U.S. Army

Military Sexual Assault: Claire McCaskill Calls For Justice System Reforms, Better Prevention

This week, the United States Army announced that one of its sergeants in Fort Hood, Texas, is facing allegations of pandering, abusive sexual contact, assault and maltreatment of subordinates. The accusations are especially damning because that sergeant worked in the sexual harassment and assault ... More >>

Bye Bye Bye

Army Training on St. Louis Streets Stokes Conspiracy Theories

Nearly every local news outlet has reported the story: This week the Army plans to drive armored vehicles through city streets as part of a training exercise it is holding at its reserve center in north St. Louis. But it was KSDK's version of the story last Thursday that really ignited the crazies. ... More >>

Combat veterans fall prey to gambling addictions at an alarming rate. Where's the military when the chips are down?

A Horrible Job Done Well

Man Attempts to Jump off Plane, Blames Mother's Day

Mom got you stressed?​If you don't throw Momma from the train, she might cause you to throw yourself off the plane. Yesterday, a 34-year-old man aboard a Continental flight traveling from Houston to Chicago made an attempt to open the airplane door while the plane was miles above the ground. ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Very Superstitous: Why do Hispanics believe in ghosts?

Friday Afternoon Video Dump: So This Is America?

It's time for your weekly brain dump. Open up and say duh. 1. Well, At Least The Internet Is Free. You have to appreciate the irony of this video. While Secretary Clinton delivers a speech on internet freedom, a man who dared interrupt her speech by holding up a sign was wrestled out of the room ... More >>

U.S. Army Revamps Mess Halls, Starting in Missouri

Drill sergeants get to yell at privates for not eating enough fruit. According to the Associated Press the U.S. Army has revamped their dining program for the first time in decades. The new program focuses on teaching new recruits basic nutrition. "'This is not (just) an Army problem,' said Lt. Gen. ... More >>

Amid Controversy, East St. Louis Football Coach Darren Sunkett Invited to Elite Coaching Academy

Image via BND.comThe Army wants to help Coach Darren Sunkett be all he can be.​Despite the best efforts of the Illinois High School Association, East St. Louis head football coach Darren Sunkett will be on the sidelines this postseason.East St. Louis' outstanding quarterback/defensive back Glen Fa ... More >>

Scientists Find Likely Cause of Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder [Updated with Dissenting Opinion!]

Image via​The New York Times reports that scientists from the University of Montana and the U.S. Army have identified the likely cause of colony collapse disorder, which is blamed for destroying as much as 40% of the country's honeybee population since 2006.A fungus tag-teaming with a virus have a ... More >>

American soldiers, verite-style, in Restrepo

Dog people bear their teeth while others call for Jay Nixon's ouster

Martin "Marty" Lampe: Maplewood Man Killed in Carjacking in Sauget

A 23-year-old Maplewood man who'd recently enlisted in the U.S. Army was shot and killed during a pre-dawn carjacking Wednesday in Sauget. Google Street ViewThe building that houses Route 3 Liquor.​As the Belleville News-Democrat reports this morning, Martin "Marty" Lampe was sitting in a friend's ... More >>

St. Louis Police Mentor Iraqi Cop Delegation

The first image that appears when one googles the term "iraq police".​There's a punch line (or two) in the following press release sent out today from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. If you find it, feel free leave it in the comment section below. Now, without further ado:

Just How Ugly Are Missourians? The Daily Beast Reports!

flickr.com/photos/portroidsJon Hamm, representative Missourian.​Once again, The Daily Beast has figured out a way to make Missourians feel bad. In honor of the Miss America Pageant, the website has decided to rank the best-looking states based on all its residents, not just one representative nubi ... More >>

Welcome Home, Devil Dogs! St. Louis Grunts Are the Last Marines to Leave Iraq

​Good news from the 3rd battalion, 24th Marine Corps regiment based in Bridgeton: The 1,500-man ensemble is shipping out of Iraq, and, as Lt. Col. Shane Tomko puts it, "They're all in one piece."The U.S. Army will keep some troops in Iraq until 2011, but the 3/24 was the last Marine unit to deploy ... More >>

Love and Christmas

England wants to know: Where the bloody Mexicans at?

Got Your Goat: We don't mean to sound paranoid, but: Did aliens abduct George Clooney's sense of humor?

How FOX and Major League Baseball Can Really Support Our Troops

Though last night's World Series opener lacked a compelling plot line on the field, the dramaturgs at Major League Baseball and FOX saw to the heartstrings-pulling with a flag-waving tribute to Our Troops.​​As MLB announced in a press release yesterday, Game One was "dedicated in support of Welc ... More >>

Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton's Lonely Cry to Get General McChrystal to Testify

Photo Via U.S. Army troops in 2006 in Kunar province, Afghanistan.​ General Stanley A. McChrystal​Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan recently opined how strange it is that General Stanley McChrystal, our top commander in Afghanistan, has not been asked to testify before ... More >>

Brendan Ryan, Sully Sullenberger, Eric Holder Among Finalists for Mustache Award

Brendan Ryan reacts to news that he's a finalist.​The St. Louis-based American Mustache Institute has just released the finalists for its annual Robert Goulet Memorial Award, honoring the man (or woman) who's done the most this year to promote and uphold the mustache as a lifestyle/fashion stateme ... More >>

Harsh Memories Haunt a Missouri War Resister

Obama Shouts out Metro East, Reluctantly Mentions Cardinals at Ball

Perhaps the new president is still a little peeved about losing Missouri in the general election (though unlikely), but it's probably his allegiance to the Chicago White Sox that caused him to reluctantly mention the Cardinals and give a shout-out to Scott Air Force Base during Tuesday night's Comma ... More >>

Medina Wasl, USA

The ultimate war game

Happy Birthday to Tru!

There's more of the same in Mario Kart Wii, and that just might be plenty

Milestone Christian Academy: The Last Word

Milestone Christian Academy: The Last Word

KWMU: Live From Iraq

Back in Brighton

"You hide behind the First Amendment...trying to get your worthless message across to any high-school-dropout, drug-using anal-copulation queen who will read it."

Week of August 17, 2006

Virtual Quagmire

Exercise Is Like Opium

Unreal visits an anger-management expert. Then, feeling better, we scan the Bargain Box for a money-maker (note: not for shaking) and talk about psychiatrist-patient luv with a Scientologist (oops). Plus: the local blog of an alleged killer.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of October 26, 2005

Possessed to Create

CAMP builds a party

Land Minds

Weaponry isn't the only military component that has gotten more sophisticated in Iraq

Best New Performance Space

Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best $1.19 Sandwich

QuikTrip

Paying the Price

If ever there was a time to acquaint yourself with MC5, it's here and now inAshcroft's America.

Hell and Back

Scott's Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real-life warriors

Sleep Cheap

Webster University invaded by hostel beings at travel expo

French Blessing

The film Men of Bronze: The Black American Heroes of World War I chronicles the warm welcome of American jazzmen by their French hosts

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

By William Shakespeare (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis)

Red Alert

When We Are History

Steve McCracken has overseen a 13-year, $800 million cleanup and burial of the radioactive waste at Weldon Spring. Now that the odyssey is nearing its end, one thought haunts him -- how to warn people in the future not to dig it up.

The Tragic Christian

Father James Carney left St. Louis to work with the poor in Honduras, putting him at odds with both church and state. Fifteen years after his mysterious death, a new CIA report raises more questions than answers.