Tallying the toll of roads and runways

Call it a tale of two airports.

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Like Branson, new airport is just a little bit different

There’s just something about that new airport smell.

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Virgin's Branson abandons sailing record

Two days after setting sail from New York City, British billionaire Sir Richard Branson abandoned his trans-Atlantic speed record Friday after his 99-foot ultra-modern racing yacht was hit with 40-foot waves in the Bermuda Triangle.

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BA Cuts Branson From In-Flight Bond Film

British Airways cut a cameo by Richard Branson from its in-flight version of the latest James Bond film and blurred out the tail fin of a Virgin Atlantic plane seen in the movie.

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$25 million prize for greenhouse gas removal

A prize of $25 million for anyone who can come up with a system for removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere was launched on Friday. It is the biggest prize in history, claims its sponsor, Richard Branson.

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Gallagher Sued for Breach of Contract

Comedian Gallagher, known for smashing watermelons during his performances, was accused of shoving an audience member here last summer and now faces a lawsuit.

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Branson Plans $3B Against Global Warming

British business mogul Richard Branson said Thursday he would invest about $3 billion to combat global warming over the next decade.

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Couples making minimum wage earn too much to live in these apartments. So, how did the owners beat the red tape and create a living community?

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Poll: KC and St. Louis are the Largest Cities in Missouri. Which City is Next?

You know Kansas City and St. Louis are the largest cities in Missouri. Do you know which city is third-largest? No fair looking it up before taking the poll!

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Excerpt: U.S. Airways better guard Capt. Chesley Sullenberger 3rd. Virgin Air billionaire Richard Branson wants to poach the "Miracle on the Hudson" pilot.

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Residents of Otero County in New Mexico have defeated a Spaceport America tax increase to help build an inland spaceport that will serve as the launching ground for commercial spacecraft.

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A look at bellwether Missouri and the growing ranks of Obama supporters among diversifying community.

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And the state AG has had to file a lawsuit to make them stop.

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OZARK, Mo. -- Christian County Prosecuting Attorney Ron Cleek says he has asked the Missouri State Highway Patrol to conduct an independent investigation into the actions that Ozark police took against 16-year-old boy last month.

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BRANSON, Mo. -- A teenager from Branson who was hit with an electric stun gun 19 times by police has recovered enough to do an interview with a reporter.

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Out in the Mojave desert, Virgin Galactic has unveiled the new transport ship they'll be using to carry their SpaceShipTwo into suborbital space. With a 140-foot wingspan, it's the largest all-carbon composite aircraft ever built.

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Fishing is big business in Branson. It's not just live music and hillbilly schtick.

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CBS News coverage of a recent trip to Lake Taneycomo with the wounded warriors of the Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Leonard Wood.

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If you're planning on fishing in the Ozarks in the next few weeks you may want to change your plans. The entire White River Chain of Lakes is experiencing record flooding.

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Virgin Galactic expects its White Knight II (WK2) aircraft's last engine to be delivered in January and the SpaceShipTwo (SS2) carrier fully assembled by June for a July test flight in 2008, which it is calling the "year of the spaceship".

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The A380, as weird as this may sound, is not big enough for some...so why not stretch it out a bit? Branson would like to see a 900 seat version of the behemoth, which pretty much assures its role as a hub to hub hauler for Asia.

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The unsurpassed marketing appeal of Virgin and the superlative intellectual savvy of Macquarie Bank should make for a winning combination...but in times of liquidity crisis (i.e. now), even the best ideas can go awry.

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Good-bye, Cape Canaveral. It's been nice knowing you, Edwards Air Force Base. The future hub of space travel won't be some restricted-access military installation.

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RICHARD Branson, the Virgin Atlantic airline chief, lifted the lid on how he joined the mile-high club in a plane toilet, in interview extracts released today.

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The paper asked some leading figures where they would prefer to get away from it all. Of course, these are people who are not really short of a penny or two. But these are some of their hideaways: British Virgin Islands, Majorca, Italy, Western Australia...

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The Virgin boss has been very unhappy with Airbus as the A380, which Branson had been relying on to give him an edge over BA, has slipped back in its delivery...and the man is not prepared to risk the same thing happening with the A350-XWB.

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The orders were previously reported but not the buyer: now, Branson's favourite child is shown to be jumping onto the 787 bandwagon, much to the delight of Boeing which was hoping to land one of the world's best known airlines.

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The Virgin Atlantic chairman, who makes a brief cameo appearance in Casino Royale, the latest James Bond film, is somehow missing from the version shown on British Airways flights.

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"...So when an invitation to interview Sir Richard Branson on Necker, his private island in the British Virgin Islands, about his newly self-styled status as eco pioneer par excellence landed on my desk at Global HQ, I could hardly refuse.

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British airline tycoon Richard Branson announced a $25-million prize for the first person or group to find a way to remove billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

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