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WASHINGTON, Iowa – A missing Iowa businesswoman's car has been found near St. Louis, Missouri but the 45-year-old still hasn't been located. The Washington County Sheriff's office said Sunday that Sharon Ruth Hopf's 1999 white Chevy Lumina had been found. Investigators are searching the car for clues that might lead to Hopf. The Crawfordsville woman was reported missing Thursday after she didn't show up for work at a home furnishings company she owns in Kalona. Anyone with information regarding her whereabouts is asked to contact the the Washington County Sheriff’s Department at 319-653-2107 or 1-800-TIPS-492.

St. Louis Today reported: When is the line crossed between better health and surveillance? In early 2012, wristwatch-like devices called Polar active monitors will be used by older students in PE classes at all 18 Parkway elementary schools. District officials say the devices should help improve the students’ fitness and academic achievement. Later this school year, the district plans to collect data about activity levels and even sleep patterns for a week at a time. It will have the students wear the devices round the clock. Some parents and legal experts are raising privacy concerns about at least that aspect...

A man pulled a gun and shot a teenager in the buttocks Thursday after the teen punched him in the face, police say. No arrests have been made yet. Police are still investigating and could seek assault charges against the man and the teen, said Katie O'Sullivan, a spokeswoman for the St. Louis Police Department. The incident began when the 46-year-old man got into an argument with the 18-year-old male. The teen punched the man in the face. According to a police summary, the man told police he "feared for his safety, so he took out a gun and fired...

ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Was President Barack Obama too busy watching the “Operation Repo” marathon or something else last Friday night? When KMOX host Charlie Brennan asked now-retired St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa how the traditional call of congratulations from the White House went, La Russa suddenly realized that…it never happened. “That’s a good point, I hadn’t really even thought about that,” replied a surprised-sounding La Russa, who can be forgiven for having a few other things on his mind over the past week. “As we were getting into the World Series we had a call from the...

October 28, 2011--The St. Louis Cardinals have won the world series in an improbable, luck-filled and quirky convergence of events. For example, the number of dribblers Lance Berkman hit that rolled like bocci balls through the infield was exceeded only by the dribbles in Tony LaRussa's depends. Okay, let's allow these Cardinal fan cretins a little superficial happiness for once. It has probably been years since some of these fat losers have even cracked a smile. But the real story of the 2011 world series is that the all time villan of MLB, Tony LaRussa,a piece of human garbage and...

The local media would not release the race of the teens but the “knock out game” is popular with black youth mobs in St. Louis. KSDK reported: St. Louis police are looking for a group of 10 to 15 people who brutally beat a 51-year-old man. It happened near the public library in the 3300 block of South Grand around 11:40 p.m. on October 21. St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay was the first person to spot the victim. He tells NewsChannel 5 he was driving along Grand with his security officer when they saw the crowd from a distance. Slay...

I've been seeing this Internet lie sweep across the Internet in the last 24 hours or so, claiming that St. Louis Swat is keeping people from getting their money from the bank, and threatening the Occupy St. Louis group. ACTUALLY, the video is from an August 12th Protest Rally called "Midwest Rising", featuring all of the useful idiot suspects of the Radical Left. From the Rally Website: "Who: 400 people from 50 different organizations, including a cross-section of labor, community and climate organizations. Organizations represented include: Missourians Organizing Reform and Empowerment, Rising Tide, Climate Action STL, St. Louis Instead of...

The wannabe communist revolutionaries of the ongoing Zombie Apocalypse are either even more mentally muddled than I thought, or even more openly sinister. Here’s one in St. Louis, via Gateway Pundit:

Star of David carved into Alaa Alsaegh's back Israel news photo: courtesy of Alaa AlsaeghAn Iraqi poet who converted from Islam to Christianity, and who expressed pain over the loss of six million Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, has paid the price for his beliefs. Over a month has passed since Alaa Alsaegh was attacked over his Arabic-language poem, “Tears at the Heart of the Holocaust,” featured on the “Arabs For Israel” blog. The site is run by Arabs and Muslims who believe they can “support Israel and still support the Palestinian people.... support the State of Israel and the...

