Missouri health director resigns

Friday, January 4, 2002

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Maureen Dempsey, Missouri's state health director who oversees an agency at the center of bioterrorism preparations and abortion-related disputes, announced her resignation Thursday.

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