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April 16, 2012
Pulitzer Prizes Announced
The Pulitzer Prize committee has just announced its awards for 2012. No Missouri publication received an award or finalist citation. In the Local Reporting category, 24-year-old Sara Ganim of The Patriot-News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, became one of the youngest prizewinners in history for her w ... More >>
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March 6, 2012
SNAP Releases Transcript of Church Lawyers Grilling Director David Clohessy
On January 2, David Clohessy -- director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) -- sat down with lawyers representing Catholic priests. It was not to chat over tea.The attorneys deposed Clohessy for over six hours as part of a lawsuit that a anonymous victim has brought agains ... More >>
Music
February 16, 2012
Rick Ross
7 p.m. Sunday, February 19. The Ambassador, 9800 Halls Ferry Road.
Blogs
January 10, 2012
Is SNAP's David Clohessy Really a Hypocrite?
SNAP's David ClohessyRecently in both Kansas City and St. Louis, lawyers defending the Catholic Church against clerical sex abuse allegations have have tried to subpoena years worth of emails and records from their long-time adversary, SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests). SNAP dir ... More >>
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December 7, 2011
Blagojevich Gets Fourteen Years
flickr.com/photos/jasonizedThe saga of Rod Blagojevich, erstwhile governor of the great state of Illinois, contestant on Celebrity Apprentice, inadvertent comedy star and fan of Elvis, Rudyard Kipling and the Chicago Cubs, has come to an end, or at least a long hiatus. This afternoon, U.S. D ... More >>
Film
November 3, 2011
Stealing from the rich to...oh, whatever. Funny is the message in Tower Heist.
flickr.com/photos/jasonizedThe saga of Rod Blagojevich, erstwhile governor of the great state of Illinois, contestant on Celebrity Apprentice, inadvertent comedy star and fan of Elvis, Rudyard Kipling and the Chicago Cubs, has come to an end, or at least a long hiatus. This afternoon, U.S. D ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Joseph Ross: Former St. Cronan's Priest Accused of Molesting Parishioner
bishopaccountability.orgJoseph Ross left St. Cronan's in 2002.Updated 4:15 p.m. with comment from the Archdiocese of St. Louis. A lawsuit filed today paints a disturbing picture of abuse within a St. Louis Catholic Church. According to the complaint filed in St. Louis Circuit Court, Father Joseph ... More >>
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September 12, 2011
Fake Air Marshals Reportedly Kicked Off St. Louis to D.C. Flight
Update 10:45 a.m.: The Transportation Security Administration today released a statement saying there was no security threat on United flight 3681 last night and no fake federal air marshals. The flight returned to the gate at the pilot's discretion. Original story follows...We're taking this sto ... More >>
Blogs
September 1, 2011
Lindsay Lohan's Billy Joel Tattoo: Five Other Lyrics She Could Have Used
Photo credit to... what's that? You figured it out already? Lindsay Lohan got a Billy Joel lyric tattooed on her rib cage, and frankly we can't believe it took this long. The gossip mill says that, "It represented where she is in life and everything she's been through ... it signifies that sh ... More >>
News
July 14, 2011
Rush Limbaugh and Ashton Kutcher have their defenders, the archdiocese does not
Photo credit to... what's that? You figured it out already? Lindsay Lohan got a Billy Joel lyric tattooed on her rib cage, and frankly we can't believe it took this long. The gossip mill says that, "It represented where she is in life and everything she's been through ... it signifies that sh ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
Milton "Skip" Ohlsen Pleads Not Guilty to Clayton Bombing
Milton "Skip" OhlsenThe man authorities say set up a bomb that injured a Clayton attorney in 2008 pleaded "not guilty" to the crime today in federal court in St. Louis. Authorities believe Milton "Skip" Ohlsen left the bomb in a Clayton parking garage next to an Acura TL that he believed was owne ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2011
Jason Berry: Author and Expert on Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal in St. Louis Tuesday
jasonberryauthor.comPerhaps no other journalist in the world has devoted as much time or penned as many words covering the Catholic Church and its sex abuse scandals as Jason Berry. The New Orleans' journalist has written three books on the subject with his latest (released just last week) Render ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Archdiocese Not Liable For Pedophile Priest Robert Johnston
courtesy of SNAP MidwestRobert Johnston: not the archdiocese's fault that they hired a perv.Score one for the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis. Because, as a legal ruling today makes clear, even if a Christian ethicist would hold the church accountable for allowing a predatory priest to run roug ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2011
Cheating Expert Offers Advice to Schwarzenegger
