Email Author Nicholas Phillips

Awards

• 2012 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published January 20, 2011

  "Left for Dead"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 20, 2011

  "Left for Dead"

• 2011 - National Association of Black Journalists Awards, published June 9, 2010

  "Tears of a Town"

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2011 Stories by Nicholas Phillips

• City Nights Case: Long-Awaited State Police Crash Report Offers Few New Clues

  published Feb 07, 2011

  Our recent feature "Left for Dead" focused on a 2009 traffic incident: Anthony J. Rice, a young black male with a clean record, was allegedly mowed down outside the City Nights bar in East St. Louis b... More >>

• South Butt Attorney Pens Withering Letter to Nike

  published Feb 04, 2011

  Clayton lawyer Al Watkins seems to be making a cottage industry out of shielding rascally college entrepreneurs from sabre-rattling corporate giants. Last year he came to the aid of  Mizzou stude... More >>

• McCaskill Disputes NYT Report on Democratic Convention as Ed Martin Weighs In

  published Feb 03, 2011

  Now that a New York Times piece has suggested that Senator Claire McCaskill torpedoed St. Louis' bid for the 2011 Democratic Convention, she's fighting back.  The gist of the article was that she... More >>

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  St. Louis' Own Groundhog "Pippi" Sleeps Through Groundhog Day

  published Feb 02, 2011

  An early spring it shall be, according to Punxatawney Phil and many other national groundhogs who failed to see their shadows. What about St. Louis' own four-legged predictorr Sadly, our very own Lily... More >>

• Did Senator Claire McCaskill Torpedo St. Louis' Bid for the Democratic Conventionr

  published Feb 02, 2011

  Check out The New York Times this morning on why the Dems chose Charlotte over other contenders for their national convention: St. Louis was widely seen as the next choice to Charlotte...[but] there w... More >>

• Icy Road Report, South City: You Can Chill the Eff Out (For Now)

  published Feb 01, 2011

  Your Daily RFT correspondent, who tools around in a four-door sedan with bald tires, just got back from testing the roads in South City. Here's the deal: Even if you drive aggressively and slam on the... More >>

• What They Didn't Tell You About the Off-Duty Cop Who Got Jumped on the Landing

  published Jan 31, 2011

  At about 3 a.m. Sunday, an off-duty cop on the 100 block of Lucas Avenue (Laclede's Landing) observed some robust assholery: a guy, walking down the street, kicking and striking parked vehicles. So th... More >>

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  Multimillion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme Roils the Orthodox Jewish Community of St. Louis

  published Jan 28, 2011

  These days, Joshua David Gould of University City dances in a Statue of Liberty costume to lure customers toward an income tax preparer. But the 31-year-old Orthodox Jew knows how to sing, too. To the... More >>

• How To Get Wasted Much Faster at the Cardinals Game

  published Jan 27, 2011

  Big beer lines be gone!! As Todd Frankel of the Post-Dispatch reported last week, Anheuser-Busch now has a stake in a company  called Grin-On, which has invented a way to pour beer upside down, a... More >>

• "I Wanna Poke You, Not in the Facebook Way": Another Week on Missed Connections

  published Jan 26, 2011

  Each week, we scour the local Missed Connections section of Craigslist, in search of the best posts. Here are some that caught our eye recently.Bwaha. rCare to dance, hottiewomanrrWants her fixrOur fl... More >>

• Woman To Be Sentenced for Not Stopping Husband-Daughter Incest Tryst

  published Jan 25, 2011

  This just in, to make you feel horrible about people: A woman in western Missouri is going to be sentenced today for knowing that her husband impregnated her daughter four times -- yes, FOUR times -- ... More >>

• Missouri Critter Hoarder Convicted of 75 Counts of Animal Abuse

  published Jan 24, 2011

  Early last year, authorities raided the southwest Missouri home of Virginia Gambriel and found not only 40 dogs, 13 cats, 10 rabbits, 2 doves, 2 turtles and a chinchilla. They also found three dead ch... More >>

