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Stories by Leslie Yingling include:

• 5/ 2/2006: Newspaper Story - The Senate gave its approval Tuesday to a House bill that oultines how the state should spend proceeds from a sale of college loans.
• 12/14/2005: Newspaper Story - Rescuers found Jerry Toops, his wife Lisa and their three children after more than one billion gallons of water spilled from a breach in a hydroelectric plant reservoir, flooding Johnson's Shut-ins State Park and the superintendent's home.
• 12/ 5/2005: Newspaper Story - If approved, the Unborn Child Pain Prevention Act would mandate that physicians inform women seeking abortions at or after 20 weeks of the fetus' capacity to feel pain, and then to offer to administer anesthesia to a fetus before an abortion.
• 11/30/2005: Newspaper Story - Recent cuts and eligibility reductions to Missouri Medicaid have the hardest effect on women, according to a report released yesterday by the National Women's Law Center.
• 11/16/2005: Newspaper Story - A travelling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will visit the Capitol's south lawn next week.
• 11/14/2005: Newspaper Story - During an event aiming to educate people about homelessness in Missouri, more than 5,000 shoes lined the state Capitol steps -- one pair for every 10 Missourians who experience homelessness.
• 11/ 9/2005: Newspaper Story - The commission charged with reforming the state health care system switched its discussion yesterday from changing coverage to changing behavior.
• 10/24/2005: Newspaper Story - Medicare officials have designed a handful of online tools to allow people to search for and compare the first-ever prescription drug plans under the federal insurance program. Despite a promised mid-October unveiling, many are not yet available at the Medicare Web site, www.medicare.gov.
• 10/19/2005: Newspaper Story - Missouri will recover $21 million from a $567 million multi-state settlement with Serono Laboratories, which illegally marketed the AIDS drug Serostim.
• 10/17/2005: Newspaper Story - If approved by Missouri voters, the cigarette tax increase and stem-cell research protection measures would be immune to legislative tampering.
• 10/ 5/2005: Newspaper Story - Opposition to a proposed 80-cent cigarette tax increase is emerging from some groups that support a higher tobacco tax, but oppose the way the revenue would be allocated under the proposal.
• 9/28/2005: Newspaper Story - More than 800,000 Missourians who are over 65 or disabled will soon be faced with a multitude of options for privatized prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
• 9/21/2005: Newspaper Story - Government control over medical-industry expansion would be eased under a plan before Gov. Matt Blunt's government review commission.
• 9/ 7/2005: Newspaper Story - The baby of Missouri's governor made his first public appearance -- to promote a college savings program.
• 9/ 2/2005: Newspaper Story - In the special legislative session set to begin Sept. 6, legislators will reconsider two bills that failed earlier this year. In addition, the governor's call included nearly a dozen technical corrections to legislation passed earier.
• 8/29/2005: Newspaper Story - As thousands of Missouri adults lose Medicaid coverage because of cutbacks effective Sept. 1, Missouri's welfare agency says it does not have a plan to track the impact of the cuts on those who lose medical coverage.