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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Tragedy struck the Lake of the Ozarks last summer when three people lost their lives because of electricity in the water. Now, nearly a year later, no changes have been made to dock safety. Grieving families warn more people can die....

Jun 13 (Reuters) - U.S. power companies have shut or converted over 15,000 megawatts (MW) of coal-fired power plants since 2009 and have plans to shut or convert another 35,000 MW over the 10 years or so. Cheap natural gas prices and strict...

June 3 (Reuters) - To date, the NRC has approved new licenses for 72 of the nation's 102 operating reactors and rejected none. Nuclear power produces about 20 percent of the electricity used in the United States. The following lists applications the...

Illinois Republican leaders on Saturday choose a lobbyist and Rosemont trustee to serve as state party chairman following several hours of closed door talks. Jack Dorgan's selection follows the resignation of former chair Pat Brady, who came under...

Illinois Republican leaders Saturday chose a lobbyist and Rosemont trustee to serve as state party chairman after several hours of closed-door talks. Jack Dorgan's selection follows the resignation of former chairman Pat Brady, who came under fire for...

ST. LOUIS Powerful storms smacked the St. Louis area Friday night, downing trees and damaging buildings but by early reports sparing people from death or serious injury. St. Charles County and west St. Louis County bore much of the damage, but problems...

ST. LOUIS Powerful storms smacked the St. Louis area Friday night, downing trees and power lines and ripping up buildings but apparently sparing people from death or serious injury. "We had some funnel clouds, wall clouds, rotations all kinds of stuff,"...

By Heide Brandes OKLAHOMA CITY, June 1 (Reuters) - Tornadoes killed five people in central Oklahoma including a mother and her baby and menaced Oklahoma City and its hard-hit suburb of Moore, before the storm system tracked northeast early on Saturday....

Violent thunderstorms on Friday produced tornadoes in central Oklahoma that killed nine people including a mother and her baby and menaced Oklahoma City and its hard-hit suburb of Moore, authorities said. The mother and baby were killed while...

SPRINFFIELD -- Gov. Pat Quinn's effort to block ComEd from hiking rates was rejected by state lawmakers on Wednesday. The House voted 71-44 to override Quinn's veto of the legislation, the minimum number of votes needed to do so. The vote came a day...

Peoples Gas has dropped its request for automatic rate hikes on home heating bills to pay to replace aging pipes below city streets. Chicago's Peoples Gas is floating legislation in Springfield that would add a surcharge onto utility bills to pay for a...

Peoples Gas has dropped its request for automatic rate hikes on home heating bills to pay to replace aging pipes below city streets. The natural gas utility is now floating new legislation in Springfield that would add a surcharge onto its utility bills...