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Core of Your Nightmares Drummer Charged with Producing Child Pornography

The drummer for St. Louis-area death metal band the Core of Your Nightmares is being held with no bond on child pornography charges -- he allegedly filmed himself "engaged in sex acts" with a child and shared it on the internet. Investigators think he is a flight risk and a danger to the community. ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Special Best Of Edition

The Lamb of God and Dethklok Tour Has Been Canceled

Dethklok and Lamb of God, with support from Gojira, were supposed to make a stop at the Family Arena on August 15. It's a bill we've been excited about since it was first announced and was probably the marquee metal show of the summer. Unfortunately, the entire tour has just been cancelled because L ... More >>

Is Civil Disobedience the Answer to Immigration Debate?

Supreme Court Decision on Arizona Will Divide Nation

Inside an Ashen Building, a Legal Aide Adds Color

"Does that make sense?" asks Vara Lyons. "I'm trying to not sound like a cerebral art historian." She can't help herself. Lyons is a legal assistant for the Community Affairs Bureau of City of St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office. She's also a self-described art history nerd whose life has been shad ... More >>

Kings for a Moment: The feds attack online poker, killing a $2.5 billion industry

The trail of an international child-porn ring led to a tiny house in the woods outside St. Louis

Local Tax Preparer Busted for Not Paying His Taxes

​Although Richard Gray Sr. spends some of the year working at a Chrysler plant in Indiana, he's been running a nice little side business out of his home in North St. Louis: Filing tax returns for friends, family and co-workers using TurboTax. He's even expressed a desire to do tax-prep full-time. ... More >>

Obama's War on Weed

In a strange about-face, the president tries to hack medical marijuana off at the knees

Q & A: Local Author Breaks Down New Book About Mexican Drug War

A few years ago while living out West, Sylvia Longmire, a retired U.S. Air Force captain and former special agent with the Air Force's Office of Special Investigations, noticed that the news media often bollixed its coverage of the Mexican drug war -- a topic she'd been tracking closely for Californ ... More >>

Keith Conway, Kinloch Mayor, Indicted for Felony Theft

Jennifer SilverbergKeith Conway, Kinloch's longtime mayor, faces one felony count each of wire fraud and federal program theft.​Keith Conway, the mayor of the north St. Louis County municipality of Kinloch, has been indicted on charges of theft and wire fraud.Conway, 47, allegedly used funds from ... More >>

U.S. Attorney: Feds Could Challenge Missouri Anti-Sharia Legislation

Muslim women take part in the Pledge of Allegiance during last night's event​U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri Richard Callahan visited the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis last night to address the fears and frustrations of Muslim Americans who worry they are being rac ... More >>

Let's Get Lit: City Offers Free Light Bulbs as Ameren Gets Sued

​This just in from City Hall: On Jan. 17, 6,000 lucky St. Louisans will be the recipients of brand new eco-friendly light bulbs. Mayor Slay is scheduled to appear at a press conference this afternoon to announce a new initiative touting energy consumption, co-sponsored by Ameren Missouri. As ... More >>

Camp Zoe, Site of Schwagstock, Facing Seizure After Drug Investigation

Image via CampZoe.comA snapshot of the Schwagstock crowd.​The DEA, Missouri State Highway Patrol and U.S. Attorney's Office are trying to seize Camp Zoe, a 350-acre campground in central Missouri that hosts the music gathering Schwagstock -- after a four-year-long investigation allegedly uncovered ... More >>

Camp Zoe, Site of Schwagstock, Facing Seizure After Drug Investigation

Image via CampZoe.comA snapshot of the Schwagstock crowd.​The DEA, Missouri State Highway Patrol and U.S. Attorney's Office are trying to seize Camp Zoe, a 350-acre campground in central Missouri that hosts the music gathering Schwagstock -- after a four-year-long investigation allegedly uncovere ... More >>

Are Some Missouri Counties Ignoring Meth Labs?

