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A Missouri State Senate committee began hearings to consider making Interstate 70 into a toll road.

UPDATE: Curators agreed to raise tuition at the system’s four campuses this fall by an average of 3% for Missouri residents. This is less than half of what leaders proposed earlier this month.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says the U.S. is "slipping into a fascist system" dominated by an alliance between big government and large corporations.