Whether you believe that man has ruined the earth’s climate or not we can all agree that Washington’s bickering about emergency FEMA funding does nothing to fight the effects of global climate change. According to the New York Times, Hurricane Irene earlier this year was the first US catastrophe of the Obama administration to make the top 10 list, joining the insurmountable Bush catastrophes of Katrina and 911. Climate experts Bill McKibben and Al Gore agree that Obama has failed with only half hearted efforts to reverse the rising oceans. A search at usaspending.gov (Sponsored by Senator Obama under the...

Police in the St. Louis suburb of University City say a suspect in a string of burglaries was caught after a homeowner reported finding him frying bacon in her kitchen.

ST. LOUIS • Drivers have reported huge packs of motorcycles swarming the highways around St. Louis, with the bikers pulling stunts, making hand gestures and forcing cars off the roadway.

BEL-RIDGE • St. Louis County Police arrested 30 people at a Bel-Ridge house last week while they were executing a search warrant to look for evidence of prostitution, alcohol violations, drugs, and weapons. The house, in the 8800 block of Snowhill Court, was raided early Friday morning by the county's tactical operations, K-9, and special investigating units. The address is listed as the location of the "Yes We Can Social Club" on the Missouri Secretary of State's website. It was incorporated in January for the purposes of "recreation" and says that assets from the corporation would be given "to another...

<p>Youths in St. Louis playing the knock-out game beat a gay man near the Galleria in St. Louis. The victim has a broken nose, a sore jaw and a black eye.</p> <p>Youths in St. Louis playing the knock-out game beat a gay man near the Galleria in St. Louis. The victim has a broken nose, a sore jaw and a black eye.</p>

ST. PETERS • Steve Randall strolled into the Starbucks at Mid Rivers Mall Drive and Mexico Road one recent Thursday evening wearing his Glock 21C pistol in a holster at his side. Randall's imposing height and short haircut might have led some to believe he was a police officer. Perhaps they were too busy to notice the gun on his hip or the hips of two men who joined him. For Randall, 39, of Overland, this was just another "open-carrying" gathering with friends, something he says he does for two reasons — to provide personal protection and to let Missourians...

On the blustery morning of April 16, Hoang Nguyen and his wife, Yen, left their Dutchtown apartment to go grocery shopping, a Saturday routine. After bidding goodbye to their 25-year-old son, Kenny, the couple strolled east on Chippewa Street, crossing Spring and Giles avenues, then headed south on Grand Boulevard toward their market. Hoang, a 72-year-old retired schoolteacher and avid painter, immigrated with his wife to St. Louis three-and-a-half years ago from their native Vietnam. The couple wanted to be closer to their daughter, Lan, who'd married an American and settled in south county. Kenny joined his parents six months...

Researchers reveal how prehistoric Native Americans of Cahokia made copper artifactsEVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University researchers ditched many of their high-tech tools and turned to large stones, fire and some old-fashioned elbow grease to recreate techniques used by Native American coppersmiths who lived more than 600 years ago. This prehistoric approach to metalworking was part of a metallurgical analysis of copper artifacts left behind by the Mississippians of the Cahokia Mounds, who lived in southeastern Illinois from 700 until 1400 A.D. The study was published in the Journal of Archaeological Science in May. The researchers were able to identify how...

Msgr. Louis F. Meyer, whose name is synonymous with the archdiocesan Catholic Youth Council, died May 14 after an illness. He was 92. The man affectionately known as the "Soccer Priest" was much more than that. He was an athlete himself, declining an invitation to the New York Giants rookie camp in 1938 because he wanted to pursue the priesthood. He went on to help build the CYC, but he also helped make Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center a premiere facility, was the pastor of two parishes, led the archdiocese in its mission to support family life, became involved in...

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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 845 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011 0843 PM TORNADO BRIDGETON 38.77N 90.43W 04/22/2011 ST. LOUIS MO EMERGENCY MNGR AIR NATIONAL GUARD BUILDING DAMAGED...AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS AT THE AIRPORT...AND CARS FLIPPED PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST LOUIS MO 817 PM CDT FRI APR 22 2011 0814 PM TORNADO BRIDGETON 38.77N 90.43W 04/22/2011 ST. LOUIS MO OFFICIAL NWS OBS OBSERVER AT STL REPORTS TORNADO AT LAMBERT FIELD MOVING EAST

KMOV)--A St. Louis man was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole and an additional 150 years, for the rape and murder of a teenage girl, and assaulting a pregnant woman causing her to lose the child. Brandon McGuire, 28, was sentence by St. Louis Circuit Judge Donald McCullin after a jury found him guilty. The jury found McGuire guilty of first-degree murder, forcible rape and forcible sodomy in the death of 16 year old Keyandra Jackson. Additionally he was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of the unborn child, forcible sodomy, first-degree...