Arnold obviously didn't read this book. Mr. Goodbar is not his real name. But this much we know about him: He's a south Florida recording artist with a wandering eye and a blatant disregard for the Seventh Commandment. For years, Mr. Goodbar thought of sharing his knowledge in a book instructing ... More >>
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May 19, 2011
SNAP Blasts Report Blaming Priest Sex Abuse On 1960s Culture
The '60s made them do it!The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has responded to the controversial study released yesterday exploring the cause of the sex abuse crisis inside the U.S. Catholic Church. Commissioned by the church, the 300-page study by researchers at John Jay Colle ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2011
Frank Haith Rebounds Today After Shooting Bricks to Start the Week
Don't let this photo fool you. Haith has found some black and gold to wear. He's not that clueless.Just eight days into his job as the new head coach of the University of Missouri basketball program, Frank Haith committed his first official foul when he violated an NCAA rule.The infraction -- a m ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Donald McGuire: Abusive Priest Had Local Connection "Examining" Boy in St. Charles
Fr. Donald McGuireA civil suit filed last week in Chicago captured headlines across the nation and brought up more allegations of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, including an incident occurring in Missouri in 1999. Eighty-year-old Father Donald McGuire, a popular camp director and former ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Mark McGwire Should Thank His Testicles For Giving Him the Balls to Admit to Steroids
Mark McGwire: Fortunately we won't be hearing courtroom testimony on what lies beneath this towel.Have you been following Barry Bonds' perjury trial this week in San Francisco? It's been -- how can we put this? -- nuts. Seriously. On Monday prosecutors called Bonds ex-girlfriend, Kimberly Bell, t ... More >>
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March 4, 2011
Former Post-Dispatch Editor Was Nat'l Enquirer Source for John Edwards Affair
We now know who's behind John Edwards' implosion.For all of you scandal-mongers who followed John Edwards' affair and complete-and-utter fall from grace with baited breath, boy, have we got a doozy for you.It turns out the unnamed source close to Edwards' paramour Rielle Hunter who tipped off the ... More >>
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January 14, 2011
Court Upholds $5 Million Sex Abuse Judgment Vs. Belleville Diocese
An Illinois appellate court has upheld the ruling of a 2008 St. Clair County jury that awarded a man $5 million in a lawsuit versus the Belleville Diocese. The 2008 trial alleged that Rev. Raymond Kownacki sexually molested James Wisniewski of Champaign when Wisniewski served as an altar boy in t ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
Bring it On! Missouri Cheerleaders Sue School for Taking Away Their Pom-Poms
"Mean Girls" has come to Missouri. In a made-for-Hollywood subplot that would make Lindsay Lohan blush, two cheerleaders from a state championship team have filed a federal lawsuit against their southwestern Missouri school district, claiming their civil rights were violated after being boot ... More >>
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December 28, 2010
Steve Tilley, Will Royster, John Rizzo and the Battle for the 40th District
Steve Tilley, incoming Speaker of the HouseReading the front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch yesterday, we were stunned to learn that the new Speaker of the House, Steve Tilley, may decide to "refuse to seat a new representative from Kansas City" over allegations of voter fraud. That represen ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Ed Martin: Site Suggests He Knew About Pedophile Priests but Did Nothing
threaledmartin.com Click here to watch the site's video.Heard about therealedmartin.com?It's a website that argues -- albeit indirectly, and with loads of documents -- that GOP congressional candidate Ed Martin, while employed at the Archdiocese of St. Louis, was in a position to have inti ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Clergy Sex Abuse Victim Didn't Know His Video Interview Involved Ed Martin
therealedmartin.com Click here to watch the site's video.So you've seen therealedmartin.com, the website implying that congressional candidate Ed Martin knew about "pedophile priests" being shuffled around from parish to parish, but failed to do anything about it. But how did this website com ... More >>
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August 26, 2010
[UPDATE] Bro. William Mueller: Ordered to Pay $500,000 for Sexual Assault of Vianney Student in 1980s
Bro. William Mueller in a 1971 photo.Updated 1:50 p.m. with court documents and detailed account of the sexual assault.A former teacher at Vianney High School, Brother William Mueller, has been ordered to pay one of his former students $500,000 in a case alleging sexual assault. According to the ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2010
Blago Uncensored Ring Tones -- Now with F-Bombs!
