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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2012 Stories by Chad Garrison

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  Birthers Alive and Well in Missouri Legislature

  published Feb 15, 2012

  We know. You thought the conspiracy surrounding President Barack Obama's birthplace was so 2009.But, hey, we're talking about Jefferson City here, a place where everything -- fashion, movies, hairstyl... More >>

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  Online Petition Aims to Stop Senseless Killing of Missouri's Mountain Lions

  published Feb 14, 2012

  Last week we told you about state Sen. Bill Stouffer's desire to eradicate mountain lions from Missouri with his bill that would allow the animals to be shot without reason. On Thursday Stouffer's bil... More >>

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  Bill Would Repeal "Punitive" Tax on Missouri Animal Shelters

  published Feb 13, 2012

  State Rep. Jeanne Kirkton (D - Webster Groves) has proposed a bill to restore certain tax exemptions to animal shelters that were lost during the heated fight over puppy mills back in 2010. Legislator... More >>

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  Sinquefield Under Attack for Comment Tying Public Schools to KKK

  published Feb 10, 2012

  Educators and politicians are demanding that Rex Sinquefield apologize for a statement he made yesterday tying public schools to the Ku Klux Klan. Sinquefield, who has spent tens of millions of dollar... More >>

• British Fugitive "Fast Eddie" Found Hiding Out in Ozarks

  published Feb 10, 2012

  A British national on the lam for nearly two decades was arrested this week in Missouri in the small town of Ozark, south of Springfield. Edward Maher was working as an armored truck driver in his nat... More >>

• Clarence Cannon: Teacher Accused of Exposing Himself to Student

  published Feb 10, 2012

  The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office filed charges yesterday of sexual misconduct, attempted enticement of a child and witness tampering against 48-year-old Clarence Cannon, a teacher at Blow Middl... More >>

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  Which Is the Bigger Pussyr Mountain Lions or State Senatorr

  published Feb 07, 2012

  State senator Bill Stouffer fancies himself a rugged S.O.B. In campaign photos, the central Missouri Republican likes to pose in western wear with farm equipment in the background. He boasts in his on... More >>

• Jay Leno Pokes Fun at Dave Spence's "Economics" Degree

  published Feb 07, 2012

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• Emails from Speed Camera Vendor Demonstrate Persistent Salesmanship

  published Feb 06, 2012

  Arnold councilwoman Doris Borgelt doesn't know what to make of the emails sent to her from John Baine, co-founder of the somewhat controversial speed-camera company B&W Sensors. On the annoying sp... More >>

• Vernell Loggins Jr.: Convicted of Killing, Dismembering Girlfriend

  published Feb 03, 2012

  A jury yesterday recommended the death penalty for Vernell Loggins Jr., a trucker from suburban St. Louis who captured headlines in 2009 when his girlfriend's dismembered body was found outside the Pa... More >>

• Repeat DUI Arrestee Dan McLaughlin Keeps Job as Cardinals Broadcaster

  published Feb 03, 2012

  Good news, sports fans. The glory days of baseball broadcasting -- when a commentator could be forgiven for a bit of misbehavin' -- are alive and well. Why's thatr Because this week Fox Sports Midwest... More >>

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  Boring! CVC Fumbles Proposal for Dome

  published Feb 02, 2012

  If the negotiations to keep the Rams in St. Louis were a football game, it would be late in the fourth quarter with under two minutes to play. St. Louis would be trailing by a touchdown and starting o... More >>

• What To Do While Awaiting Details of St. Louis' Proposal to Rams

  published Feb 01, 2012

  Today is the big day. St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission will offer the St. Louis Rams their proposal to keep the team in town. At this early stage of negotiations, it's unclear what kind of... More >>

• Busch Family Member New Director of Endangered Wolf Center

  published Feb 01, 2012

  It seems there are two types of folks in the Busch family. The colorful ones whose dalliances, excesses and questionable behavior (Gussie and August IV come to mind) capture headlines. And everyone el... More >>

• Tessa Vanvlerah: Case Against World's Worst Mother Grows More Disgusting

  published Jan 31, 2012

  Tessa Vanvlerah, the Ballwin mother accused of prostituting her daughter to a college professor from California in 2010, pleaded guilty last week in St. Louis Circuit Court to statutory rape, statutor... More >>

• Fight Over Missouri's Cigarette Tax Heats Up; Lung Association Gives State Failing Grade

  published Jan 24, 2012

  Missouri received its annual report card last week from the American Lung Association. The result ain't pretty. The state earned an "F" for tobacco prevention and control (spending just $58,693 last y... More >>

• Surprise! Meth Makers Continue to Fill Hospital Burn Units

  published Jan 23, 2012

  The Associated Press this morning followed-up a story the Riverfront Times first reported nearly two years ago, chronicling the toll meth (particularly the "shake and bake" method of producing the dru... More >>

• Introducing the 2012 RFT Web Awards Finalists

  published Jan 17, 2012

  The good newsr The St. Louis online community is alive and well. The bad newsr There's so much great content out there, it's extremely difficult to come up with a list of the best of the best. But, he... More >>

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  Dana Loesch Would "Drop Trou" and Pee On Dead Taliban

  published Jan 16, 2012

  If you haven't heard by now, St. Louis Tea Party co-founder and CNN political analyst Dana Loesch landed in hot water recently when she spoke in defense of U.S. Marines videotaped urinating on the cor... More >>

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  Martin Luther King Jr.'s Prophetic Last Speech

  published Jan 16, 2012

  Below: The ending to the speech Martin Luther King Jr. made in Memphis on April 3, 1968, the night before he was assassinated. King was in Tennessee to support striking sanitation workers and talked d... More >>

• Jerald Massey: St. Louis Homicide No. 6; Killed in Home Invasion in Grove Neighorhood

  published Jan 16, 2012

  Two men were injured and another killed Saturday night during a home invasion in the 4300 block of Swan (below) in St. Louis' Grove Neighborhood. rAccording to police, three armed suspects entered the... More >>

• Report: Jeff Fisher Takes Rams Job

  published Jan 13, 2012

  Sports Illustrated's Peter King tweeted this afternoon that Jeff Fisher has agreed to step in as the new head coach of the St. Louis Rams. Fisher, the former coach of the Tennessee Titans, had also in... More >>

• MoDOT's Facebook Friends Not So Friendly Following Snow

  published Jan 13, 2012

  You've heard the news. Chances are you even experienced it firsthand. Yesterday's one-inch snowstorm caught the Missouri Department of Transportation completely unprepared. The agency failed to pre-tr... More >>

• Dennis Iagulli: Defendant Details Brutal Slaying of Fellow Homeless Man

  published Jan 12, 2012

  Dennis Iagulli pleaded guilty yesterday to his role in a truly disturbing murder of a fellow homeless man in June 2010.Parts of 22-year-old Zachary Irvin's body were found on fire that month near an a... More >>

• Alyssa Bustamante: Teen Describes How She Murdered Neighbor

  published Jan 11, 2012

  Alyssa Bustamante, the mid-Missouri teenager in jail for two years on charges that she murdered her 9-year-old neighbor because she "wanted to know what it felt like" to kill someone, pleaded guilty y... More >>