Back in 1990, when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was blasting his way through Kuwait and threatening to continue his rampage southward down the Arabian Peninsula, Gulf Arab oil leaders were apoplectic with fear and outrage over the violation of a sover…
Germany to buy F-35s, upgrade Eurofighters in blow to Boeing
One of Boeing’s most important assembly lines took another hit from abroad Monday. Germany said it would buy 35 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets and use upgraded European-made fighters to do jobs it once reserved for Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornets. Boein…
Another ovretime loss for Blues, 4-3 to Jets
ST. LOUIS — The Blues just can’t get this overtime thing down. They have been a top 10 team all season long in the overall stands. But they remain near the bottom of the barrel when it comes to OT. The latest example came Sunday against the Winnipeg Je…
Hard feelings persist in Missouri Senate as lawmakers fail to approve congressional map
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — While most other states have finished work on new congressional boundaries, Missouri is one of just four without a map, as lawmakers here remain mired in personal feuds and disagreement over the lines. The acrimony within the Miss…
Joe Buck reportedly leaving Fox, after nearly three decades, for ‘Monday Night Football’
ST. LOUIS — Fox Sports. Joe Buck. They go together like Procter & Gamble, Barnes & Noble. It’s difficult to think of one without the other. And it has been that way for nearly three decades with Buck & Fox Sports. But that run reportedly is over, as th…
Robert Thomas scores twice as Blues beat Predators, 7-4
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Blues let a 3-0 lead slip away, regained it at 4-3, let that one get away, before Robert Thomas scored his fourth goal in the past two games as the Blues won a Central Division showdown, 7-4, over the Predators on Saturday aftern…
Lynn Schmidt: The way to get politics back on track is to get centrists to the primary polls
Horseshoes may be good for horses and fun to play with, but they are terrible for politics. In political science there is an assertion called the Horseshoe Theory. The thesis posits that the political spectrum is not linear but shaped like the bend of …
Ben Frederickson: Going down swinging against the idea of banning baseball’s defensive shift
ST. LOUIS — If linebackers start leaning forward before the snap to stop the run, football calls play action and throws downfield. If a center gets double-teamed in the post, basketball passes it out and shoots from the perimeter. If infielders and out…
The truer story behind NBC’s true-crime miniseries about Missouri murderer Pam Hupp
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis area is no stranger to the long saga surrounding Pamela Hupp and the 2011 stabbing death of Elizabeth “Betsy” Faria and the 2016 shooting death of Louis Gumpenberger. Neither is the rest of the country — or at least it won’t b…
Blues come up small in Big Apple
NEWARK, N.J. – Perhaps the Blues picked up a postcard or a souvenir. Maybe took a tour to the Statue of Liberty, got a nice dinner or two. Because for the longest time, that looked like all they were going to come home with after a week in the New York…