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Issue date: 3/15/07 Section: News
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State Senate still can not decide on MOHELA
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A 15-hour, all-night Senate session ended late Tuesday morning so groggy lawmakers could rethink their strategies in a contentious and deadlocked debate over a higher education bill backed by Republican Gov. Matt Blunt.
Several Democratic senators had combined efforts to keep the Senate from voting on a bill that would lay the foundation for Blunt's plan to take $350 million from the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority for college building projects around the state.
The measure also creates a new scholarship program, caps tuition increases and requires performance-based criteria to be developed for higher education institutions.
Chiquita Charged in Terror Investigation
WASHINGTON (AP) - Banana company Chiquita Brands International said Wednesday it has agreed to a $25 million fine and admit paying a Colombian terrorist group for protection in a volatile farming region. The settlement resolves a lengthy Justice Department investigation into the company's financial dealings with terrorist organizations in Colombia.
Pentagon: Iraq in Some Ways in Civil War
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military for the first time Wednesday said in a new report that some of the violence in Iraq can be described as a civil war. In its bleakest assessment of the war to date, a quarterly Pentagon report said October 2006 through December was the most violent three-month period since 2003. Attacks and casualties suffered by coalition and Iraqi forces and civilians were higher than any other similar time span, according to the report.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A 15-hour, all-night Senate session ended late Tuesday morning so groggy lawmakers could rethink their strategies in a contentious and deadlocked debate over a higher education bill backed by Republican Gov. Matt Blunt.
Several Democratic senators had combined efforts to keep the Senate from voting on a bill that would lay the foundation for Blunt's plan to take $350 million from the Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority for college building projects around the state.
The measure also creates a new scholarship program, caps tuition increases and requires performance-based criteria to be developed for higher education institutions.
Chiquita Charged in Terror Investigation
WASHINGTON (AP) - Banana company Chiquita Brands International said Wednesday it has agreed to a $25 million fine and admit paying a Colombian terrorist group for protection in a volatile farming region. The settlement resolves a lengthy Justice Department investigation into the company's financial dealings with terrorist organizations in Colombia.
Pentagon: Iraq in Some Ways in Civil War
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military for the first time Wednesday said in a new report that some of the violence in Iraq can be described as a civil war. In its bleakest assessment of the war to date, a quarterly Pentagon report said October 2006 through December was the most violent three-month period since 2003. Attacks and casualties suffered by coalition and Iraqi forces and civilians were higher than any other similar time span, according to the report.
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