Email Author Chad Garrison

Awards

• 2008 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published April 4, 2007

  "The Mystery of Lloyd Gaines"

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2010 Stories by Chad Garrison

• KDHX Keeps Talk Shows, Moves All of Them to Monday Night

  published Jan 12, 2010

  A quick follow-up to a post from back in June. As RFT music editor, Annie Zaleski, reported yesterday on A to Z, community radio station KDHX (88.1 FM) has decided not to do away with its evening talk... More >>

• Mark McGwire Now Ready to "Talk About the Past", Issues Statement on Using Steroids

  published Jan 11, 2010

  Mark McGwire admitted today that he used steroids throughout much of his career with the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals. The statement came a week after Cardinals manager Tony La Russa stat... More >>

• Odds of Dying in Terrorist Attack on Airline: 1 in 25 million; Struck by Lightning: 1 in 500,000

  published Jan 11, 2010

  The Wall Street Journal had a compelling essay this weekend about the hysteria surrounding the attempted bombing of a Christmas Day flight into Detroit and the subsequent tightening of airline securit... More >>

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  Ass Clown(s) of the Week: Rev. Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church

  published Jan 11, 2010

  The votes are in and the first Ass Clown of 2010 goes to a man and his followers who are well accustomed to derision and buffoonery. Forty-one percent of Daily RFT readers last week picked Rev. Fred P... More >>

• Terrell Hadley, St. Louis Homicide No. 7; Allegedly Shot by Girlfriend, Shonta Roper

  published Jan 11, 2010

  Police say that Shonta Roper shot her boyfriend, Terrell Hadley, in the eye after an argument at his home Friday night in the 5500 block of Ashland (near Belt Avenue) in north St. Louis. View Larger M... More >>

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  Chicago Sun-Times Gushes All Over the Delmar Loop

  published Jan 11, 2010

  A Chicago Sun-Times travel writer recently received the royal treatment in St. Louis: scoring a rare interview with rock icon Chuck Berry and getting upgraded to a plush suite at the new Moonrise Hote... More >>

• Heard About the Developer, 25, with Exclusive Rights to East St. Louis Riverfrontr

  published Jan 11, 2010

  This blogger hadn't. But apparently it's true. In October the East St. Louis City Council gave Fredrick Scott, 25, of California, the exclusive negotiation rights to develop some 1,100 acres along the... More >>

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  Ass Clown of the Week: Who's the First Moron of 2010r

  published Jan 08, 2010

  We're only eight days into the new year, but based on the number of outrageous and depraved acts revealed this week, oh what a year 2010 shall be! That said, it's time to vote on the year's first crop... More >>

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  La Russa: McGwire Could Bat as Pinch Hitter (But Only Until Ted Williams' Body Defrosts)

  published Jan 08, 2010

  The probability of the Cardinals new hitting coach Mark McGwire returning to the plate as a pinch hitter isn't likely, though manager Tony La Russa hasn't entirely ruled it out. Speaking this week to ... More >>

• Police Release Names of Victims Killed in Bloody Rampage at North St. Louis Factory

  published Jan 08, 2010

  As reported last night, St. Louis police say four people, including the gunman, died yesterday in a deadly assault at the ABB Incorporated plant in north St. Louis. Five others were taken to the hospi... More >>

• Final Tally From Assault at ABB Factory: Four Dead (Including Gunman); Five Hospitalized

  published Jan 07, 2010

  The St. Louis police department reports that four people died today during an early morning assault at ABB Incorporated in north St. Louis. rThe dead include the gunman -- believed to be 51-year-old T... More >>

• Westboro Baptist Church Calls Off Protest of Tonight's Lady Gaga Show in St. Louis

  published Jan 07, 2010

  As reported here at Daily RFT a couple weeks back, the Rev. Fred Phelps and the followers of his Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church planned to protest tonight's Lady Gaga concert at the Fox Theatre.... More >>

