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Black Jack holds city-wide Garage Sale at various locations

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‘Cats, Titans Win District Softball Titles

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By Jim Wieners Hazelwood West and Trinity Catholic High School Softball teams both easily won district titles as both successfully repeated from last year. Hazelwood West easily won Class Four,…

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East Visits Ritenour; Titans, Hawks, Stars, Wildcats Host Week 8 Football

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By Jim Wieners Two weeks remain in High School Football prior to District Playoffs and Hazelwood East now focuses on finishing at .500 or above for the 37th consecutive year…

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Captain Phillips: It’s Just Business

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by Sandra Olmsted In Captain Phillips, director Paul Greengrass turns his eye for realism on true story of a container ship captain and the impoverished pirates who come for his…

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Combs’ Christine Ries Named Outstanding Science Teacher

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Christine Ries, a fifth-grade teacher at Combs Elementary School in the Ferguson-Florissant School District, received the 2013 Outstanding Elementary School Science Teacher of Missouri award from the Science Teachers of…

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Girls Missing Since October 2nd Located Unharmed

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Since October 2nd, the Florissant Police Department has invested over 300 “man hours” in attempting to locate Dominique Cherry-Jones and D’Shay Knox, who ran away together. The Florissant Police Department…

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Jennings Senior High School Opens New Sports Complex

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A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in celebration of Jennings Senior High School’s new sports complex, which includes a turf football field, an 8-lane track, upgrades to field equipment and a…

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County Health Department Urges all Residents to Get Flu Vaccinations

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Flu season has arrived and the Saint Louis County Department of Health is urging all residents six months of age and older be vaccinated against the seasonal flu. Even those…

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Hazelwood Senior R. J. Fentress Wins First Place in Statewide Video Contest

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R. J. Fentress, a senior at Hazelwood West High School, received first place, and a $1,000 cash prize, in the Missouri School Boards’ Association’s “2013 What’s Super About Public Schools”…

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Scenes from the Fall Festival

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Photos by Bob Lindsey and Karen McKay                    

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Food Trucks by the Old St. Ferdinand Shrine

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If you bring food trucks, they will come. Florissant residents came out in force for the Food Trucks in Florissant event at the Old St. Ferdinand Shrine. There were long…

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