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Haith adds former Drake coach to his bench
Mark Phelps Mizzou Head Basketball Coach Frank Haith announced the hiring of former Drake University Head Coach Mark Phelps as an assistant coach.Phelps replaces Rick Carter who took the head job at Xavier. Phelps was fired after last season. Drake went 77-86 in five seasons. Phelps has 17 seasons of experience as both a head coach and assistant coach at the NCAA Division I level and three of ...
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What went wrong for Wainwright
Adam Wainwright adjusts his cap after giving up a back to back home run to Chicago Cubs. UPI/Bill Greenblatt Adam Wainwright admitted his mechanics were flawed in the first inning Tuesday night against the Chicago Cubs. After watching video of himself in the tunnel, he made corrections, but not before the damage was done in a 4-2 ...
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Baserunner blunder costs Royals
The Royals had three singles and a walk in the ninth inning, but were unable to score. David Lough got hung up in a rundown between home and third after failing to stop at third on a single by Alcides Escobar. While he barely made it back safely, Mike Moustakas to get tagged out at third as both runners were at the same base. The Royals failed to tie the game and lost 4-3 at Cleveland. The ...
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Construction jobs unemployment both up in May
The construction industry accounted for 3,600 of the 4,600 new jobs created in Missouri in May. But the Department of Economic Development says the jobless rate still went up a tenth of a percent from April's rate to 6.8%. Missouri's rate is eight-tenths of a percent below the national average, the ...
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Shaky start odd finish for Cards
Cards adjust Memphis rotation for Wacha Righty made first Class AAA start Tuesday since being returned and will be part of a modified six-man rotation to control his ...
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Salmonella scare leads to pet food recall
(KSDK) -- Natura Pet is recalling multiple brands of dog and cat food and treats after a positive test for Salmonella. According to the FDA, the recall involves Innova, Evo, California Natural, Healthwise, Karma and Mother Nature dry food and treat Brands. No canned foods were affected. There have been no reported cases of illnesses. For more ...
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Metro East home burns to ground overnight
East St. Louis, IL (KSDK) - Fire investigators continue to search for the cause off a blaze that gutted a vacant home on the extreme east end of East St. Louis early Wednesday. Firefighters from several metro east fire agencies responded to the fire at the unoccupied residence in the 1200 block of Imogene. A trailer home located nearby was occupied, but was not damaged in the blaze and the ...
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Vacant home in Cahokia damaged by fire
Cahokia, IL (KSDK) - Firefighters battled an overnight fire in Cahokia that left the house in ruins on the ground. The call came into fire officials around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday at the home in the 100 block of Fourth Street, just west of the site of several other fires in vacant homes last month. No injuries reported and the exact cause for the blaze remains under ...
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Outlaw items up for auction by Dallas company
Officials with Heritage Auctions say Saturday's Legends of the Wild West Auction features a gun belt belonging to outlaw Jesse James. The auction will include more than 140 artifacts from the collection of the late Wilbur Zink of Springfield, ...
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Insurance companies sticking around in third year of storms
About 6,300 insurance claims have been filed since tornadoes hit the St. Louis area less than three weeks ago. This is the third straight year insurance companies have had to deal with thousands of storm-related claims. State insurance director John Huff thinks almost seven-thousand claims will be filed eventually from the tornadoes that caused widespread damage in St. Charles and in St. Louis ...
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Serious injuries involved in couth county cycle crash
St. Louis, MO (KSDK) - An unidentified motorcyclist is hospitalized with severe injuries after being thrown from his speeding bike while driving along an interstate ramp overnight. St. Louis County Police continue to investigate the incident which occurred around midnight on the northbound ramp of I-270 at Tesson Ferry. Authorities say the motorcyclist was speeding when he lost control of the ...
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Paraplegic castrated in fight at assisted care facility
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 41-year-old man is being held on $5 million bail after police say he castrated a paraplegic during a dispute at an assisted living facility in ...
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Navy holds hearing in Va on deaths of divers in Md
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- Two members of a Navy dive unit are facing involuntary manslaughter and dereliction-of-duty charges in the drowning deaths of two divers at Aberdeen Proving Ground near ...
