It isn’t just a ripple effect; it is more like a tidal wave of both grief and inspiration spreading after a horrific head on car crash in St. Francois County. The people killed were the kind of people who changed lives. “God’s family took a blow this week, losing some quality people,” says Harvest Christian Centre Children’s Pastor Dale Stringer.

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Nothing is more precious to a running back than fresh legs. Frank Gore has fresh legs. Ergo, the 49ers should put Gore on ice until the regular season opener Sept. 13 at Arizona so those legs stay fresh. It’s not as though he’s a free agent scrapping to make…

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Ari Fish sure can keep a secret. The Kansas City fashion designer has known for months who won the sixth season of “Project Runway,” even though the show doesn’t begin airing until Aug. 20.

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Baseball’s steroid era is effectively over, just not the way most of us imagined. There’s nobody left to bust that would make most fans give a damn. “This isn’t going to have any impact on either of us,” Manny Ramirez said a few days ago, reacting to news that he and one-time Red Sox teammate David Ortiz turned up on the list of players who tested positive during Major League Baseball’s 2003 …

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His law school professors taught attorney Jason Braun case analysis, courtroom techniques and legal research skills, but they overlooked one important area: the practical realities that exist within a firm. So to help young lawyers, Braun has some advice — but it may not be easy for new associates to hear. For instance, Braun says associates should always strive to provide a partner with …

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Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton likes to joke that his “memory’s terrible,” but he can vividly recall the first time he jammed with fellow ax man K.K. Downing.

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Baseball’s steroid era is effectively over, just not the way most of us imagined. There’s nobody left to bust that would make most fans give a damn.

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“A month, are you crazy?” More than one person has asked my wife and me that question in recent weeks. We have been hosting our out-of-state grandchildren for a month: Grant who just turned four and Ayla who is 22 months old.

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Every time Tim Ellis went to visit Lori Brystan’s studio over the past five years, the photographer made a point of talking about this dream she had.

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s treasury secretary said Sunday he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an exploding budget deficit, and his chief economic adviser would not dismiss raising them on middle-class Americans as part of a health care overhaul.

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