Several weeks ago, an Illinois newspaper offered free Blagojevich ringtones so that online readers could enjoy Blago's "profanity-laced tirades" on incoming calls. We liked the idea. However, we didn't like that they'd bleeped out all the profanity from the "profanity-laced tirades." (We know dail ... More >>
Blogs
August 3, 2010
Five Hollywood Heist Movies That Resemble Yesterday's ATM Solutions Robbery In St. Louis
Image sourceSeveral local news outlets have already donned their deerstalker hats and done their best Sherlock Holmes impressions by connecting the robbery of ATM Solutions Inc. in Midtown yesterday with two other similar burglaries of armored cars in 1999 and 1992.In the heist yesterday, four ma ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2010
Blago Won't Testify After All; Wife Loses Chance to Catch Up on Summer Reading
image viaWould this man lie to you?Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, who, for the past year and a half, has been proclaiming his innocence to anyone who will listen (and even some who don't care), has decided to hold his tongue, for once. Blago announced his intention earlier this we ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2010
St. Louis Female Priest Responds to Vatican Equating Women Reverends with Pedophiles
Photo: Jennifer SilverbergThe Revs. Elsie McGrath and Rose Marie HudsonBy now you've probably heard how the Vatican unveiled sweeping changes last week regarding its policies on sexual abuse and sexuality within the Catholic church. On one hand, the Church increased efforts to out priests accused ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2010
The Moment We've All Been Waiting For: Blago to Testify at His Own Corruption Trial
Image sourcePull out the popcorn, folks. The best show in town gets underway in Springfield this week. "I will prove my innocence and I will testify," declared former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich last week as he left the courtroom that is the scene of his corruption trial. Blago has, si ... More >>
News
July 14, 2010
Whatever happened at Father Cooper's cabin in 1971, the archdiocese isn't responsible
Image sourcePull out the popcorn, folks. The best show in town gets underway in Springfield this week. "I will prove my innocence and I will testify," declared former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich last week as he left the courtroom that is the scene of his corruption trial. Blago has, si ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2010
Ken Burns' New Documentary Takes a Nuanced Look at Baseball's Steroid Era
Ken Burns: Someday Barry Bonds will be in the Hall of Fame.Ken Burns, the nation's most prolific documentarian, has chosen for his next opus baseball's steroid era as a postscript to his 1994 landmark Baseball series. Entitled The Tenth Inning, a two-part, four-hour documentary that will a ... More >>
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June 2, 2010
Blagojevich Trial, Radio Silence Start Tomorrow
Image sourceIt's been a grim week so far -- oil continues to spill out into the Gulf, the Israeli Army fought a Gaza aid flotilla and Al and Tipper Gore are separating -- and it's about to get grimmer. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who has been going to hilarious lengths to protes ... More >>
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May 17, 2010
Archbishop of New York Faces Scrutiny for Handling of Sex Abuse Case in St. Louis
Archbishop DolanTimothy Dolan was a bishop in St. Louis in the early 2000s before being named archbishop of Milwaukee and from there moving on to serve as the current archbishop of New York. A year into his tenure in the Big Apple the archbishop has been generaly well-received, though questions p ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
Mark McGwire Highway To be Renamed After Mark Twain
Great works of literature are immortal. Baseball records -- especially dubious ones -- are not. So it's fitting then that Missouri legislators yesterday approved a bill to rename a stretch of Interstate 70 after Missouri's America's most famous author, Mark Twain.
Blogs
May 11, 2010
SNAP Protests SLU's Commencement Speaker; Vatican Rep Allegedly Called Sex Victim "Idiot"
Pietro Sambi, that's Italian for "Don't $&#@ with Me!"The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is holding a demonstration right this very minute on the corner of Lindell and Grand, just outside Saint Louis University. The group is upset that SLU has invited the Vatican's U.S. A ... More >>
Music
May 5, 2010
Aqualung
9 p.m. Thursday, May 6. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
Blogs
April 30, 2010
Daniel O'Connell, Former SLU President, Accused of Violating Sex Abuse Contract
Image ViaO'Connell teaching a class at Georgetown in 2007.Father Daniel O'Connell, who headed Saint Louis University from 1974-1978, is facing the threat of a lawsuit from a New York woman who claims the priest sexually abused her decades ago. According to the Survivor's Network of those Abused b ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
'Holy Goalie' Becomes New Springfield Bishop
Saving goals souls one at a time.The Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Illinois, will soon welcome a new bishop to their flock. Pope Benedict XVI appointed Thomas J. Paprocki to the position yesterday.Paprocki is interesting for several reasons. Fist of all, he is an avid hockey fan and sometimes ... More >>
Blogs
April 15, 2010
Will Blago Ever Get to Hang in the State Capitol?
