St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sorghum farmer Walter Schlemper of Franklin County talks about his all-time favorite mule, Pete: "He was the smartest. You could just hear the tumblers going round in his mind. I'd...

They call themselves The Club: four girls, friends since preschool, soon to start 5th grade. Their parents are happy to say that they are still, in all the best ways,...

After several years as the wallflower of commercial real estate, the hotel industry has moved to the center of the ballroom. Occupancy rates are up, and room rates-although still trailing...

Don and Rose Chisholm arrived from Minneapolis and got a rude shock about the St. Louis housing market. "I've seen a lot of real-estate markets," said Don Chisholm, a retired...

Here are health tips gathered from travel agents and travelers on planning for an overseas trip: - Check health-insurance policies. See if they cover overseas treatment or hospitalization and medical...

Forget for a moment that Betty Vollmer Holtz is legally blind. Forget that she relies on friends to drive her wherever she needs to go, or that it seems to...

The Democratic National Committee has written dozens of checks to pay Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun's campaign creditors, including two of the law firms helping her with a federal audit of her...

With the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landings looming over the horizon like an invasion armada, tourist authorities in Normandy and southern Britain are braced for The Longest Summer. Tourists...

Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era By Autumn Stephens Conari Press, 250 pages, $12.95 Know any wild women? If you do, have...

The taxi winds up the main road-less than two lanes and a bit gravelly-about as well as can be expected. The taxi driver and guide, Claudius Albertine, pulls over and...