UPDATE: Nixon: State failed to close beach despite bacteria

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 | 12:40 p.m. CDT; updated 9:42 a.m. CDT, Thursday, October 1, 2009

JEFFERSON CIT Y — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says the Department of Natural Resources failed to close a beach at the Lake of the Ozarks earlier this year, despite high bacteria levels that put swimmers' health at risk.

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