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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2012 Stories by Nicholas Phillips

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  Jamilah Nasheed Deletes Tweet About School Shooter and Asperger's Syndrome

  published Dec 17, 2012

  Looks like State Representative Jamilah Nasheed from the 60th District in St. Louis has had second thoughts about a tweet she put out last evening. Here's a screenshot (and our apologies for the quali... More >>

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  RFT Founder Ray Hartmann Really Lets the NRA Have It

  published Dec 17, 2012

  Some you readers are gun-rights absolutists. We know this from the comments you leave on our blog posts. Thus you may be interested to know that on Friday,  just hours after a deranged young man... More >>

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  [UPDATED] City Leaders React to the Connecticut School Shooting

  published Dec 14, 2012

  St. Louis City Mayor Francis Slay just posted the following statement on Facebook in reference to the horrific mass shooting today at a school in Newtown, Connecticut: Our city's prayers are with the ... More >>

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  Woman Charged in Awful Puppy-Dragging Episode

  published Dec 14, 2012

  A woman has been charged for her involvement in that terrible episode on November 21 in which a puppy tethered to a truck was dragged along I-55 for about a mile. As it turns out, the ex-wife of the d... More >>

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  [UPDATED] Joe's Cafe, an Underground Music Venue, Cited by the City

  published Dec 14, 2012

  Updated at 2 pm with comment from Christman's publicist.Joe's Cafe -- a private club and concert space in the Skinker-Debaliviere neighborhood -- was cited by the Excise Division during a show Thursda... More >>

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  Deondre Elem, St. Louis Homicide No. 108: Shot in the Head in Vandeventer

  published Dec 14, 2012

  Details are scant on St. Louis' latest homicide. Last evening at around 6:20 pm, officers fielded a call about a "person down" in the Vandeventer neighborhood. That, sadly, turned out to be accurate. ... More >>

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  City of St. Louis Has 2nd Highest Rates of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in the U.S.

  published Dec 14, 2012

  Just looked at the new numbers released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. There's a sliver of good news and some pretty bad news. First, the bad news. Among U.S. counties and independe... More >>

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  [VIDEO] Here's How they Put the Bow on the St. Louis Science Center

  published Dec 13, 2012

  We've wondered about this for a while. So we're as pleased as punch that the Science Center -- whose business is explaining stuff  -- has released a video showing how they put that big red bow on... More >>

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  Parking Meter Contractors Who Bilked City Out of $224k Get Sentenced

  published Dec 13, 2012

  Outsourcing a city's duties to private companies is great! Until they create "ghost employees" and screw you out of a quarter million. Today two private contractors in charge of operating the city's p... More >>

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  Bookstore in Benton Park West Gets Burgled

  published Dec 13, 2012

  Because street-savvy crooks know there's no cash cow quite like a used book shop, The Archive bookstore at 2903 South Jefferson was burglarized earlier this week. According to the city cops, it must'v... More >>

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  Sam's Club Customer Service Agent Was Her Own Best Customer - And a Thief

  published Dec 13, 2012

  For the first half of 2012, Genis Helm was a customer service agent at the Sam's Club in Maplewood. The 26-year-old's job was to accept returned merchandise from dissatisfied customers and issue cash ... More >>

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  Man Charged with Murder of College-Bound Aniya Cook

  published Dec 13, 2012

  Everybody knows about the murder of volleyball player Megan Boken in the Central West End last August. Fewer people know about the murder of 18-year-old Aniya Cook just weeks earlier. But those who re... More >>

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  [PHOTOS] St. Louis As Seen From Space

  published Dec 12, 2012

  So check out these shots we've posted after the jump.  According to the gentleman who posted them up on TwitPic, they were taken by Russian astronaut Yuri Malenchenko. Malenchenko was part of the... More >>

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  Assistant Police Chief in Centreville Indicted for Lying to Feds About Selling Gun to a Felon

  published Dec 12, 2012

  Centreville Police Assistant Chief Corey Allen, age 31, was indicted today for lying to the FBI about whether or not he sold a gun to a known felon. (According to his Facebook page, Allen also owns a ... More >>

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  University City Boy, Age 12, Accidentally Shoots and Kills His Buddy

  published Dec 12, 2012

  Isn't it the NRA that likes to argue that, "Guns Don't Kill People; 12-year-olds Kill People"r Daily RFT can't remember. Nevertheless, gun-related tragedy struck yesterday in University City when a yo... More >>

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  Don't Worry, Illinois Will Not Become A Gun-Crazed Dystopia

  published Dec 12, 2012

  Yesterday, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the state of Illinois' ban against concealed-carry. (We've posted the decision online here.) Illinois was the last state to have such a ban... More >>

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  Two Dog-Owners Charged for Nasty Dog-Neglect

  published Dec 12, 2012

  It's becoming clearer every month: If you don't take care of your dog, the city's new Animal Cruelty Task Force will "take care" of you. (In a misdemeanor-charge kind of way.) A couple of gentleman ha... More >>

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  Former Teacher and Tennis Coach Gets 12 Years for Child Porn

  published Dec 11, 2012

  Richard "Dick" Ambler is 50 years old and (until recently) a Florissant resident. He is married and has two children. He used to coach tennis at Lutheran North High and would sometimes sub in the Park... More >>

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  Benny Hill, St. Louis Homicide No. 107: Stabbed in Neck, Dumped from a Van

  published Dec 11, 2012

  Last night just after 9 pm, the city cops responded to a "person struck" call in the 5400 block of Page Avenue in the West End neighborhood. When they arrived, they found the body of Benny Hill, a 53-... More >>

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  Should We Raise Local Taxes to Spruce Up the Arch Groundsr We Don't Own the Property!

  published Dec 11, 2012

  The city and surrounding counties don't own the Arch grounds. The federal government does. It's a national memorial and park run by the National Park Service. So why should WE raise our own local taxe... More >>

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  Two Charged for Robbing South City Imo's Pizza Delivery Man at Knifepoint

  published Dec 11, 2012

  Another pizza delivery driver was robbed in South City on Friday night, but this time the cops believe they've nabbed the crooks responsible. Auntre Moore, a 19-year-old from the 4200 block of Virgin... More >>

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  Quick! Last Day to Sign Petition to Make Missouri a Separate Country

  published Dec 10, 2012

  Time is running out, America-haters! If we're going to transform our beloved state into a new country -- The People's Conservative-Freakshow Republic of Missouria -- we must act today!You'll recall ho... More >>

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  Dwayne Hubbard, St. Louis Homicide No. 106: Stabbed and Left to Die

  published Dec 10, 2012

  Police have not released much detail on the city's most recent homicide, but here's what we know: Shortly after 5:15 pm on Saturday, officers responded to a call on the 5300 block of Thekla Avenue in ... More >>

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  Yes, the County Has Made a Dent in Youth Heroin Deaths. But Work Remains

  published Dec 10, 2012

  In 2011, as heroin deaths surged in St. Louis County, folks from the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse non-profit teamed up with state officials and county law enforcers to launch the "Not... More >>

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  Dirty Illinois Sheriff Resentenced to Life in Prison

  published Dec 10, 2012

  Raymond Martin, the former sheriff of Gallatin County, Illinois, was re-sentenced in federal court on Friday to two consecutive life terms, plus ten years. That's an absurd sentence, chronologically, ... More >>