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May 2008 Archives
4:16 PM Thu, May 29, 2008 | Permalink
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The old St. Louis Centre opened up with a bang but has since gone bust. Developers learned that malls just don't work in urban settings. Today we talked with Amos Harris of Spinnaker Real Estate Partners. Spinnaker is taking over the entire Mercantile Exchange project now that Pyramid Developers has lost its financial footing. Harris says downtown residential demand is still good, despite perception, but financing is tight for all develo...
4:25 PM Mon, May 26, 2008 | Permalink
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WHAT A TERRIBLE TIME THIS IS FOR THE FAMILY OF 9 YEAR OLD ZACHARY WEST AND THE GEGGIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FAMILY.
SUNDAY NIGHT THE BOY AND FOUR OTHERS WERE RETURNING FROM A SIGHTSEEING TOUR, WHEN THE CHOPPER THEY WERE RIDING IN CRASHED IN THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS.
EVERYONE ESCAPED WITHOUT SERIOUS INJURIES, BUT ZACHARY, TRAPPED INSIDE THE WRECKAGE, NEVER SURFACED AND WAS UNACCOUNTED FOR.
IT WASN'T UNTIL THIS MORNING AROUN...
2:20 PM Mon, May 26, 2008 | Permalink
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Everybody's raving about HDTV but the technology is still misunderstood. Thursday I got to be a part of a St. Louis high definition television first. News4 and our prime competitor are both now broadcasting in HD. But even for those with a high definition TV set, only the studio segments of the newscasts are in high def. That's because the studio cameras are high definition, not the camera news photographers use to shoot the stories in f...
8:00 PM Sun, May 25, 2008 | Permalink
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PACIFIC, Mo. -- Lavina Close, wife of H.W. Close, died nearly 134 years ago in August 1874 at the age of 48. This Memorial Day weekend, her headstone is laying in the dirt, knocked off its pedestal by a vandal.
In all, 41 headstones at Pacific City Cemetery are damaged, cracked or ruined, according to Mike Bates, the president of this city's board of aldermen. He tells me another 31 headstones were toppled at St. Bridg...
8:56 PM Sat, May 24, 2008 | Permalink
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Renting DVDs on Netflix lets you find and watch all kinds of movies and documentaries you might never see on TV.
When I was growing up, I knew about Evel Knievel. But I didn't really get to watch an extended story about the crazed stunt man until recently.
It's incredible he wasn't killed in all of those stunts. And all those broken bones. Watch the DVD, if you can.
I started thinking about that sta...
5:30 PM Fri, May 23, 2008 | Permalink
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NEWS 4 IS FOLLOWING THE DISCOVERING AND PENDING RETURN OF 15 YEAR OLD ROZA AHMAD BACK TO HER HOMETOWN OF SHILOH, ILLINOIS.
TODAY, I SPENT THE DAY TALKING TO DETECTIVES IN BELLEVILLE, A POLICE SPOKESMAN IN FLORIDA, AS WELL AS A NEIGHBOR OF THE GIRL'S FAMILY; ALL OF WHOM HAVE MANY CONCERNS ABOUT THIS CASE.
MOST NOTABLY, EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW HOW DID THE 9TH GRADER EN...
2:32 PM Fri, May 23, 2008 | Permalink
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This is a rare instance in news. We usually are not in the business of "rumors."
But this "talk" is causing the price of Anheuser Busch stock to increase dramatically. One share increasing by about $5 dollars in about one day.
Our News 4 Financial Analyst, Bob Hardcastle says remember it is a rumor, nothing more. It is not based in fact. And neither of the primary players is talking. No comment from Anheuser Bu...
5:32 PM Thu, May 22, 2008 | Permalink
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When a man is accused of sexually abusing 2 8 year old boys, neighbors react and wonder why they were never told 29 year old Janos Ujvary was living next to them. He's a Hungarian exchange student charged with 4 felony crimes, including sodomy and child molestation. The abuse allegedly happened to members of his host family. As a mother, I understand neighbors fears about having an alleged child molestor in their midst. But as a reporter, I...
12:47 PM Thu, May 22, 2008 | Permalink
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Instead of viewing this as a voyeur--remember the reason for this blog...rarely do we get a glimpse of a crime from the outside in ---and from the inside out---this is a chilling piece of video!
It places you "inside" the crime scene. You hear the siren. You hear the shots fired "outside" the ambulance. And you hear the victim "inside" the emergency vehicle - A co-worker asks "are you okay?" - and the victim answers-- "I've been shot."...
