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April 2008 ArchivesTimothy Wade seemed like a nice guy. He was standing just outside his garage as we approached him at his home in St. Charles. Wade, 50, looked and acted like the kind of neighbor you'd invite over to share a pizza while you watch a game on tv. He was disarming and acted sincere. He told me he was just "trying to live a normal life." Of course, that will be impossible, both for Wade and the woman he raped.
If you've ever moved or had to change doctors and found it hard to find a doctor who was taking new patients, then you've come face to face with a doctor shortage. Fewer medical school students are choosing a career as a primary care physician, so there are fewer of them. And we're in the middle of a trend that's not expected to get better. The primary reason fewer doctors are choosing a career as a family doctor, is that the pay is so... A driver in a red pickup truck was killed when a train slammed into his vehicle at a private crossing in Clinton County, Illinois. The crossing did not have warning gates.
Over my 13 year career in television news, I've reported a couple thousand stories in six different metropolitan areas reaching from Lake Michigan to the Pacific coast. I've interviewed more people than an average person probably meets in a lifetime. When I kick back and retire one day, I'll probably have forgotten... By now we've learned there could be some pretty nasty stuff on the food you order if restaurant employees aren't washing their hands or handling the food properly. But when you purchase and prepare the food yourself, you've got the power to make sure it's clean. If you Google the topic and you'll find a lot of different advice on the best way to wash your fruits and vegetables. From distilled water, to saltwater to bleach. The FDA recommends r...
What are the chairs like in the office where you work? Chances are they aren't leather executive boardroom chairs that cost $1200 each. Most of us don't get to sit in plush executive chairs at the desks where we work. You might find them in the board room of a big company, behind a successful c-e-o's desk or at the desks of the partners in a large law firm. Soon you'll find them in the meeting room for the St. Louis Board of Police Commissione... The East St. Louis school district lives in a state of denial. For many years, district officials refused to release public records, including school board minutes, the most basic documents in any school district. The district repeatedly denied requests for public informa...
The house was shaking, our dog was barking and my wife and I quickly determined that this was not what we initially believed to be a familiar blast of strong wind. I've covered earthquakes. I even slept through one when we lived in the Pacific Northwest. This quake caught us off-guard. We were nervous, excited...
Whistleblower is the commonly accepted term for a person who reveals a ... The Valley Park levee is made of dirt, clay, gravel, even pipes and sections of an old glass factory. We decided to take a look inside of it. A week after the Meramec River rose to near record levels in Valley Park, Eureka and Pacific, we asked EnTech Engineering to use infrared and high definition cameras to videotape the levee so we could see if the flooding had weakened it.... American Airlines cancelled more than 1,000 flights today, including many at Lambert Airport in St. Louis. American grounded arrivals to Lambert from San Francisco, Chicago, Washington, Orange County, Ft. Myers, Dallas, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Des Moines and New York. The airline also grounded departing flights for many of those cities as well as Tampa, Jacksonville and Los Angeles. Yesterday, American cancelled about 500 f... I had a hard time sleeping Thursday night. The St. Louis County jury considering 12 charges against Lester "Jay" Krupp began their deliberations around 7 p.m. At midnight, I lay there in my bed not knowing if they had wrapped up for the night or were pushing through into the small hours of a new day. The clock on my cel phone said it was ten minutes past midnight. No texts. No missed calls. More tossing. More tu... |
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Remember how we tested the lemons in iced tea from local restaurants and found some really nasty stuff? A lot of people wrote and told us we should test other items from restaurants. So we did. We bought salads from 8 restaurants across the St. Louis metro area and had them tested for bacteria and fecal coliforms, the bacteria found in fecal matter. Three tes...
I woke up at 4:37 this morning.
"The color of money" is a phrase often used by University of Texas professor 
Our report on how the St. Louis Police Department responds to and handles reports of possible animal abuse drew upon on the perspective provided by a St. Louis police officer. In our interview with Chief Joe Mokwa he referred to that officer as a "whistleblower."