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U.S. Secret Service

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Ted Nugent's Outrageous Remarks at the NRA Conference: What the Videos Don't Show

    While reporting our current feature on the 2012 NRA Conference, I happened to be walking past right when Ted Nugent made these remarks: As you've probably heard, the Secret Service has arranged a meeting today with The Nuge in order to do "appropriate follow-up," but Nugent ain't concerned.

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    Cuevas Cost: Sentenced for Homeless Counterfeit Check Scheme

    ​Cuevas Cost, the ringleader of a counterfeit check ring that used homeless people to pass the fraudulent checks, was sentenced to 51 months in prison today.Police from St. Louis, St. Charles County and St. Louis County notified postal inspectors and the Secret Service in 2010 of homeless people c ... More >>

  • News

    January 12, 2012

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

    ​Cuevas Cost, the ringleader of a counterfeit check ring that used homeless people to pass the fraudulent checks, was sentenced to 51 months in prison today.Police from St. Louis, St. Charles County and St. Louis County notified postal inspectors and the Secret Service in 2010 of homeless people c ... More >>

  • Music

    December 15, 2011

    Musicians, venue owners and organizers found new ways to make people care this year

    ​Cuevas Cost, the ringleader of a counterfeit check ring that used homeless people to pass the fraudulent checks, was sentenced to 51 months in prison today.Police from St. Louis, St. Charles County and St. Louis County notified postal inspectors and the Secret Service in 2010 of homeless people c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    How A St. Louis Band's Zombie Obama T-Shirt Forced A Virginia Republican To Resign And Got The Attention Of The Secret Service

    The original HFTM shirt with the image in question​An official with the Virginia Republican party has resigned, thanks in large part to the T-Shirt artwork of short-lived 2008-2009 St. Louis hardcore band Head For The Mountains. Set apart from most local punk and hardcore bands by its members' ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2011

    What They Saw

    The original HFTM shirt with the image in question​An official with the Virginia Republican party has resigned, thanks in large part to the T-Shirt artwork of short-lived 2008-2009 St. Louis hardcore band Head For The Mountains. Set apart from most local punk and hardcore bands by its members' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Dante Sumlar: Counterfeiter Featured on America's Most Wanted Arrested in St. Louis

    amw.comOne of Sumlar's allegedly fake IDs. ​Fed authorities yesterday arrested Dante Sumlar, the man they say is the mastermind behind a counterfeit check ring operating in St. Louis since 2009. Before arriving in the Gateway City sometime late last year, Sumlar -- a.k.a. "Tony" a.k.a. "Micah Rigg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    They Really Know How to Play All the Angles in Alabama

    Don't know much about geometry.​Taking a geometry class in at least one county in Alabama has to be real hoot. Yes siree, there's a math teach at Corner High School in Jefferson County, who, God love 'em, figured the best way to instruct his students on the fine art of "parallel line ... More >>

  • Music

    May 5, 2010

    Frightened Rabbit floats its way to St. Louis for the first time

    Don't know much about geometry.​Taking a geometry class in at least one county in Alabama has to be real hoot. Yes siree, there's a math teach at Corner High School in Jefferson County, who, God love 'em, figured the best way to instruct his students on the fine art of "parallel line ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Coleman Claimed to be in Secret Service, Born-Again Christian Who Spoke in Tongues

    Christopher Coleman with his wife, Sheri, and sons Garett and Gavin.​More details of accused killer Christopher Coleman's private life are emerging with the release of his employment records with Joyce Meyer Ministries. Last week the Fenton-based ministries handed over more than 400 pages of docum ... More >>

  • Music

    May 20, 2009

    Last Call?: East St. Louis nightclubs under siege

    Christopher Coleman with his wife, Sheri, and sons Garett and Gavin.​More details of accused killer Christopher Coleman's private life are emerging with the release of his employment records with Joyce Meyer Ministries. Last week the Fenton-based ministries handed over more than 400 pages of docum ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2009

    Behind the Wheel

    Christopher Coleman with his wife, Sheri, and sons Garett and Gavin.​More details of accused killer Christopher Coleman's private life are emerging with the release of his employment records with Joyce Meyer Ministries. Last week the Fenton-based ministries handed over more than 400 pages of docum ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    A Look Back -- 56 Years Ago -- to "Citizen" Harry Truman's Great American Road Trip

    It was the summer of 1953. Queen Elizabeth had just been cornonated. The Braves had left Boston for Milwaukee, and Elvis was making his first recording. Back in Independence, Missouri, meanwhile, there was Harry Truman, restless in his first months of presidential retirement and itchy ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 6, 2009

    Behind the Wheel

    It was the summer of 1953. Queen Elizabeth had just been cornonated. The Braves had left Boston for Milwaukee, and Elvis was making his first recording. Back in Independence, Missouri, meanwhile, there was Harry Truman, restless in his first months of presidential retirement and itchy ... More >>

  • News

    April 29, 2009

    Master Baiter: Paul Kinsella is reeling in West African e-mail hucksters one scammer at a time

    It was the summer of 1953. Queen Elizabeth had just been cornonated. The Braves had left Boston for Milwaukee, and Elvis was making his first recording. Back in Independence, Missouri, meanwhile, there was Harry Truman, restless in his first months of presidential retirement and itchy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2008

