News Headlines for Advance, Missouri

New faces crowd Missouri's lineup for weekend trip to Ontario (The Kansas City Star)
COLUMBIA | The three-game exhibition basketball tour that Missouri has embarked upon this weekend in Ontario isn’t about winning or losing.

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Hiking and biking trail opens on the north bank of the Missouri River (The Kansas City Star)
Platte County and Riverside on Friday opened a $1 million, 3.75-mile hiking and biking trail on the Missouri River’s north bank. About two-thirds of the trail is atop the Riverside-Quindaro Bend Levee — the first trail atop a privately owned levee in the Kansas City area.

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Illinois, Missouri governors bet on Saturday's game (Chicago Tribune)
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has made a friendly wager with Missouri Governor Matt Blunt over Saturday's Illinois-Missouri football game.

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Missouri minimum wage expected to rise 6.1% (The Kansas City Star)
Missouri’s minimum wage is projected to be $7.05 next year, up 6.1 percent, the state’s Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said Friday. Under state law adopted in 2007, the state at the end of each September is to set the wage for the coming year, based on annual price changes through the end of July.

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Future Missouri, Illinois QBs go head-to-head on ESPN (USA Today)
After Missouri and Illinois face off Saturday, their QBs of the future go head-to-head at Sunday in a nationally televised game.

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Woman accused of offering to let Missouri man have sex with 3 children (Belleville News-Democrat)
A suburban Houston woman accused of offering to let a Missouri man have sex with three young children has been arrested on child pornography charges.

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Missouri expects big test from Illinois (Rocky Mountain News)
Coming off a 12-win season and ranked higher than ever before to start the season, No. 6 Missouri is counting on an immediate test from Illinois today in St. Louis in college football.

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Governors wager on Missouri-Illinois game (The Springfield News-Leader)
JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt and Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich have placed a friendly wager on the 2008 State Farm Arch Rivalry football game today between the Missouri Tigers and the Illinois Fighting Illini Lions.

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W.Va. bank robbery suspect arrested in Missouri (Park Hills Daily Journal)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A man suspected of being the “plaid shirt robber” who held up banks in West Virginia and other states has been arrested in Missouri.

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Time for Tour of Missouri volunteer meeting corrected (The Springfield News-Leader)
Organizers for the Tour of Missouri cycling race stage that runs through Springfield and Greene County on Sept. 9 have corrected the time for a meeting of registered and prospective volunteers.

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