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  • Thursday October 7, 2010--An American flag is put out with the trash from a home being put on the market as a short sale in the Briarchase subdivision in O'Fallon. The subdivision has had 17 foreclosures since the recession began.David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Tuesday May 25, 2004--{quote}It was depper than I thought{quote} said Steve Holland, of Barnhart, as he waits for a tow from another motorist on Highway 40/64 eastbound between Hanley Avenue and Hampton Avenue on Tuesday. A downpour during a thunderstorm shortly before 3pm over burdened the drains in the highway shutting down traffic in both directions. The water was waist deep in some areas.Photo By David Carson/PD
  • Thursday September 8, 2011--A fire fighters directs water into a burning warehouse near the intersection of Theresa Avenue and Bernard Street in St. Louis on Thursday. The fire, that started around 11:15 a.m., gutted the building and according to fire fighters destroyed several vehicles and some furniture inside the building. Smoke from the fire, that was near the big neon Budweiser sign that can be seen along Highway 40 (Interstate 64), could be seen from miles away.David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Thursday September 1, 2005--Betty Barthelemy, of Madison County, (Granite City Mailing address but lives outside of the city limits) quitely prays outside of The Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City on Thursday. Barthelemy said she was praying for a change in legislation that would stop abortions.PHOTO BY DAVID CARSON/PD
  • Tamara Quinn, center left, and Latasha Anderson, center right, weep as amazing grace is sung during a memorial service for Christine Jones who was stuck and killed by lightning while delivering mail on Tuesday. Quinn is Jones' aunt and Anderson is Jones' cousin. Hundreds of people showed at a memorial set up under the tree where Jones was killed at the corner of Highmount and Venice drives in Ferguson. David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Sunday September 11, 2011--Rosario Neaves and Arpan Srivastava, both from St. Louis, lay under one of the 2,996 flags that were staked into the ground on Art Hill as a tribute to the victims of 9/11 terror attacks. The flag the couple is laying under is dedicated to Neaves' friend Lisa Frost who was a passanger on United flight 175, the second plane to crash into World Trade Center. {quote}It feels comforting to lay here. I feel like I can be closer to her{quote} said Neaves.David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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  • UAW Local 145 workers march in the Put America Back to Work rally in Granite City on Tuesday. Thousands of people showed up to lend their support to union steelworkers who have been laid off because of low demand for their product.
  • St. Louis Zoo-Museum District board members (from left to right) Robert Lowery, Charles Valier, Gloria Wessels and Thomas Campbell have a tense discussion about possible recommendations following an auditor's report about the History Museum on Monday Oct. 29, 2012 in Clayton.Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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  • Wednesday February 4, 2004--St. Louis Police officer XXXXXX Fischer wipes tears from her eyes after fellow officer Nicholas Sloan was laid to rest at Calvary Cemetery on Wednesday.Photo By David Carson/PD (We are working on Getting officer Fischer's first name at this time)
  • {quote}I could stay under here all day long{quote} said Lisa Rhone, left, as she and Teomia Bailey seek relief from record breaking heat at a fire department cooling station in St. Louis. Tempatures topped out at 105 degrees, the hottest recorded reading in more then a decade.
  • Saturday April 23, 2011--Larry Doggett, left, and his daughter Joni Bellinger salvage a bible from the debris in the sancuary of the Ferguson Christian Church after a tornado ripped the roof off the church on Friday night. {quote}We had plans for Easter and God had other plans{quote} said Bellinger. Thirty-one people who were watching Passion of the Christ at the church took shelter in the basement, hiding under tables and in the bathrooms, as the tornado slammed into the church. No one was seriously hurt in the incident. David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Friday July 25, 2003--Local 396 Iron Worker Crystal Farris, of Bourbon, Mo., climbs out of a rebar cage that will be sunk into the ground and filled with concrete to create the foundation for a bridge in the MetroLink expansion project on Forest Park Parkway.Photo By David Carson/PD
  • Tuesday May 6, 2008--Friends and family members of 27-year-old Keith R. Fietsam of Winfield, Mo. console each other down by the side of the Missouri River after rescuers called off a four and a half hour search for Fietsam around 11:30 AM on Tuesday. Fietsam and a friend were crossing the Centaur Chute of the Missouri River when their canoe capsized as they were attempting to cross over to the Howell Island Conservation area to hunt turkeys. The strong current on river surprised the hunters as it sucked the boat into turbulant water, pictured to the right. Fietsam's hunting partner Leo Geringer clung to the boat and was able to make it to shore. Rescue workers presume Fietsam is dead. Divers will resume efforts to find Fietsam's body on Wednesay morning. David Carson | Post-Dispatch
