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Alton Marquette gears up for another appearance in Naperville
For the second time in three years, the Alton Marquette girls soccer team finds itself exactly where it wants to be -- the Class 1A state tournament.Its last visit to North Central College in Naperville, site of the state tournament, ended in celebration. The Explorers are hoping for more of the same this time around."I was part of the championship team (in 2011)," junior sweeper ...
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Westminster rallies to make a return trip to state semifinals
oAfter the first three innings of its Class 4 quarterfinal, the Westminster baseball team was down 4-0, facing a no-hitter and elimination at the hands of Cape Notre Dame.Bulldogs junior starter Josh Haggerty was mowing down the Wildcats' potent offense until Westminster returned to form and put up a crooked five runs in the fourth inning on its way to a 7-5 victory.Two-time defending Class ...
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St. Pius X is ousted 3-0 by fellow postseason surprise New Madrid
oOne dream season bowed out to another.After reaching their first quarterfinal game since 1964, the surprising playoff run by St. Pius X ended Thursday to another magical postseason push by New Madrid County Central 3-0 during a Class 3 quarterfinal at Eagle Park."I don't think we even expected to be here at this point," St. Pius coach Jerry Woods said. "It's like a ...
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Triads Thomas slams door on No. 6 Alton Marquette in 4-1 win
oTriad's Jakob Thomas simply kept shutting the door on Alton Marquette's bats Thursday.The Knights starting pitcher thwarted several would-be Marquette scoring chances, including getting out of a bases loaded, nobody out jam to lead host Triad to a 4-1 win in a Class 3A Triad Regional semifinal. The Knights (25-11) will host conference rival Highland in the regional championship at 1 ...
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CLASS 4 BASEBALL QUARTERFINAL St. Marys comeback effort falls short
o No matter how hard it tried, the big hit escaped the St. Mary's baseball team during its 6-4 loss to Boonville in a Class 4 quarterfinal Thursday at Harley Park.The top four hitters in the Dragons order -- Matt Causino, John Gathard, Lorenzo Garcia and Mike Lamb -- were a combined 2-for-15 in the defeat."It's a great team and it just stinks we lost," St. Mary's senior ...
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ILLINOIS BASEBALL ROUNDUP Carlyle edges by Nashville in sectional semi
Kyle Jackson hit a two-run double in the third inning and right-hander Logan Zachry made it stand up, as Carlyle held on to beat host Nashville, 2-1, in the Class 2A Nashville Sectional semifinals on Thursday.Zachry limited the Hornets (22-6) to five hits. He struck out five and walked one.Jackson's double was his only hit of the game and just one of four for the Indians. His clutch knock ...
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Haas and Waldorf share the first-round lead at Bellerive in Senior PGA Championship
Jay Haas, who grew up in Belleville, Ill. and won three St. Louis District titles in the early 1970s, still knows his way around Bellerive Country Club.Haas nursed a sore back and nursed his scorecard to an opening-round 66, taking a share of the first-round lead of the 74th Senior PGA Championship on Thursday at Bellerive. Duffy Waldorf, who tied for ninth at the 1992 PGA Championship at ...
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Illinois Class 1A state championship
Results for area players Thursday from the first of three days of competition in the Illinois High School Association boys tennis championships in Suburban ...
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McCellan Missourahs legislators get a good grade from this Billy Bob
My name is Billy Bob McClellan, and I am proud to be from Missourah. I live in the St. Louis region, which happens to be a blue dot in a red state, but I mind my own business and git along just fine with most of my neighbors. Sometimes we speak a different language, that's all. They talk about their houses. I talk about my compound. But for the most part, we git along just fine.I was ...
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Only a few students defy a schools high turnover rate
It was a zippy, innovative idea -- inject a few bells and whistles into a couple Cardinals telecasts, on an experimental basis, to see how ...
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War World II medals turn up mysteriously in Goodwill store
Ron Scanlon thought the shadow box sitting in a bin at a Chesterfield Goodwill store seemed out of place, so he took a closer look.Behind a flimsy piece of plexiglass was a picture of a smiling Marine surrounded by gold medals taped to a red velvet liner.One was in the shape of a star.A tattered scrap of paper told the story.The medals and picture, which were discovered on Wednesday, belonged to ...
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Soda maker Excel expanding beer sales to St. Louis
After significant local progress in protecting the public and employees from secondhand smoke, St. Charles city and county remain behind the ...
