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  • Wigginton replaces Freese in lineup

    Ty Wigginton was a late addition to the Cardinals' lineup for tonight's game with the San Diego Padres. Wiggington will play third base in place of David Freese, who still has some inflammation at the base of his right thumb where he took a couple of stitches after catching the cleat of Milwaukee runner Norichika Aoki in a rundown play on Sunday.Freese is available for duty, ...

  • Tornado in Oklahoma City suburb causes destruction dozens killed

    By Doyle Rice, William M. Welch, Donna Leinwand Leger and Michael Winter, USA TODAY A massive, mile-wide tornado with winds up to 200 mph killed at least 51 people Monday afternoon during 40 terrifying minutes of destruction across southern Oklahoma City and its suburbs. The state medical examiner's office confirmed the number of deaths and said the toll was expected to rise. ...

  • Woman shot in Ferguson was not intended target

    FERGUSON, Mo. (KSDK) - A woman was shot Monday afternoon in Ferguson, Mo., but police say she was not the intended target. Ferguson police received a call at 12:03 p.m. about shots fired in the 400 block of South Dade. A 32-year-old woman was found with a gunshot wound to the leg. Police say she was not the intended target, but further details have not been released. The victim was taken to ...

  • Todays MLB starting lineups May 20

    Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...

  • Mizzou gets basketball transfer from Baylor

    When a child first gets their own email account, some parents worry about spam or other solicitation. There are ways to set limits on an ...


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Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan) [DVD]

Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan) [DVD]

Shohei Imamuras raucous gangster melodrama Pigs and Battleships (Buta to gunkan) is the anti-Ozu. After getting his start as an assistant in the 1950s to Yasujiro Ozu, the most Japanese of directors whose films revolved around the quiet dissolution of the tr ... ...

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  • Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school

    Francis Howell senior shortstop Zac Perkins broke two school records in the Vikings' Class 5 District 8 championship win against Holt last ...

  • Yahoo reboots Flickr offers 1 terabyte of storage

    Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make it "awesome" again.Yahoo Inc. said at an event in New York City's Times Square on Monday that it is now offering users 1 terabyte of online storage for free. One terabyte is 1,024 gigabytes _ enough to store more than 500,000 images ...

  • RGA headquarters anticipates growth

    Reinsurance Group of America said today its new headquarters in Chesterfield is designed with growth in mind.When completed in 2014, RGA's $140 million, 405,000-square-foot complex will contain two five-story office buildings linked by a two-story atrium lobby.RGA said the new HQ will include room for workforce expansion the company anticipates over the next several years. In the long-term, ...

  • 37 dead in Oklahoma tornado death toll expected to climb

    A boy is pulled from beneath a collapsed wall at the Plaza Towers Elementary School following a tornado in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo Sue ...

  • Missouri social services agency loses two top officials in a week

    The head of Missouri's social services department has resigned, one week after the state's longtime Medicaid chief departed without explanation.Social Services Director Alan Freeman will return to his position as chief executive officer of Grace Hill Health Centers in St. Louis, effective May 31, Gov. Jay Nixon said in a statement issued Monday. Freeman had been on the job less than ...

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