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  • Bernie Bytes Baby Pedro is missing

    Johnny Rodriguez didn't hesitate to link Carlos to Pedro."I've been in baseball more than 30 years and he could be a No. 1 guy in St. Louis," Rodriguez said after the game. "He reminds me of when I saw a young Pedro Martinez in (Triple A) Albuquerque in the early '90s. In fact, he shows me more than what Pedro did at his age, and you know how his career ...

  • Tiger will return to Begays charity event

    Tiger Woods is returning again to play a charity event hosted by Notah Begay III, his former teammate at Stanford.Woods will play in the NB3 Foundation Challenge in late August at Turning Stone Resort's Atunyote (ah-DUNE'-yote) Golf Club. It'll be his fourth appearance in the six years Begay has hosted the event, a fundraiser that targets health issues facing Native ...

  • Peabody to allow Patriot to probe its financial advisers

    oPatriot Coal Corp. can get documents from financial advisers Morgan Stanley and Duff & Phelps related to the company's 2007 spinoff after former parent Peabody Energy Corp. withdrew its opposition.St. Louis-based Peabody agreed to allow subpoenas for the documents to go forward, Steven Cousins, a lawyer for the company, told U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kathy Surratt-States on ...

  • Stock indexes head higher in afternoon trading

    FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 file photo, traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Stock indexes are edging higher in early trading on Wall Street Tuesday, May 21, 2013, as investors look ahead to the Federal Reserve's next moves. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, ...

  • Kirk undecided on Pritzker appointment for Commerce Secretary

    WASHINGTON--Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker has Sen. Dick Durbin's support to become Commerce Secretary, but Sen. Mark Kirk is on the fence.Kirk, an Illinois Republican, told the Tribune on Monday that while he had met recently with Pritzker, whose confirmation hearing is Thursday, he had not made up his mind on whether to support her. She's been making the rounds on Capitol Hill ...


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Desperate Living [DVD]

Desperate Living [DVD]

By the time writer/director John Waters made Desperate Living in 1977, he was already a notorious midnight-movie cult celebrity, a genuine fringe iconoclastic auteur whose low-budget cinematic barbs skewered self-aggrandizing hippies as readily as it did fascist oppressors. His early movies, Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974), had taken the midnight ... ...

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  • Hyatt workers set protest of Pritzker Commerce nomination

    Hyatt workers and union members are set to protest the nomination of billionaire businesswoman Penny Pritzker to the Commerce Department in a continuing effort to call attention to a long-standing contract dispute.Members of the UniteHere union are planning to stage a protest Monday evening outside of the Hyatt McCormick Place, where the National Restaurant Association show is taking ...

  • Carmakers fight drive to prevent rental of defective vehicles

    Enterprise relents, promises not to rent recalled cars WASHINGTON o Clayton-based Enterprise Holdings Inc. on Thursday dropped opposition to federal oversight of rental car safety and endorsed ...

  • Arizona woman who killed boyfriend tells jury what shed do if life spared

    Jodi Arias looks at her defense attorney Jennifer Wilmott on Monday, May 20, 2013 during the penalty phase of Arias' murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, AZ. Jodi Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix home in June 2008. (The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, ...

  • Oklahoma governor says untold number missing after tornado

    Austin Brock holds cat Tutti, shortly after the animal was retrieved from the rubble of Brock's home, which was demolished a day earlier when a tornado moved through Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening an entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled ...

  • Tornado destroys part of Mount Olive business district

    o A tornado ripped through Mount Olive's Main Street on Monday night, destroying four commercial buildings in the downtown business district and damaging at least 30 other properties.No injuries were reported. The storm hit at about 10:15 p.m. Monday.The townspeople were feeling lucky, compared to the devastation coming out of Oklahoma."Everyone is alive, and this is nothing -- just ...

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