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Arnold agrees to $450000 settlement in suit filed by fired officer
The city has agreed to a $450,000 settlement to end a lawsuit filed by a police officer who alleged she was sexually harassed and wrongly fired.The officer, Alicia Ott, got $266,000, according to the settlement released Thursday. The law firm that represented her, Dobson, Goldberg, Berns and Rich, received $184,000.Ott was hired in 1999 as an Arnold patrol officer. She became a detective in ...
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Busch Stadium crowd gets big kicks from soccer
Entertaining a full house at Busch Stadium, Manchester City and Chelsea brought some great action to thousands of fans who came out for the ...
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Obama defends drone strikes with changes
On Thursday, President Barack Obama defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving U.S. counterterrorism policy. But he acknowledged that the targeted strikes are no "cure-all" and said he was haunted by the civilians unintentionally killed.The president also announced a renewed push to close the Guantanamo Bay detention ...
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Surviving students teachers from devastated school reunite
Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week's tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday and collected whatever could be salvaged from the ruins.Some children carried thank-you cards. A first-grader was eager to see her favorite gym teacher and for a chance to say goodbye for the school year.It was one of many difficult goodbyes for the city of Moore. ...
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German business confidence unexpectedly rebounds
BERLIN -; A closely watched survey shows that German business confidence rebounded this month - an unexpectedly strong showing that sends a hopeful signal for Europe's biggest ...
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Obama addressing Naval Academy graduates 2nd time
President Barack Obama reacts to CODEPINK founder Medea Benjamin as she shouts at him from the back of the auditorium during his speech about national security, Thursday, May 23, 2013, at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn ...
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Bridge over I-5 collapses in Wash. people vehicles in water
It was shortly after 7 p.m. when Dan Sligh and his wife Sally were near the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River. The semi-truck ahead on the far right seemed too wide for the bridge span, and Sligh told his wife so."We started slowing down, and about that same time another semi-truck came up on the left side," he told KIRO 7. "It almost looked like he pinned that truck over ...
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St. Clair Co. judge under investigation
ST. CLAIR COUNTY (KSDK) - A St. Clair County judge is in custody and under investigation. Circuit Court Judge Michael Cook has been banned from hearing hundreds of cases. The FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration are both involved in this case. No one is confirming much right now but we do know federal agencies, with the help of Illinois State Police and the DEA raided a home on 38th ...
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Twice-a-day siren sounding a pain in the ear for some
COLUMBIA, Ill. (KSDK) - It's 6 p.m. in Columbia, Ill. Do you know where your eardrums are? The twice-a-day tradition of sounding the sirens is what some residents want to keep, and some want to get rid of. The only thing everyone agrees on is that it's loud. Six days a week, the town's three warning sirens go off at 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. The twice daily sirens have been wailing for ...
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Why doesnt St. Louis have a pro soccer team
Chelsea vs. Manchester City The same two teams play in New York Saturday, and while the game here was sold out, that's not the case in New York. However, they have an outdoor Major League Soccer team and 19 other cities do ...
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Life lessons we learn from golf
ST. LOUIS COUNTY (KSDK) - A lot of people believe golf imitates life. Mistakes happen, forgive yourself. Some things are beyond your control. You can always learn something new on a golf course, about yourself and about life. As golfer Patty Katzfey put it, "let the game teach you." We're all searching for something. Sometimes it's a golf ball. Other times it's ...
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Bridgeton residents worry landfill fire reaching radioactive waste
BRIDGETON, Mo. (KSDK) - The stench coming from the West Lake Landfill is no longer the big concern for residents. Residents are worried new information from the Department of Natural Resources shows the fire burning inside the landfill is closer to reaching radioactive waste. Residents are now want the state to take over the landfill. Residents believe the heat levels have allowed the fire ...
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Student loan interest rate could skyrocket this summer
My Maureen Kyle, WKYC-TV Uncle Sam could put student loans in the hands of Wall Street. On Thursday, the U.S. House passed a bill that would tie interest rates to treasury bills. That bill still has to get through the Senate. But even as Congress grapples over this legislation, student loan interest rates are set to double on July 1st to 6.8 percent. That means thousands of Northeast Ohio ...
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St Louis high-speed rail link to Chicago breaks ground
St Louis, Chicago and the state governments of Missouri and Illinois have taken the first step in constructing the Mid West Hub of high-speed rail connections with the building of a high-speed line between the two cities which will quadruple capacity and spur economic development, according to proponents of the high-speed rail line.
Work on the high-speed rail link between St Louis and Chicago has begun, signalling the first step of a mammoth project that is intended to ultimately see Chicago become the hub of a national high-speed railway network that will change the nature of overland transport in the country. Read more
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