May 2011
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“By 1943, all were in the service — six in the Navy, one in the Marine Corps, one...”
– All 12 Van Coutren children served in the military during World War II. All 12, nine boys and three girls, made it home after the war. All 12 have died: The last living Van Coutren child was Rita Scott.
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“It looks like something my kids would have drawn with crayon.”
– Illinois state Sen. Dale Righter, R-Mattoon on the creative shapes of the state’s 18 new Congressional districts (one less than the current number). State Sen. Matt Murphy, R-Palatine, referred to three Chicago-area districts as “ear-muff-looking.”
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18 of 26 Joplin Globe reporters lost their homes... →
chels:
The Globe Publisher Michael Beatty was quoted by the paper as saying employees began reporting for work minutes after the tornado hit, redoing Monday morning’s edition and making it to the press just one hour late. “It was amazing,” Beatty said in the story. “These people came in who had lost their homes completely. But they were just dedicated to their jobs, to getting the story...
Five Days in Joplin: Notes on a tragedy →
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I’ve lived in tornado alley almost all my life, and I’ve never seen anything like what I just saw in Joplin.
Somewhere around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, May 22, shortly after graduation for Joplin High School let out, a column of hot air welled up in the atmosphere and punched through a ceiling of…
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Body of 16-month-old boy in Joplin tornado... →
A sad follow-up to the photo I posted last week: The body of 16-month-old Skyular Logsdon, believed missing in the Joplin tornado, was identified Sunday using DNA, family members said.
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WatchRescuing pets and, this time, 30 chickens after the tornado in Joplin.
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County police find bodies inside Affton home,... →
Neighbors said a couple in their 40s lived at the house along with a daughter who was set to graduate tonight from Affton High School. They described the couple as happy and said they were often seen walking their dogs through the neighborhood.
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Live Kansas City, central Missouri tornado... →
Tornadoes have been confirmed in Kansas City and Sedalia.
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WatchA family of ducks were rescued from a storm drain. (This WKYT-TV report includes every duck pun and cliché imaginable. Every single one.)
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Severe weather should arrive in St. Louis after 4... →
Tornadoes already have been spotted in the Kansas City area today. A large storm system is expected to arrive in the St. Louis area sometime in the late afternoon hours today. This system could be similar to the Good Friday storms that produced devastating tornadoes in the St. Louis area. A tornado watch has been issued for the St. Louis area until 9 p.m.
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WatchOops. President Barack Obama’s limo gets stuck exiting the U.S. Embassy in Ireland.
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“I’m a beer lover, and O’Fallon’s slogan is ‘We Love...”
– Jim Gorczyca, a 20-year Anheuser-Busch marketing veteran, on his purchase of O’Fallon Brewery. Gorczyca bought the brewery for an undisclosed amount in a deal that closed Friday. He left his post as A-B’s director of trade marketing last week; today, he’ll step into his new role as...
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Panoramic views of tornado destruction in Joplin
A 360-degree look at at the street across from St. John Regional Medical Center in Joplin. The hospital was hit by Sunday night’s tornado, and the area around it was destroyed.
Another Joplin neighborhood:
Photos by Jess Baker, @borntorunnergrl / weather.com
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Joplin suffers 'direct hit' from tornado; reports... →
The photos and videos from Joplin are heartbreaking. A tornado hit a hospital and flattened two firehouses. The Springfield-Greene County Office of Emergency Management has confirmed 24 deaths; the number of injuries is unknown.
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Voters help Mission: St. Louis win a new truck
On Thursday, Mission: St. Louis became the second St. Louis nonprofit to win a new car in the Toyota 100 Cars for Good competition.
Mission: St. Louis completes home repairs for low-income St. Louis residents, and a new truck would make that work easier, safer and more efficient. Toyota 100 Cars for Good is giving away 100 vehicles over 100 days to organizations in need. Five organizations...
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“In the early 1970s, Randy Poffo was just another low minor-leaguer who found...”
– An excerpt from an 1988 Post-Dispatch profile of Randy Poffo, better known as Randy “Macho Man” Savage. Savage died today after suffering a heart attack while driving. Poffo played with four Class A farm teams in three organizations before finally striking out into professional...
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Just in case ...
ohnewsroom:
Editor to newsroom: “If the end of the world is Saturday, we won’t be printing a paper. But we will be posting online until the power goes out.”
The same is true at the Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com.
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WatchCitygarden has won this year’s Urban Land Institute Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award. And a $10,000 cash prize. Citygarden beat out four other projects to win the award: Two were in Portland, Ore.; two were in Houston. The Institute said Citygarden “has attracted diverse users, catalyzed nearby development and changed perceptions of downtown.”
Above, an expert breaks down...
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“It’s almost like you’re staring Satan right in the face. Just...”
– U.S. Marshal Justin Barlow on now-convicted murderer Christopher Coleman. Barlow, then a police detective, lived across the street from Coleman at the time of the murders and discovered the bodies of Sheri Coleman, 31, Garett Coleman, 11, and Gavin Coleman, 9. 