St. Louis Post-Dispatch

At the Bussmann Co. here, where electric fuses are manufactured by the thousands and thousands, an order this year for 25 fuses of a certain model had engineering staffers scratching...

Jeff George sought out ABC-TV commentator Dick Vermeil Sunday to ask whether he should stay for his senior season in 1990 or make himself available for the National Football League...

It`s true that not everyone likes oysters. Or mussels. Or squid. Or other clammy, squirmy things from the sea. So if you find these critters too repulsive for words, you...

Orthodox Christianity is enjoying a worldwide revival. Among the evidence cited for that is a burst of new interest in the icon. In churches known as ''Greek Orthodox,'' ''Russian Orthodox,''...

Although the 1621 harvest celebration of the Pilgrims plays a key role in the symbolism of today`s Thanksgiving, there was a long period between the Pilgrims` feast and the declaration...

The surgeon`s lounge at Centinela Hospital Medical Center was deserted except for Dr. Lew Yocum of the famed Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic. As he stole a few minutes of solitude while...

Even now, St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Ken Dayley can go back through time and pitches to a day in Atlanta in late May 1987. He can bring that moment to...

As the savings and loan industry staggers against the ropes, commercial banks are delivering a punch right to the S&Ls` breadbasket: the residential mortgage lending business. In June, for the...

The residential mortgage market today is dis-ARMing. Home buyers in droves have been turning thumbs down on adjustable rate mortgages in recent months, lenders report. Mortgage lenders cite two reasons...

The Hall-of-Fame leadoff man was talking about another leadoff man who could be headed there. Former St. Louis Cardinal great Lou Brock ranks Oakland`s Rickey Henderson ''in the top five...