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Former state senator sentenced to probation
A federal judge in Missouri on Monday sentenced former Arkansas state Sen. Eddie Wayne Cooper to three years probation. Cooper, a Democrat from Melbourne, was one of numerous politicians, lobbyists and health-care executives charged in a sprawling bribery …