St. Louis Post-Dispatch

HBO-the pay-cable channel that generally comes up with the most creative, most interesting and most challenging original movies, specials and first-run series-has come up with a novel concept to explain...

Billy Curmano is a Huck Finn without a raft. He is swimming down the Mississippi River, celebrating the beauty of every mile. If Curmano can hold on for 2,552 miles,...

Tens of thousands of postal jobs could be eliminated under a drastic reorganization designed to rescue the Postal Service from a projected $2 billion deficit next year, sources said Thursday....

The father burned his own dream of becoming a professional athlete. He sweated at the steel mill for 30 years, enduring the heat and the periodic layoffs so his youngest...

Boo-a noun, a prolonged sound made to express disapproval, scorn, etc., or, more abruptly, to startle. That is Webster`s definition for ''boo.'' Not ''boob,'' which is slang for a stupid...

If Ralph Bohlmann is the George Bush of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod as he battles for re-election as synod president at this weekend`s convention in Pittsburgh, then Herman Otten might...

Madcap Casey Stengel was one of the characters of baseball, famous for many sayings. Words he muttered as manager of the expansion New York Mets in the early 1960s ring...

Despite what displaced New Yorker Joel Fleishman of CBS`s hit comedy ''Northern Exposure'' thinks, Alaska can be a swell place. Cruise companies and the state`s tourism board have launched slick...

Husbands and wives, do your part to fix America: Fix your marriage. This advice comes from Kevin Leman, whose newest book centers on the sorry state of the family, as...

A suburban school district has confiscated weapons of all shapes and sizes over the years-from guns and knives, to taped broom handles and a chain of five padlocks. But the...