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Search results for "Ozarks" ...
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The Price of Lead
Audobon magazine reports that "Deep in the Ozarks, lead mining threatens a national wild and scenic river."
Tags: mining; Doe Run Company; Mark Twain National Forest; Viburnum; Bureau of Land Management; U.S. Forest Service; Eleven Point River
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No title (id: 10601)
The St. Louis Business Journal investigated the financing and development of a golf resort in the Missouri Ozarks. The project found that the resort's St. Louis developer had a prior history of using investor's money for shaky real estate deals which ended in bankruptcy; there were also allegations of real estate and securities fraud and gross mismanagement, Sept. 26, 1994.
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No title (id: 5807)
Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader explores how a proposed lead mine would harm the environment in the Ozarks; documents previous pollution problems from lead mining in the state, Feb. 7-11, 1988.
Tags: Lemons Ozarks lead mine
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No title (id: 5806)
Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader describes the methamphetamine industry in southwest Missouri; reveals it is a multi-million dollar illegal business run by motorcycle gangs and others who use murder and intimidation to protect their profits, Nov. 6 - 8, 1988.
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No title (id: 3580)
KYTV-TV (Springfield, Mo.) story exposes the prevalence of drug use and drug trafficking in the Ozark region, November 1986.
Tags: Tape
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Green Gold in the Ozarks
KTHV investigates Arkansas' marijuana problem. Lawmen say more than $200 million dollars of marijuana was raised in the hills of Arkansas this summer. It can sell for $2,500 dollars a pound on the streets of New York and Houston.
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Ozark Gold Series
KTVI-TV (St. Louis) series reports on the marijuana growing business in Missouri and Arkansas, September 1982.
Tags: Tape
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The Dam Dilemma
KTVI-TV (St. Louis) series examines the Harry S Truman Dam in the Missouri Ozarks, which has mechanical failures, has killed tons of fish and has posed a threat to a nearby town, July 17 - 22, 1982.
Tags: TAPE