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Ameren Missouri chairman and president Mark Birk called the updated plan "an acceleration of things that we would’ve done in the future," in an interview Friday.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - A major drug bust in San Diego as the US Coast Guard offloaded more than $275 million worth of illegal ...