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The executive vice president of the University of Missouri system will leave at the end of the year to take on an administrative position at Johns Hopkins University.
James McGill has been a top administator at the MU system since 1986. His latest position had put in second in line to the system president.
The Kansas City Chiefs easily defeated the Chargers in NFL football Thursday night.
The Chiefs, playing at home, took the lead in the first quarter and never lost it. The final score was 31-3.
The KC victory leaves the chiefs with a 5-2 record.
Bill McKenna, President Pro Tem of the Missouri Senate, said he agreed with St. Louis Congressman Dick Gephart that Highway 21 needs rebuilding.
The Highway runs south from St. Louis through Jefferson County and has a high fatality rate.
McKenna said construction should start in the next two years.
See our radio story.
Two weeks after university police found a Beta Theta Pi pledge drunk and beaten, the fraternity has decided to ban alcohol from its house.
Mike Hargens, the chapter president, presented the ban to the fraternity's regional directors Monday.
The Oct. 1 incident caused the freshmen to be hospitalized for two days.
The university has held hearings into allegations that the fraternity has encouraged excessive drinking.
The odds for winning the Powerball Lottery will rise to one in eighty million starting Nov. 2. Other changes include doubling the minimum jackpot to ten million dollars and tripling smaller prizes.
Despite the increases in odds and cash prizes, a ticket will still cost one dollar.
Gary Gonder, a spokesman for the Missouri Lottery Commission, said the changes are expected to increase lottery profits.
See our radio story.
Secretary of State Bekki Cook dedicated the 1997-1998 issue of Missouri's Official Manual to the former secretary of State James Kirkpatrick.
Exactly 30 years ago, Kirkpatrick changed the color of the "Blue Book" to a powder blue.
That issue was followed in later years with an issue in MU's black-and-gold, an issue in red-white-and-blue and several issues in Irish green -- a play on Kirkpatrick's Irish name.
Kirkpatrick attended the dedication cermonies and got his personal copy of the new manual bound in green leather. He got the only green issue. All the others are in the old, official color of blue.
Missouri's Conservation Department is predicting a more colorful fall than normal.
The reason is the recent cool weather following a relatively dry August.
The department predicts the colors will reach their peak after this next weekend.
See our radio story for details.
Lawmakers continued to express little support for a tax hike for road construction that has been recommended by a special task force.
The proposal, to propose to the voters a one-cent-per-dollar sales tax increase to the state sales tax, was discussed Monday at a special joint legislative committee on transportation.
Most of the tax-hike money would be used to complete a 15-year road-construction plan that has run short of funds.
The previous Friday, the State Auditor issued a report putting much of the blaim on the Transportation Department itself for falling behind with the plan.
Both the MU Tigers and St. Louis Rams football teams lost last weekend -- decisively.
Kansas State overwhelmed Mizzou 41-11 Saturday in Manhattan.
The next day in San Francisco, the 49ers defeated the St. Louis Rams.
The Kansas City Chiefs, who had a bye last week, plays Thursday at home against San Diego.