St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Dwight Eisenhower once said of his hometown in Kansas, ''The proudest thing I can claim is that I am from Abilene.'' Abilene, a community of 6,300 in central Kansas along...

`The time has come,` the Walrus said, `To talk of many things: Of shoes-and ships-and sealing wax- of cabbages-and kings. . .` -Lewis Carroll, ''The Walrus and the Carpenter''. Let`s...

The United States is literally sending coals to Newcastle, according to Richard Lawson, president of the National Coal Association. ''We`ll take about 3 million tons of coal to Newcastle (England)...

We`re all battery-operated, or so it seems in 1990, 100 years after the introduction of the dry-cell portable battery. Go to the park. Look at all the walkers, joggers, bikers,...

How upset would you be to know that an FBI agent, without your knowledge or a search warrant, looked at the negatives of film you dropped off at a one-...

Common wisdom says there are four seasons. But who`s common? We know of several more. There is strawberry season, fresh corn season, peach season, tomato season, apple season. There also...

Two con men have swindled baseball legend James ''Cool Papa'' Bell, 86, out of baseball memorabilia valued at a quarter of a million dollars. Police said that through a combination...

If North Padre Island is ''The Texas Riviera,'' what`s South Padre? ''The Texas Costa del Sol''? That was one label, but it didn`t seem to stick. The fact is, South...

College basketball junkies, take heed. An era has ended. The NCAA Tournament has grown to unprecedented levels of popularity in the last decade. Not coincidentally, ESPN has been around for...

Baseball fans and umpires don`t always see eye to eye. For precedent, review St. Louis vs. Denkinger, ninth inning, Game 6, 1985 World Series. But these are desperate times, with...