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    MICDS has been bringing it at the Class 3 girls state track and field meet the past few years. The Rams placed fourth as a team last year ...

  • MICDS Lutheran South figure to be in mix for team trophy

    MICDS has been bringing it at the Class 3 girls state track and field meet the past few years. The Rams placed fourth as a team last year after taking first in 2011.Coach Jim Lohr's squad, which also had top 10 finishes in 2009 and 2010, looks like it will be in the mix for a team trophy (top four finish) again this Saturday when the two-day event at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, ...

  • MSHSAA member schools approve wide spectrum of constitutional amendments

    In the late 1990s when Crystal City began its softball program, playing in the spring season, as the team did, had its share of advantages.For athletics director Jeff Klos, the more things change, the more they stay the same.A recent vote on the Missouri State High School Activities Association spring ballot created several amendments to the MSHSAA constitution, with the reinstatement of spring ...

  • U.S. stocks gain on reassurance from St. Louis Fed president

    This undated image courtesy of the US Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis shows President and CEO James Bullard. The United States is in peril of "Japanese-style" deflation like that seen in the Asian giant's "lost decade," top Federal Reserve official Bullard said July 29, 2010. Bullard, who votes on the interest rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee, said US ...

  • Golf adopts rule to ban anchored putting stroke starting in 2016

    Golf's governing bodies approved a rule Tuesday that outlaws the putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions, a move opposed by two major golf organizations that contend long putters are not hurting the game.The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and U.S. Golf Association said Rule 14-1b will take effect in 2016."We recognize this has been a divisive issue, but after ...


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Straw Dogs (1971) [DVD]

Straw Dogs (1971) [DVD]

Sam Peckinpahs Straw Dogs is a great and troubling masterpiece, a film of such simultaneous depth and crudeness that it has elicited some of the most conflicting responses of his or any other filmmakers career. For every critic who found it the work of a great and terrible genius, there were those like Judith Crist who labeled it the worst film of 1971 and declared All anyone with an IQ of ... ...

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  • Highway N reopens in Cottleville after flooding shutdown

    COTTLEVILLE o Rain-spurred flooding Monday night has forced the closure of Highway N in a low-lying area west of downtown Cottleville.Linda Wilson Horn, a spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Transportation, said it's unknown when the road will reopen.Horn said the water on the road is from ditches that drain into nearby Dardenne Creek.The highway is closed west of Weiss Road, she ...

  • Former prison guard at Greenville gets 6 months for tax fraud

    A former guard at the federal prison in Greenville will spend time on the other side of the bars after pleading guilty to a tax crime, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.Attillah Ruffin, 43, was also ordered to repay $22,108 to the IRS.Ruffin pleaded guilty in January and admitted filing false tax returns for the years 2005-2010, claiming a false filing status and false exemptions, prosecutors ...

  • Preservation group close to saving two Belleville buildings

    BELLEVILLE oA historic preservation group in Belleville is closing in on a deal to avert demolition of a pair of buildings of more than a ...

  • Five killed in van crash near Vandalia Ill. were from Baltimore

    o Five men killed in a van crash along Interstate 70 near here were finally identified as residents of Baltimore, the coroner said Tuesday.It took more than a day to determine who they were and notify relatives because none carried identifications, said Fayette County Coroner Bruce Bowen.Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said the 11 men in the vehicle were bound for ...

  • Jillys sends sweets and supplies to Oklahoma

    ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KSDK) - One of the most famous bakeries in St. Louis is sending some sweet treats to the tornado victims in Oklahoma. Jilly's Cupcakes is sending cupcakes to the storm ravaged area to bring a little light. The bakery is also sending supplies, bottled water, diapers, hygiene products, dog and cat food, and other necessities down with people from St. Louis who are heading ...

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