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Rolla, Mo. - There are many summer camps, something for everyone. But there's no other camp quite like this: an explosives camp. A hands-on explosives camp. Such a thing would seem impossible in modern America. These days, kids ride their trikes in protective gear. So, the very idea of explosives camp is thrilling... Explosives Camp is an offering of Missouri University of Science and Technology -- formerly known as the University of Missouri-Rolla, formerly known as the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy. Rolla is midway between St. Louis and Springfield (Springfield, Mo., that is)... Here in Rolla, the explosives...

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (May 17, 2011) — Saint Robert police have released the dash camera footage from a patrol car whose driver pursued Cody Willcoxson, 31, from Fort Leonard Wood to Rolla. The driver, a junior officer, kept up the Thursday morning chase after Chief Curtis Curenton’s car was struck by bullets from an AK-47 fired by Willcoxson during the high speed pursuit on Interstate 44 which at times reached 120 mph. The footage has sounds of racing engines and squealing tires, as well as showing evasive maneuvers by officers as they raced around semi trucks and other vehicles, and...

FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (May 16, 2011) — Post personnel confirmed Monday comments made by the commanding general and garrison commander of Fort Leonard Wood, Maj. Gen. David Quantock and Col. Charles Williams, that the man who raced through Fort Leonard Wood and then led police on a high speed chase was not trying to target the military installation. “This individual was actually a lost local criminal, who wandered up to the gate because of I-44 construction and panicked at the gate when he was questioned, as he allegedly had just committed a crime elsewhere,” Williams said in an incident...

PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (May 12, 2011) — A man who led police on a two-county high-speed chase through Fort Leonard Wood, St. Robert and Rolla has been charged with felonies that could put him in jail for at least 37 years, according to Pulaski County Prosecutor Kevin Hillman. The most serious local charges against Cody Willcoxson, 31, of South West City, accuse him of shooting and hitting the police car of St. Robert Police Chief Curtis Curenton while using a pistol and an AK-47 to fire out of his moving vehicle while driving at speeds exceeding 100 mph. Additional state...

ROLLA, Mo.: Nearly two dozen people are being decontaminated after a white, powdery substance was found on a man threatening "terrorist-type" actions at the University of Missouri-Rolla, school officials said.

I’ve been pulling my hair out for years (Hey check my photo out!) looking for a leader on the left that I could like, much less stomach. I’ve sought advice from anyone that believed in the tenets of what I consider true Liberalism. This morning, Father’s Day, while I await my treat of a Cardinal game with wifey and my youngest daughter, I thought I found the new leader of the left. So I yelled to my wife, “Honey, I think I’ve found it!” “What, your keys? See, I told you to keep them in one place so you could...