Nixon's office under scrutiny regarding E. coli report

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 | 5:09 p.m. CDT; updated 5:48 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, July 29, 2009

JEFFERSON CITY — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's office said Wednesday that it was unaware of a report on dangerously high levels of E. coli in the Lake of the Ozarks until days before its release, despite a newspaper report that a state official sought a copy weeks earlier before a meeting in the governor's office.

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