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1:54 pm
Fri December 14, 2012

[Infographic] The deadliest shootings in America

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If the death count is 27 or higher as the AP reports, the mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary in Connecticut will be the second deadliest shooting in U.S. history. This info graphic outlines some of the worst shootings thus far and the weapons that were used.
The theater shooting in Colorado ranks ninth in number of fatalities.
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Agriculture
1:30 pm
Thu November 1, 2012

Investors angle for a piece of precious farmland

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Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media
This field is part of a 160-acre tract in Saline County, Missouri that sold for $10,700 last year. Now this land is selling for around $13,000.
Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media
This piece of land in Malta Bend, Mo., went for $11,300 an acre at auction last June. The current owners are burning down fence lines so they can plant crops up to the very edge of the property.
Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media
Farmland real estate agent Dale Hermreck in front of a 320-acre tract of high-quality cropland in East-Central Kansas he just sold for $3,600 an acre.
Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media
Around the corner is this 92-acre tract for sale.
Credit Photo courtesy Andy Trupin
Physics professor Andy Trupin, of Delray Beach, Fla., bought this 155-acre tract in Lebo, Kansas two years ago. He rents out the land to a local farmer who got 20 bushels of corn last year though "the place was as dry as Las Vegas."
Credit Photo courtesy Andy Trupin
Eighty acres of the Lebo farm is tillable. Trupin paid $1,000 an acre for it.
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  Howard Audsley, who wears dark glasses and has his hair cut short in a crew cut, has been driving his Toyota truck through the state of Missouri for the past 30 years to assess the value of farmland. Barreling down the flat roads of Saline County, Mo., on a recent day, Audsley stopped his truck at a 160-acre tract of newly tilled black land. The land sold for $10,700 an acre last February, double what it would have gone for five years ago.

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