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  • Ballroom dance contest inspires 5th-graders

    It's not often that the introductory notes of a rhythmic Argentine tango flavored with accordion, violin and percussion elicits a roar of excitement from a roomful of fifth-graders.The finals of St. Louis Dancing Classrooms is no ordinary affair.After 10 weeks of training twice a week, select St. Louis public and private schools from Normandy to Imperial competed for bragging rights as ...

  • Jimmy Connors gets defensive in memoir

    The St. Louis area has produced several world-class tennis players, including Wimbledon champions Arthur Ashe (who attended Sumner High School) and the doubles team of Ken Flach and Robert Seguso (who attended SIU-Edwardsville). But the player who scrawled the name St. Louis on the map was tennis' original bad boy, Jimmy Connors.Actually, his place on the map was on the wrong side of the ...

  • Report Yahoo nearing $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr

    This image released by NBC shows Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer appearing on NBC News' "Today" show, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 in New York to introduce the website's redesign. Yahoo is renovating the main entry into its website in an effort to get people to visit more frequently and linger for longer periods of time. The long-awaited makeover of Yahoo.com's home page is the most ...

  • Missouri Legislature wraps up work for 2013 session

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's 2013 legislative session has come to an end. The House and Senate each wrapped up their work Friday shortly after 6 p.m. - a few minutes after the mandatory adjournment time set by the Missouri Constitution. The session included the passage of an income tax cut for individuals and businesses that is projected to eventually reduce state revenues by ...

  • Obama talks jobs says politics misplace focus

    President Barack Obama attends a roundtable at the Center for Urban Families (CFUF) in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour". CFUF is a Baltimore non-profit whose mission is to strengthen urban communities by helping fathers and families achieve stability and economic success. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ...


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Movie Review

Planet of the Apes (2001)

Tim Burton's "reimagining" of Planet of the Apes is not particularly good science fiction, but it is a well-crafted, atmospheric action movie that pits humans against simians in a battle for supremacy. What is ultimately disappointing about Burton's film is not what he has brought to the movie, but what he has left out, namely any sense of the artistry and unique voice that one would expec ... ...

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  • Powerball jackpot closing in on another record

    (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki). Cathy Raymond, of Oklahoma City, displays the Powerball Lottery tickets she purchased in Oklahoma City, Friday, May 17, ...

  • Penguins take control vs. Senators behind Crosby

    Dan Bylsma has spent more than four years watching Sidney Crosby be Sidney Crosby.The Pittsburgh Penguins coach doesn't think his captain has ever been better than he was during a 4-3 victory over Ottawa on Friday night that put Pittsburgh in firm control of the Eastern Conference semifinals.Recording his second career playoff hat trick on a dazzling rush, a somewhat fortunate bounce and a ...

  • Mistakes cost Giants in 10-9 loss to Rockies

    Madison Bumgarner, the steadiest pitcher in the San Francisco Giants' rotation so far this season, finally had an off night and it was a doozy.Bumgarner botched a potential double play with an errant throw and gave up the first grand slam of his big league career in San Francisco's 10-9 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Friday night.The Giants had a season-high four errors in losing to ...

  • Illinois Class 3A sectionals

    Teams from the Metro East had to travel farther than the other schools at the Class 3A Rock Island boys track Sectional on Friday in the Quad ...

  • Investigator Top US Treasury officials told of tax probe in June of campaign year 2012

    WASHINGTON - The ousted head of the U.S. tax agency apologized to Congress for his agency's tougher treatment of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, including during last year's presidential election, saying it resulted from a misguided effort to handle a flood of applications, not political bias. Lawmakers from both parties harshly criticized the Internal Revenue Service ...

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