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Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt appointed seven area residents Monday to serve on various state boards and commissions.

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Ameren Corp. are squabbling over whether and when Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park should open to the public this summer.

New Mexico State University's distance education program for nurses has won an award of excellence from the American Distance Education Consortium.

Three teams of student entrepreneurs from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College will compete in Rensselaer's $50,000 Tech Valley Collegiate Business Plan competition on May 3.

St. Anthony West Hospital expects to begin accepting patients in mid-2009 even as construction on the replacement hospital continues for another two years.