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RoundUp: Chinese official visit, jobs report & health insurance mandate
Posted: 02.15.2012 at 8:40 AM
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Deere profits at record; expects 15 percent sales growth

Deere & Co., which employs about 14,000 Iowans at manufacturing plants and at its credit center, reported a seventh consecutive record quarterly profit Wednesday and said it expects sales growth of about 15 percent this year.

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Orleans Avenue home gutted by fire

An unoccupied two-story wood frame house at 10th Street and Orleans Avenue, Keokuk, was gutted by fire early this morning. Sandy Akers of Missouri owns the structure.

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Xi Jinping's Iowa airport arrival was weeks in the making

DAVENPORT, Iowa -- Officials at the Quad-City International Airport have been working behind the scenes for nearly a month on details associated with today's arrival of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping.

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Mayer concerned about December jobs report

While state Department of Economic Development officials say Missouri's unemployment rate dropped in December to its lowest level in three years, Senate President Pro Tem Rob Mayer, R-Dexter, is concerned about another statistic

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FBI seizes Louisiana city computer for suspected child pornography

LOUISIANA, MO. -- A computer at the Louisiana, Missouri water department has been seized and is reported to be  the center of a child pornography investigation.

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Mo attorney general fights federal health insurance 

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster wants the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an individual health insurance mandate, but uphold other parts of the federal health care law.

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