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Meldon Quarells (left) and Kelly Wimbley (standing) with students from the computer camp sponsored by North County Churches Uniting for Racial Harmony and Justice: Kendall Carter, Robert L. Morton III, Myles Carter, Jayla Allen, Jason Sims and Jamoria Criswell
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Newly inducted Pro Football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk was honored with a special dinner on Friday and was the main course for a lovingly hilarious roast on Saturday night at Lumiere Place. Stephen Jackson, Dick Vermeil, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Darius Bradford were just some of the who’s who on the local and national sports scene who showed up to share laughs and congrats.
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Dr. James Knight, board vice chair of Heat-Up St. Louis, Dr. James Kimmey, president/CEO of Missouri Foundation for Health, and Richard Mark, senior VP/Operations AmerenMO.
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Sandra Louise Johnson and Ronald Charles Banks were united in Holy matrimony on June 4 at Stonewolf Golf Club in Fairview Heights, Ill.
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The Ronnie Burrage Trio will perform Friday and Saturday, July 22 and 23, at Robbie’s House of Jazz in Webster Groves.
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Former state Sen. Rita Days is St. Louis County’s new Democratic elections director. An appointee of Gov. Jay Nixon, she started her new position on Monday.
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St. Louis American columnist James Ingram and other authors who contributed to the book “The Making of an All-American City: East St. Louis at 150” gathered at the East St. Louis Sesquicentennial Summer Celebration on Friday and Saturday at East St. Louis Higher Education Center.
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Former Fire Chief Sherman George and his wife Catherine George supported Terisa Griffin and her Better Love Yourself Foundation last year when her foundation gave essentials to local college students and mentored to them in her Trunk event.
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Preparation through poetry -
Ripley Rasmus -
Jakyara Little, age 5, cooled off Tuesday afternoon in a wading pool at City Garden, St. Louis’ nationally recognized sculpture garden downtown. Temperatures topped 100 degrees in the region this week.
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Wiley Price’s photograph of shooting victim Sherman Carter (from the July 29, 2010 edition of The American) won First Place for Best News Photo in the National Newspaper Association’s 2011 Merit Awards competition.
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Robert Becker, Sam Fitzgerald, director of Academic Affairs for the Kirkwood School District, Khalah Albert and Assistant Superintendent Chris Raeker.
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Leslie Owens Harrington and her husband Dr. Gary Harrington recently hosted her mother Odessa Owens at their home in Richmond, Va.
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Soul singer Terisa Griffin, founder of the Better Love Yourself Foundation, performed at Vintage Vinyl in University City when visiting St. Louis in 2007.
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Jarvis Brown, graduating student body president at Gateway Institute of Technology High School, left St. Louis on Tuesday for the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Spring.
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Mrs. Asa Hilliard; Jim Moses, president of Road Scholar, and Kathy Taylor, Associate VP of Road Scholar.
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At the tender age of 23, Khalia Collier (far right) is the owner of a professional sports franchise: the St. Louis Surge, a local women’s semi-pro basketball team that competes in the Women’s Blue Chip Basketball League.
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Hall of Fame-bound Marshall Faulk posed with his illustrious celebrity roasters – including NFL legends Dick Vermeil and Michael Irvin – at Lumiere Place in downtown St. Louis on Saturday.
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Natereace Strong -
Marshall Faulk took the mic to exact revenge on his celebrity roasters roasters at Lumiere Place in downtown St. Louis on Saturday. The former Rams star will be inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame next month.
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Michael Carter -
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Celeste Metcalf is the new director of the Equal Opportunity Office for the State of Missouri’s Office of Administration.
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Cardinal Ritter’s Cameron Biedscheid -
Cardinal Ritter’s Cameron Biedscheid