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  • Radioactive nanoparticles that target cancer cells developed

    Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a way to create radioactive nanoparticles that target lymphoma tumor cells wherever they may be in the body. Cancers of all types become most deadly when they metastasize and spread tumors throughout the body. Once cancer has reached this stage, it becomes very difficult for doctors to locate and treat the numerous tumors that can ...

  • Freese hopes to play tonight

    Milwaukee's Norichika Aoki (left) is tagged out trying to steal home by Cardinals third baseman David Freese to end the first inning during a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday, May 19, 2013, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Photo by Chris Lee, ...

  • Erratic Sanchez goes to Cubs on waivers

    Cardinals pitcher Eduardo Sanchez poses for a portrait during St. Louis Cardinals spring training on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, at Roger Dean Stadium in Jupiter, Fla. Photo by Chris Lee, ...

  • MLB St. Louisans Howard Scherzer shine

    First baseman Ryan Howard (Lafayette High) was in Philadelphia's lineup after a two-game absence because of knee inflammation and had there hits, three RBIs and scored twice to lift the Phillies ...

  • Bellerive looms large in Wargo’s story

    Tom Wargo is getting some attention this week, in part because he is the oldest player in the field at the 74th Senior PGA Championship.The original Tin Cup story, Wargo turned 70 last September. Now, plenty of people might be put off by a focus on their age. Not Wargo.He's been an ironworker, an assembly-line autoworker, a bartender, a fisherman in Alaska and a hustler most of his life. He ...


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XXX

XXX is the kind of movie where, when a character needs to destroy a communications tower in order to disrupt a surveillance system, he doesn't simply blow it up or something so middle-of-the-road and typical as that. Instead, he parachutes in on a snow board and lands on a mountain top hundreds of feet above it, sets off bombs to create a massive avalanche, and then snowboards down the mou ... ...

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  • NFL notebook Next draft to be held in May

    NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league will move its draft from late April to early or mid-May next year to avoid a scheduling conflict at Radio City Music Hall, the event's longtime ...

  • NHL playoffs Sharks beat Kings to tie series 2-2

    jump off to a fast start with his second goal of the postseason and the Sharks tied their second-round series against Los Angeles at two games with a 2-1 victory over the Kings in Game 4 on Tuesday night. Logan Couture followed up his overtime game-winner in Game 3 with his fifth power-play goal of the playoffs to add to the lead and Antti Niemi made 22 saves as the Sharks matched the ...

  • Tyler Lyons ready for first Cardinals start

    But he said he is not like John Gast, who won his first two starts. "I would say Gast and I are not very similar pitchers, for sure," said Lyons. "He's got a really, really good changeup and I pitch more off my breaking balls than he does."Oklahoma State product Lyons has never thrown in a game to catcher Yadier Molina, who was in the World Baseball Classic with the ...

  • USAC race set for Gateway

    The United States Auto Club Silver Crown series returns to Gateway Motorsports Park on June 1 for the Gateway 100 on the 1.25-mile oval in Madison. The green flag for the 80-lap race is 4 p.m. "This will be a great historical day for Gateway as we reopen the oval," said Gateway owner and St. Louisan Curtis Francois, who completed the purchase of the 150-acre tract on May 1 from several ...

  • Lowes 1Q profit rises but results miss Street

    Lowe's first-quarter net income rose almost 3 percent, even as a wet and cool spring dampened sales of gardening products.But the home improvement chain's quarterly performance missed Wall Street's expectations. Its shares dropped more than 4 percent in premarket trading Wednesday.Spring is the biggest season for home improvement retailers. While the weather was chilly in the ...

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