Villegas gets first PGA win at BMW (Asbury Park Press)
Camilo Villegas gave golf fans a real reason to pay attention to him — a trophy. Villegas won for the first time on the PGA Tour with three big putts on the back nine at Bellerive in St. Louis on Sunday for a wire-to-wire victory in the BMW Championship. Villegas closed with a 2-under 68 for a two-shot victory over Dudley Hart, who birdied the final two holes to earn a trip to the Masters with ...
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Police: Men targeted catalytic converters for thefts (St. Charles Journal)
Three men have been charged in connection with the thefts of catalytic converters from the undercarriages of vehicles in St. Charles and St. Louis counties, police said Tuesday.
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Grieving parents' message: Think about kids-car safety (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
A Missouri couple whose son was killed by a runaway van are behind a new nationwide safety campaign to keep kids safe around cars. The Zero Seconds campaign, launched today, aims to teach parents to never, ever leave a child unattended inside or near a car -- not even for one second.
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ST. LOUIS COUNTY: Shoplifting, police chase end in four arrests (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Four suspects were in custody Wednesday pending charges after a police chase that started with a shoplifting at South County Center. About 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, a mall guard chased five or six young men whom he suspected of stealing a few thousand dollars in merchandise.
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Don Haskins dead at 78 (The Morning Call)
Don Haskins, credited with helping break color barriers in college sports in 1966 when he used five black starters to win a national basketball title for Texas Western, died Sunday. He was 78.
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Rails-to-trails projects popular with bicyclists (The Pantagraph)
Rising gasoline prices didn't matter to Greg and Lisa Bonham of Bloomington when they went on vacation last fall. They left their car at home and took an Amtrak train to Missouri to ride the Katy Trail on their bicycles.
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A More Perfect Fit: Toward a More Perfect MPG, Part 2 (The Auto Channel)
Welcome back to A More Perfect Fit, my Auto Channel column covering how to make a nearly perfect car, The Honda Fit, even more perfect. This column continues my series on how to max out the Fit’s miles per gallon.
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St. John man caught after long police chase (L'Observateur)
Staff Reporter LAPLACE – A police chase across two parishes that stemmed from a carjacking in LaPlace led to the arrest of a St. John man early Tuesday morning, said authorities from the St. John Sheriff’s Office.
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IN BRIEF (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The first round of the BMW Championship in St. Louis was washed out by heavy rain that deluged Bellerive Country Club on Thursday, another setback for a tournament plagued by bad timing.
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College not just science, math (The Joplin Globe)
A textbook won’t be the most important part of Dana Robison’s college classroom this fall. His students will build their own long guns of choice in a gunsmithing course at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami.
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