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Introduction
P-D Links | Extending newsprint to the web Scroll down for links to information we've told you about in stories from the print edition of the Post-Dispatch. Click on one of the links below to find information we've told you about with stories in the newspaper version of the Post-Dispatch.
Published July 16, 2008: Horrific crash on Hwy. 40 kills 2, injures 13
A tractor-trailer barrelled into a lane of stop-and-go traffic on eastbound Highway 40 just west of Interstate 270. [more]
Allocation of federal economic stimulus money for local road, sidewalk and trail projects
From the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. [more]
PDF: St. Louis County's stimulus projects
PDF: Read the 199-page original plan St. Louis County submitted to Obama's team [more]
PDF: St. Louis County's stimulus projects
PDF: Read the 289-page Feb. 3 revised plan St. Louis County submitted to Obama's team [more]
St. Louis County submits stimulus proposals
The projects generally would be complete in two years, and the proposal also is a work in progress. [more]
PDF: St. Charles County stimulus projects
Read the St. Charles County plan for stimulus projects. [more]
Mom: Drunk, killer, victim
Just 26 minutes after she was born, Zreanna was pronounced dead, poisoned by the alcohol her mother drank that day. [more]
CDC on the flu
Learn more about influenza and how to prevent it from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [more]
Mokwa: I did nothing wrong
Police Chief Joe Mokwa has called a 4 p.m. news conference today in the wake of controversy over the use of cars from a lucrative towing contract with the city. [more]
Prepaid funeral firm halts sales after Missouri probes practices
National Prearranged Services' website says the firm is based in St. Louis, but it doesn't give an address. The local phone number listed apparently is for a fax machine. [more]
Regulators try to reassure consumers who bought funeral contracts
Nationwide, consumers have invested $18 billion in prepaid funeral and burial contracts, according to the National Funeral Directors Association, based in Brookfield, Wis. [more]
Like mother, like daughter
Read Susan Weich's breast cancer journal, originally published Nov. 17, 1996. [more]
Corrections agency gets sympathy at hearing
Missouri's director of corrections got a sympathetic ear Wednesday from legislators looking into why his department didn't offer sex-offender treatment to an admitted sexual sadist years before he allegedly raped and murdered a Chesterfield woman. [more]
At home with Mary Jo Bang
National recognition may come to Ferguson native whose academic odyssey has taken her to WU. [more]
6 dead in shooting rampage at Kirkwood City Council
The last things Charlie Lee "Cookie" Thornton said to his family were "To God be the glory" and that he loved them. Then Thornton headed to Kirkwood City Hall, gunning down a police officer outside. He burst into the City Council meeting and opened fire. [more]
Site plan for Westminster Christian Academy
View plans for the school's campus in Town and Country. [more]
Washington University
Learn more about the school that will host next year's vice presidential debate. [more]
Riverview Gardens School District travel, 2003-2007
Scroll the records and click dollar amounts to see details on each trip. [more]
Graphic presentation of players in Mitchell Report
Click on a player and learn more about his situation. [more]
Video of eight-limbed girl who underwent surgery
View this presentation from The Associated Press. [more]
Changes to the $5 bill
Find out more about what was done, and why, in this video presentation. [more]
Court ruling in the case of Rep. William Jefferson
Read the opinion issued Friday by the federal appeals court in Washington. [more]
After two decades, Mighty Mud Mania is CANCELED
Read our earlier story, originally published May 11, 2007. [more]
Federal court ruling on immigration law
Read the opinion that struck down the law in Hazelton, Pa. [more]
Jury recommends death penalty
Originally published on June 28, 1981: A St. Louis Circuit Court jury has recommended the death penalty for Larry Griffin, who has been convicted of capital murder in the gangland-style killing last summer of Quintin Moss. [more]
Witness sticks with story in 1980 slaying
Originally published on Oct. 7, 1993: Hours after the state of Missouri executed its 11th murderer in four years, a federal judge heard claims of innocence Wednesday on behalf of death-row prisoner Larry Griffin [more]
Death row inmate's appeal rejected
Originally published on Oct. 26, 1993: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by death-row inmate Martsay Bolder late Tuesday, clearing the way for Bolder to be given a lethal injection early today. [more]
Convicted killer gets stay of execution
Originally published on June 17, 1995: A federal judge in St. Louis issued a stay of execution Friday for convicted killer Larry Griffin. [more]
Lawyers fight to save killer
Originally published on June 20, 1995: Stay lifted, but then judge bars execution [more]
Court rejects efforts to save Griffin
Originally published on June 21, 1995: Federal courts turned aside on Tuesday last-minute efforts to halt the execution of Larry Griffin of St. Louis, a convicted killer on death row for a drive-by shooting here 15 years ago. [more]
After execution, case is reopened
Originally published on July 12, 2005: THEN: State's chief witness, a Boston felon here in the witness protection program, said Larry Griffin was the killer. NOW: Man also shot in the attack says Griffin wasn't in the gunmen's car, and a policeman changes his account. [more]
Reopening Griffin case may sway debate over executions
Originally published on July 14, 2005: Death penalty opponents are expected to raise Griffin's execution in arguments against capital punishment. [more]
Social Security and Medicare trust fund reports
Read the data released by the government on Monday. [more]
Mortgage and investment calculator
Link to Jack Naudi's home mortgage vs. investment spreadsheet. [more]
Stadium Saga
This special report has the history of the drive for a new Cardinals stadium downtown. [more]
100 Neediest Cases
Read all the cases in this year's annual holiday charity drive sponsored by the Post-Dispatch. [more] |
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