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Monday, October 08, 2012  Britain's Gurdon, Japan's Yamanaka share Nobel medicine prize for stem cell research

Thursday, July 26, 2012  The state attorney general's office is warning Missourians about a scam that involves telling people that in order to claim huge prizes they first have to pay fees to government agencies.

Thursday, July 26, 2012  Says calls and letters are claiming to be from his office.

Monday, April 16, 2012  Late Manning Marable wins history Pulitzer; no fiction prize given for 1st time in 35 years

Tuesday, February 28, 2012  UPDATE: On Tuesday, the Missouri House gave first-round approval to a bill that calls for cutting the amount of money available for state lottery prizes, but increasing funding for veterans' homes.

Monday, August 15, 2011  A Jefferson City couple finds themselves a target of a scam. What should you be looking out for?

Saturday, July 30, 2011  Players battled in a softball tournament for a good cause in Jefferson City Saturday.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011  The department said several residents have contacted them recently to report suspicious calls.

Thursday, May 19, 2011 

Sunday, February 27, 2011  Attorney General Chris Koster released the top 10 consumer complaints and scams reported to his office in 2010.

Friday, October 08, 2010  Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for using nonviolence to demand fundamental human rights in his homeland.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010  A researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia will receive a $100,000 cash prize for his research on a controversial plastic-hardener called BPA, or bisphenol A.

Thursday, April 22, 2010  A Marshall man wakes up $258.5 million richer this morning.

Friday, March 26, 2010  Finn Kydland is a professor of economics at the University of California-Santa Barbara. She and a colleague shared the 2004 Nobel Prize for their research on business cycles and macroeconomic policy.

Thursday, December 10, 2009  A wartime president honored for peace, Obama became the first sitting U.S. president in 90 years and the third ever to win the prize.