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1:00 pm
May. 23, 2013
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St. Louis Referee George Gansner Chosen For Man City vs. Chelsea F.C. Soccer Match At Busch St. Louis resident George Gansner was able to snag a ticket to the highly anticipated Manchester City v. Chelsea F.C. soccer match tonight at Busch Stadium -- but he won't be needing it. That's ... More >>
Daily RFT
11:56 am
May. 23, 2013
St. Louis News
Larry Conners Talks KMOV-TV Firing, Defends IRS Facebook Post, Journalistic Integrity Yesterday, KMOV-TV (Channel 4) fired veteran news anchor Larry Conners, one week after he wrote a controversial Facebook post pondering whether the IRS had targeted him in response to a tough int... More >>
Daily RFT
11:00 am
May. 23, 2013
St. Louis News
St. Louis Rams Quarterback Sam Bradford, Mayor Team Up For Oklahoma City Relief Effort Sam Bradford, quarterback for the St. Louis Rams, is trying to help draw attention to the devastation and difficult relief effort in Oklahoma City after an incredibly powerful tornado hit on Mond... More >>
Daily RFT
10:00 am
May. 23, 2013
St. Louis News
Cardinals: Sports Illustrated Cover Draws On 1968 Lou Brock, Roger Maris, Bob Gibson Photo Calling all of the Best Fans In Baseball! Take a break from your intense soccer bashing, avert your eyes from the permanent destruction at Busch Stadium for some stupid exhibition game and looky ... More >>
Daily RFT
9:00 am
May. 23, 2013
St. Louis News
Dana Loesch Banned from Piers Morgan's Show After Twitter Quip About London Terror Attack A senseless murder in London had a far more mundane effect here across the pond yesterday: CNN's Piers Morgan banned Tea Party firebrand and hometown girl Dana Loesch from his show for using the... More >>
Daily RFT
8:00 am
May. 23, 2013
St. Louis News
Minimum Wage: U.S. Secretary Of Labor Seth Harris Is Meeting With St. Louis Workers Update: Officials say the event was cancelled due to "weather-created flight delays." Original post: Earlier this month, St. Louis got national attention when local fast-food workers participat... More >>
Daily RFT
7:00 am
May. 23, 2013
St. Louis News
Marijuana: Springfield Politicians Again Reject Pot Reform Law, Activists Consider Lawsuit Springfield City Councilman Doug Burlison believes that marijuana can be a helpful medicine and that it's time to stop treating it like such a harmful, dangerous drug. Compared to other local ele... More >>
Daily RFT
6:00 am
May. 23, 2013
St. Louis News
Suspect Fleeing Cops Runs Into County Police Headquarters, Heads Straight To Chief's Office A police chase ended badly for a male suspect yesterday when he somehow managed to run into the St. Louis county police headquarters -- and inadvertently headed straight toward the chief's offic... More >>
Belligerent Piano
12:00 am
May. 23, 2013
St. Louis News
Belligerent Piano: Episode One-Hundred-Twenty-Five More >>
Ask a Mexican
12:00 am
May. 23, 2013
St. Louis News
Ask a Mexican: Do Mexicans own more guns than Americans? Dear Mexican: Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt of... More >>
Daily RFT
3:49 pm
May. 22, 2013
St. Louis News
Larry Conners Out At KMOV-TV, President Cites Importance of "Journalistic Standards" Update below: Larry Conners is out at KMOV-TV (Channel 4). So says Mark Pimentel, KMOV's president and general manager, in an announcement on the station's website published this afternoon. Th... More >>
Daily RFT
1:22 pm
May. 22, 2013
St. Louis News
Anthony Douglas, 21, Shot, Killed While Riding Motorcycle In College Hill (Homicide No. 35) It's been a violent few days in St. Louis. Yesterday, we told you about Jermaine Johnson, a twenty-year-old who was shot in the face in north St. Louis and died on the scene. A few hours earli... More >>
Daily RFT
11:55 am
May. 22, 2013
St. Louis News
Did Clyde C. Miller Academy Security Officer Pepper Spray Students Over Food Fight? Did a security officer at Clyde C. Miller Career Academy, a St. Louis high school, pepper spray students in an effort to break up some sort of a food fight? That's the allegation of a KSDK-TV ... More >>
Daily RFT
10:54 am
May. 22, 2013
St. Louis News
Stan Musial's Ladue Home Now On Sale For $1.8 Million (PHOTOS) What's it like to be one of the most beloved baseball players of all time? If you have $1.8 million, you can sort of find out! That's right, folks. You can sleep where the late, great Stan Mus... More >>
Daily RFT
9:27 am
May. 22, 2013
St. Louis News
Patricia Singleton, 22, Killed In North County; Shots Allegedly Fired From Driveway Into Home A young woman was killed inside a north-county home yesterday when someone fired bullets into a house from the driveway. Patricia Singleton, who would have turned 22 years old today, was found... More >>
Daily RFT
8:45 am
May. 22, 2013
St. Louis News
Brad Pitt Regrets Dropping Out of Mizzou Brad Pitt wishes he did not drop out of the University of Missouri. Why? Because who would do such a foolish thing? What kind of guy would just give up on academics? Pitt, who grew up in Spri... More >>
Daily RFT
8:00 am
May. 22, 2013
St. Louis News
"Blasphemous!" Cardinals Fans Outraged By "Horrible Idea" of Soccer at Busch Stadium Think soccer at Busch Stadium will be a hit? Not so fast, sissy boys! This is the message of a handful of vocal, outraged haters, a.k.a., the Best Fans In Baseball, who are making their disdain... More >>
Daily RFT
7:00 am
May. 22, 2013
St. Louis News
Schnucks' Biggest Fans: St. Louis Couple Gets Married At Des Peres Supermarket (PHOTOS) Angela and Gerald Taylor might just be the most devoted Schnucks customers in the company's more than seven decades in business. Early in their relationship, Gerald took Angela on a date to a ... More >>
Daily RFT
6:00 am
May. 22, 2013
St. Louis News
Heroin: O'Fallon Mom Speaks of Daughter's Overdose, Rallies Against "The Silent Killer" On February 4, 2010, Gee Vigna and her husband discovered a horrible sight in the room of their seventeen-year-old daughter, Nicky. "We had no idea she was using any drugs," Gee tells Daily RF... More >>
Daily RFT
1:25 pm
May. 21, 2013
St. Louis News
Three Young Teenage Boys Shot In Carr Square, In Serious Condition, St. Louis Police Say Last night, three young teenage boys were shot in the Carr Square neighborhood and taken to a local hospital where they are all in serious condition. Two of the shooting victims are fourteen ye... More >>
Daily RFT
12:00 pm
May. 21, 2013
St. Louis News
Shearwater High School Geared Toward Dropouts Is Closing After Three Years Shearwater High School, a public charter school geared toward dropouts and at-risk youth in St. Louis, is closing its doors after three years in operation, shedding light on the obstacles facing... More >>
Daily RFT
10:40 am
May. 21, 2013
St. Louis News
Homicide No. 34: Jermaine Johnson, 20, Found Unconscious in North St. Louis, Shot in Face When police responded to calls for a shooting early this morning, they were already too late. Jermaine Johnson, twenty, was lying unconscious at the corner of Darby Street and Natural Bridge Ave... More >>

