Assassination

Biden called to "lower the temperature" in politics in remarks Sunday after the former president was shot at during a political rally.

The 20-year-old gunman came within a matter of inches of killing the former president, but investigators are still struggling to understand what may have motivated Thomas Matthew Crooks.

The GOP presumptive presidential nominee left a Pennsylvania hospital on Saturday after authorities say a 20-year-old shot into the crowd at Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

The St. Louis Theater Circle, a group of local theater critics, released its 2015 award nominees on Friday. “It was, I think, a terrific year,” St. Louis…

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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 15, 2013 - Recently President Barack Obama appointed agent Julia Pierson to be the Secret…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: Recently President Barack Obama appointed agent Julia Pierson to be the Secret Service’s first female…

On July 7, 1865, Mary Surratt became the first woman executed by the federal government when she was hanged for her role in the assassination of Abraham…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 10, 2009 - Five days after the conclusion of the American Civil War, on April 14, 1865,…