2012's top local stories

December 30, 2012 at 4:54 a.m. | Updated December 30, 2012 at 4:54 a.m.

In this file photo, an architect's model is seen in the foreground as a large crowd gathered for the ground-breaking for St. Mary's Health Center's new hospital on Mission Drive, located just east of Missouri 179 between Route C and West Edgewood Drive.
In this file photo, an architect's model is seen in the foreground as a large crowd gathered for the ground-breaking for St. Mary's Health Center's new hospital on Mission Drive, located just east of Missouri 179 between Route C and West Edgewood Drive.

These are our newsroom's picks for the Top 10 local stories of the year. See our newspaper or e-Edition for Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012, for complete summaries of each.

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  1. High school plans
  2. Transformation sales tax failure
  3. St. Mary's new hospital ground-breaking
  4. Alyssa Bustamante sentenced for the death of Elizabeth Olten
  5. Capital Mall sale
  6. Failed Fire Department sales tax
  7. Summer drought
  8. Surtax agreement, settling Cole County tax distribution error
  9. Regional airport initiative
  10. One suspect sentenced, two others charged in April shooting death of Keith Mosely

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