The pilfered painting is on the bottom row, second from the left

ST. LOUIS — A $250 reward has been offered in the case of a custom Barack Obama banner that has vanished from City Hall.

The banner featured a likeness of the president…

City hall reporter Jake Wagman and photojournalist Elie Gardner look for other flight options at Dulles.

Six of us, four Post-Dispatch reporters and two PD photojournalists are spinning our wheels at Dulles airport in Washington, D.C., somewhat weary from three days…

I spent the long, cold day yesterday with a group of Ritenour High School students. The students are members of Partners in Achievement, an organization dedicated to closing the achievement gap between White and minority…

Roschell Murray joined three busloads of St. Louisans as they celebrated the inauguration of President Barack Obama on the National Mall.  The swearing-in ceremony concluded their three day trip which left from Jennings last Saturday.

Watch an audio slideshow from their journey.

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WASHINGTON - Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes, long considered one of several major contenders for governor in 2010, sought to cool off that speculation in a conversation just now, saying the likely ouster of Gov. Rod Blagojevich changes everything.

“Blagojevich was so…

Reitz

WASHINGTON - If there’s anything more surreal than watching a guy you used to bump into in the hallways at work become the most powerful man in the world, it’s trying to go that man’s inaugural - and realizing you…

WASHINGTON — Jack Sago, 23, of St. Louis landed a ticket for the inauguration, but when he and several other friends who worked for the Obama campaign, arrived at the National Mall early Tuesday, security turned them away citing the huge crowd.

Undeterred, the…

Parks

WASHINGTON — East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks and his wife, JoAnne, never got within a mile of the stage at the inauguration, but he  didn’t seem to mind.

“To be surrounded by people from across the United States — whites, Asians, Latinos…

WASHINGTON — Dick Fleming, head of the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association, brought his two daughters to today’s inauguration.

Vickie Shannon, of Sugarland Texas, flew to St. Louis so that she could ride a bus to the inauguraiton with her elderly mother, Luella Shannon.
“This is really important to me that I can share this with her,” Vickie Shannon said.…