Stories from Saturday, November 30, 2013

The Linnean House decorated for the Garden Glow exhibition at the St Louis Botanical Gardens.

Dragonfly at Cape Girardeau Nature Center

Tower Grove House in the Missouri Botanical Gardens decorated for the holidays and for the Garden Glow light show.

The Climatron decorated for Christmas at the St Louis Botanical Gardens.

Today is Saturday, Nov. 30, the 334th day of 2013. There are 31 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 30, 1782, the United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War...

Flags at the Cape Girardeau Fire Department stations have been lowered to half staff in memory of six Kansas City firefighters who died Monday, when 45,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate blew up at a highway construction site; the firefighters had been called to a vehicle fire at the site when the explosion occurred...