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2012 Stories by Paul Friswold

• Bike Assault

  published September 14, 2012

  Cyclocross answers the question, "What would happen if you asked those Tour de France cyclists to run up the side of that mountain instead of... More >>

• Out of the Past, A Future

  published September 14, 2012

  While just a boy, Walter Littlemoon was taken from his home and family to a state-run school where he didn't speak the language, didn't understand... More >>

• La Russa Goes to Extra Innings

  published September 14, 2012

  Former Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has a new book out entitled One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games... More >>

• Beware of BOB

  published September 14, 2012

  The delightfully warped visionary David Lynch went for broke when he made a TV show. Twin Peaks was at times a taut murder-mystery,... More >>

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  Sad Sacked: Numbing marriage + untimely firing + murder = Adding Machine: A Musical

  published September 14, 2012

  The R-S Theatrics/Soundstage Productions presentation of Adding Machine: A Musical opens with a numbing scene of marital blah, as... More >>

• Lessie Lowe: St. Louis Homicide No. 86; Killed by Relative After Argument

  published Sep 10, 2012

  Police say that Lessie E. Lowe, a 44-year-old black man, and an unidentified male relative age 43 were arguing at 1 a.m. this morning in the 5600 block of Hiller Place in the Walnut Park West neighbor... More >>

• St. Louis Homicide No. 85; Man Found Shot to Death in Carondelet

  published Sep 10, 2012

  Police were called to the 6000 block of Pennsylvania Avenue (above) at 1:15 a.m. Sunday for a reported shooting. They found a 25-year-old black man in the back yard area; he had been shot in the chest... More >>

• Kelvin Jordan: St. Louis Homicide No. 84; Shot to Death in Baden

  published Sep 10, 2012

  Kelvin Jordan, 30, was shot several times Friday morning in the 900 block of Hornsby Avenue (above), and died at the hospital that same day. Police arrested a suspect not long after Jordan's murder. T... More >>

• Vernell Loggins Receives Life Sentence for Killing & Dismembering Stephanie Fields

  published Sep 07, 2012

  Vernell Loggins Jr. avoided the death penalty in court yesterday, instead receiving a sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole for the 2009 murder of his girlfriend, Stephanie Fields. ... More >>

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  Fake Cop Assault Story a Fake

  published Sep 07, 2012

  So the story that unidentified woman told about being pulled over in Clayton by a man who looked like a police officer, and was then punched in the face and dragged out her car by the guyr Yeah, the w... More >>

• UPDATE: Darnell Vaughn, Still at Large, Charged with Murders of Claudia Williams, Tasheera Johnson

  published Sep 07, 2012

  Darnell "Chuckie" Vaughn, 29, has been charged with the double murder of Claudia Williams and Tasheera Johnson, despite still being at large. Authorities say Vaughn shot and killed the two women in th... More >>

• Weekly Drought Report: IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME

  published Sep 07, 2012

  Would you look at that map over therer Look at the hotness -- or lack thereof. After weeks of that map's ever-increasing redness, the remnants of Hurricane Isaac blew through Missouri last weekend and... More >>

• Man Thrown Out of Event For Observing Other Swingers Are "Overweight and Unattractive"

  published Sep 06, 2012

  Sometimes life doesn't meet your expectations. That's the lesson one man learned following his first visit to a swingers event -- that's "swingers," not Swingers. The unnamed man was thrown out of a s... More >>

• Man's Silverado Is Booted, Which Impedes His Driving Only Slightly

  published Sep 06, 2012

  Two men told police that they clamped a boot on a Chevy Silverado last night for unpaid parking tickets, then left to get the tow truck. When the men returned, the truck -- and the boot -- were nowher... More >>

• UPDATE: Woman, Three Children Found Dead Outside Home Near DeSoto

  published Sep 06, 2012

  A 32-year-old woman and her three daughters, ages 11, 10, and 1, were found shot to death outside a home at Vineland Road and Wilson Hollow Road near DeSoto after midnight Wednesday. [UPDATE 9:42... More >>

• Samantha Edwards: Charged with Naked Ice Capades in Greene County

  published Sep 06, 2012

  The Jordan Valley Ice Park in Greene County (near Springfield, MO) has a recurring roof problem. And that problem is that Samantha Edwards, 27, allegedly keeps geting buck naked on the roof for 30 min... More >>

• David Scott Charged with Murdering Roger Wilkes, St. Louis Homicide No. 83, for Cheetos

  published Sep 06, 2012

  David L. Scott, 49, has been identified as the man who stabbed Roger Wilkes, 42, Tuesday night in a dispute over a bag of Cheetos. Scott has been charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal a... More >>

• Woman Pulled Over and Punched By Man in Uniform in Clayton

  published Sep 05, 2012

  A woman told police she was driving through Clayton at 8 a.m. this morning when what she thought was a police car pulled her over near the intersection of Hanley Road and Polo Drive. The car had flash... More >>

• Man Chased by Car, Then Shot, in West End

  published Sep 05, 2012

  An 18-year-old walking in the West End last night escaped serious injury despite being chased by a car and being shot at by the driver. The victim told police he was walking in the 1100 block of Union... More >>

• Argument About Cheetos Leads to Fatal Stabbing in Downtown St. Louis

  published Sep 05, 2012

  An unidentified man was killed last night in the 600 block of Washington Avenue (above). Witnesses told police the victim, described as a 42-year-old black man, and the suspect, a 49-year-old black ma... More >>

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  Top Five Pieces of Furniture Barack Obama May Address on Thursday Night

  published Sep 05, 2012

  In case you ain't heard, the ultimate visual prop for any would-be national political convention these days is a piece of furniture. But not just any piece of furniture. You can't walk out there and a... More >>

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  Next on the Farmer's Plague Menu: Red Imported Fire Ants

  published Sep 04, 2012

  Just when you started to think we'd survived the worst of the summer, along comes a new threat. First it was intense heat, then withering drought, now it's fire ants. Great. I guess seven days of rain... More >>

• Two More Shootings on Labor Day Bring the Holiday to Bloody, Non-Fatal Close

  published Sep 04, 2012

  An additional pair of shootings was reported to St. Louis Police on Monday, bringing a wet holiday weekend to a bloody end. At 6 p.m. Monday, police report that a 16-year-old black young man was stopp... More >>

• Jeremy and Jared Bowers Charged with the Murder of Destinee Clemons

  published Sep 04, 2012

  Two brothers have been charged with the murder of University City teenager Destinee Clemons. Clemons, 17, was shot while on her porch with six other family members on the night of June 21 in the 6500 ... More >>

• St. Louis Criminals Took Most of the Weekend Off, Just Like Us

  published Sep 04, 2012

  The Labor Day Weekend started off quietly on the crime front, although whether it was because of the holiday, the rainy weather or just a coincidence remains open for debate.That all changed in a 24-h... More >>