AltWeeklies Wire
How Does It Feel?new
Recent lawsuits have punctured the veil of secrecy surrounding lethal injection.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
05-08-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Going Down Slownew
Bennie Smith and a dwindling cadre of St. Louis music pioneers have a right to sing the blues.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
05-01-2006 |
Music
Activist's Criminal Past Divides St. Louis Gay Communitynew
When Pride St. Louis committee members elected Chad Saenz as their vice president last August, few knew he was a convicted felon.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
12-20-2005 |
LGBT
A Racketeer Goes Out With a Bangnew
Thomas Venezia, found dead in July, had built a St. Louis area gambling and strip-club empire that federal prosecutors later valued at $48 million. Second of two parts
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
12-13-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Parents Question Police Version of Their Daughter's Murdernew
A young woman's parents have doubts about investigators' conclusion that she was killed by her much older racketeer boyfriend, who then killed himself. First of two parts
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
12-06-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Missouri Scientists Concerned Over Embryonic Cell-Research Debatenew
Small life-sciences companies in the St. Louis region could fuel an economic regeneration, but they face a major obstacle: the Missouri anti-abortion lobby and its muscular opposition to embryonic stem-cell research.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
11-15-2005 |
Science
Guild Hires Official the Paper Exposednew
Shannon Duffy, nailed in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch expose about double dipping by fire-protection district officials, has been hired as the St. Louis Newspaper Guild's business agent.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
09-06-2005 |
Business & Labor
Unfinished Symphonynew
AltWeeklies Award - Arts Feature
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
08-30-2005 |
Media
Law Aims to Shut Down Missouri's Meth Labsnew
New restrictions on sales of cold-medicine tablets that contain ingredients used to make methamphetamines may dry up mom-and-pop meth labs but could open the door to more organized crime.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
07-12-2005 |
Politics
Syphilis Reemerges, Deadlier Than Evernew
Syphilis followed crack cocaine into St. Louis a decade ago, and now the methamphetamine epidemic has caused a surge among gays.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
07-06-2005 |
Science
Kids & Drugs & Rock & Rollnew
Frank Szachta says he helps troubled kids adopt "enthusiastic sobriety." Critics say his highly social Crossroads Program is at best a scam that pulls children into a life of chain-smoking vulgarity.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
05-17-2005 |
Science
Acquisitions Prepared Pulitzer Inc. for Salenew
In the years preceding Pulitzer Inc.'s sale to Lee Enterprises, Pulitzer president and chief executive Robert Woodworth grew the company through strategic moves like buying a group of suburban St. Louis, Mo., papers. Second of two parts
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
03-14-2005 |
Media
Lawsuit Claims Lethal Injection Is Unconstitutionalnew
A federal lawsuit argues that Missouri's method of execution is a "cruel and unusual punishment." Lawyers for a Death Row inmate contend that one of the drugs administered, Pavulon, leaves the person being executed completely paralyzed but fully conscious and susceptible to pain.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
12-21-2004 |
Crime & Justice
Child's Illness Separates Husband and Wifenew
When his son had a medical emergency and needed to be treated in the U.S., Tim Hogan discovered just how "humanitarian" his native country's immigration law is. He could come to the U.S. with his baby but had to leave his Honduran wife behind.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
11-09-2004 |
Immigration
Murder Conviction Is Tough Luck for Man Who Could Be Innocentnew
A federal appeals court says the facts suggest that Darryl Burton may well be innocent of the murder of hustler Donald Ball. But impediments erected by courts and Congress mean the court can offer no relief.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
11-09-2004 |
Crime & Justice
