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Querrey loses to Roger-Vasselin at Nice Open
American Sam Querrey was eliminated from the quarterfinals of the Open de Nice on Thursday, losing to French wild-card entry Edouard Roger-Vasselin 3-6, 7-6 (2), 6-1.Roger-Vasselin broke the third-seeded Querrey twice in the final set to lead 5-1 before converting his first match point with a forehand winner.Roger-Vasselin will play either Paul-Henri Mathieu or Albert Montanes.The Nice Open is a ...
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Special PGA invite gives boosts to St. Louis rules official
FAIR: Winning re-election to his fourth term this year cost St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay about $3.2 million -- or roughly $126 per vote. Mr. ...
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Gordon Cards Rams Blues chart same steady course
St. Louis Rams first round draft picks Tavon Austin (left) and Alec Ogletree, during a press conference at Rams Park on Friday. (AP Photo/Jeff ...
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U.S. rate on 30-year mortgages rises to 3.59 percent
oAverage rates on fixed mortgage rose for the third straight week, hitting their highest levels since mid-March. Still, mortgage rates remained close to historic lows, a trend that should help sustain the housing recovery.Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac says the average rate for the 30-year loan increased to 3.59 percent this week. That's up from 3.51 percent last week and above the rate of 3.31 ...
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Durbin strange bedfellows eye wealthy farmers subsidies
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Monday it wants to see more cuts to agriculture subsidies in a massive farm bill moving ...
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Movie Review
Bringing Up Baby
When I watch screwball comedies like "Bringing Up Baby," there is a certain part of me that laments the fact that our culture has become so jaded and cynical that a movie like this could never be made again. Oh sure, there have been some attempts in the last ten to twenty years, most notably two Madonna vehicles: "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985) and "Who's That Girl?" (1987), the second of which ... ...
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U.S. unemployment aid applications fall to 340K
o The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 23,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, a level consistent with solid job growth.The less volatile four-week average ticked down just 500 to 339,500, the Labor Department said Thursday. That's close to the five-year low of 338,000 reached during the first week of May. The four-week average is 9 percent lower than ...
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Stocks fall on Fed weak Chinese manufacturing
NEW YORK -; Stocks fell in early trading, extending a sell-off that began Wednesday afternoon, after Chinese manufacturing unexpectedly contracted and on concern that the Federal Reserve may ease back on its stimulus ...
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St. Louis group helping Oklahoma tornado victims
MOORE, Okla. (KSDK) - An army of volunteers are stepping in to help the victims of the Moore, Oklahoma tornado which flattened the community Monday. Two teams of eight people from the St. Louis-based veterans service organization The Fight Continues are helping the victims. They went door-to-door volunteering to help people dig out from the rubble and start the clean-up process. Many have ...
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Teen birthrate hits another record low in 2011
Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY The teen birthrate in 2011 set another new record low, according to the latest federal data, released Thursday. The numbers reflect a continued trend downward for teens having babies. The new rate, 31.3 births per 1,000 women ages 15-19, is about half the 1991 rate of 61.8 births per 1,000 teens, which was an all-time high, according to the National Center for Health ...
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Washington man guilty of sodomizing child
A Washington man will be sentenced July 23 after a jury found him guilty of sodomizing a child. The jury deliberated for just over three hours before finding Ronny Adamse guilty of stautory sodomy by having deviate sexual intercourse with a child under the age of 12 on September 23, 2011. Adamse faces between 10 years to life in prison. The defendant must serve 85-percent of his sentence ...