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  • Cubs claim reliever Sanchez off waivers

    Reliever Fernando Salas isn't pitching as well as he did in 2011, so why does Cardinals manager Mike Matheny continue to use him in much the ...

  • Stock indexes close higher on hopes for Fed

    Stocks are closing higher on Wall Street as investors bank on continued support from the Federal Reserve.The Dow Jones industrial average rose 52 points to close at 15,387 Tuesday, an increase of 0.3 percent.The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose three points to 1,669, or 0.2 percent. The Nasdaq composite rise five to 3,502, or 0.2 percent.Stock indexes wobbled between gains and losses in ...

  • Schnucks credit-card breach could cost $80 million just in Illinois

    The cost of the massive payment card hack that struck Schnucks in recent months could cost the company $80 million in Illinois alone, according to a court filing.In a motion filed last week, the Maryland Heights-based chain asked that a lawsuit against the company be heard in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, rather than in St. Clair County Circuit Court, because the ...

  • NHL Red Wings take 2-1 lead on Blackhawks

    The young Detroit Red Wings have made the mighty Chicago Blackhawks look vulnerable, beating them two straight times to gain an advantage in their last playoff matchup as Western Conference rivals. Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller scored 31 seconds apart midway through the second period and Pavel Datsyuk restored a two-goal lead in the third to help Detroit beat the visiting Chicago Blackhawks 3-1 ...

  • Suzsanne Singer dies her volunteers visited nursing home residents

    Suzsanne Singer, who died this week at age 88, was a psychologist who trained volunteers to visit nursing home residents who had no visitors.She started her Senior Connections program when she noticed many elderly living their final years in isolation. She and her daughter-in-law, Sandy Roeder Singer, trained volunteers to visit nursing homes.They modeled the program after the extended family of ...


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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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  • Former prison guard 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 ...

  • Stan Musial slept here and so can you — for $1.8 million

    , one of Musial's grandchildren, said his fondest memories of the house are "all the times I played catch with (Musial) down by the pool."Not that long ago, I kind of tried to compute how many times I'd been there, and it's eerie how close it comes to 3,630," Schwarze said, referencing the number of hits Musial amassed in his career.It is not, however, the home in ...

  • MoBap student charged with setting car fires at campuses in Creve Coeur

    o A Missouri Baptist University student and former missionary has been charged with setting four parked cars on fire on and near campus earlier this month.Andrew Wos, 21, of the 5200 block of Sunflower Drive in Eureka was charged today with four counts of knowingly burning or exploding after Creve Coeur police say he set four cars ablaze on two parking lots at the university on May 1.Two cars, ...

  • St. Louis police arrest a dozen Peabody protesters

    ST. LOUIS o Police arrested a dozen protesters who were representing the United Mine Workers of America earlier today for blocking a city street outside of bankruptcy court downtown.Ten men and two women were among those arrested along the 100 block of South 10th Street after they disobeyed an officer's order to disperse because they were sitting in a street, police said.Police said the ...

  • Carmakers impede 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 ...

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