Workmen found an undamaged state seal beneath the 4500-pound chandelier that had fallen just a couple of weeks ago.

For the first time since the accident, the chandelier was raised off the floor -- as part of the recovery, repair and insurance-adjustment process.  During replacement work on the chandelier's cable, the massive brass structure fell about five feet onto a brass state seal located in the capitol's rotunda.

The capitol's architectural consultant said protection workmen had laid onto of the seal prior to the repair work and protected the seal.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the school board's president called for state intervention during a St. Louis meeting of a state advisory board looking into the school district's problems.

"The state needs to intervene in some way," Veronica O'Brien was quoted as saying.

O'Brien called for the suspension of the district's superintendent, who just last week had reported progress during a hearing of the state Board of Education.

Less than two weeks after Missouri voters approved a constitutional amendment to make it easier to give state officials, judges and legislators pay raises, the Citizens Salary Commission held its first meeting in years.

The commission heard from the state supreme court chief justice told the commission Monday that judges in the state need pay raises.  But a Democratic leader in the House urged the commission to slow down the process.

Under the constitution, the commission must hold three more meetings before the first of December in order to adopt a pay-increase plan.