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  • Artist installs new penguin sculpture at St. Louis Zoo

    Penguin & Puffin Coast at the St. Louis Zoo. The sculpture is a gift of the Explorers Club of St. Louis, which also is presenting Obara with the Marlin Perkins/Jim Fowler Lifetime Artist-in-Residence Award. We talked to the artist about penguins, vanishing nature and how his early experiments in taxidermy led to a career as one of the nation's foremost wildlife sculptors. Q ...

  • Choi leads LPGA event

    Chella Choi shot her second straight 6-under 66 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Jessica Korda and Anna Nordqvist, the Swede who broke the course record with a 61 in the third round of the Mobile Bay LPGA Classic in Alabama.Choi twice made three straight birdies to move to 17 under and has made only two bogeys through three rounds on The Crossings course at the Robert Trent Jones Golf ...

  • Alexander wins fight by TKO after seventh round

    ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. o Devon Alexander hurt his left hand in the first round but still made quick work of his opponent on Saturday night at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J.In what turned out to be a non-title fight, Alexander dominated his opponent, Englishman Lee Purdy, winning by technical knockout when Purdy did not answer the bell for the eighth round.Alexander was in charge the whole ...

  • Bernie Rotation losing arms but theres plenty in reserve

    "Surely this 2.11 ERA will rise. Surely this ERA will be inflated by slumps, tired arms, muscle strains, hot hitters, a drop in confidence and the inevitable swirl of bad luck. Surely, they cannot keep this up. The baseball gods will humble the starters ...

  • Get your scrapbook out for a major happening at Bellerive

    BELLERIVE HISTORY o Originally called The Field Club, the 166-member association opened in 1897 in north St. Louis, anchored by a nine-hole course and built on ...


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Movie Review

War Horse [Blu-Ray]

War Horse [Blu-Ray]

Set against the backdrop of World War I, Steven Spielbergs War Horse is an ambitious, anthological portrait of both the devastation of war and the potential for human decency seen through the eyes of a horse. It is unabashedly romantic in the way it uses the horse, who is named Joey, a ... ...

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  • Investors urge companies to disclose political spending

    As regulators wrestle with whether to force companies to disclose more about their political spending, an increasing number of shareholders are taking matters into their own hands, thrusting the issue before boards of directors across the country.The number of shareholder proposals demanding more transparency in political spending has more than doubled since 2010, jumping from 61 to 128 this ...

  • Winning ticket for 590-mln-dollar Powerball jackpot sold in Florida

    The winning ticket was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Florida. No further details on the lone winner was available. The numbers drawn Saturday were: 10, 13, 14, 22 and 52 with a Powerball number of ...

  • Rams hand Bulldogs first loss in 27 games

    The Rams (18-12), three-time defending Sac-Joaquin Section Division I champs, play at 7 p.m. Monday in the winners' bracket final at Pacific's Klein Family Field. They'll face the winner of Saturday's late game between Turlock-Pitman (17-12) and Atwater-Buhach Colony ...

  • Cardinals waste a rally fall to Brewers in 10th

    A week ago Saturday, the Cardinals were reveling in their rotation. Shelby Miller and Adam Wainwright had just pitched masterfully in ...

  • European discomfort with U.S. farming could derail trade talks

    Many Europeans see American farming and its reliance on genetically modified crops as more Frankenstein than Farmer in the Dell.Now, the opposition here to U.S. agricultural practices is threatening to become a major battle in discussions starting next month that could sweep away trade barriers between the United States and Europe.Many here worry that a trade pact would ease regulations that ...

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