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Walmart Improperly Dumped Hazardous Waste in Missouri, Must Pay $82 Million

Officials with Walmart pleaded guilty this week to mishandling hazardous materials at retail stores in Missouri and California -- and as a result will have to pay a total of more than $110 million in fines to resolve these cases. The company, authorities say, violated a slew of federal and state env ... More >>

KMOV-TV's Larry Conners Says IRS May Have Been Targeting Him For Years (UPDATE)

Yesterday, KMOV-TV (Channel 4)'s Larry Conners made quite a splash when he speculated on his Facebook page whether the Internal Revenue Service may have targeted him in response to his interview with Barack Obama last year. Our original coverage is below. Since his post got national attention, Conne ... More >>

Thieves' Bazaar: Hospitals, doctors and dealers have made Medicare the nation's sweetest crime. The feds are now trying to shutter the door.

University of Corporate Greed: America's for-profit colleges leave taxpayers and students high and dry

America's Petro-Terrorists: Wall Street and Washington conspire to destabilize the U.S. economy, one barrel of oil at a time

Bowling for Chumps: All set for your trip to fabulous Shreveport to watch Mizzou in the Independence Bowl? You may as well go -- either way, you're paying for it.

James Clark and Norm White want their Neighborhood Alliance to save St. Louis' worst neighborhoods. Then they want it to save America.

Newspaper Distribution Plan Draws Fight from Sauce, Other Indie Publications

A subsidiary of Lee Enterprises hopes to take over management of freebie publication racks, like this one at Vintage Vinyl in the Delmar Loop.​The publishers of such local indie publications as Sauce, Alive and Vital Voice have long relied on something of a free-for-all distribution system: They p ... More >>

BREAKING: Bishop/Attorney Martin Sigillito Indicted

Bishop/Attorney Marty Sigillito​Updated 4:16 p.m. with press release outlining indictment. We have all but official confirmation that Martin Sigillito -- the Clayton attorney and American Anglican bishop who already stands accused in civil court of running a $45 million ponzi scheme -- has finally ... More >>

Schwag frontman Jimmy Tebeau says Camp Zoe is an idyllic campground for weekend hippie jam fests. Federal prosecutors beg to differ.

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

Grinding Justice: Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution and doesn't work

To pull off the biggest pit bull fighting bust in U.S. history, investigators went deep undercover. So did their dogs.

Blown to Peaces: Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed a cop in the name of revolution.

Guantánamo's Final Days: America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms

Perverts Beware: St. Louis area police have your number

The Death of Father Kaiser

Was it a Kenyan assassin who killed the St. Louis missionary -- or was it madness? Seven years later, the verdict is in.

City of Bad Shoulders

Advocates for the disabled flag down Missouri’s highway builders and demand they pay greater attention to accessibility.

Dan Horkheimer: "He Loved the Community"

Steal Das Book

Rod Shene paid a paltry few grand for a volume worth $500,000 or more. Only one hitch: The German government wants it back.

The Mystery of Lloyd Gaines

A St. Louis civil-rights pioneer vanished without a trace almost 70 years ago. Now, the NAACP wants the feds to find him.

CSI:IRAQ

Sonny Trimble's grave undertaking: unearthing the victims of Saddam's slaughter.

Hold 'Em Tight

Unreal went to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker and all we got was this lousy story.

Frank Has Left the Building

University City bids a (mostly) fond farewell to its long-time city manager

Win Lose Die

Belleville racketeer Thomas Venezia goes out with a bang

The Case That Haunts

The most notorious cold case in the history of the St. Louis Police Department still haunts homicide detectives

The Price of Innocence

Larry Johnson wants big bucks for a crime he never committed

World of Hurt

The St. Louis Police Department faces a taboo topic: Domestic violence within its ranks

Where's Dora?

Former St. Louis corrections chief Dora Schriro has moved on to a more high-profile controversy

Funky Town

Smokestacks, strip joints and a seriously solid tax base: Welcome to Sauget, Illinois

Nuclear Half-Lies

Mallinckrodt's workers were poisoned and the government said it would pay. So far, those promises haven't been kept.

Carnage

Despite the cost, local cops can't resist deadly pursuits

Dumb & Dumber

If they'd sold drugs on a street corner, punishment would have been swift. Instead, they used the Internet -- and the party lasted for years.

From Bulgaria With Love

Nikolay Nedeltchev wanted to be a gun broker in America. Fat chance.

Hard of Hearing

The city was slow in adopting a jail-suicide expert's advice

The Fire Down Below

For more than three decades, Eric Vickers has been lighting brushfires, crusading against the racism he sees around him. Now, the civil-rights lawyer and activist finds himself burned.

The Man Who

Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis is the guy behind the guys

Breaking Silence

Hannibal diminishes its predecessor

Letters

From the week of January 10, 2001

Justice for John Ashcroft?

He deserves a taste of his own medicine in confirmation hearings

What about Bob?

Drug courts save lives and save money. That's not good enough for St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch.

Howard's End

After nearly three decades on the run, a fugitive from the raucous anti-war era is outed

Cruel and Usual

Tamms Correctional Center is one of the toughest, most expensive and least crowded prisons in the nation. But does it accomplish anything —- besides driving inmates insane?

Seeing Red

After years of taking it on the chin, Bob Goeggel struck back at his competitor. Thanks to his accusations of fraud, the state's largest ambulance company is on the operating table and the feds are doing the cutting.

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