St. Louis Post-Dispatch

People who work along highways have a friend in Jack Toman, an inventor who has their safety in mind. Toman has invented two devices to make highway work safer. The...

Times have really changed for TV medical shows, and if you doubted it, the proof is "Medical Center." Chad Everett and James Daly (father of Tyne and Tim) starred in...

Janet Waligorski loves Bill Murray movies and collects elephant figurines. So you can guess how long it took her to answer the Hollywood studio that asked to use her Granite...

Buying a vacation from a charter tour operator can be like: A. Buying a pig in a poke. B. Flying blind (or on a wing and a prayer). C. Rolling...

The enemy has retreated, but will return one day. Many of the berms that stopped the attack are still in place from the three-month siege. Ste. Genevieve survived a Mississippi...

When Richard Hayden died of leukemia in the spring of 1991, his wife asked that his photograph be set into his headstone at Valhalla Cemetery in St. Louis. Kathy Hayden...

If McDonnell Douglas Corp. closes its electronics plant in St. Charles, Mo., as scheduled in May, Jim Marshall will be out of a job. Never mind that Marshall works six...

Spring is revving-up time for the sale of lawn and garden tractors, but first-time buyers should be forewarned to expect a bit of sticker shock. This is "the prime selling...

Veneka Harris, 1 year old, seemed just a bump in a blanket while she slept beneath a huge camera that was sending pictures of the inside of her heart to...

Small- and medium-size firms looking to move into overseas markets soon may have an inexpensive, high-tech way of doing so. The Commerce Department's U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service is test...