9:33 AM Thu, May 22, 2008 | Permalink
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When word of the fourth security breach at lambert airport started to spread many viewers wasted little time holding security accountable.
"With everything I (we) have to go thru to board a plane, this is just absolutely ridiculous."
"This is a scary situation ... this person was caught but what about others that could get thru and not be caught ..."
"It does'nt surprise me"
Hearing these latest responses I ...
10:38 PM Wed, May 21, 2008 | Permalink
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Even though there were 25 thousand bees inside a classroom at Delhi Elementary School, the principal, Michelle Brown says no one was stung. Except for the beekeeper, Gene Reilly who got it near his eye.
It was starnge being aroud so many bees at first. I thought for sure I would be stung, but after a while I realized they weren't interested in stinging, just flying around and making honey, and I was told as I didn't distur...
10:26 PM Wed, May 21, 2008 | Permalink
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With gas at about $3.79 a gallon for regular, drivers lined up at a downtown Fuelman that had yet to raise its prices Wednesdday evening. Fuelman was still at $3.61. Drivers told me they're consolidating trips to the grocery store and bank and cutting back on other expenditures to pay the higher gas prices. But the night before I was shocked to learn the price of gas is even impacting church attendance. Pastor Patricia Vollertsen of Grace...
8:22 PM Wed, May 21, 2008 | Permalink
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While record oil prices are making some investors rich, the airline industry is facing, perhaps, the worst economic times since planes stopped flying altogether in the days following the 2001 terror attacks.
"We're just trying to stay afloat," says Mary Frances Fagan, a spokeswoman for American Airlines in Chicago. "We're just trying to pay for oil."
In 2003, she says, American Airlines paid about $3 billion fo...
4:35 PM Wed, May 21, 2008 | Permalink
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FROM COAST TO COAST, WE CONTINUE TO SEE GAS PRICES SOAR. ALL AROUND THE BI-STATE, EVERYONE'S FEELING THE PINCH AT THE PUMP. NOW, THE CAHOKIA POLICE DEPARTMENT IS MAKING SOME IMMEDIATE CHANGES TO COMBAT RISING GAS PRICES.
CHIEF RICHARD WATSON TELLS NEWS 4, "WE'RE ALL TAKING MEASURES TO TRY TO CUT FUEL COSTS."
AT A TIME WHEN A GALLON OF REGULAR GAS IN CAHOKIA COSTS $3.89 TO $...
11:40 AM Wed, May 21, 2008 | Permalink
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A metro east ems worker is in stable condition after being shot while rushing a victim to the hospital. This story almost seems impossible, but this day an age crimes like this are occurring all to often. Earlier this week I had the chance to follow EMS crews as they traveled through St. Clair county. With each call for help I witnessed how each call has its own hidden dangers. The first call was for a man who had been stabbed multiple times i...
11:36 PM Tue, May 20, 2008 | Permalink
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Principia College, where the mammouth was found, sits high on a bluff over the Mississippi River in Jersey County, Illinois. I'm told the landscape there 17,000 years ago was very different than it is today. But back then mammouths and sabre-tooth tigers roamed the area.
The bones of the mammouth found on campus were buried several feet down near some dorms. It's interesting that the bones of a wolf were also found on th...
10:48 PM Tue, May 20, 2008 | Permalink
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In a live report last week, I said that we might look back at $4 per gallon gas as "the good old days."
Now, an energy analyst is saying the same thing. On CNBC, Robert Hirsch of Management Information Services said: "The prices that we're paying at the pump today are, I think, going to be the good old days, because others who watch this very closely forecast that we're going to be hitting $12 and $15 a gallon, and the...
8:15 PM Mon, May 19, 2008 | Permalink
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Yes, it's true. Less than one week after West Virginia Democrats voted overwhelming for Hillary Clinton, Sen. Robert Byrd, West Virginia's senior senator, says he's supporting Barack Obama for President.
Thinking the Associated Press might have gotten the story wrong, I called Byrd's Washington office.
But a spokesman told me the story is true. Byrd supports Obama.
Here's how the AP covered the story ...
1:37 PM Mon, May 19, 2008 | Permalink
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THIS SPRING HAS BEEN A VIOLENT ONE ON THE STREETS OF SAINT LOUIS. THE CITY'S MURDER RATE IS UP COMPARED TO A YEAR AGO. FROM JANUARY THROUGH MAY 13TH OF THIS YEAR THERE'VE BEEN 56 HOMICIDES IN ST. LOUIS-----COMPARED TO 37 LAST YEAR THIS TIME......AND IF YOU'RE KEEPPING TRACK, THAT'S 19 MORE THIS YEAR.