    Eat Like Obama!

    www.amazon.com The election of Barack Obama has apparently turned us into a nation of twelve-year-old girls, with Newsweek, the New York Times and 60 Minutes our Tiger Beat, YM and TRL (RIP). Here at Gut Check, we follow the reports on the new cabinet with interest -- OMG, is he really g ... More >>

  • News

    October 22, 2008

    Meet the people behind those "Sarah Palin: Putting the 'Cunt' back in our Country" T-shirts

    www.amazon.com The election of Barack Obama has apparently turned us into a nation of twelve-year-old girls, with Newsweek, the New York Times and 60 Minutes our Tiger Beat, YM and TRL (RIP). Here at Gut Check, we follow the reports on the new cabinet with interest -- OMG, is he really g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2008

    Barack Obama in St. Louis: A Photo Essay

    www.amazon.com The election of Barack Obama has apparently turned us into a nation of twelve-year-old girls, with Newsweek, the New York Times and 60 Minutes our Tiger Beat, YM and TRL (RIP). Here at Gut Check, we follow the reports on the new cabinet with interest -- OMG, is he really g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2008

    Photos: Barack Obama Rally Under the Arch, 10/18/08

    www.amazon.com The election of Barack Obama has apparently turned us into a nation of twelve-year-old girls, with Newsweek, the New York Times and 60 Minutes our Tiger Beat, YM and TRL (RIP). Here at Gut Check, we follow the reports on the new cabinet with interest -- OMG, is he really g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2008

    Joe Biden Surprises Missouri Bookstore Employees

    www.amazon.com The election of Barack Obama has apparently turned us into a nation of twelve-year-old girls, with Newsweek, the New York Times and 60 Minutes our Tiger Beat, YM and TRL (RIP). Here at Gut Check, we follow the reports on the new cabinet with interest -- OMG, is he really g ... More >>

  • News

    December 19, 2007

    2007: The Year in Movies and Music

    A year-end wrap-up of what we adored, what was ignored and what the new year will bring.

  • News

    October 5, 2005

    Power Serve

    Fanny's homemade burgers have fed Busch's power elite for years

  • News

    July 20, 2005

    Foul Play

    Why is everyone out to get Randy Wichman?

  • Film

    April 20, 2005

    Film Openings

    Week of April 20, 2005

  • Film

    April 20, 2005

    Lost in Translation

    All talk and little action, The Interpreter doesn't even make sense

  • News

    December 8, 2004

    Bad 2 Tha Bone

    Christian Scientist hip-hop artists Tucker Booth and Jonathan Toth have this underground rap thing down cold

  • News

    July 28, 2004

    WMDs Found at Last!

    Our favorite inanimate objects celebrate birthdays, Russ Carnahan snags the Hefner endorsement, and Silver Dollar City gets political; plus, we find the real WMDs (in St. Charles!) and Bill Haas phones it in

  • News

    June 23, 2004

    Letters

    Week of June 23, 2004

  • News

    June 9, 2004

    Egregious E-mail

    The Secret Service comes calling after a St. Louisan pens a message wishing bin Laden would eliminate Bush

  • News

    April 7, 2004

    Berger Bit

    Unreal bids fond farewell to Jerry Berger, witnesses a presidential Opening Day and a six-foot-tall termite and gives out a very, very special award

  • Film

    January 7, 2004

    Liberty for None

    Mandy Moore's likable enough; wish we could say the same about her movie

  • Film

    July 16, 2003

    Bum Deal

    Mandy Moore's going to be around for a while -- but that doesn't mean you should see her movies

  • News

    May 21, 2003

    Purple Power

    In less than four years, Grant Williams has turned a weak union local into one of Missouri's most potent political forces. So why's he placing all his bets on One-Term Bob?

  • News

    May 14, 2003

    Draught-Dodger

    Week of May 14, 2003

  • News

    April 23, 2003

    Hell No, They Won't Go

    Protesters say pens are for sheep, not Bush critics

  • News

    January 1, 2003

    Rights Knocked

    Week of January 1, 2003

  • Film

    April 4, 2001

    Bite It

    Along Came a Spider is so bad it'll bug you

  • News

    January 3, 2001

    Hack Mentality

    At 28, Spuds has become a cybersage for the young and the reckless. Now he's gone straight.

  • News

    November 29, 2000

    Porn in the USA

    Internet smut peddlers reaped millions from unsuspecting credit-card holders. Their partner in slime was right here in the heartland.

  • News

    August 30, 2000

    Party Crashers

    Ralph Nader tries to derail the corporate-sponsored presidential debates with a lawsuit. Protesters have their own plans to disrupt the Bush-Gore affair at Wash. U.

  • News

    April 19, 2000

    Waiting for Dubya

    The presidential candidate is a late arrival to the nation's health-care crisis

  • News

    March 17, 1999

    Letters to the Editor

    The presidential candidate is a late arrival to the nation's health-care crisis

  • News

    February 3, 1999

    Pope and Circumstance

    St. Louis turns out to greet John Paul II

  • News

    November 25, 1998

    News Real

    St. Louis turns out to greet John Paul II

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