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It was expected to be a very interesting legal battle. First there was the indictment, now the challenge. The defense attorney for Lori Drew filed motions to get her case thrown ...




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The call came in on the tipline at 314-444-3344. The voice on the recording said she sent a lot of money to a company called >> Continue reading: News 4 Investigates: The Coffee Man




It became the butt of produce aisle jokes.

"Make sure you don't get the salmonella tomatoes," I heard a woman laugh to her husband during a recent trip to the grocery store.

The danger of a salmonella infection is serious stuff, especially for a person whose immune system isn't strong enough to fight off the disease. So we changed our shopping habits and shunned the varieties of tomatoes that were said to be linked to an increa...




mall3.jpgThe lives of Barbara Carson and S.A. Carson, Jr, came to a tragic end on Wednesday, July 16 when Mr. Carson shot and killed his ex-wife inside the Jamestown Mall before shooting and kil...






Our report on the new body sculpting business with ownership connections to the failed Fig/Lipodissolve empire has raised interesting questions about who is in charge of a business.

The meteoroic rise of Fig was big news in the business world... so its overnight collapse in December, 2007 also made headlines.

And so news that three former Fig officers formed a new company offering cosmetic medical services is newsworthy. That ...




baseball2.jpgIt was in 2005 that Major League Baseball made the decision to ban amphetamines, starting with the 2006 season. The A.D.D. (attention deficit d...




Charlie Powell was the Chairman of the East St. Louis Democratic Party, but in many ways he was the city's political Godfather too.

Powell, a former city councilman, ran the East St. Louis political machine. He could make a phone call to the right person and get someone a job, sometimes it was the kind of job that could jumpstart a career. He was known for helping poor people pay their electric bills.

He was also a crook.

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Ledell Brothers' last conscious hour had to be terrifying.

According to St. Louis police records from July, 2005, three men chased Brothers through the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood in North St. Louis. Every time they caught up with him, Brothers got a beating.

ledellbrothers.jpg >> Continue reading: News 4 Investigates: Missing Murders




debris2.jpgIt's easy to spot the big logs and tree limbs floating down the swollen Mississippi River, but what other junk's been swept into the river because of the flooding, that you can't se...


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