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Top Ten Strangest Missouri Bandits: Mr. Polite, Spider-Man, Granddad and More! (PHOTOS)

This week, St. Louis County police charged a Fenton woman who allegedly walked into a smoke shop with a knife, asked for cash -- and then settled on a measly $7.50 in tip jar coins. Not really worth all the trouble, if you ask us. But the bizarre incident got us thinking about the craziest bandits i ... More >>

Woman Accused of Trying (But Mostly Failing) to Rob Three People With Toy Gun

According to the Madison County Sheriff's Office, at least one of Amy Zielinski's three robbery attempts on December 1 actually succeeded. In that one, the 34-year-old allegedly came into the BP Amoco in Pontoon Beach just after noon on Saturday, showed a "handgun," took some money and left in a red ... More >>

In the Galleries - Joan Hall: Marginal Waters CLOSES October 13 at Bruno David Gallery

The Ten Most Egregious Tax Loopholes in the U.S.

Streetwalkin' is Bumpin' in South City; Johns Rejoice While Aldermen Look to Legislate

Street prostitution is alive and well in parts of South City, and members of the Board of Alderman are working on legislation to shut down strolls in residential areas. Last week, KMOV 4 reported that street-walking ladies had descended on neighborhoods in Cardonolet and Dutchtown after a city ord ... More >>

Helen Denson Charged in Lottery Ticket Theft, High-Speed Chase

Helen Denson, 41, has been charged with a slate of crimes following her alleged gas station theft and high-speed chase through St. Charles County early Tuesday morning.According to St. Peters Police, Denson wrapped a gray scarf around her face and then stuck up the BP gas station at 150 Salt Lick Ro ... More >>

Woman Armed with Rifle Steals Lottery Tickets from St. Peters BP, Doesn't Hit Jackpot

Police say a woman armed with a rifle walked into the BP gas station on Salt Lick Road near I-70 in St. Peters at 2:30 a.m. last night. She demanded cash and lottery tickets, which the clerk gave her. The woman then fled eastbound on I-70. Not long after the robbery, police spotted a vehicle matchin ... More >>

Foiled Again! Gas Thieves Try Wrapping Their Way to Success

Fairview Heights police received an unusual phone call this past Saturday. A man was behaving suspiciously on the roof of the BP gas station at 6400 North Illinois Street. It was 11 a.m., so the caller had a good look at the man, and was able to describe him and the two men waiting in a parked car w ... More >>

Food TV Sees First Decline in Viewership

Food TV's popularity is waning. The New York Post says that the network's 2010 numbers showed the first decrease in the network's history. In the fourth quarter of 2009, viewership plunged 10.3 percent among viewers ages 25 to 54. The slide continued with 3.3 percent in the second quarter and 4.5 pe ... More >>

Homophobe Physicist's Solution to Gulf Oil Spill Was Right in Your Kitchen Cabinet

image viaThe solution to the BP oil spill?​Last spring, you may recall, Washington University physicist Jonathan Katz got kicked off a panel assembled by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu that was supposed to figure out how to stop the BP oil spill. Katz's banishment had less to do with his scien ... More >>

The 2010 RFT News Challenge

Son of Avowed Wash. U. Homophobe Comes Out in Post-Dispatch

image viaIsaac Katz​Back in 2003, Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz published an essay on his departmental web page called "In Defense of Homophobia". In a stroke of what some might call poetic justice, Katz's 22-year-old son Isaac came out publicly yesterday in an essay th ... More >>

Artgasm: This Weekend's Art Openings, October 1-3, 2010

When Katherine Bish saw a news photo of an oil-slicked pelican after the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, she did something about it. She doused people in chocolate syrup, to be exact. Bish's black-and-white photographs attempt to capture the tragedy and imagine how humans in that scenario would look ... More >>

Organization Sues to Get Bluefin Tuna Endangered Species Protection

The Center for Biological Diversity is suing the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna after the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In a press release the agency states that the species has been threatened by overfishing, with the oil spill endangering br ... More >>

Missouri Official Proves It's Possible to Advance Career No Matter Your Job Performance

Leaving Missouri's E. coli waters, for the Gulf's oil-tarred.​A man suspended from his job for two weeks without pay last year, today has himself a new, high-profile job overseeing a $20-billion trust fund for those impacted by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Mark Templeton, head of the Missouri Dep ... More >>

BP Honcho Says He'd Gladly Eat Gulf Coast Seafood

BP's COO says he'd eat seafood from the Gulf of Mexico. The AFP reports that Doug Suttles issued his statement of faith in Gulf seafood two days after Louisiana reopened 2,400 square miles of coastal water for fishing. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Louisiana have been testi ... More >>

Capped!

Last month ... and today.​After 85 days -- and 184 million gallons of oil spewed into the gulf -- BP says it's finally capped the Deepwater Horizon oil well. Hallelujah.

Is Anybody Really "Tarballing" BP Gas Stations?

