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Wednesday, November 28, 2012  Boone County Treasurer Nicole Galloway won the 2012 Missouri Association of Counties’ County Excellence Award for the creation of the state’s only county-based online unclaimed property database.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012  In three weeks, Jefferson City voters will decide the fate of Proposition 2.

Friday, April 27, 2012  With a permit, protesters at US party conventions in Charlotte, Tampa could carry guns

Tuesday, October 18, 2011  All of the unclaimed property is checks issued by the county that remain uncashed.

Thursday, February 17, 2011  The Lake of the Ozarks watershed alliance, LOWA has received a $740,000 federal grant to attack the problem of non-point source pollution at the lake.

Thursday, December 23, 2010  Thursday, Dec. 23 at 2:00 p.m.: Josh Maylee appeared in court Thursday via closed circuit television.

Thursday, November 18, 2010  A man sustains serious injuries after rear-ending another vehicle on Highway 54.

Monday, June 21, 2010  De Telegraaf said the 22-year-old Dutchman claims he only signed papers admitting killing Stephany Flores because he was intimidated by police and had been promised he would be transferred to the Netherlands if he confessed.

Friday, June 11, 2010  Dutch murder suspect Joran van der Sloot told police investigators that he knows the location of the body of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, the chief of Peru's criminal police said.

Wednesday, June 09, 2010  The FBI thought it was closing in on Joran Van der Sloot in the Natalee Holloway missing-teenager case, paying him at least $15,000 in a sting operation, federal officials said Wednesday.

Tuesday, June 08, 2010  Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of a U.S. teen in Aruba, has confessed to killing a young Peruvian woman in his Lima hotel room last week, a police spokesman said.

Wednesday, June 02, 2010  A young Dutchman previously arrested in the 2005 disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway is the prime suspect in the weekend murder of a Peruvian woman, police said Wednesday.

Friday, August 07, 2009  Car shoppers can take advantage of $2B more in 'cash-for-clunkers' program through August

Wednesday, August 05, 2009  Senate will approve 'cash-for-clunkers' extension, Democratic and GOP leaders say

Sunday, March 22, 2009  Natalee Holloway's father says investigator will search Aruba pond for answers.