Wikimedia CommonsApparently people do very stupid things in March, which is why the month is home to about a dozen different prevention weeks. My favorite thus far is the following pearl I received yesterday from the State Emergency Management Agency. The department has dubbed March 16-20 as "Turn Around, Don't Drown" week in Missouri. The campaign, according to SEMA, was inspired after a wet March 2008 when many folks misjudged flooded roads and delayed evacuating their homes resulting in an un
Missouri's Libertarian Party got all hot and bothered this week upon learning that Missouri law enforcement considers its members to be part of the "modern militia."commons.wikimedia.orgMissouri Libertarians don't want to get mixed up with this crowd.A February memo circulated among law enforcement agencies (and issued by Governor Jay Nixon, Department of Public Safety Director John Britt, Missouri State Highway Patrol Colonel James Keathley and Missouri Information Analysis Center Director Van
Remember that controversial memo Missouri officials circulated to law enforcement this February? You know, the one that lumped followers of Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty (and other political organizations) as possible militia members? campaignforliberty.comSteve BierfeldtWell, that memo is getting a new round of attention today courtesy of the Washington Times. The right-leaning paper reports that Transportation Security Administration officials at Lambert Field detained and harassed Steve Bie
It's election day in St. Louis and other locales. Election officials in St. Louis are predicting low turnouts, which should help the incumbent mayor -- Francis Slay -- topple Maida Coleman. Meanwhile, in Town & Country alderman John Hoffmann fights the good fight against incumbent mayor Jon Dalton. The trial involving Lewis Greenberg and his eccentric lawn art in Ballwin gets underway today. The Missouri Highway Patrol has re-assigned the official who circulated a controversial memo in Febru
Unreal catches up with a crystal-meth cooker gone straight, chats with an Andrew W.K.-endorsed candidate and gets local businesses' take on gay marriage; plus we totally freak out about West Nile, and Bill Haas offers something for the ladies
flickr.com/photos/fensterbmeIt's not that we here at Daily RFT endorse drinking-and-driving. We don't. (Truth be known, we're much bigger fans of drunk jazzercising.) But for those who do plan to imbibe this three-day weekend and get behind the wheel, here's a few areas you'll definitely want to avoid. Olivette: The city sent out a press release earlier this week saying that it's ramping up its sobriety checkpoints throughout the month of July. Random motorists will be pulled over for tests thro
As we reported last week, U.S. "Drug Czar" Gil Kerlikowske is in St. Louis today to unveil the White House Office of National Drug Policy's new anti-meth campaign. Here's hoping the campaign is as good as the last one featured here.
Continue on to view the full press release of today's announcement and see a spirited cover of the PSA above!
Photo: Jennifer SilverbergMeet Junior. He's an eleven-year-old American Pit Bull Terrier who was handed over to Broken Hearts, Mended Souls Rescue. See more photos of rescued dog-fighting dogs.Six dogs rescued from the largest dog-fighting ring in U.S. history were put up for adoption this week with rescue groups in Missouri and California. The dogs represent just a small fraction of the more than 500 canines rescued from the criminal syndicate this past summer. See photo slide show of r
King Khan & BBQ.UPDATE 11:30 a.m.: The Pitch Our sister paper in Kansas City, reports on the situation: "The booking agent confirmed that the band was arrested yesterday in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The tour manager remains in jail, but everyone else is out on bail. No word of the charges yet, but the band will not be performing tonight."Police in Hopkinsville would not confirm or deny that the members of the band were detained in there last night. We are awaiting a call back from a sergeant i
Remember ditch weed? That lowly form of cannabis that the Missouri Highway Patrol loves to spend time and money eradicating? Well, here's a little history lesson on the stuff for you, courtesy of local pot activist Mark Pedersen and plant geneticist Dr. Dave West.The pair were traveling through eastern Nebraska earlier this year on a trip sponsored by the medical marijuana advocacy group Patients Out of Time when they stumbled upon a massive patch of feral hemp (a.k.a. ditch weed).Though lengthy