Image viaGone tarballin'!!!!​When Unreal heard a rumor that St. Louis BP gas stations had seen an uptick of people pooping on their restroom floors -- apparently in protest for the worst environmental disaster in American history -- we called up quite a few of 'em. Most said there was no increase ... More >>

Washington Park's Mobil Gas Station of Death

Those gas prices are killer!​Running on empty in southern Illinois? You might want to avoid filling up at the Mobil station on Kingshighway in Washington Park.After yet another homicide in the gritty East St. Louis suburb, the village's police chief told the Belleville News-Democrat that police "a ... More >>

Henry Rollins

8 p.m. Thursday, July 1. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Local Protesters of Big Oil to Put Hands Across the Sand, Er, Mud and Silt

Hands Across the Sand​On Saturday, dozens of St. Louisans will gather on the riverfront beneath the Arch to hold hands in a silent protest against offshore oil drilling. Local event organizer Stacey Critzer anticipates 50, maybe even 100 participants. It's not exactly Hands Across America, but the ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Euclid Records' Joe Schwab on the New Orleans Store, Owning a Half-Million Records and the Beatles' Lasting Influence

Jon ScorfinaJoe Schwab of Euclid Records has a cooler basement than you do.​Euclid Records owner Joe Schwab has made his living off of vinyl for nearly 30 years. Though he continues to buy thousands of records each year, his collection is only what rotates through the store; he long ago gave u ... More >>

Anti-BP Protest Planned for 10 a.m. Today at Delmar BP

Where it goes down today.​Activists who favor stricter clean-energy legislation, and oppose the controversial Murkowski resolution, are holding a rally at 10 a.m. today at BP gas station on Delmar.The rally is being organized by Repower America and its Missouri chapter, plus like-minded groups suc ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 6.9

How to spot oil-tainted seafood? The nose knows. Slashfood reports that, in an effort to find a cost-effective way to keep products ruined by the BP oil disaster from reaching customers, the FDA and NOAA are busy training seafood inspectors on how to detect oil by smelling the fish. The Atlantic v ... More >>

Homophobes, Governors, Preachers and Artists: Who is Ass Clown of the Week?

Who's it gonna be this week?​You know the rules: Read the following credentials and then cast your vote for the person whose words or actions you think made them the biggest Ass Clown of the past seven days. And the nominees...1. Lewis Greenberg: The Ballwin resident sentenced to 20 days in jail t ... More >>

Controversial Wash U Prof Jonathan Katz Cut Loose From Gulf Oil Spill Relief

Jonathan Katz ​Well that didn't take long.Yesterday Daily RFT covered the White House's controversial appointment of Jonathan Katz, a physics professor at Washington University in St. Louis, to a team of five scientists asked to help the Department of Energy and BP stem the flow of oil gushing int ... More >>

White-Sand Beaches of Destin, Florida Are NOT Covered In Oil, But Cancellations Have Begun

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaplanbr/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Calm down, St. Louisans - no oily sheen yet.​St. Louisans love love love Destin, Florida. Nary an oil glob has washed ashore, but officials down there just told KTVI that the gigantic BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico has spooked would-be visitors: ... More >>

Jonathan Katz: Wash U Prof Tapped By Obama to Solve Gulf Oil Crisis is "Homophobe, Climate Change Denialist"

Image sourceJonathan Katz describes himself as "a homophobe and proud"​Washington University physics professor Jonathan Katz is part of a five-man team of the nation's "best scientific minds" assembled by the Obama administration to help BP stem the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. He' ... More >>

Before Filling Up at BP/Amoco, Check This Out

​60 Minutes last night ran a two-part story on the disaster of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. In interviews with a survivor of the explosion and with engineering experts, the early evidence suggests that that blame lies squarely with BP for ignoring warnings about the well an ... More >>

Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Spills Over to St. Louis Seafood Scene

Image viaThe Gulf of Mexico oil spill as seen from the International Space Station​Nearly a month after the explosion that sunk the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, killing several workers, oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico. While the federal government and BP struggle to contain the en ... More >>

Miracle Man: Darryl Burton forgives St. Louis. He just doesn't trust it.

Joe Edwards: A Man and His Orb

Joe. Moon. Moonrise.What do you get the man who has everything? Why, the moon, of course!And that's just what Joe Edwards -- impresario extraordinaire -- received today when crews hoisted a 3,000-pound orb atop his latest project, the Moonrise Hotel in the Delmar Loop.The giant, celestial model is s ... More >>

Wrongfully Convicted Darryl Burton: Set Free Friday

Lollapalooza, Day Three: A Review

The Road to Ravioli

The latest stop on Ian’s Illinois vacation hits close to home.

Gas

(The Hi-Pointe)

A Shot in the Arm

A federal appeals court says Darryl Burton might very well be innocent of the 1984 murder of Donald Ball. But there's nothing they can do about it.

Best Local Landmark

Giant Amoco sign

A Blueprint for Success

City Museum hosts the St. Louis Art & Architecture exhibition

If You Could Trade Places With Anyone for a Day, Who Would You Choose?

Week of February 4, 2004

Fueled by Fear

Refineries stuck Hartford with a toxic pool of gasoline that just won't go away. Homes burn and residents get sick, but nobody's helping.

Heavenly Grease

It'll never be mistaken for haute cuisine, but the fare at Molly O'Ryans will leave you satisfied

Raising the Ceiling

The Tin Ceiling looks for ways to thrive, not just survive

No Place Like Home

Public housing is going upscale, and it's the new "mixed-income" mantra that's doing the trick. At Darst-Webbe, "upscale" won't house everyone who's poor, but it'll sure make poverty invisible.

See No Evil

Denise Wolff was gunned down in front of her home in a quiet South St. Louis neighborhood. Police thought they had the killer until their star witness wrecked the case.

Hunting for the Smoking Gun

An Alabama lawyer with St. Louis ties takes on big oil

Paying the Price

Bud Faron and other independent dealers devoted their lives to the big oil companies. That just wasn't enough.

Teenage Wasteland

They have run away from home or been kicked out, and there are about 5,500 of them in the St. Louis area. They're homeless teens -- too old for foster care, too young to live on their own.

Strip Search

Looking for Ozark culture amid the neon, glitter and traffic of Highway 76 in Branson

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