SO, ARE CITY COPS OUT-GUNNED, YES, SAYS SERGEANT GARY WIEGERT, A 28 YEAR CITY COP AND PRESIDENT ...
11:15 PM Sun, May 18, 2008 | Permalink
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Nearly seven years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Osama bin Laden is still distributing audio recordings with his take on the news. How is this possible?
In a new recording, bin Laden calls on Muslims "to ignore the Islamic prohibition against raising arms against fellow Muslims," according to the Associated Press, "claiming it was legitimate to rise up against leaders who are not governin...
11:05 PM Sat, May 17, 2008 | Permalink
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Clinton wins Kentucky. Obama wins Oregon. Somehow we know these results days before voters in those states cast their ballots. It's what the polls claim will happen.
Polling is so good (they failed recently in New Hampshire), we can predict a lot based on what pollsters are telling us now, and the fight for the White House is shaping up to be very close, again.
Months before the November general election, we ...
10:57 PM Thu, May 15, 2008 | Permalink
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I think it's interesting to mention that the charges in the indictment, conspiracy and accessing computers without authorzation to obtain information to inflict emotional distress, have only been used so far to go after computer hackers. So this case seems to be a first.
I was told the US Attorney in Los Angeles had been working on this, at least, since January and maybe longer. They took the case because Myspace is headquart...
4:05 PM Wed, May 14, 2008 | Permalink
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Barack Obama is about to make history, becoming the first person of African descent to win a major political party's nomination for President of the United States. Mingo County tried, but failed to stop him.
Mingo County, West Virginia, that is.
In Mingo County on Tuesday, Democratic primary voters handed Hillary Clinton a massive victory, giving her 84% of the vote, compared with Obama's 8%.
Overall i...
1:48 PM Tue, May 13, 2008 | Permalink
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Presidential contender Barack Obama is courting voters in Rush Limbaugh's home town of Cape Girardeau, hoping Republicans will defect to his camp this November and swing Missouri's electoral votes his way.
"We think there are voters there who are desperately interested in changing Washington," Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells the New York Times. "They have an independent streak in them, and we have a chance to...
10:39 PM Mon, May 12, 2008 | Permalink
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The National Weather Service reports that in the last ten years, 49 people have been killed by tornadoes while in their cars.
The other interesting stat I heard in doing this story is that the bottom of a twister packs about 30 percent less power and less debris. And that is why experts say it's best to get out of your car and lie down face down in a ditch if you're along a road and faced with a tornado.
It...
3:56 PM Mon, May 12, 2008 | Permalink
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Today I had the chance to talk to Richard Mark with Ameren about this latest round of power outages. He tells me the wind speeds coupled with the fact that the ground was saturated lead to a number of trees falling over. At the peak of the storm more than 80,000 people had no power. Right now (4:00PM) at little over 2000 people still have no electricity. To be honest, driving around today we had a hard time finding people living in the dar...
3:44 PM Mon, May 12, 2008 | Permalink
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Just when you thought voters would have only two major choices for president this November, the contest got a little more complicated today.
Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr is enetering the fray in a big way, running for president for the Libertarian party.
According to his web site, bobbarr2008.com, "Barr chose to join the Libertarian Party because at this time in our nation's history, it is essential to jo...
10:16 PM Fri, May 09, 2008 | Permalink
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Maria Chappell Nadal probably doesn't fit anyone's idea of a superdelegate. But she is now in her fourth year as a Missouri State Representative from University City.
She admits that she doesn't answer about 80 precent of her phone calls these days, and it took me alot of effort just to make contact with her and then get her to talk about being a superdelegate (she says she's only done two TV interviews). And despite all ...
4:34 PM Fri, May 09, 2008 | Permalink
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I've covered the murder investigations into Randy Greenman and George Whitter's death from the beginning. So, today I met back up with the investigators to see where they were in this case. We found out a number of things, like that the detectives have identified persons of interest and believe they have something to do with organized crime. Lt. David Marshak would not say who they are because the investigation is still ongoing. In our con...
9:56 PM Wed, May 07, 2008 | Permalink
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Lena Morrissey got started in March of '07 with an idea to help military moms to be with a "shower in a box."
It's an idea that has grown to the point where she is now helping these new moms at bases all over the country.
This weekend she's sending out 100 boxes filled with items donated by Walmart, but she depends on donations from all corners to keep her effort going.
It's amazing how organzied she is ...
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