In 2009, James O’ Keefe and Hannah Giles released an undercover video investigation showing ACORN (The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) employees giving the ‘couple’, dressed as a pimp and prostitute, guidance on tax evasion, child prostitution and human smuggling. The result: the Census Bureau immediately cut its ties– as they were scheduled to help conduct the 2010 Census– and Congress cut funding from the Housing and Urban Development Department. Ultimately, they were forced to shut down. Many speculated ACORN would simply start up other organizations and conduct the same business under different names. Now, in Missouri, MORE...

Baby Joseph Will Have Tracheotomy by the End of the Week St. Louis, MO -- Doctors at the Catholic hospital in Missouri that agreed to take Baby Joseph Maraachli, the 14-year-old Canadian infant who was denied the medical procedure in his country, say they will do a tracheotomy by the end of the week. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/15/baby-joseph-will-have-tracheotomy-by-the-end-of-the-week/

CHICK-FIL-NO-THANK-YOU: Focus St. Louis and the Clayton Chamber of Commerce said today that they are canceling a planned presentation by Dan Cathy, president and COO of Chick-fil-A, following complaints that Cathy and his company are involved with anti-gay organizations. Chick-fil-A, which is known for promoting a company vision of Christian values, was enmeshed in a controversy earlier this year involving an independent Chick-fil-A operator in Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Family Institute, which is affiliated with the Family Resource Institute. The latter institute was recently designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center because of its anti-gay positions. The...

The cat is out of the bag. The "Good Samaritan" who made news earlier today after he was shot in the hand -- allegedly by a man he tried to help -- is a big fat liar, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff Department. Earlier this afternoon, Sheriff Oliver "Glenn" Boyer held a news conference to report that the shooting victim has now been charged with filing a false police report. Under questioning this morning, the man reportedly confessed to sheriff deputies that he'd fabricated the story last night about being shot by an injured man that he tried to...

Former world welterweight boxing champion and St. Louis native Virgil Akins died on Saturday in St. Louis. He was 82. Akins became the first homegrown St. Louisan to win a professional world championship on June 6, 1958 when he stopped Victor Martinez in the fourth round to win the undisputed welterweight title.

SEATTLE - A federal grand jury in Seattle indicted 12 people in an alleged international money-laundering scheme that funneled more than $12 million to Iraq. The indictment, handed up Wednesday and unsealed Thursday, alleges that between April 2000 and January 2002, a ring of agents throughout the United States collected money domestically and sent it to a company called Alshafei Family Connect in suburban Edmonds. The company, owned and principally operated by Hussein Alshafei, an Iraqi native and naturalized U.S. citizen, then shipped the money to London and other overseas cities and eventually to Iraq, the indictment alleges. The actions...

After playing just four games and gaining just 74 yards in the 2010 season, Laurence Maroney had a very, very slim chance to remain an NFL player in 2011. Now it appears the running back has thrown that chance out the window. Maroney, 25, was arrested in St. Louis on weapons charges, according to KMOV-TV. There are no details just yet, other than that Maroney was in a car with three other men when the vehicle was pulled over by police.

SOUTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) — Imagine looking out your back window and seeing duck carcasses hanging from a neighbor's house. That's been the case for a south St. Louis County neighborhood for nearly two weeks. It turns out what is common in some parts of the world is a violation of the county's health code. A family from Turkey hung chunks of meat and poultry outside to cure or "season" on Christmas day according to neighbor Dan Wampler. "It's out in direct sunlight all day long and the squirrels and animals are getting into the food," he said...

Police broadcasts were the first to report that a tornado touched down in West St. Louis County. Search and rescue teams were dispatched to the area just west of St. Louis City.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — St. Louis overtook Camden, N.J., as the nation's most dangerous city in 2009, according to a national study released Sunday. The study by CQ Press found St. Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, compared with a national average of 429.4. That helped St. Louis beat out Camden, which topped last year's list and was the most dangerous city for 2003 and 2004. Detroit, Flint, Mich., and Oakland, Calif., rounded out the top five. For the second straight year, the safest city with more than 75,000 residents was Colonie, N.Y. The annual rankings are based...

