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Southern Missouri river towns struck by shutdown

Many of the people who live amid the hills and hollows around this southern Missouri town aren't comfortable with the government telling them they have to do anything, let alone buy health insurance. In 2010, voters here overwhelmingly supported a statewide ballot measure that opposed a federal mandate calling for ...

  • Updated: 11:19 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Shutdown impact: Tourists, homebuyers hit quickly

A government shutdown is having far-reaching consequences for some, but minimal impact on others. Mail is being delivered. Social Security and Medicare benefits continue to flow. But vacationers are being turned away from national parks and Smithsonian museums, and that's having a ripple effect on those businesses and communities that ...

  • Updated: 11:07 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
Migrants wait to board a ferry boat from the port of Lampedusa, for Sicily, southern Italy, where they will be sent to other temporary camps based on their legal status, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. On Thursday a fishing boat packed with 500 African migrants capsized off the shores of the island of Lampedusa, causing at least 190 dead and more than 100 missing in what could become the largest death toll in a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean on record. Laura Boldrini, the speaker of Italy's lower house who recently led a parliamentary delegation to Lampedusa, said the migrants who are reaching Europe's shores now are by and large asylum seekers, not economic migrants, as has been the case in the past, and that European countries need to align their immigration policies. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Divers recover 17 more bodies, death toll hits 211

Italian divers recovered 17 more bodies Monday from a smugglers' boat that capsized and sank to bottom of the Mediterranean Sea with hundreds of migrants on board. That brought the confirmed death toll from Thursday's tragedy to 211 before poor weather off the southern island of Lampedusa again halted the ...

  • Updated: 9:16 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Oil falls below $103 as US debt deadline nears

The price of oil fell below $103 a barrel Monday as a partial U.S. government shutdown entered a second week and crude production in the Gulf of Mexico got back on track after a storm system passed through. By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for November delivery was down ...

  • Updated: 8:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Spain tries 6 Somalis for piracy after ship attack

Six Somalis who allegedly attacked a Spanish warship in 2012 off the coast of Somalia went on trial in the Spanish capital, with prosecutors seeking a 23-year sentence for each defendant. A National Court spokesman said Monday the six are charged with piracy, weapon possession and membership of a criminal ...

  • Updated: 8:12 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Amtrak, Michigan investing in state's rail lines

Amtrak and the state of Michigan plan to invest millions of dollars over the coming years to improve service on the state's three passenger train lines, resulting in quicker trips and more amenities for travelers. Upgraded tracks between Kalamazoo and Dearborn will allow trains to travel up to 110 mph ...

  • Updated: 8:07 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013
Airbus Japan Chief Executive Fabrice Bregier, left, and Japan Airlines President Yoshiharu Ueki shake hands following their press conference in Tokyo, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Japan Airlines is buying its first ever jets from Airbus in a deal with a catalog value of 950 billion yen ($9.5 billion) with a purchase of 31 A350 planes. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)

JAL makes first purchase from Airbus, not Boeing

Airbus secured its first-ever order from Japan Airlines on Monday, in a deal that undermines Boeing's long-held dominance of Japan's aviation market. Japan Airlines is to buy 31 A350 planes from the European aircraft manufacturer. The purchase has a list value of 950 billion yen ($9.5 billion) and marks a ...

  • Updated: 8:04 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Nigeria grounds airline after accident killing 13

Nigeria's Federal Aviation Agency says authorities have grounded all aircraft belonging to Lagos-based Associated Airline following a plane crash that killed at least 13 passengers. Spokesman Yakubu Dati said Monday the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority suspended all the company's operations on Friday, the day after the crash of a plane ...

  • Updated: 7:14 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

OSU Museum of Art Postal Plaza Gallery to open

Oklahoma State University's Postal Plaza Gallery is planning a community open house where the public can get an inside look at the downtown Stillwater gallery as finishing touches are made to the OSU Museum of Art's first location. Thursday's open house will kick off a three-month "soft opening" period as ...

  • Updated: 5:02 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2013

Spinoff development of casino near SD border lags

It doesn't take long to get from Sioux Falls, S.D., to one of the biggest entertainment centers in the area in northwest Iowa. It's a quick eight miles from the city's edge on East 10th Street to the Grand Falls Casino Resort that operates on rich agricultural land where three ...

  • Updated: 1:29 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013
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