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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. The news comes just one week after Conners made controversial comments on his Facebook page speculating whet ... More >>

KMOV's Larry Conners Off Air After IRS Comments, Lawyer Says Not Allowed To Talk

On Tuesday we reported on KMOV-TV (Channel 4) anchor Larry Conners' controversial comments on his Facebook page pondering whether the IRS was targeting him in response to a critical interview he did with President Obama. Later that night -- after getting national attention for his comments -- he iss ... More >>

KMOV-TV's Larry Conners Says IRS May Have Been Targeting Him For Years (UPDATE)

Yesterday, KMOV-TV (Channel 4)'s Larry Conners made quite a splash when he speculated on his Facebook page whether the Internal Revenue Service may have targeted him in response to his interview with Barack Obama last year. Our original coverage is below. Since his post got national attention, Conne ... More >>

Claire McCaskill On IRS Target of Tea Party, Conservative Groups: "People Should Be Fired"

One of the biggest national news stories of the week centers on revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups -- scrutinizing organizations with the words "tea party" and "patriot" in their names, for example. And the reports say that the tax agency's focus on conservati ... More >>

Former St. Louisan Charged as Ring Leader of Identity Theft Operation

You may recall Patrina Taylor, the Creve Coeur Williams who tried to use a dead person's IRS tax refund check to take the cash for herself. Well, the feds now believe she was merely one "cooperator" in a larger identity theft ring, run by a former St. Louisan living in the South. Tania Henderson, a ... More >>

Woman Charged for Trying to Deposit a Dead Person's IRS Check

On Tuesday, 44-year-old Patrina Rochelle Taylor of St. Louis County walked a credit union in Creve Coeur. She tried to deposit an IRS tax refund check worth about $7,500 into her own account, the feds say. The check was made out to an "Ann Hoang," according to the criminal affidavit. Taylor pulled o ... More >>

Who's the "Imposter"? Chris Koster or Nonprofit Behind Attack Ad?

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster cannot be trusted. That's the gist of a television ad entitled "The Imposter" that began airing last week across the state. See also: Missouri Democrats Unhappy With Koster's Brief Over Health CareEd Martin Pledges to Thwart Obamacare From His "First Minute in ... More >>

Attention: AG Chris Koster Will Not Give You One Million Dollars

You may receive a letter from Attorney General Chris Koster in the near future announcing that you've won $1 million (or some other large amount of money), but you have to pay your taxes on it first, in accordance with Missouri law. Or maybe the letter comes from the FBI, or the Department of Justic ... More >>

Local Tax Preparer Busted for Not Paying His Taxes

​Although Richard Gray Sr. spends some of the year working at a Chrysler plant in Indiana, he's been running a nice little side business out of his home in North St. Louis: Filing tax returns for friends, family and co-workers using TurboTax. He's even expressed a desire to do tax-prep full-time. ... More >>

Bowling for Chumps: All set for your trip to fabulous Shreveport to watch Mizzou in the Independence Bowl? You may as well go -- either way, you're paying for it.

Obama's War on Weed

In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees

Joplin Charity Says It's Not Phony, Despite BBB Warning

rescuejoplin.orgRev. Terry Lee admits he's not wise to technology, but he knows the way of the Lord.​The Better Business Bureau says rescuejoplin.org is a "phony non-profit" attempting to raise funds for the tornado recovery in Joplin. The organization is the third charity in just the past week ac ... More >>

Willie Nelson's Country Throwdown

3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 11. World Shooting & Recreational Complex, One Main Event Lane, Suite 510, Sparta, Illinois.

Douglas Morgan: Former Chairman of St. Louis County Planning Commission Indicted for Fraud

Missouri Employers MutualDouglas Morgan​The United States Attorney's Office announced today that a grand jury has indicted Douglas Morgan on a bank fraud charge, involving a series of loans obtained through Commercial Bank of St. Louis. Morgan, the long serving chairman of the St. Louis County ... More >>

Aaron Johnson: Man Threatens To "Blow Up" St. Louis IRS Facility Prior to Tax Day

Think you hate paying taxes? You don't hold a candle to Aaron Johnson of St. Louis County. Yesterday the 20-year-old Johnson pleaded guilty in federal court to calling an IRS facility in south St. Louis County and threatening to "blow it up." According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the threat was m ... More >>

Tobacco-Free St. Louis Faces IRS Complaint Over Lobbying, Campaign Contribution

Jim Pepper is complaining to the IRS that an anti-smoking agency has crossed the line.​O'Fallon Councilman Jim Pepper has followed through on his threat to complain to the IRS about the political work of Tobacco-Free St. Louis.Pepper yesterday filed a complaint with the IRS, charging that the non- ... More >>

