The Associated Press reports Beanie Sigel was briefly jailed Thursday until he paid about $27,000 in child support. The 31-year-old spent about an hour in jail after being sentenced in Family Court to six months in prison unless the payments were made to help his children by two mothers. Sigel paid the money and $2,000 […]
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Boeing-St. Louis information session
Boeing-St. Louis will host an information session Thursday, November 17 from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. on the campus of Washington University to increase awareness of internship, co-op and full-time opportunities with the company. The session will include information about Boeing’s hiring process and application procedures. In addition, a discussion about the day-to-day activities of […]
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Serena got milk
Serena Williams has become the latest celebrity to don a milk moustache for the Got Milk? ad campaign. The sexy sports star will sport a tight-fitting tennis outfit designs as she drapes a net around her in the quirky new ad. Williams admits she jumped at the chance to become the latest milk ad star […]
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Homelessness – it could happen to you
Peter & Paul educate community with a play By Kenya Vaughn For the St. Louis American “I can’t believe how close I am to being homeless,” one viewer commented to Keith Deisner, development director of Peter & Paul Community Services, Inc., an ecumenical human service agency that provides transitional housing and supportive services to the […]
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Local AKA chapter turns 85
The Gamma Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. is hosting its 85th Anniversary Celebration with a Black Tie dinner and dance on Saturday, Dec. 3 at the Airport Marriott Hotel. Pre-reception and silent auction are at 5:30 p.m., followed by the program at 6:30 p.m. and then dinner and dancing. Reservation is $70, […]
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The Mane Thang
Hair was in the air Event braided diversity, education, creativity By Bill Beene Of the St. Louis American Suited and booted black folks, some with cocked caps and bandanas – strutting into Union Station? What happened to the no-bandana, no-cocked caps rule? Apparently, it isn’t pinned to private events in the mall’s Hyatt Regency Hotel […]
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Dr. Veda Lewis-Simmons
Dr. Veda Lewis-Simmons has joined the staff of Barnes Jewish St. Peters Hospital. She specializes in podiatry, which is the diagnosis and treatment of foot and ankle health has a special interest in diabetes care. She is a graduate from the University of Osteopathic Medicine & Health Sciences – College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery. […]
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Playmakers re-visited
From time-to-time, ESPN has been chided here for folding under NFL pressure and canceling its most popular series, Playmakers. Here are two more episodes that aren’t fiction, but real-life NFL. Bears center Olin Kreutz fractured teammate Fred Miller’s jaw in a fight last week. Miller needed surgery last week after initially saying he hurt his […]
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B freakin’
Four people were taken to local hospitals after sustaining minor injuries at B5’s set during a free, radio-station-sponsored concert inside a mall in Minnesota on Saturday. Members of the Diddy-discovered boy band were tackled by fans. “Things were falling off the stage, girls were falling off the stage, girls started fighting,” witness Theresa Curtis said. […]
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Ex-offender summit
On behalf of Productive Workforce Development and the Missouri Offender Workforce Summit, I wanted to thank your newspaper for covering our summit. The American remains the only newspaper that has shown consistent interest in covering this movement that effects so many in our communities and the nation at large. Please maintain your commitment to this […]