Today’s newspaper was tight on space, so my story on the proposed “multipurpose arena” in O’Fallon, Mo., had to be trimmed down. The bold text below is what was cut. You may find it interesting and pertinent as the Bandits ponder…

From left, Bryan Meyers, Capt. Craig Tihen and Andy Zeisset, all firefighters with the Cottleville Fire Protection District, listen to the playing of “Taps” during a service honoring firefighters Thursday evening. (Photos by Joel Currier / P-D)

ST. CHARLES - Firefighters…

O’Fallon Police Officer Keith Lewis of the K-9 unit puts Rex through his paces on the obstacle course in Wentzville. (P-D file photo June 2007)

Rex, a top-rated O’Fallon, Mo., K-9 who won regional trials in 2004, 2005 and 2007, has…

Sunday’s Post-Dispatch has a special report by staff reporters Jeremy Kohler and Joe Mahr about some of the major obstacles to cracking down on repeat drunken drivers.

Part of their report was a statistical analysis and ranking of the St. Louis…

Annette Jansen, (silhouetted at left) watches a video tribute to her husband Grant Jansen, a St. Charles police officer killed last year in a car crash. (Photo by Joel Currier / P-D)

St. Charles Police Officer Grant Jansen, who was killed…

UPDATE: Wentzville firefighters are taking the Pink Heals Tour “up” a notch. Starting Sept. 14 (Monday) several firefighters will begin camping out on the roof of the BJC Siteman Cancer in St. Peters until at least 1,000 people register for…

Evan Hassan Wormley

A bizarre tale from St. Charles Police Detective Derek Piasecki:

4:30 a.m. Tuesday:

Evan Hassan Wormley walks into the Ameristar Casino in St. Charles with his 2-year-old son.

Wormley, 21, of the 4500 block of Evans Avenue in St. Louis is…

Judith Ulery (Courtesy of Pitman Funeral Home)

The St. Louis Crime Beat blog has an update on Judith Ulery, 63, of New Melle. She and her mother were crushed by a bulldozer that fell off a truck’s flatbed on July 8.

Ulery has…

A public memorial tribute is planned on the one-year anniversary of the death of St. Charles police officer Grant Jansen.

At 7 p.m. Sept. 10, a ceremony will be held in Frontier Park in St. Charles. It will be called “Light…

Chas Beat readers:

Gunnar Zwillikng

Please take 10 minutes to read Post-Dispatch reporter Phillip O’Connor’s compelling story about an investigation into an Afghan battle that killed nine U.S. soldiers, including an O’Fallon, Mo., man last year.

Here’s another story from last year about…