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Top summer sandal deals at 70 off
ST. LOUIS -- Today, patience pays off in a huge way. If you've followed our advice to wait for today to score the lowest summer prices on the top pairs of sandals, you're in for a cheap treat. You'll find absolutely everything you're looking for today including a major (and rare) deal drop at Nordstrom. For those of you concerned about my ability to hand-pick sandal deals ...
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Missouri Mom Faces Charges Of 2nd Degree Murder After Giving Boyfriend Permission To Rape Her Infant Resulting In Baby’s Death
Can one help but wonder, is this what our ‘rape culture’ has come to, when mothers start handing over their babies to be raped. Jessica Lynn Howell, the Missouri woman charged with allowing her boyfriend to sexually assault and murder her 4-month-old daughter. Image ...
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Missouri senator backs PAC urging Hillary Clinton to run in 2016
WASHINGTON - Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat and one of Barack Obama's first backers in the Senate in his presidential primary fight against Hillary Rodham Clinton, threw her support Tuesday to the political action committee pressing Clinton to run for president."In 2008, I was an early supporter of then-Senator Obama's campaign," McCaskill said in a statement on ...
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W.Va. mine safety lab creates disasters to train
A former Massey Energy official who is cooperating in the investigation of the Upper Big Branch mine disaster is asking a judge for leniency when he's sentenced Aug. ...
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4th of July fireworks in St. Louis 2013
4th of July means fireworks, fireworks, and more fireworks. We are fortunate to live in an area where there are an abundance of summer festivals and fireworks displays to choose ...
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Royals turn to Mendoza in finale with Tribe
Perhaps it's only fitting that the Royals and Indians will play a rubber game to decide their series on Wednesday night. Cleveland entered the three-game set with a half-game lead over Kansas City for second place in the American League Central and a .500 record. After the Royals' 2-1 win in the opener on Monday night, they took over second place with a half-game lead and a .500 ...
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A sister acts as an unlikely mentor to deadbeat dads
o Sister Carol Schumer always eats everything on her plate, makes her bed every day, wears only white and navy and admits to being a wee pushy in her former career as a Catholic school principal.So there's no missing this rail-thin woman with gray hair and sensible navy shoes in the center of 18 men who've been labeled deadbeat dads.They are seated around her in a horseshoe in a ...
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McClellan Heading for a bar at midnight Thats no time for old men
An old friend who is retired from the police department stopped by the paper the other day. He was on his way to play poker at the downtown casino.I mentioned that my son was in town and I suggested that the three of us go to the track. "I can't go this Tuesday," said my friend. (When we go, we go on a Tuesday for the afternoon session. Horse hookey, it's called.) Maybe we ...
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McCaskills early endorsement of Hillary Clinton is meant as a nudge
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in Chicago on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Scott ...
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First inning dooms Cards Wainwright
By the time Cardinals ace Adam Wainwright righted his wayward mechanics before the start of the second inning Tuesday, it was already too late.The Cubs had all the runs starter Jeff Samardzija needed.Taking early advantage of Wainwright's misbehaving fastball, the Cubs jumped the righty for four runs on four consecutive extra-base hits in the first inning. Samardzija did the rest as he ...
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Fracking comes to Illinois amid a wave of money and controversy
The rocky ground deep beneath Southern Illinois will soon be wrung like a sponge to yield previously unreachable oil and natural gas. "Fracking," the process of fracturing underground rock formations to extract their hidden fuel, is coming to the Land of Lincoln.The politics behind it, like the science, is all about pressure: Economic pressure, in the form of thousands of jobs for the ...
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No more free Saturdays on downtown St. Louis parking meters
Beginning July 1, downtown parking meters will be enforced on Saturdays. Visitors to Citygarden enjoy the sites as an expired meter on 10th Street awaits change on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. Photo by Robert Cohen, ...
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Kansas City women focus on micro-finance
Kansas City women are trying to make an impact in the world by teaming up with micro-finance providers for people living in poverty.
All too often charitable causes and organisations looking for funding focus on symptomatic poverty, responding to the causes of poverty worldwide in a similar manner to a doctor giving a patient painkillers for a cancer tumor instead of removing the tumor. We donate so that children in poverty around the world can get food, education, clothing, medicines and various other basic needs. But it doesn’t solve the problem of why they’re in poverty in the first place. Read more
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