Email Author Kathleen McLaughlin

2008 Stories by Kathleen McLaughlin

• The Unsolved Murder of Ernie Brasier: A Clayton attorney's death nearly two years ago continues to mystify police and colleagues

  published October 1, 2008

  Just after 10 p.m. on December 19, 2006, the pot-bellied corpse of Ernest F. Brasier arrived at the St. Louis County morgue. Brasier had been... More >>

• Perverts Beware: St. Louis area police have your number

  published September 3, 2008

  Earlier this summer, Roderick McArthur shuffled into a courtroom at the Thomas F. Eagleton Federal Building for his sentencing hearing. Hunched... More >>

• Trolley Song: A new source of funds pushes forward the plan for streetcars on Delmar Boulevard

  published August 13, 2008

  Some ten years have passed — three years longer than it took to build the Transcontinental Railroad — since Joe Edwards first... More >>

• Certified professional midwife: Coming to a yellow pages directory near you

  published July 30, 2008

  Dana Albillo is doing something no one in St. Louis' underground home-birth network ever dared. She's advertising. Soon after... More >>

• Earl Mullins has liftoff. Years in the making, his space museum in Bonne Terre has taken flight.

  published July 9, 2008

  Stepping from the quiet streets of Bonne Terre into Earl Mullins' space museum is like bringing one's eye to a telescope and being struck dizzy... More >>

• Baby Brains: Wash. U. is at the forefront of new research to find the cause of autism

  published June 18, 2008

  Julia Fisch's five-year-old son Joey is a living puzzle. He eats very few foods that are not orange in color. He likes to climb onto... More >>

• Paintless in St. Louis? St. Louis Alderwoman Donna Baringer wants to treat cans of spray paint like they're handguns.

  published June 4, 2008

  Motorists driving down Highway 40 under Tamm Avenue in the wee hours of July 19, 2007, reported seeing graffiti artists at work on the pristine... More >>

• Bad Buzz: King Bee building residents have turned on downtown St. Louis developers Sam Glasser and Dave Jump

  published May 14, 2008

  Six years ago, downtown developer Sam Glasser introduced Jill Holtrop to the King Bee building, a turn-of-the-century millinery warehouse on... More >>

• Mow Your Lawn, Mister?: A squadron of youth is set to cut the grass for north-side land magnate Paul McKee. On your dime!

  published May 14, 2008

  Some folks are lucky in love. Paul McKee Jr. is lucky in lawn care. With summer approaching, a local nonprofit group has plans to... More >>

• Local scientists can predict the far-reaching effects of rumblers through the Earthquake Hazard Mapping Project

  published May 7, 2008

  Near its epicenter in southeastern Illinois, the 5.2-magnitude earthquake that emanated from the Wabash Valley fault on April 18 did little but... More >>

• Hot Contender: If looks count, Sarah Steelman may be your next governor

  published March 26, 2008

  For a politician looking to connect with the camouflage set, this would seem an ideal photo opportunity: fishermen standing... More >>

• Ludo is fired up and ready to play on the national stage

  published February 20, 2008

  [For additional outtakes from staff photographer Jennifer Silverberg's day with Ludo, More >>

• North- and south-side rec centers: separate and equal

  published February 6, 2008

  The City of St. Louis is moving forward with plans to build two new recreation centers: one for the south side in Carondelet Park and the other... More >>

• Bowling for Dollars

  published January 23, 2008

  For years, bowling alley owners fought the state Department of Revenue over collecting sales taxes on shoe rentals, only to end up throwing a... More >>

• Vanishing Act

  published January 9, 2008

  When Landmarks Association of St. Louis embarked on an ambitious plan to create a tourism-oriented architectural center downtown, Larry Cohn... More >>