On Wednesday after the November 2 midterm elections, members of the St. Louis Tea Party – and two Russ Carnahan campaign staffers- assembled outside the St. Louis Board of Elections to protest alleged voter fraud in the 2010 midterm election between Ed Martin and Russ Carnahan.

Well, I just got back a little while ago from the TPX stop in St. Louis. What fun that was! I always enjoy listening to Kevin Jackson and what can I say about Herman Cain. Both of these fine Americans gave great speeches. Sorry no pix . . .I rushed from work and forgot the camera. ;-/

Hip Hops is teaming up with Bunny Cakes StL to present what may very well be St. Louis' first Cupcakes & Beer pairing event. Readers of this space know that highlighting beer's versatility is a recurring Hip Hops theme, with recent items on beer dinners, beers for wine lovers and even beers to pair with dessert. Coming up with five beers to complement Melissa Manaois' culinary creations is proving to be an especially fun exercise. We'll likely reveal the full menu before the event, but it's safe to say the tasting will feature some limited- or one-time-release beers. Nothing crazy,...

In Saudi arms deal, good news and bad for St. Louis The Obama administration is expected to notify Congress this week or next that it has agreed to sell $60 billion worth of fighter jets and helicopters to Saudi Arabia. If Congress approves the deal, it will be a significant piece of good news for the St. Louis economy. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the deal could include as many as 84 new F-15E "Strike Eagle" fighters, as well as upgrades to 70 more F-15s. Those airplanes are built at Boeing St. Louis. The United States no longer...

RECYCLE 2010 Let's Recycle America THREE PATRIOT EVENTS ONE DAY SIMULTANEOUS NATIONWIDE TEA PARTIES SACRAMENTO - ST. LOUIS - D.C. SEPTEMBER 12, 2010 Sammy Kershaw - Encouraging you to attend September 12th Rally

Serbfest celebrates Serbian traditions and Eastern Orthodox beliefs. But the priest at Holy Trinity Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church, which was established a century ago, also made a point Saturday to express his love of the United States. "The more you know about America, the more you love it," the Rev. Radomir Chkautovich, who fled socialist Yugoslavia in 1963, said with an accent. Chkautovich, a retired U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and chaplain, regularly leads tours of his church during Serbfest to explain its history and Serbian traditions....

Albert Pujols And Tony La Russa Will Be Appearing At Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” Rally Albert Pujols Glenn Beck Sports And Politics St. Louis Cardinals Tony LaRussa by Tyler Reisinger | 11:40 am, August 27th, 2010 Albert Pujols and Tony La Russa will be making an appearance at Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally, and Pujols will reportedly be honored in some way. No word yet on whether or not that honor will be “Most Awkward First Baseman To Talk To.” In case you’re just joining us: Organized by Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck and featuring former Republican vice...

During Monday night's St. Louis Cardinals loss to the last-place (and worst record in baseball) Pittsburgh Pirates, Albert Pujols was 3-for-5 with a double, raising his batting average to .322. I know this stat is not important to saber heads (please bear with us), but for this argument it is imperative. Meanwhile, on the west coast, Cincinnati's Joey Votto went 1-for-4 in a 13-5 drubbing by the now offensively resurgent San Francisco Giants. That effort dropped Votto's season average to .323, a single point above Pujols. With Pujols ahead in the National League in home runs (33) and RBI (92),...

According to Gateway Pundit, the person who set fire to an office of a Democrat, Rep. Russ Carnahan, is a fellow Democrat. Reportedly, the arsonist is a disgruntled employee of the congressman and a lefty blogger at Talking Points Memo. A televison station in St. Louis, KMOV, is saying that the terrorist -- yes, that's what he is -- has been arrested. If so, what exactly were the charges? Is he now in jail? And, where is the mug shot? It's safe to say that if the culprit were a Republican, the details of his arrest, along with his mug...

VA Continues to Test for HIV Week of August 02, 2010 The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to test more than 1,800 military veterans who had dental procedures done at the St. Louis VA Medical Center. The veterans were potentially infected with HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C when they received dental work from Feb. 1, 2009, through March 11, 2010. Of 1,144 veterans tested recently, 809 have tested negative.

