Email Author Bruce Rushton

Awards

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published June 30, 2005

  "S#&t Storm"

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2003 Stories by Bruce Rushton

• Shot in the Act

  published December 24, 2003

  St. Louis County police officer Patricia March was fighting for her life when the question came: Who shot you? Wounded in the face by a... More >>

• Gland of Opportunity

  published November 19, 2003

  The Catalona Collection sounds like a line of designer clothes, or perhaps an assortment of fine fragrances. Maybe a stash of Spanish... More >>

• Up Yours

  published November 19, 2003

  PSA (short for prostate-specific antigen) screens have become nearly as common as blood-pressure tests when men over 50 visit their doctors. But... More >>

• The Case of the Vanishing Videotape

  published October 8, 2003

  Inmate Jamar Welch and guards at the St. Louis workhouse may be the only people who'll ever know what really happened. The way Welch tells it,... More >>

• Tailspin

  published September 10, 2003

  Airport commissioner John Krekeler didn't just fall off the baggage carousel. A private pilot who makes his living as a Boeing aerospace... More >>

• Blood Money

  published August 27, 2003

  Charlie Webb didn't think he had anything to worry about. Although he was out of a job at Gateway Blood Association, a Maryland Heights blood... More >>

• Legal Loopholes

  published August 13, 2003

  Attorneys for protesters arrested during a police crackdown in the days prior to the World Agricultural Forum in May say they are preparing for an... More >>

• Saints or Sinners?

  published July 30, 2003

  Editor's note: A correction ran concerning this story; see end of article. Sundays can be busy days for the Reverend Renita... More >>

• Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

  published July 23, 2003

  Something was missing when David Salvato opened his sandwich shop on Delmar Boulevard nearly four years ago. "People would badger me about it:... More >>

• Last Strike

  published July 23, 2003

  I was on my way to Schnuck's for beer and a steak last Thursday when it hit me. Go to Arcade. There was no rational reason to do so. The... More >>

• Larry's Club

  published July 9, 2003

  The Reverend Larry Rice doesn't think much of the transformation of Washington Avenue. Last month, the minister-media magnate-gadfly led... More >>

• One Angry Man

  published July 2, 2003

  Tom Carr really hates jury duty. "When they sent me the questionnaire I said I was a felon, which was a lie," recalls Carr, a glass... More >>

• Taste the Rainbow

  published June 25, 2003

  Free candy-flavored condoms, candy-colored hair, delectable drag queen Dieta, and sweet, sweet diversity -- it's all there at the 24th annual... More >>

• Under Fire

  published June 18, 2003

  Walls along the staircase leading to the St. Louis fire chief's second-floor office are lined with portraits of Sherman George's predecessors. The... More >>

• Carnage

  published June 11, 2003

  Terrye Martin and a partner, Antonio G. Robinson, had just robbed a man at a North Kingshighway bus stop, taking $38 and his shoes at gunpoint,... More >>

• Killing Time

  published June 4, 2003

  Nearly seven years after killing her boyfriend, 47-year-old Suzanne Johnson isn't in prison, but she's headed there. The Madison County woman... More >>

• Legal Affairs

  published May 14, 2003

  It wasn't the sort of thing usually heard in St. Louis courtrooms."I'm not trying to use profanity or [be] grotesque or whatever,... More >>

• Bar Fights

  published May 7, 2003

  This late-April gathering in a cramped City Hall conference room looks more like a Cold War diplomacy session than a public hearing.Seventeen... More >>

• Fueled by Fear

  published April 23, 2003

  Twenty minutes into the meeting, lawyer D. Jeannine Kelly asks whether everyone can hear. Several near the back of the Alton Holiday Inn meeting... More >>

• Hell No, They Won't Go

  published April 23, 2003

  Under orders from police, the demonstrators keep walking.Each step down the grassy strip along James S. McDonnell Boulevard takes them farther... More >>

• Whack Job

  published March 12, 2003

  His friends at the Sin City Deciples clubhouse say Frank Earl Brown was straight-up.Generous, he'd give you the shirt off his back. Dedicated,... More >>

• Dumb & Dumber

  published January 29, 2003

  Joshua and Cassandra Harvey, the brains behind Miracle Cleaning Products, were in a tight spot.The mother-and-son team from Jefferson... More >>

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  published January 8, 2003

  For years, no one save strip-club owners has been willing to take a chance on Brooklyn, Illinois.On paper, at least, the community is dying.... More >>