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Mo. Paper Axes Journalist Shot on the Beat

Reporter was wounded in '08 Kirkwood city council rampage

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 22, 2009 2:40 PM CDT

(Newser) – A St. Louis-area reporter shot last year while covering a city council meeting has been laid off from his paper, the Riverfront Times reports. Todd Smith spent days in the hospital last February after taking a bullet in the hand in an attack that left...   Read full story »

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