Layoffs to gut East St. Louis police forceBY NICHOLAS J.C. PISTOR Posted: Friday, July 30, 2010 2:15 pm EAST ST. LOUIS - The Rev. Joseph Tracy said he’s tired of going to funerals. And now, he suspects he’ll be going to more of them. "It’s open field day now," said Tracy, the pastor of Straightway Baptist Church here. "The criminals are going to run wild." Gang activity. Drug dealing. Cold-blooded killing. Tracy worries that a decision to shrink the police force by almost 30 percent will bring more of everything. The pastor voiced his concern on Friday at a raucous...

Rock band Kings of Leon were forced to pull the plug half way through a concert after their bass player was pooped on by pigeons. Jared Followill had been hit several times already when a particularly large splat landed on his face near his mouth. That proved too much for the rockers, who fled the stage in St Louis, Missouri just three songs into their set. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1297396/Kings-Leon-cancel-gig-pigeon-poops-bass-player.html#ixzz0uhA9fvfm

As President Obama signed the financial regulation bill, the remnants of Missouri ACORN, reconstituted as MORE, assault a Chase Bank sales branch in St Louis.

We Will Not Be Silenced Last year the Pelosi-Obama regime passed the most irresponsible and damaging piece of legislation in American history – the Trillion Dollar Stimulus Bill. They dumped a trillion dollars into a government sink hole with the promise that they would create jobs. We knew better. We were afraid for our families and our country. We were outraged and took to the streets. We spoke out. We came out. We protested the elites. SNIP We will not be silenced. Not now. Not ever. The St. Louis Tea Party Coalition passed a resolution last night condemning the racist...

A Tea Party group in Missouri, reacting to the NAACP's plan to take up a resolution branding the conservative movement as "racist," has drafted a resolution of its own condemning the civil rights group for reducing itself to a "bigoted" and "partisan attack dog organization."

 East W L Pct GB Home Road East Cent West Streak L10 New York Yankees 50 31 .617 -- 28-13 22-18 20-11 10-7 9-6 Won 2 6-4 Boston Red Sox 49 33 .598 1.5 29-17 20-16 18-17 10-9 8-2 Lost 1 6-4 Tampa Bay Rays 48 33 .593 2.0 20-19 28-14 19-10 11-6 11-6 Won 2 6-4 Toronto Blue Jays 41 42 .494 10.0 21-19 20-23 13-14 11-9 10-8 Lost 2 2-8 Baltimore Orioles 25 57 .305 25.5 16-25 9-32 9-27 4-6 5-13 Lost 1 5-5  Central W L Pct GB Home Road East Cent West Streak L10 Detroit...

Note: The following text is a quote: Mexican Drug Lord Sentenced to 20 Years in Federal Prison for Cocaine Distribution Authorities Seize Over 2300 Kilograms of Cocaine and Over $10,000,000 in Cash from Arriola Drug Trafficking Organization MAY 11 -- DENVER – Miguel Arriola, age 42, of Mexico, was sentenced late Friday afternoon, May 7, 2010, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to serve 240 months (20 years) in federal prison, followed by 4 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, conspiracy to import...

Note: The following text is a quote: Eight Area Men Sentenced on Federal Racketeering Charges Involving Conspiracy to Transfer Cash and Checks to the Palestinian Territories ST. LOUIS, MO—The United States Attorney’s office announced today that eight members of a criminal enterprise operating out of five St. Louis area convenience stores have been sentenced on charges of federal racketeering or related charges. As far back as 2000, the RICO conspiracy has involved bank fraud, receipt of stolen property, conducting an unlicensed money transmitting business, purchasing contraband cigarettes for resale, evading reporting requirement on exporting monetary instruments, and transporting monetary instruments...

It was wonderful meeting with fellow FRiends over great food tonight at Charlie Gitto's "on The Hill." There is certainly much to talk about in this day and age! Charles Henrickson made a recommendation to have a picnic in the summer, which was reinforced by those around the table. Therefore, we will have the picnic on June 19th, 2010 at 12:00pm at a location to be determined. I will work on getting a covered pavilion reserved in the St. Louis area on Monday and will provide more details at a future time. The meat and soda will be provided, but...