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11th Annual Songs for Soldiers Benefit Concert Set for Sept 13-14 in Columbia

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BUZZ MAGAZINE - It was April 9, 2004. The United States Army 724th Transportation Unit of Bartonville, Ill. was in Iraq. Their mission: to escort fuel convoys to Baghdad and the Anbar province in Western Iraq. During their tour they experienced many fire fights, IEDs, land mines and more. But nothing compared to the attack on their convoy on April 9. After a failed email, the unit drove their support convoy directly into an ongoing offensive between the 3rd Cavalry Armored Division of the U.S. Army and Shiite militiamen of the Mahdi Army. Enemy fighters were estimated to be in the numbers of three to four hundred. The 724th convoy consisted of eighteen American civilian driven fuel trucks with only eight armed support vehicles. Dustin Row from Columbia, Ill. was driving one of those military support vehicles. “We were completely picked apart and destroyed,” Row said. “My 50-caliber gun truck was one out of six trucks to even make it through the three mile

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Cedar Hill man left dead after being ejected from vehicle

1 year 1 month ago
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. - A man was left dead after being ejected from his vehicle in Cedar Hill Thursday evening. The single vehicle accident occurred a little before 6:30 p.m. on eastbound Missouri Route 30 at Local Hillsboro Road, involving a Chevrolet 1500. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol's (MSHP) crash report, the driver, [...]
Nick Gladney

St. Charles County cities partner to build $24M law enforcement training center

1 year 1 month ago
The cities of O’Fallon and St. Charles in Missouri are coming together to build and operate law enforcement training center. Construction of a new $24 million law enforcement training center is already underway in O'Fallon. “What I like about it is this was designed by police officers, for police officers, the elected officials, had nothing to do with it,” O’Fallon Mayor Bill Hennessy said. O'Fallon Police Chief Frank Mininni said it's not just for their officers. Thursday, they signed…
Laura Barczewski

Cable TV In Free Fall As Industry Loses Another 1.62 Million Viewers

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It seems like only yesterday that cable TV executives — and the analysts poised to prop up their narratives to boost stock valuations — were busy insisting that the “cord cutting” trend was a “fiction” that would abate any moment now. It was the kind of thinking that helped justify their inability to adapt to […]
Karl Bode