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Suspect Steals Car With Sleeping Baby in Backseat As Dad Uses ATM, St. Louis Police Say

Yesterday night, a 44-year-old father stopped at the St. Louis Community Credit Union on Forest Park Avenue to use the ATM, police say. He left his car running -- with his two-year-old baby son sleeping in the rear passenger seat. As he was using the ATM around 11:30 p.m., a dark grey Chevy Impala ... More >>

Preston Freeman: U. City Shooting Victim a Talented Boxer; "It Really Hurts," Coach Says

An eruption of gun violence outside a University City nightclub on Wednesday night claimed the life of Preston Freeman, a 20-year-old boxer whose coaches say had a very bright future ahead of him. "He was the most talented kid we had in the gym," Jimmie Howell, head coach of the North County Athle ... More >>

Demetrius Murphy, 15, Shot And Killed While Allegedly Trying To Burglarize St. Louis Home

Demetrius Murphy, 15, and a 17-year-old were allegedly trying to break into a St. Louis home near Gravois Park last night when a man and a woman inside realized something was going on. The 33-year-old male then got his gun and went outside to investigate the disturbance -- as Murphy reportedly sta ... More >>

10 Coolest (and Craziest) Cars of the 2013 St. Louis Auto Show

I have been attending the St. Louis Auto Show for probably twenty years now. I can recall back when the Caprice-based Impala was a concept. The Viper and Sunfire as well. The Acura NSX. And I saw them all, live and in person. Over acres and acres of jam-packed floor space. Every manufacturer and n ... More >>

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Fleeing Burglar Points Gun at Cops, Who Respond With a Barrage of Bullets

Last night at 10:42 p.m., police say, a 92-year-old woman living in the Hill neighborhood was awoken by noises in her basement. She soon discovered three burglars, described in the police report as three black males, ages 17, 17 and 21. One of them pointed a weapon at the old lady. But they then fle ... More >>

Shrewsbury Police Seek Fake Cop Who Fines Ladies One Kiss

There are ways of getting out of a traffic ticket. There's crying, of course, and then there are ... sexy ways. While that is definitely never OK, folks who consider this transaction worthwhile should take note -- there is a fake cop on the loose, preying on that very predilection. According to the ... More >>

Anthony Henderson, Antwone Chatman: St. Louis Homicides No. 63 and 64; Shot 12 Hours Apart on Same Block

Police are investigating two separate homicides that occurred on the same College Hill block just twelve hours apart. In the first murder, Anthony L. Henderson, a 36-year-old black man, was driving north on Emily Street at 3:50 p.m. Wednesday when a suspect in a 2005/2006 four-door maroon Chevy Impa ... More >>

Tevin Martin: Suspect in Police Chase Has History of Weapons, Drugs, Resisting Arrest

Tevin Martin, 21, is in custody today after fleeing police following a string of crimes Wednesday beginning in the 2800 block of Stoddard in St. Louis' JeffVanderLou Neighborhood. According to police, Martin and several other men were in a Chevy Impala on Stoddard Avenue around 2 p.m. April 11 when ... More >>

Lason Elliot: Convicted of Murdering Maplewood Man, Martin Lampe, in Sauget

Lason Elliot shot Martin Lampe in the wee hours of the morning.​A saga that began more than two years ago in a Sauget parking lot moved one step closer to resolution last week. On Wednesday a jury in St. Clair County found 21-year-old Lason Elliot of St. Louis guilty of first-degree murder in the ... More >>

15,000 Cars Stolen In Missouri in 2010; One-Fourth of Them From St. Louis

The Ford Taurus was the most-stolen vehicle in Missouri last year.​The Missouri Insurance Information Service reports that 15,640 vehicles were stolen in Missouri in 2010. Nearly half (47 percent) of those vehicle thefts occurred inside the borders of St. Louis and Kansas City. The good news? The ... More >>

St. Louis: Ten Worst Crimes of 2010 Inside "America's Most Dangerous City"

St. Louis once again topped the list as the nation's "Most Dangerous Cities" in 2010. Here, then, is a look at ten of the most-heinous crimes (ranked from bad to worse) occurring in and near the city within the past 12 months. John Thornton​10. The Murder of a MayorJohn Thornton was on his way hom ... More >>

Walter Lee Martin: Biker Killed in Accident with Car

St. Louis police have identified the bicyclist killed Saturday night around 10:30 p.m. at the intersection of Gravois and Dunnica (below).​According to police, 27-year-old Walter Lee Martin of the 4000 block of Meramec was wearing "dark clothing" when his bike was struck by a driver in a 2001 Chev ... More >>