Provided by the Missouri State Highway PatrolMissouri meth labs in 2009. Click for larger image.​While the focus of this week's RFT feature is meth lab explosions and the impact that injured meth cooks are having on hospitals across the Midwest, the story also touches on the reasons why meth has r ... More >>

The potentially explosive "shake-and-bake" method is burning its way through meth land

Amongst Us

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror becomes Arizona policy, thanks to state Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

Meacham Park Residents Not Satisfied with Kirkwood Race Reconciliation

​A "mediation agreement" that was supposed to ease racial strife in Kirkwood was greeted with a cool reception yesterday from residents in the predominately African-American neighborhood of Meacham Park.The agreement, facilitated by the Department of Justice and signed by Kirkwood leaders last wee ... More >>

Investigation Details Monsanto's Strong-Arm Tactics in Seed Business

A farmer expresses his distaste toward Monsanto.​The AP is out today with an investigative piece chronicling Monsanto's grip on the genetically-modified seed industry. Genes developed by the St. Louis-based bio-tech firm can now be found in 95 percent of all soybeans grown in the United States and ... More >>

Former BETonSPORTS Executives Will Be Staying Home for Awhile

​Gary Kaplan's brother and sister have each been sentenced to house arrest for helping to make the now-defunct BETonSPORTS a billion-dollar offshore sports book.U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson yesterday ordered Neil Kaplan and Lori Kaplan-Multz each to spend ten months on house arrest. Both Kapl ... More >>

BETonSPORTS Founder Gary Kaplan Gets to Stay in the Clinker

​U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson has sentenced Gary Kaplan to 51 months in prison. It was the maximum sentence allowed for under a complicated plea agreement that his lawyer struck with federal prosecutors. The millionaire founder of the now-defunct offshore gambling operation known as BETonSPOR ... More >>

The Awful Truth: Attn: Wall Street. Michael Moore is a Marxist (but he's still selling the same old shtick).

That Couldn't Possibly Work In St. Louis, Could It?

blameitonthevoices.comSeattle Police are taking a more relaxed approach to drug laws...​St. Louis police prefer to wage the war on drugs the old fashioned way. Coke dealers on the Northside? Root 'em out, round 'em up, make a few arrests, and confiscate some dope for the TV cameras. Meanwhile in S ... More >>

St. Louis is no fun — and that's a good thing! Plus: Obama's pants, an allegedly felonious Purina fat cat and more.

Jail Hanging Provides ACLU a Pawn In Its Spat with City

flickr.com/photos/sin_aguaSomeone's credibility hangs in the balance. Question is: Is it the city's or the ACLU's? The cynic in me can't help thinking that the ACLU of Eastern Missouri must be at least a little pleased that an inmate hanged himself this week at the St. Louis City Justice Center. Aft ... More >>

Local Democratic Operative Indicted for Weapon Charges, Mortgage Fraud

It's been a rough year for Milton "Skip" Ohlsen III. A year ago I wrote how the Democratic operative and owner of St. Louis political consulting firm Global Management Solutions had gotten into hot water with his creditors. At the time, Ohlsen was masquerading as an ultimate-fighting promoter with a ... More >>

Criminal Charges to be Filed in Megan Meier Case

Double Down

Gary Kaplan put all of his chips on BETonSPORTS and drew the worst hand of his life. Now he’s making tuna casserole in a St. Louis jail.

"You're the Greatest, Asshole!"

The Mexican explains a Mex-centric phenomenon.

Welcome to Hooters

Jimmy Buffett inexplicably leads a kid movie to the big screen

Blood for Oil

Brilliant, confounding Syriana digs for a necessary truth

The Old Nazi

A member of Hitler's Waffen SS lives out his last days in St. Louis

Double-flushers

We list this year's real stinkers, get some critical advice from the folks and look at some scary new downloading laws

Do the Math

The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. Stan Liebowitz says otherwise.

Do the Math

The music industry says online piracy's killing the biz. A UTD prof says it ain't.

Zen and the Art of Evasion

An alleged rape points to big workhouse problems

Dressed for Deceit

Women contractors are tired of being asked to front for firms owned by white males

Dead Man Voting

St. Louis elections are a national joke. Trouble is, it's not funny anymore.

Brother's Keeper

David Kaczynski talks about the decision that tore his family apart

This Is Not God's Team

Love the Rams, but let's keep it earthly

What About John?

Ashcroft deserves a better role in the Enron scandal

The Media Go to Pot

How news outlets blew the medical-marijuana story

Maybe in Memphis

Jim Green, ex-con and government snitch, says he and his buddies from the Bootheel took part in the plot to kill Martin Luther King Jr. Trouble is, Green's been lying all his life -- so why should anybody believe him now?

Schnucks: Not the Friendliest Weeks in Town

Published the week of September 20-26, 2000

Erin Brockovich

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

GLOBAL VIEW

Duncan Bauman is alive and well, and still trying to have the last word. Period.

WHOOPEE FOR WACO

St. Louis will play host to former Sen. John Danforth's investigation of the Branch Davidian siege

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