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Ladue highway shooting leaves teen in serious condition

4 years 1 month ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo--Police in Ladue have been able to piece together more information about a Friday evening shooting on Interstate 170 that shut down traffic for several hours. Authorities say a rolling gun battle on northbound lanes between Ladue Road and Delmar Boulevard took place between 3:15 and 3:45pm Friday between a black Nissan [...]
Gregg Palermo

St. Louis police identify children in murder-suicide

4 years 1 month ago
ST. LOUIS---Police have identified the children found dead early Friday morning in what authorities are calling a murder-suicide. Police responded to the 1000 block of Spruce Friday and found a boy and a girl with puncture wounds who were pronounced dead at the scene. Saturday morning, police identified 12-year-old Paris Harvey of St. Louis as [...]
Gregg Palermo

Did teen's big size factor in Florida amusement ride death?

4 years 1 month ago
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A rising middle school football player in Missouri, only 14 but already 6 feet, 5 inches tall and well over 300 pounds, Tyre Sampson fell to his death from a towering Florida amusement ride. Lawyers for his family want to know if negligence about his size, or other factors, played [...]
Associated Press

Biden on Putin: 'This man cannot remain in power'

4 years 1 month ago
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Joe Biden said Saturday that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” dramatically escalating the rhetoric against the Russian leader after his brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Chris Megerian

Game Jam Winner Spotlight: Dreaming The Cave

4 years 1 month ago
So far, in our series of posts about the winners of the fourth annual public domain game jam, Gaming Like It’s 1926, we’ve looked at Best Adaptation The Wall Across The River and Best Deep Cut The Obstruction Method. Today, it’s time for the winner of the Best Remix category: Dreaming The Cave by David […]
Leigh Beadon

Why can anyone create a new cryptocurrency?

4 years 1 month ago
The crypto community brags that there are thousands of cryptocurrencies these days. But doesn't that, almost by definition, demolish the idea that cryptocurrencies have real value? When Bitcoin was unique, that was one thing. But over the past few years it's became clear that nearly any random person can create a cryptocurrency. All it take ...continue reading "Why can anyone create a new cryptocurrency?"
Kevin Drum