07.23.2008 9:00 pm
An online back fence
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Debbie lives just a block from where it happened, but didn’t realize at the time that a 20-year-old man had been gunned down on the street the night before. “We didn’t hear a thing,” she wrote in a note on the…



The beat goes on with local violent crime: A 66-year-old Belleville woman was
On Monday, five people were killed in less than six hours on the streets of St. Louis. Seen from a gated suburban community or a small country town, that may reinforce a view that the city is no place for…