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Five People Injured in Racing Accident at State Fair

Five people were injured Sunday night during a car race at the last night of Missouri State Fair, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Columbia, Missouri's KOMU reports that Tyson Russell, 25, lost control during a turn, crashed through a guardrail and a safety fence and into the crowd.In ... More >>

Larry the Cable Guy "Tater Chips" -- They Exist

On a recent trip to Schnucks (8800 Manchester Road; 314-961-5454), Gut Check glimpsed bags of potato tater chips emblazoned with the visage of comedian Larry the Cable Guy goading us with, "Boy that's good eatin'!" Only in America is correct, Larry. The sack of tater chips that first caught our eye ... More >>

Man Beat 3-Year Old to Death, Blames it on Hit-and-Run Driver

​Out in Morgan County, Missouri, between Jefferson City and Sedalia, police were faced with an easily-solved puzzle. They'd been called to the scene of a hit-and-run driver on Highway 135, where Blake Litton, 3, had allegedly darted into the road and been killed by truck around 5:10 a.m. on Thursd ... More >>

KKK Fliers Found on MLK Day -- Or Is it Robert E. Lee Day?

Robert E. Lee's 1863 portrait. ​Residents in several neighborhoods in Sedalia, Missouri, found fliers promoting the Ku Klux Klan on Monday morning, which happened to be the observed holiday to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, who was born January 15, 1929.But three states - ... More >>

Tough Going at the Missouri State Fair

​Man! First Lynryd Skynyrd canceled their show last week for health reasons, and now the power's out at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia.Last night, a storm knocked over trees, power lines, tents and concession stands at the fairgrounds. The grounds are closed to the public this morning, but far ... More >>

Making Paula Deen Proud: The Butter Sculpture Art of State Fairs

Wikimedia CommonsButter sculpture of of a dragon. We call her Margereene. ​The Missouri State Fair's kicks off this Thursday in Sedalia. Where there's a fair, there's one thing for certain: Butter sculptures. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Iowa State Fair's annual butter sculp ... More >>

Tornadoes Preempt Oprah Farewell on KSDK -- Oh, the Humanity!

Oprah Winfrey said goodbye to America yesterday -- but she'll say goodbye to St. Louis viewers today.​For a TV station reliant on advertising -- and viewers' goodwill -- the timing couldn't have been worse.Just as talk show icon Oprah Winfrey was preparing to say goodbye to her millions of devoted ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Featured Review: Honor Awards 2011

Puppy Mill Pushback: Bill to Gut Prop B Advances in Missouri House

Kase WickmanThe legislature could undo the measure that anti-puppy mill groups spent more than $4 million to push to voters.​A bill that would repeal key provisions of the voter-approved Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act, better known as Proposition B, sailed through a committee of the Missouri Ho ... More >>

What a Boner! Sign Prankster Creates Valentine's Day Taste Sensation

The recent winter storms smacked central Missouri a lot harder than St. Louis, giving people in towns like Sedalia time to ponder how to celebrate a day of love once the ice thawed. Perhaps a trip to the local Russell Stover Outlet Store would be the place to start. @SummerStormD via TwitterStrawb ... More >>

UPDATE: Last of the Steam-Powered Trains May Puff Into Town -- If You Cast Your Vote

image viaThe ol' 844 steams down the track.​Update, January 18: The Little Rock Express beat out the Tuscola Turn, 76,217 votes to 73,175. Daily RFT apologizes to Tuscolans who cannot take a little trash-talking in the name of friendly competition. -------- The nineteenth century was definit ... More >>

Feeling Fair?