  • Monday June 15, 2009--A suspect in police custody listens to commands from a Granite City Police officer after being arrested at the end of bi-state high speed vehicle chase that ended in the area around Monroe St. and N. 14th St. on Monday. The three suspects in a Ford Excursion, all arrested at the end of the chase, were wanted for an abaduction from Godfrey. According to police the suspects vehilce rammed a Granite City police officers car during the chase. Police recovered a hand gun from the suspects vehicle.David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Friday January 14, 2011--Donna Mielenz, a medical technologist in the virology lab at St. John's Mercy, uses a fluorescence microscope to examine slides for viruses on Friday. The lab at St. Johns has been getting busier as the flu season begins ramping up. {quote}We're peaking now{quote} said Mielenz.David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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  • Monday June 4, 2009--Peggy Lynn {quote}Pumpkin{quote} O'Neal, walks out of the Eagleton Federal Courthouse after being arraigned on federal charges for allegedly smuggling heroin into the St. Louis Justice Center downtown. O'Neal and two other corrections officers were arrested after the indictment was unsealed this morning. According to prosecutors on four occasions from January through early March, the guards got heroin and cash from someone outside the jail and brought it to an inmate inside St. Louis Justice Center downtown.David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Leighann Johnson, left, Shonnie Branom, Judeia Jones, Sanosa Berry, Marla Johnson and Aaliyah Hawkins morn Joseph “Bam Bam” Long during a community prayer service for Long, slain police Sgt. William McEntee, and McEntee’s accused murderer Kevin Johnson in Kirkwood, Mo.. Johnson shot McEntee after an early incident in the nighborhood during which {quote}Bam Bam{quote} collapsed and died from a heart condition. About 800 people gathered at the intersection of Alsobrook and Orleans streets on Saturday. After praying at the intersection the group marched up to the site where the officer was shot and then over to the memorial outside of Long’s house.
  • Friday June 17, 2011--Farm workers Charles Haydon, left, Joe Aycock, center, and Jessie Soto look over the damage caused to some farm land near O'Bryan's Ridge in the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway. The erosion of the land was caused by rushing floodwater from when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway by breaching a levee in Mississippi County with explosives in May. The workers are employed by farmer Mark Dugan, not pictured, and the land the workers are standing on is farmed by Ed Marshall, whose land is next to Dugan's land.David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Friday May 8, 2009--Gary Chhina(cq) opens the door to his family's Shell gas station after flash flood waters rushed filled the store with about 2 feet of water near the intersection of Interstate 55 and State Highway Y in Bloomsdale on Friday afternoon. Heavy rains swelled Establishment Creek and it rapidly rose forcing police to close Interstate 55 in both directions at one point.David Carson • dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Thursday December 31, 2009--Byron Blassingame Jr., left, and Darrion Bassingame Jr., right, are comforted by their grandmother Jacqueline Heard, center, as the names of the 145 murder victims from the city of St. Louis are read aloud during the 18th Annual Families Advocating Safe Streets candle light service to remember 2009's murder victims at El Bethel Church of God in Christ on Thursday in St. Louis. Heard's son Byron Blassingame Sr. was shot and killed along with two other men in the same SUV as they were waiting at stop light near Union Station on May 8, 2009. Byron Jr. was Byron Blassingame Sr.'s son and Darrion Blassingame Jr. was his nephew.David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Juveniles at the Madison Co. Illinois Juvenile Detention Center line up to be transported to court. The county is expanding the center to accomdate more juveniles.
  • Thursday January 27, 2011--Fire fighters pull deer sausage out of the smoker at Wenneman's Meat Market as they overhaul the building and put out hot spot from a fire that gutted the business on early Thursday morning. David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • KIPP: Inspire Academy science teacher John Armstead (left) wipes tears from the eyes of Brittany King after King stopped to thank him for teaching her at the end of the promotion ceremony at Washington University on Friday, May 24, 2013. Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
  • Monday June 2, 2008--Pine Lawn police officer Matthew Meinen leaps off a fence in pursuit of a suspect who fled from police that were patroling a Pine Lawn neighborhood in golf carts. Meinen was called to scene to in his patrol car to assist when the subjects fled.David Carson | Post-Dispatch
  • St. Louis fire fighter Ken Walters, with Truck 6, cools off with some water leaking from a fire hose after he helped put out a house fire in the 2000 block of McCausland Avenue in St. Louis on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. {quote}It was really cooking in there{quote} said Walters who was one of the first fire fighters in house battling the flames. All the residents of the home escape safely and one was hurt in the one alarm fire. Additional help from Maplewood and Richmond Heights fire departments was called to the scene as precaution against Monday's hot weather.Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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