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  Sac and Fox Nation: Missouri Desecrated our Ancestors. We Want 'Em Back (And Some)!

  published Jan 21, 2011

  The Sac and Fox Nation wants its grandfathers back.  Right now, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources is storing tribal bones in bankers boxes: teeth, skulls, shin-bone fragments. Many dat... More >>

• Video Recreation of Mastodons Pasturing on Broadway Kinda Blows Our Mind

  published Jan 20, 2011

  In 1903, the Post-Dispatch breathlessly reported on the mastodon skeletons unearthed near Tower Grove Park, 40 feet below street level. Check out below the...what would you call itr A video recreation... More >>

• Reggie Allen Has Been Charged With Battery Since City Nights Incident. But Here's Why.

  published Jan 19, 2011

  If you've read our current feature "Left for Dead," you know that official reports implicate Reggie Allen of Dupo -- a convicted felon with a long history of interaction with law enforcement -- in the... More >>

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  Cops believe Reggie Allen mowed down an unarmed black man outside an east-side club more than a year ago. So why isn't he behind bars?

  published January 20, 2011

  January 2011, East St. Louis, Illinois: Below the tangle of raised highways soaring over the Mississippi River bank, a teddy bear lies... More >>

• Worst Breakup Souvenir Ever: Uh, I Kinda Infected You With H.I.V....

  published Jan 18, 2011

  Call him callous. Or sick. Maybe a biological killer.Forty-two-year-old Jeffrey Scott Trumbo of Branson is going to the big house for 10 years after admitting to knowingly infecting his girlfriend wit... More >>

• Hot Mama In Fishnets at Chuck E Cheese: Another Cringey Week in Missed Connections

  published Jan 17, 2011

  Each week, we scour the local Missed Connections section of Craigslist, in search of the best posts. Here are some that caught our eye recently.Giving all the little boys somethin' to look at...rAnoth... More >>

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  "It Takes Some Time To Grow Into That Blue Shirt": Retired City Cop Tells It Like It Is

  published Jan 17, 2011

  The salty-tongued Bill Leahy, a retired St. Louis City cop, has just published a new book called Curbstone Justice, which recounts the rough-and-tumble antics of local cops (and crooks) during the 195... More >>

• "I Consider Myself An Entertainer": Toothless Security Guard Rocks Talanya's Karaoke

  published Jan 17, 2011

  This man, John Gradley, says he practices 20 hours a week. The venue is Mike Talayna's Juke Box Restaurant on Hampton Avenue. ... More >>

• Top 5 Hilarious Excerpts from New Book on How Wild STL Cops Used to Be

  published Jan 14, 2011

  The 1950s were a very, very different time for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department -- a wild-and-woolly era when some blueshirts preferred to mete out justice to no-good low-lifes on the side... More >>

• Bishop Marty Sigillito: A New Filing Suggests Indictment Is On the Way

  published Jan 13, 2011

  We get asked about this almost weekly since publishing the feature, White Collar Crime, last summer, so here goes:  Federal authorities have NOT yet indicted Anglican American Bishop Marty Sigill... More >>

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  Sledding Conditions on Art Hill: KICKASS!!!

  published Jan 11, 2011

  The campfire is a-cracklin' on the top of Art Hill right now, and according to the three lone sledders during the morning rush hour, the snow is fine, powdery and dry. That means: Snowboards and boogi... More >>

• Our Big Mounds Get Big Photo Spread in National Geographic

  published Jan 10, 2011

  National Geographic's 2,500-word feature on Cahokia Mounds, currently out in the January issue, begins on a rather embarrassing note for the St. Louis area: I'm standing at the center of what was once... More >>

• Human-Flavored Snack from India Now Available on South Grand

  published Jan 10, 2011

  Soylent Green, or just bad translationr The folks at Jay International Food Co. on South Grand are now offering this:rThis particular brand of chivda, by the way, is a crunchy, savory snack comprised ... More >>