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  First Robber of the Year Hits St. Louis Bank; Daily RFT Spots Trend, Offers Solution

  published Jan 07, 2010

  The St. Louis bureau of the FBI reported the first local bank robbery of 2010 on Wednesday. rThe heist occurred at the Neighbors Credit Union on New Halls Ferry Road in Florissant. Other than the robb... More >>

• Three People Now Presumed Dead at ABB Power, Including Gunman

  published Jan 07, 2010

  The Post-Dispatch is now reporting that a S.W.A.T. has discovered three bodies inside ABB Power, including the suspected gunman, Timothy Hendron of Webster Groves. As we've been posting all morning, a... More >>

• Stand Off Continues at North St. Louis Factory; One Victim Presumed Dead, Others Injured

  published Jan 07, 2010

  Updated here at 11:35 a.m.St. Louis police continue to surround the ABB Power factory in north St. Louis. According to the most recent reports, the gunman is ex-employee Timothy Hendron, 51, of Webste... More >>

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  Bear of a Man Served as Missouri Town's Top Cop and Scoutmaster ... Until Yesterday

  published Jan 07, 2010

  rIt's the talk of the town down in Fredericktown, Missouri, a two-hour drive south of St. Louis. As the local paper, Daily Journal, reports, people in diners and barbershops don't know what to make o... More >>

• Gunman Storms North St. Louis Factory, May Still Be At Large

  published Jan 07, 2010

  A gunman armed with an assault rifle may still be on the loose at ABB Power in north St. Louis. The man -- apparently a recently fired employee -- entered the company this morning and began shooting e... More >>

• Are You Against Local Control of the St. Louis Police Departmentr Then "Friend" It!

  published Jan 07, 2010

  Is it mer Or does everyone and everything have a Facebook page these daysr That said, are you a "friend" yet of this mouthful of a Facebook profile: "Citizens of the State of Missouri Against Local Co... More >>

• Rev. Al Sharpton Highlights MLK Gala This Saturday at Harris Stowe

  published Jan 06, 2010

  According to our records, it's been some time since the Rev. Al Sharpton has visited our fair city. Yes, sadly for us, Sharpton never took up the Riverfront Times' suggestion that he move to St. Louis... More >>

• City Opens Warming Centers as Winter Storm Predicted to Bring Snow, More Frigid Temps

  published Jan 06, 2010

  Baby, it's cold outside. A winter storm warning suggests that St. Louis could get hit with up to six inches of snow by Thursday evening. In the meantime, temps are predicted to remain well below freez... More >>

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  Man Savagely Injured by Wooden Q-Tip

  published Jan 06, 2010

  rOh, how we love reading the Madison-St. Clair Record, the newspaper that chronicles the judicial hellholes of metro East St. Louis. The Record is never in want of a preposterous incredible lawsuit t... More >>

• Rod Jetton To Appear In Court This Morning for Arraignment on Assault Charges

  published Jan 06, 2010

  Good morning. "You should have said green balloons."Those are the words that former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton supposedly whispered to a bruised and battered Sikeston woman one morning last Nov... More >>

• St. Louis Public Library Moves Up in Ranking, Even as City's Overall Literacy Score Drops

  published Jan 05, 2010

  The annual ranking of "America's Most Literate Cities" came out last month.The good news: For the sixth straight year the St. Louis Public Library was ranked as one of the top five library systems in ... More >>

• Streetballers Eligible for Academy Award

  published Jan 05, 2010

  Had the chance to catch up with St. Louis filmmaker (and 2008 Riverfront Times' MasterMind winner) Matthew Krentz over the holidays. As regular readers of Daily RFT know, it's been a busy year for Kre... More >>

• Election of Daily RFT's "Ass Clown of the Year" Marred by Voter Fraud, Glaring Omission

  published Jan 05, 2010

  Damn those chads -- the bane of the 2000 presidential election and now Daily RFT's inaugural vote for Ass Clown of the Year. Only this time it was the capital "Chad" (as in yours truly, the author of ... More >>