Judge orders Peabody to pay $174,000 in fines tied to safety of southern Illinois mine

GRAY SUMMIT, Mo. — Broadcast reports say as many as 50 people have been injured in an accident involving two school buses and a tractor-trailer near St. Louis.

Mob attacks firefighters, police with fireworks, bottle rockets at complex near St. Louis

Ill. mob shoots fireworks at police, firefighters

Durbin presses Peabody for safety details about questioned southern Ill. mine

Durbin presses Peabody about southern Ill. mine

MSHA: Ill. underground coal mine imperils workers; operators ‘disregard’ violations

MSHA: Ill. coal mine imperils workers

ST. LOUIS — Federal regulators claim an Illinois coal mine is continuing to put workers in danger despite more than $230,000 in proposed fines since late 2008, prompting a panel that decides disputed violations to hasten its review of the underground mine.

Organizers cancel Tour of Missouri bicycle race

Tour of Missouri bike race canceled

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Organizers of the Tour of Missouri have canceled this summer’s bicycle race after state tourism officials declined to help fund it.

Obama administration removes St. Louis professor from oil spill effort over website writings

Professor dumped from oil spill team over writings

Heavy rains cause several Midwestern rivers to rise; more storms in the forecast

Heavy rains cause some Midwestern rivers to rise

Forecasters: Major flooding not expected along Mississippi and Missouri rivers in the Midwest

Some flooding along Miss., Mo. rivers in Midwest

Patriot Coal resumes operations at West Virginia mine threatened by dangerous gas levels

Patriot Coal resumes operations at W. Va. mine

Former Mo. development official killed with another man when plane crashes into Ill. home

Former Mo. official killed in Ill. plane crash

Maple Leafs, US Olympic GM Brian Burke talks about son’s death

Burke talks about son’s death

ST. LOUIS — Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke made his first public comments Friday about son Brendan’s death last week in a car accident.

In devastated Haiti, the shocked living and bodies of the dead share the same space

Haitian families struggle to find, bury their dead

"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder." - Albert Einstein