“St. Louis” on The Daily Caller

A  22-year-old Saint Louis, Mo. woman was given two life sentences on Tuesday after being found guilty of allowing a 49-year-old man to rape her 5-month-old daughter in 2009. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy expanded at a slow to moderate pace over the past two months in most areas of the country, but overall hiring was weak, according to a Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday. (more)

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The mood across the country has turned decidedly anti-tax, but you wouldn’t know it in Missouri’s two largest cities. (more)

HUNTLEIGH, Mo (AP) — Police found the body of a 27-year-old woman in the upscale suburban St. Louis home of ex-Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV though it could take at least a month before authorities know how she died. (more)

The Ryan brothers remember only highlights from their infamous fight at Southwestern Oklahoma State. It started in a dormitory and spilled outside, where two friends broke their noses while attempting to restore peace. (more)

8-5 last week, getting better. 59-58 overall. This week feels like a 13-0 week or a 0-13 week for picks – nothing in between. (more)

Republican congressional candidate Ed Martin, who ran in Missouri’s 3rd District against incumbent Democrat Russ Carnahan, is calling for an investigation into possible voter fraud in St. Louis during Tuesday’s midterm election. (more)

Republican congressional candidate Ed Martin, late Thursday, responded to accusations that he knowingly harbored pedophile priests while working with the Catholic Church in St. Louis, Mo. Martin is challenging Democrat incumbent, Rep. Russ Carnahan, to represent Missouri’s 3^rd District. (more)

When the Phillies take the field Saturday night to a sold-out, towel-waving crowd in South Philadelphia, they will continue a major-league record. Five Phillies – Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Carlos Ruiz, and Shane Victorino – have each started in 33 consecutive postseason games, the longest such streak for five players on any one team. Another, Jayson Werth, has started 32 straight in the postseason. (more)

It turns out, after all the shout and tumult, the major award races aren’t as difficult or controversial as you were led to believe weeks ago. It’s amazing how much clearer issues become when you actually wait for the season to play out and postseason berths to be decided. Imagine that. (more)

The Tea Party Express, a group behind some of the biggest Republican primary upsets this election cycle, has unveiled the locations of its cross country bus tour set to take place in battleground states in the two-weeks leading up to election day in November. (more)

CURRYVILLE, Mo. — A troubled young man from this remote stretch of eastern Missouri, Chester Mast had traveled north in the summer of 2004 to stay with his extended family in Wisconsin. Mr. Mast, a member of a conservative Amish community here that eschews conveniences like electricity and telephones, was meant to apprentice with his uncle, a carpenter. (more)

ST. LOUIS • Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama’s administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March. (more)

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — As the shadows lengthened across Phelps Grove Park and the aroma of barbecued ribs wafted through the trees, Roy Blunt glad-handed his way through the Greene County Republican Party’s big pre-primary picnic, just as he has done before every big election since 1972, the year before he won an appointment to his first political office. (more)

A subtle but significant shift appears to be occurring within the Federal Reserve over the course of monetary policy as the economic recovery is weakening. (more)

First basemen Albert Pujols of St. Louis and Miguel Cabrera of Detroit are perpetual MVP candidates, having received MVP votes seven years running and combining for 11 top five finishes in those 14 elections. There is one big difference between the two reliable sluggers: Pujols has won the vote three times and Cabrera not at all. (more)

Earlier this week, Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank president Thomas Hoenig said it is time for the fed funds rate to be moved to 1% by the end of this summer, up from its current range of 0-0.25%. (more)

(KMOV) – A man protecting his car from a carjacking was taken to a St. Louis area hospital after he was set on fire late early Friday morning. (more)

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Terrorist plots on airplanes and in Times Square.  Iran developing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. A mysterious sinking of a South Korean naval vessel.  The Chinese extending their military might.  Pirates capturing ships of the Horn of Africa.  Without even considering the wars we are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is clear that the world is not becoming a safer place. (more)