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Best Coast, Dr. Dog, MC Chris, Vintage Trouble and More in This Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Dyanthany Proudie: Police Say Acquaintance Murdered Ebony Jackson As She Drew a Bath

Nearly two months after a baby was found abandoned in a north county apartment building and the body of the child's mother was discovered days later in the trunk of a car, authorities finally have a suspect in custody. Today St. Louis prosecutors charged 40-year-old Dyanthany Y. Proudie with the m ... More >>

Photos: Fired Columbia Officer Rob Sanders Gets His Dog Fano Back After Long Separation

In 2011, Rob Sanders, a Columbia, Missouri police officer, lost his job after he was accused of using excessive force against someone in custody in a holding cell. That wasn't all he lost. He was also forced to separate from his police dog named Fano, a german shepherd. What followed, Dale Roberts ... More >>

REO Speedwagon, Brandy, Sasha, Boris and More in This Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Derrick Banks: Teen Charged in Murder of St. Louis Man Killed on Porch

Derrick Banks: Teen has multiple priors.​The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office has charged Derrick Banks with first-degree murder in the October killing of Demetrius Clark. Clark, of the 3200 block of Chippewa, was discovered shot to death on a back porch in the 3800 block of Ashland in north St ... More >>

Demetrius Clark: St. Louis Homicide No. 102; Found Dead on Back Porch

A 38-year-old man from south St. Louis was found dead yesterday near Fairground Park. St. Louis Police report that Demetrius Clark was discovered around 2:45 p.m. Thursday with multiple gunshots on a back porch in the 3800 block of Ashland (below).​Clark lived in the 3200 block of Chippewa, accord ... More >>

Pitchfork 2011: Fleet Foxes, No Age, DJ Shadow and Other Highlights From Day Two

DJ Shadow.​It's funny--spend a few minutes in the sun surrounded by 18,000 of your closest friends, and suddenly Maslow's hierarchy of needs takes on new significance, ie: We need sunscreen. I gotta pee. Someone needs water or they're going to faint. Dudes, I'm hungry. Beeeeeer. We need beeeee ... More >>

Pitchfork Music Festival 2011: What to Expect, What to See and More

​Sometimes the Iternets can put on one helluva flesh-and-blood show. Pitchfork Music Festival is run by the music blog of the same name, which just announced it's expanding to Paris this fall with an overseas version of the festival to be curated by (Everybody Loves) Bon Iver. The American b ... More >>

St. Louis: Five Shot In Separate Incidents Sunday in North City

All five shootings occurred within about a mile of each other.​Five people were wounded in five separate shootings that played out over the course of several hours yesterday in north St. Louis. View interactive map of the shootings.The violence began around 4:40 p.m., when a victim described as a ... More >>

Reagan Hess: Police Suspect Suffers Gunshot, Bad Hair Day

Reagan Hess: Which shot hurt worse? The gun's or the camera's?​Prosecutors have charged Reagan Terell Hess, 36, with unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm after he was shot by police Tuesday night in north St. Louis.According to police, Hess was spotted walking with a gun i ... More >>

Gary Davis Jr.: St. Louis Homicide No. 106; Shot Dead in Street

The body of Gary Davis Jr. was found lying on the pavement early this morning in the 3600 block of Hebert (below) in north St. Louis. ​According to police, Davis of the 3900 block of Ashland, had been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene. The shooting occurred around 1 a.m. thi ... More >>

Mizzou Cop Wins "Sexiest Dad Alive" in People Magazine's Online Poll

people.com/people/package/bestof2009​In one of the most critical elections in recent history, a plurality of the two million netizens casting a ballot in People's "Best of 2009" online poll chose Dustin Moyer of Ashland, Missouri as the "Sexiest Dad Alive." Moyer, 26, was competing in the "Real Pe ... More >>

Terrell Hadley, St. Louis Homicide No. 7; Allegedly Shot by Girlfriend, Shonta Roper

Police say that Shonta Roper shot her boyfriend, Terrell Hadley, in the eye after an argument at his home Friday night in the 5500 block of Ashland (near Belt Avenue) in north St. Louis. View Larger Map

No Justice: We've bailed out the banks. When do we go after the crooks behind our financial collapse?

The South Butt takes on the North Face -- and more

Balloonatics: Hey kid, wanna see my balloon dog?

Coraline in Wonderland: Things are not as they seem in Henry Selick's stunning stop-motion fairy tale

They Read, You Listen

It's a pretty nice arrangement, really

Will on Art Hill

The Shakespeare Festival turns five

Letters

Week of September 8, 2004

Death Man Walking

Dozens of patients died on nurse Richard Williams' watch, but he was never charged. Did authorities do too little, too late?

Nobody Move

The Old Court House puts a freeze on the Bill of Rights in celebration of July 4

SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

Traveling the Great River Road to learn more about a proposed arts corridor in northeast Missouri