From the Print Edition

Ask a Mexican: Do Mexicans own more guns than Americans? Ask a Mexican: Do Mexicans own more guns than Americans?

Dear Mexican: Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt of supplying guns that ended… More >>

This Week's Cover: The Cover of the May 23 Print Edition

Illustration by Brian Stauffer. Read the cover story: "How Undercover Animal Rights Activists are Winning the Ag-Gag War."… More >>

All Politics Is Racial: The tiny north-county hamlet of Vinita Park puts a new spin on the old adage All Politics Is Racial: The tiny north-county hamlet of Vinita Park puts a new spin on the old adage

The first time JaCola Williams saw the mayor was when he drove his golf cart, the one with "City of Vinita Park" painted on the side, up her family's dead-end… More >>

Ask a Mexican: Why do people think you can make a word Spanish just by adding an O? Ask a Mexican: Why do people think you can make a word Spanish just by adding an O?

Dear Mexican: Where did the notion of adding an -o to the end of an English word and assuming it makes it a Spanish word come from? Juanito Dear Wab: "Anglos have… More >>

The Cover of the May 16 Print Edition

Photo-illustration by Tom Carlson. Read the cover story: "All Politics Is Racial: The tiny north-county hamlet of Vinita Park puts a new spin on the old adage."… More >>

Ask a Mexican: Why is it that people from Chihuahua and Monterrey are such jackasses? Ask a Mexican: Why is it that people from Chihuahua and Monterrey are such jackasses?

Dear Mexican: Why is it that people from Chihuahua and Monterrey are such jackasses? They come from pinches ranchitos and talk about their haciendas, They cross the border and act… More >>

Echoes of the Cold War

This week's RFT feature is a Tim Lane graphic that recounts his visit to a retired Nike missile silo in the town of Pacific. It includes facts about the installation,… More >>

The Cover of the May 9 Print Edition

Illustration by Tim Lane. Read the story: "Echoes of the Cold War".… More >>

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