MISSOURIANA

It will cost more than $6 million to move 2,500 bodies from an old cemetery blocking the path of the new St. Louis rapid transit system. That estimate doesn't include treating taxpayers, stricken upon learning they'll foot the bill.

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Considering how much grief he's endured since being arrested for driving while intoxicated, House Speaker Bob Griffin has set a new record for the longest hangover in history.

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Attorney General Jay Nixon has proposed a new plan to end desegregation payments to Kansas City that calls for the state to operate three of the schools. If you can't lick 'em, join 'em.

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Researchers are very close to developing a telephone system that translates from one language to another. Now maybe parents can being to communicate with their children.

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Both of the state's U.S. senators say they're against President Clinton's economic recovery budget because it wastes tax money. Which raises a question of who supported the federal grants to build St. Louis' multimillion-dollar transit system.

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A Missouri physician became so agitated when he heard Hillary's health-care committee was toying with controlling medical fees that he nearly ran his Jaguar into the wine cellar on his yacht.

By Jack Stapleton