State official sought E. coli study weeks before release, newspaper reports

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 | 11:31 a.m. CDT; updated 9:54 a.m. CDT, Thursday, October 1, 2009

SPRINGFIELD — A newspaper is reporting that a state official asked for a copy of a report on dangerously high levels of E. coli in the Lake of the Ozarks to take to a meeting in the governor's office — weeks before the information was released to the public.

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