Police Recall Four-Month Search for Lason Elliot, Wanted for Murder of Marty Lampe

Elliot was finally apprehended last Wednesday hiding out at his brother's home in south St. Louis.​For 135 days he was on the run. A 20-year-old man wanted for a grisly predawn shooting March 24 that claimed the life of 23-year-old Martin "Marty" Lampe. Lampe, of Maplewood, was sitting in a Chevy ... More >>

Photos: Shooting at Wellston MetroLink Station

Uh, this can't be good for next week's Proposition A. Photo: Amir KurtovicSt. Louis County police investigate a primer gray Chevrolet Impala involved in shooting.​This morning a man was shot in the MetroLink parking lot in Wellston. Daily RFT's Amir Kurtovic reports from the scene that the victim ... More >>

Lason Elliot: Wanted for Murder of Martin "Marty" Lampe in Sauget Carjacking

bnd.comLason Elliott​Seen this man? Police in St. Louis and the metro east are on the lookout for Lason R. Elliott, 20, of St. Louis. Elliott is accused of murdering Martin "Marty" Lampe of Maplewood in an early-morning carjacking last week in Sauget. The vehicle stolen in the carjacking -- a 2002 ... More >>

Maplewood Man Murdered Over Rims; Carjacked Vehicle Found with No Tires

​It appears that Martin "Marty" Lampe was murdered over a set of 22-inch rims. Yesterday police discovered in north St. Louis the 2002 Chevy Impala that Lampe, 23, was sitting in early Wednesday morning in Sauget. As reported earlier this week, a carjacker jumped into the vehicle, pumped two bulle ... More >>

Martin "Marty" Lampe: Maplewood Man Killed in Carjacking in Sauget

A 23-year-old Maplewood man who'd recently enlisted in the U.S. Army was shot and killed during a pre-dawn carjacking Wednesday in Sauget. Google Street ViewThe building that houses Route 3 Liquor.​As the Belleville News-Democrat reports this morning, Martin "Marty" Lampe was sitting in a friend's ... More >>

Marquis Jones and Keairrah Johnson, St. Louis Homicide Victims No. 15, 16; Gunned Down with Assault Rifle in Drive-By

Marquis Jones, 26, and Keairrah Johnson, 23, were driving down the 4200 block of Dr. Martin Luther King Drive around 6 p.m. yesterday when they pulled over to await some friends following them in another vehicle. The pit stop would prove to be a deadly decision. Moments later a dark colored Chevrole ... More >>

The Big Bloody: Two Police Chases Lead to Fatality, Officers Firing at Suspects

Two car chases in St. Louis led to crashes and the death of at least one innocent motorist in the past 24 hours. The first accident happened just before 7 p.m. Thursday. That's when St. Louis police say that the Upland Parks police department pursued a Dodge Stratus into city limits. The chase proce ... More >>

St. Louis Designers Mix Vintage Hot Rods and High-End Man-Fashion

TRIM​It must be said that most people's idea of hot-rod fashion comes from the Fonz and the "Go Greased Lightning" number in the movie Grease, that is, leather jackets and shop-class jumpsuits, both worn over plain white undershirts.It must also be said that the most lingering image of an attempt ... More >>

Hey St. Louis! Did Your Bling Get Confiscated in a Drug Bust? The DEA Wants to Know.

Lose your Cadillac Escalade in a drug bust, and you're a completely innocent party? The DEA wants to know!For the past several weeks the Drug Enforcement Administration has been running advertisements in the Wall Street Journal and other national publications asking people to identify thousands of i ... More >>

Did Darius Miles' Outrageous Ride Lead to Pot Bust?

Professional basketball player and the pride of the East Side, Darius Miles is free on bond today after police in Fairview Heights found marijuana in his 1996 Chevrolet Impala. The 27-year-old Miles was alone in his vehicle last night when he was pulled over for allegedly failing to use a turn signa ... More >>

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Lock 'Em Down, Lock 'Em Up

Did Lock 'Em Down Records exec Dewanzel Singleton lead a well-choreographed double life, or did the DEA finger an innocent man?

Road Warrior

The ride’s been bumpy, but Pete Rahn has made quite an impression since taking over at the reins at the Missouri Department of Transportation.

The Rockwell Files

Steven Spielberg's stolen painting, a St. Louis art thief, and a plot to kill Martin Luther King. It could make a helluva movie.

Mystery Woman

Where is Lisa Krempasky and why are so many people suing her?

Boing!

The boys who have bouncy cars and the women who love them

Wrap the Pimp

We raise our glass to John Goodman, the Cubs (please don't hit us) and the almighty Pimp; plus, not everyone is buying what the Department of Homeland Security is selling