Image sourceRod Blagojevich may have been fired from Celebrity Apprentice, but that doesn't mean he's been forgotten by the people he used to govern. This week, the Post-Dispatch reports, the Illinois Senate will vote on bill that will prohibit state funds from being used to finance official ... More >>
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April 9, 2010
St. Louis Hairdresser Who Found New Moon Script in Dumpster is Selling Plunder on eBay
Courtesy of Albert WatkinsRay in Hollywood last fall for the New Moon premiere.Remember Casey Ray? The luckiest Dumpster-diver ever? Her story just keeps on going. Sort of like the Twilight saga. Now she's auctioning off her autographed New Moon script on eBay. Bidding starts at $10,000. (For ... More >>
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April 5, 2010
Rod Blagojevich on Celebrity Apprentice: Week Four
Image sourceFriends, for four weeks now, we've been watching Rod Blagojevich together on Celebrity Apprentice. It hasn't always been great -- actually, since every episode is now two hours, most of it is actually pretty damned boring, especially the parts where the celebrities meet the recipi ... More >>
Film
March 31, 2010
Hannah Montana gets upstaged by sea turtles in The Last Song
Image sourceFriends, for four weeks now, we've been watching Rod Blagojevich together on Celebrity Apprentice. It hasn't always been great -- actually, since every episode is now two hours, most of it is actually pretty damned boring, especially the parts where the celebrities meet the recipi ... More >>
Blogs
March 29, 2010
Rod Blagojevich on Celebrity Apprentice: Week Three
Image sourceIt's an incredible responsibility being governor of a major state. There's so much work to be done, so many photo ops to smile for, so many profane phone calls to be made, so many favors to be sold that it's a wonder the governor has time to sleep, let alone keep up with modern te ... More >>
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March 22, 2010
Rod Blagojevich on Celebrity Apprentice: Week Two
Image sourceTwo important revelations about former governor Rod Blagojevich from last night's episode of Celebrity Apprentice:1. Blago is still innocent.2. Blago has a thing for balloons.In this week's task, Donald Trump told the two teams to set up storefronts pimping Kodak's exciting new produc ... More >>
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March 15, 2010
Rod Blagojevich on Celebrity Apprentice: Week One
Image sourceIs this the face of a guilty man...or a business genius?Some people who believe they are accused of heinous crimes decide to prove their innocence in court. Other people go on TV reality shows. So two days after Rod Blagojevich's lawyers requested that his court date be postponed from ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2010
Lady Gaga Returning to St. Louis This Summer
Per a Livenation email this morning, Lady Gaga will be returning to St. Louis this summer, on July 17 at the Scottrade Center. Ticket info/prices is TBA. Gaga's January 7 show at the Fox was one of the hottest tickets in town -- and so should this one. Last week, the video for "Telephone" -- featuri ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2010
In Which the Author is Forced to Defend Tony La Russa Against His Will
commons.wikimedia.orgWell, it was inevitable, I suppose. Finally, after years of little passive-aggressive asides and snarky jabs being tossed surreptitiously toward Tony La Russa, someone came out and said it straight up: La Russa doesn't belong in the Hall of Fame. Thom Loverro, of ESPN 98 ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2010
Mark McGwire's Rolodex
In a brief appearance [Sunday], he warned kids not to try steroids and said he was happy about his chance to put on a major league uniform again.McGwire added that he had a "huge Rolodex of knowledge" to pass on to Cardinals hitters.-- Associated Press; Monday, January 18 Mark McGwire's Rolode ... More >>
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July 15, 2009
Killer Queens
In a brief appearance [Sunday], he warned kids not to try steroids and said he was happy about his chance to put on a major league uniform again.McGwire added that he had a "huge Rolodex of knowledge" to pass on to Cardinals hitters.-- Associated Press; Monday, January 18 Mark McGwire's Rolode ... More >>
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