A guide to the things you just don't want to miss this summer

Missouri's Pettis County Bans K2 Synthetic Marijuana

Image via Wikipedia​Let the fake reefer madness continue: Pettis County -- located about 75 miles southwest of Columbia -- became the first municipality in America to ban the synthetic marijuana product K2 yesterday.The AP picked up the story this morning from the Sedalia Democrat:Prosecuting Atto ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Apricot Salad Ruins Teeth, Christmas

On Christmas Eve, work was the last thing on my mind. My husband, daughter and I were in Sedalia, Missouri, with my parents, bracing for the incoming snowpocalypse and preparing for the next day's food orgy to honor Baby Jesus.Robin Wheeler​My mom, Maxine, held a yellowed index card with a hand-w ... More >>

The Popular Click: Daily RFT's Biggest Posts of 2009

This is a medium-sized post, so it wouldn't make the cut.​We began 2009 with a new name for this blog (it used to go by "Stlog" if you remember) and yada-yada-yada now we are in December, looking back on, oh about 2,391 posts. Here -- in no specific order -- are the ten most popular posts of '09. ... More >>

They're crying noise pollution in New Town, but at Vintage Vinyl last week the music couldn't have been loud enough during its Beatles Day celebration

RFT readers wonder whether administrators at a Sedalia high school are still living in the Paleolithic era

Customers Going Ape Over Banned Band T-Shirts Depicting Evolution

sedaliademocrat.com​A Daily RFT post last week about a Sedalia, Missouri, high school that prohibited its band members from wearing T-shirts of apes and Neanderthals carrying musical instruments, generated dozens of comments from readers.Now comes word that the T-shirt that offended some of t ... More >>

Evolution T-Shirts on Trial in Missouri Town

SedaliaDemocrat.com.The shirt as it appears on the website for the Sedalia Democrat.​ The Scopes Monkey Trial was decided 84 years ago this past July, but in Sedalia, Missouri, you'd think it's the summer of 1925 again.

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 >>

Recession Buster: Fiddle Fer Dollars at the Missouri State Fair

This just in from the Missouri State Fair, attention fiddlers -- or just out-of-work violinists -- out there, you can win some cool cash by performing, one month from today, your best hoedown, waltz and a tune-of-choice at the Missourah Missouri State Fair. Missouri State Fair News FOR IMME ... More >>

Woodstock (or Altamont) in the Ozarks -- The 35th Anniversary

ozarkmusicfestivalexhibit.comThe Ozark Music Festival kicked off 35 years ago last Saturday, July 18, at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia. Concert promoters had assured Sedalians that they would be hosting a "soft rock" festival with 50,000 spectators.Instead, 160,000 people (and that's a c ... More >>

Summertime St. Louis: Can't Miss, Won't Miss. Your guide to a successful, fun-filled summer.

Obama in Missouri -- Independence, Missouri

Dare to Fair

Using Their Noodle

Ever catch a 50-pound catfish with your bare hands? He has. So has his dad. And his granddad. And his aunts.

Swine and Pie

Sedalia or die

Segways Are from Saturn?

Bicycles are down to Earth

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of September 1, 2004

Butt Those Bears

The Rams take on Chicago

Man Killer

Did Patty Prewitt pump two bullets into her husband's head? It is a mystery that has lingered for twenty years.

Go West

A theater field trip to bucolic Arrow Rock is well worth the drive

Where's the Two-Headed Calf?

The Missouri State Fair offers surreal glimpses of Americana plus lots of tasty things on sticks

Zero Effect

Governor Bob Holden proposes zero dollars for the Missouri Arts Council

Is It Hot in Herre?

Our intrepid reporter chats face-to-face with swoon-inducing Nelly

The Ethics Cop

Mike Reid knows firsthand what it's like to bend the rules

Critter Lovers

State lawmakers just can't say no

A Guest of Honor

Scott Joplin receives a celebratory homecoming with Opera Theatre of St. Louis' revival of Treemonisha

Hot Rods

Spent nuclear fuel could be barreling down accident-plagued, construction-delayed Interstate 70

HOUSE KEYS

The ragtime music made famous by St. Louisan Scott Joplin is appreciated more now than it ever was in the entertainer's lifetime

Row Warriors

Vendors at historic Produce Row battle the forces of modern commerce