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DALLAS - Albert Pujols could have been a wealthy Cardinal for life, planning for the day his statue would be erected outside Busch Stadium next to those of Stan Musial, Bob Gibson and the other St. Louis greats. Instead, exactly six weeks after leading the Cardinals to a second title in one of the most thrilling World Series ever, he decided to accept the second-highest contract in baseball history for a new future in southern California with the Los Angeles Angels.
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DALLAS - Albert Pujols could have been a wealthy Cardinal for life, planning for the day his statue would be erected outside Busch Stadium next to those of Stan Musial, Bob Gibson and the other St. Louis greats. Instead, exactly six weeks after leading the Cardinals to a second title in one of the most thrilling World Series ever, he decided to accept the second-highest contract in baseball history for a new future with the Los Angeles Angels.
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Columbia Peace Coalition will hold a gathering to mark the eighth anniversary of the Afghanistan war at 1:30 p.m. today at the Courthouse Square. Events include music by Todd Day Waite and speakers including Michael McPhearson, executive director of the national Veterans for Peace organization and Gulf war vet. Also speaking will be Bill Ramsey, a coordinator of the St. Louis Instead of War Coalition and founder of the Human Rights Action Service. Call Peaceworks at 875-0539 or visit www.midmopeaceworks.org. All members of the Mid-Missouri community are invited to attend. The 2009 Hartsburg Pumpkin festival continues today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Hartsburg. Learn more at www.hartsburgpumpkinfest.com.
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A trial scheduled to begin today against City Museum in St. Louis instead has settled. A Kansas City family sued after a boy fell from a jungle gym and broke his skull. The defendants were City Museum, its founder Robert Cassilly and the museum's architect, Klitzing Welsch & Associates.
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ST. LOUIS -- Instead of taking to heart a college ranking report some deem no more than an academic "beauty pageant," University of Missouri administrators want curators, employees and constituents to consider what the system is producing. UM President Gary Forsee yesterday told the Board of Curators his own model of accountability measures better reflect the mission of the university than annual U.S. News & World Report college rankings. He unveiled the UM Accountability Measures System -- or AMS for short -- during the board's work session on the St. Louis campus yesterday.
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Adam Ehrlich, a catcher from Campbell Hall High drafted in the sixth round by the St. Louis Cardinals, has signed a contract, opting to play professional baseball instead of honoring a letter- of-intent to Loyola Marymount University. Ehrlich flew to Florida on Tuesday to report.
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Among other things, [Jan Neal] began fielding daily phone calls from the national media and stepping in as a liaison for grassroots organizations such as Save Salinas Libraries. The financial control over the library also came to rest in Neal's already stuffed-full hands. While [Jorge Rifa] deals with money issues involving the Salinas City Council, Neal has the difficult chore of deciding how to spend it. Neal can attribute her ability to manage resources and assign tasks to an analytical brain. She says she would have majored in a science had she known of her options when attending college in St. Louis. Instead she felt the need to escape the high-crime city and came up with an excuse. Indiana University, Neal's desired school, had a top-notch library science graduate program. Knowing...
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Board of Education delays meeting concerning layoffs The Buffalo Board of Education has postponed the special meeting it planned to hold at 4 p.m. today to discuss restoring the jobs of laid-off teachers and aides. Board President Louis J. Petrucci announced Thursday that the meeting will be held instead at 4 p.m. Monday in Room 801, City Hall.
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Beyond the Beer Summit," a colloquium held at Harvard Law School last Thursday, sparked a vigorous debate among distinguished scholars on the lessons learned after the disorderly conduct arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates. Instead, [Anthony Batts] emphasized that police are "just trying to do their job" and are "just trying to be safe themselves." Batts also stressed the importance of obeying the law and suggested civilian trainings to inform the public on how to properly respond to and interact with police. [Ronald Sullivan] concluded the event by returning to the importance of individual responsibility. Noting the tendency of Americans to engage in "race thinking" and to treat people as mere "personifications of racial stereotypes" instead of "individual moral agent...
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Photo by Joshua A. Bickel ST. LOUIS -- Missouri wide receiver T.J. Moe looked like he had gone 12 rounds instead of four quarters. Twice, Illinois defenders separated Moe's helmet from his head, which led to two impromptu medical procedures on the sidelines to stitch up gashes on his chin.
