Image viaDeer do it doggystyleChristmas just came early for the Show-Me State's laziest faction of hunters. A judge in Poplar Bluff recently overturned a state law that prohibits using packs of dogs to drive deer toward hunting stands, a practice known in Ozark-speak as "deer-dogging."On August 5 ... More >>
image viaLast month Daily RFT reported the tale of a high-school football player who foiled a break-in at a neighborhood grocery store by tackling the would-be burglar and displaying some choice wrestling moves. Now we are pleased to report another novel method of fighting an unwelcome visit ... More >>
James Earl Ray, one of the most notorious "Top Ten" fugitives of all time hailed from St. Louis (Alton) but was placed on the list by the Memphis F.B.I. following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. This Sunday marks the 60th anniversary of the F.B.I's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list, a ... More >>
(The eyes have it! Here are the Top 10 most-read stories online, which were published in 2008 by the RFT. After the jump, we also included a few stories that came back from the dead in '08 because of timely news -- earthquakes and college basketball among them. Below, RFT Editor Tom Finkel ... More >>
They may not be crackin' him open, but they're cracking into him.Missourian Tyler Hansbrough is not liked, he's kind of hated actually, by opponents' fans. Probably by his opponents too. They yell out everything, including the fact that his dear ol' mawm was once, umm, hot enough to be crowned Miss ... More >>
Legislators call for a probe of the nonprofit that governs Missouri high school sports.
Week of September 22, 2004
Thee Lordly Serpents mix garage rock with (gasp!) actual songwriting
The answer to Larry Bird's prayers for a white basketball savior might reside just off Highway 67 in Poplar Bluff
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
Missouri inmates are performing tales of murder, greed and insanity -- and learning how to leave their old lives behind
Girls who dress and act like boys, St. Louis' drag kings get up onstage to bend and blur the line between the sexes
When it comes to ripping people off, John Tiller and the Civil Rights Legal Defense Team just keep going and going
Vendors at historic Produce Row battle the forces of modern commerce
Oh Freedom After While documents the integrated protest movement of Missouri's sharecroppers