O'Fallon Councilman Taking on Anti-Smoking Groups

UPDATED at 3:15 p.m. to include comment from the American Cancer Society ​Tomorrow, residents of the St. Charles County city of O'Fallon will vote on a sweeping smoking ban -- one that's far tougher than those recently enacted in St. Louis City or St. Louis County.But one O'Fallon city councilman ... More >>

County Smoking Ban Exemptions On the Way Out, Tobacco-Free St. Louis Says

County Executive Charlie Dooley: Is he about to get his way on smoking ban exemptions? Tobacco-Free St. Louis says yes.​The non-profit agency Tobacco Free St. Louis has a $545,000 contract with St. Louis County to -- among other things -- urge the county council to remove exemptions from the count ... More >>

Stimulus Funds to "Educate" St. Louis County Council About Need for Tougher Smoking Ban

Your stimulus dollars at work!​As we reported earlier today, St. Louis County has received $7.5 million in federal stimulus funds for a campaign to cut back on tobacco use here.But now Daily RFT has learned that the county is using some of the money to hire a non-profit organization to "educate" i ... More >>

Owners of S&H Parking Get Year and Day in Prison, Ordered to Repay Thousands

The sibling owners of S&H Parking implicated in a St. Louis police scandal alleging payoffs and corruption were sentenced today in federal court. William Bialczak received a 366-day prison sentence and ordered to pay $370,185 in restitution in addition to a $100,000 fine. His brother, Kenneth ... More >>

Skaters Organize to Help Expand Kingshighway Skatepark

See more photos of the Kingshighway skatepark on KHVT's Flickr page​Not-for-profit organizations normally choose vanilla-sounding names in order to attract (or at least not scare off) potential donors. As the name indicates, Kingshighway Vigilante Tranny (KHVT for short) is not a normal not-for-pr ... More >>

Bialczak Brothers Plead Guilty to Tax Evasion Involving Police Towing Scandal

William Bialczak and his brother Kenneth Bialczak both pleaded guilty yesterday to two felony counts of tax evasion for their role in a towing scandal that rocked the St. Louis police department two years ago and led to the resignation of chief Joe Mokwa.  The United States Attorney's Office c ... More >>

13 Reasons Your Exotic Dancer Hates You

​It's a three-day weekend for most of us, but not for the hardest working women in show business: your local exotic dancer. With that in mind, Daily RFT recently contacted some of our favorite East St. Louis strippers to ask them what we can do to make their Labor Day a bit more enjoyable/tolerabl ... More >>

St. Louisans Fleeing to the Coasts

Forbes.com just published a handy tool today where folks can track population migration from county-to-county based on data the Internal Revenue Service collected from 2008. Here's the migration pattern for St. Louis city: Image source​The black lines show where people came to St. Louis from ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: High School Graduation Edition

Street Smart

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

Ask a Mexican!: Latin Lovin': When's a Mexican girl supposed to get hitched?

Former East St. Louis Deputy Liquor Commissioner Indicted on Extortion Charges

perfectsubstitute.blogspot.com​Former East St. Louis deputy liquor commissioner Walter D. Hill was indicted yesterday on federal extortion charges, the Belleville News-Democrat reports. Hill is accused of using his position with the city to extort money, liquor, and sex. He is also accused of lyin ... More >>

Founder of BetonSports Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Forfeits $43 Million to Government

​Gary Stephen Kaplan, the subject of a Riverfront Times investigation in '07, has pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges of fraud for running an illegal offshore sports wagering business.As part of a complex plea agreement, Kaplan, 50, entered pleas of guilty to charges of conspiracy to violat ... More >>

The FBI Was Back at East St. Louis City Hall Yesterday

photo of East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks by Jennifer SilverbergThe Belleville News-Democrat reports in a brief story on its website this morning that FBI and IRS agents served a subpoena at East St. Louis City Hall yesterday afternoon and spent several hours collecting "all of the city's tax i ... More >>

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Leaders of a now-defunct international aid charity face charges of funneling money to Iraq.

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Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy.

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Willie Nelson

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God and the 1040

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Answering the Call

IRS employees bring Jesus to the office -- and manage to raise Cain

Series/Festivals

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Trust Us

Six months after political heavyweights signed an agreement with the Cardinals, a deal is still up in the air

Have You Ever Been Caught in the Act?

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Dear Dubya

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Kelly Hogan and the Pine Valley Cosmonauts with Neko Case

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