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Rage Against Privilege
Seeps Into Left, Right

Anger at betrayal runs deep

Nov 12, 09 8:32 AM CST
(Newser) - It takes a lot for the folks in middle America to "look upon concentrated wealth as anything except a virtue," writes Timothy Egan for the New York Times, but that line has finally been crossed. Hearing of tens of billions in holiday bonuses at Wall Street firms bailed... More »

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St. Louis • Wall Street bailout • executive bonuses • H1N1 virus • midterm elections • class rage

(Newser) - The National Institutes of Health will supervise a nationwide test of a swine flu vaccine in eight cities starting in August, the Seattle Times reports. Test subjects will be drawn from Seattle, Baltimore, Iowa City, St. Louis, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Houston, and Nashville. Thousands will receive “a vaccine... More »

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medicine • Atlanta • Houston • vaccine • St. Louis • Baltimore • Seattle • Cincinnati • Iowa City • Nashville • National Institutes of Health • human trials • swine flu • H1N1 virus • test subjects

 Obama Readies Arm 
 for Tonight's All-Star Pitch 

Will throw first toss at tonight's game in St. Louis

Jul 14, 09 12:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is getting ready to toss out the first pitch at tonight’s All-Star Game in St. Louis, Fox News reports, and is relying on the experience from his previous such gig, for the White Sox in 2005. “My general strategy the last time I threw a pitch... More »

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St. Louis • baseball • MLB All-Star Game • President Obama • first pitch

Pujols: Test Me Every Day, and I'll Pay Team Back if Caught

All-Star rips 'guilt by association' with A-Rod

Jul 13, 09 7:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - All-Star Albert Pujols is miffed over suggestions his latest enormously productive season comes thanks to drugs, USA Today reports, and says he’ll submit to testing every day—and pay the St. Louis Cardinals back if one comes back positive. “I can understand people being disappointed with A-Rod and... More »

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St. Louis Cardinals • steroids • Barry Bonds • Albert Pujols • Alex Rodriguez • St. Louis • performance-enhancing drugs • Luis Gonzalez • MLB All-Star Game • Busch Stadium

Mo. Lawmakers Fight to Rename McGwire Road  

Steroid suspicions mean he doesn't deserve it, say some

Jul 12, 09 11:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mark McGwire Highway leads out of downtown St. Louis—but some local lawmakers would love to see the road rechristened, the Chicago Tribune reports. Four years ago, the slugger said he wouldn’t “talk about the past” in congressional hearings, prompting suspicion over steroid use. A batch of politicians... More »

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St. Louis Cardinals • steroids • MLB • St. Louis • Mark McGwire • highways • baseball • bill

(Newser) - President Obama will toss the ceremonial first pitch at the All-Star Game on July 14, Major League Baseball announced yesterday. He’ll be the fourth president to do so, following John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford, and the seventh to attend the game. He’s also got some... More »

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Barack Obama • St. Louis Cardinals • Tony La Russa • Chicago White Sox • MLB • All Star Game • St. Louis • baseball • George W. Bush • MLB All-Star Game • President Obama • first pitch

Mo. Paper Axes Journalist Shot on the Beat 

Reporter was wounded in '08 Kirkwood city council rampage

Apr 22, 09 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 seven dead. “This is... More »

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layoffs • St. Louis • recession • reporter • editor • Kirkwood, Missouri • gunshot wounds • newspaper industry • Todd Smith

 St. Louis Pizza Maker 
 Cooks for Obamas Today  

Obama became a fan during campaign

Apr 10, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The first family is having pizza delivered for lunch today—from St. Louis. President Obama became a fan of restaurant Pi during a campaign stop in Missouri, and yesterday the owner flew to Washington to make 20 pizzas in the White House for the president’s family and staff, People ... More »

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Barack Obama • White House • St. Louis • Missouri • pizza

(Newser) - With President Obama and Robert Gates hoping to reconfigure defense spending, cities and towns around the country are bracing for the economic fallout, ABC News reports. Some of the places most likely to be pinched if Gates’ budget stands:
  • Marietta, Ga.: Where Boeing and Lockheed Martin assemble
... More »

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budget • St. Louis • Seattle • military spending • federal budget • Long Beach CA

(Newser) - New York may be America's cultural capital, but Seattle and Minneapolis top the list as the nation's most literate cities, reports LiveScience.  The rankings are based on newspaper, magazine, and online news readership, library usage, book purchases, and educational levels. The two cities also topped the list last year.... More »

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newspaper • Minneapolis • San Francisco • Atlanta • Boston • Washington DC • Denver • St. Louis • literacy • libraries • Seattle • Cincinnati • book • online newspapers • Portland, Oregon • readership • St Paul • Central Connecticut State University • Jack Miller

