaters, Disney has released on video "The Black Cauldron," its first and (so far) only PG-rated animated feature film. Produced in 1985, a time when (if you can believe this) Disney's animation studio was fledgling and on the brink of closing down shop for good, "The Black Cauldron" is a flawed, but ambitious film that was o ... ...
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A Look Back • St. Louis fights off British-led raid during American Revolution
Dear Abby o I'm a 21-year-old nursing student in college. I'm a "people person" and everyone says I'm easy to talk to. According to my ...
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Teens create touching exhibit on local veterans at History Museum
The exhibit now at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Parkruns through Oct. 20. The exhibit is part of the Teens Make History program, which began in 2007 for mainly under-served students ages 15-18. It has been expanded to teens of diverse backgrounds. The teens in the program also write and perform short original plays about history, attend an academy and are eligible for paid ...
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Jimmie Johnson chasing NASCAR history not legacy
Jimmie Johnson climbs into his car before practice for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Chuck ...
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Vintage Apple computer auctioned off for $668000
German auction house Breker said Saturday an Asian client, who asked not to be named, bought the so-called Apple 1, which the tech company's founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built in a family ...
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Locals Delsing Gaus make the cut at Bellerive
Jay Delsing hadn't swung a golf club in competition in more than two years. And maybe that caught up with him on Friday at Bellerive.After shooting a 1-under-par 70 at Bellerive Country Club on Thursday, putting himself in solid position at the Senior PGA Championship, Delsing struggled Friday on the back end of his second round. The St. Louis U. High product absorbed four bogeys in a ...