by admin | Apr 12, 2000 | News
The St. Louis art museum is trying to learn how many of the paintings in its collection were confiscated by the Nazis from German owners and museums, then sold. Museum officials are sure at least four paintings are in that category and there might be more. They say...
by admin | Apr 11, 2000 | News
The state Senate votes to limit the number of casinos in each city or county… The Senate, working on a bill revising some state gambling laws, adopts Senator Lacey Clay’s amendment that could block licensing of still another casino in St. Louis County. The...
by admin | Apr 11, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A former bookkeeper convicted of stealing 1.4-million dollars from a Jewish temple in St. Louis has done this kind of thing before. David Thoma has been sentenced to ten years in prison. Court records show Thoma had pleaded guilty in Pennsylvania in 19-94 to using a...
by admin | Apr 7, 2000 | Crime / Courts, Health / Medicine
A former ambulance company president has been indicted in St.Louis on charges he filed false Medicare claims. The indictment lists 50 charges against Terrence Daugherty of St.Louis, accused of filing claims for patients who really did not need ambulance trips. Also...
by admin | Apr 6, 2000 | Transportation
Governor Carnahan has issued an executive order which begins the process of banning the gasoline additive MTBE in Missouri. MTBE can pollute groundwater and has been detected in two public drinking water supplies and 13 private sites in Missouri. Ethanol often is...