 Nonprofits 
 May Be Future 
 of Muckraking 

Websites compete with city papers

Nov 18, 08 12:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Internet journalism has long been dominated by partisan commentary, gossip, and well-intentioned amateurs, but that’s all changing, the New York Times reports. Sites like VoiceofSanDiego or the St. Louis Beacon are doing serious, investigative journalism many a newspaper would envy at a fraction of the cost. Voice’s... More »

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media • newspaper • online media • journalism • St. Louis • San Diego • Seattle • Hartford • Minneapolis-St. Paul

50 High School Teens in
St. Louis Exposed to HIV

School sets up testing lab in gym after learning dozens may be infected

Oct 24, 08 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Health officials in a small town near St. Louis have set up an HIV testing clinic in a high school gym after an infected person said up to 50 students may have been exposed, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. School officials won't say whether that person is a student or... More »

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high school • HIV • St. Louis • STD • HIV/AIDS • high school students

Ex-Con Suspected in
8 Murders Captured in Ill.

Nicholas Sheley recognized in a bar

Jul 2, 08 9:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - An exhaustive, two-state manhunt for an ex-convict suspected in eight grisly slayings ended with the man quietly arrested last night outside a bar known as a police hangout. Police knew from a number of witness reports that Nicholas T. Sheley, 28, was in the area, said the police chief in... More »

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FBI • murder • St. Louis • Illinois • serial killers • Nicholas T. Sheley • manhunt

 After the Deluge:
 Tallying Massive Costs 

Food prices may rise for years to come

Jun 30, 08 2:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Floods that ravaged the Midwest have begun to subside—but  the massive costs of weeks of rising water have only begun to be counted. The floods killed 24 people, left 38,000 homeless and destroyed billions of dollars of crops. The losses are likely to trigger food shortages and push... More »

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corn • St. Louis • FEMA • Mississippi River • Army Corps of Engineers • National Weather Service • soybeans • Midwest floods

This Bid's for Bud: Belgian Brewer Offers $46B

InBev wants to buy Anheuser-Busch

Jun 11, 08 10:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Belgian-based brewer InBev has made a $46 billion cash bid for US beer giant Anheuser-Busch in what would be one of the largest foreign acquisitions of an American corporation, the Wall Street Journal reports. If it goes through—a prospect that is far from certain—the 132-year-old Budweiser brand... More »

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Proctor • St. Louis • Budweiser • Cingular • Heineken • Carlsberg • AT&T • Miller Brewing • Anheuser-Busch • Molson Coors • InBev • Stella Artois • Labatt Blue • Gillette • August A. Busch IV • Michelob • Bud Light

Mo. Gunman Kills 5 at City Hall

Police kill shooter in suburban St. Louis; victims include two police officers

Feb 7, 08 9:23 PM CST
(Newser) - A gunman opened fire tonight at a city council meeting in suburban St. Louis, killing five people before being shot to death by police, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Two others were wounded, one of them critically. Police said the man killed an officer outside City Hall, then entered the... More »

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St. Louis • Kirkwood, Missouri • mass shootings

Killer Storm Heads Northeast

Up to a foot of snow expected by this afternoon

Feb 1, 08 12:15 PM CST
(Newser) - The massive snowstorm blowing across the US has blanketed much of the Midwest and is now taking aim at the Northeast, the AP reports. The storm has killed at least six, tangled traffic from Texas to the Great Lakes, and snarled flights at the crucial Chicago hub. "By no... More »

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Midwest • Chicago • St. Louis • snowstorm

Detroit Named Most Dangerous City in America

But experts blast list for hurting cities and distorting perceptions

Nov 19, 07 2:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Motor City sped away as the nation’s most dangerous metropolis, according to the latest crime statistics examined by a private research firm that named Detroit worst of the worst. But city officials and crime experts slammed the annual ranking as worse than useless. A spokesmen for the FBI, whose... More »

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FBI • crime • Detroit • list • St. Louis • Congressional Quarterly • Mission Viejo, CA

Anger Brews Over Cyber Suicide

Hoaxers who drove teen to kill herself untouched by law

Nov 17, 07 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Police fear a "mob mentality" is brewing in a St. Louis suburb after a 13-year-old girl killed herself, and the hoaxers who allegedly prodded her have gone free. Two adults—parents of the girl's friend—badgered Megan Meier online until she hanged herself in her closet last October. Cops... More »

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suicide • MySpace • St. Louis • Missouri • cyberbullying • Dardenne Prairie • Internet hoax

Why Citywide Wi-Fi Doesn't Fly

Figures show low use
of municipal wireless

Sep 4, 07 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - As plans for free municipal Wi-Fi ran aground last week in San Francisco, Chicago, and St. Louis, Wired investigates why the egalitarian dream of all-pervasive wireless has failed to take hold. All to blame: the high cost of infrastructure, difficult public-private partnerships, and, above all, low consumer interest. More »

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Internet • San Francisco • Chicago • wireless • St. Louis • WiFi

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