September 4th, 2009
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A 16 year old student from Fort Zumwalt West High School was killed and another injured in a car crash Thursday night. According the Missouri Highway Patrol, the driver, 16 year old Courtney Miener, lost control on Route DD at Ridgefield Farms. The car traveled of the right side of the road then overcorrected causing it to skid across Route DD. The right side of the car struck a brick subdivision sign before coming to a stop. The 16 year old passenger, Elise Sunderhuse, was pronounced dead at the scene. Miener was rushed by helicopter to St. John's Mercy Medical Center in serious condition.
A St. Charles high school teacher learns a tough lesson about how not to teach a ''tough lesson''. That lesson was about controversial speech, but apparently using controversial language to teach it can get you in a lot of trouble. It happened last week during a college level English composition class at St. Charles West High School .
Shipman — In his office after Tuesday night’s loss, Milwaukee Brewers manager Ken Macha told a group of us reporters that the “second-most important” at-bat of the Cardinals’ 7-6 victory was by St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina.
Apparently, Molina was the first to recognize that.
Of course, the most important at-bat of the game was Matt Holliday’s immediately after Macha opted to “pick his poison” and walk Albert Pujols ahead of the Cardinals’ cleanup hitter. You can read all about that in Post-Dispatch baseball writer Joe Strauss’ game story this morning – complete with a snappy lede about about another bit of damage inflicted on “BIG MAC LAND” — and elsewhere. But the first pitfall Macha made in the game with an intentional walk came as a surprise in the sixth inning and tied the game for the Cardinals.
In the sixth inning, Pujols popped up to the second baseman. Braden Looper got Holliday to ground out to third, and then it was Ryan Ludwick — who Macha repeatedly said was part of the trap the Cardinals have in the middle of their order — who doubled. With first base open and two outs, Macha elected to do something unexpected: He called for Looper to walk rookie Colby Rasmus ahead of Molina. It was the rookie’s third intentional walk of his career.
Let Macha explain why: “The second biggest at-bat of the game was Molina. Rasmus had had two hits off of (Looper) already, and he mislocated a cut fastball. It basically ran down the middle. That tied the game up. … Coming into the game (Rasmus) was 1-for-2 (vs. Looper), so he was 3-for-4 coming off that.”
Macha choose Rasmus’ 3-for-4 vs. Looper and .255 batting average (coming in) over Molina’s 1-for-4 vs. Looper and .283 batting average. Molina singled in his first at-bat vs. Looper on Tuesday.
Molina responded to the IBB ahead of him with a rope up the middle to score Ludwick, tie the game, and give him 44 RBIs for the season. A few steps from the box, Molina looked to the Cardinals’ dugout and pointed at his teammates as he ran the rest of the 90 feet to first base.
He knew.
Intentional walks can hurt. They can also illuminate. Which is where today’s 10@10 starts …
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ST. LOUIS, MO (KTVI-FOX2now.com) – A St. Louis area priest is charged with trying to pay for sex from a sixteen year old girl. However, FBI agents say the “girl” he was communicating with was actually an undercover agent.
The U.S. Attorney’s office says James Patrick Grady responded Wednesday to an ad on the internet placed by undercover agents.
“The advertisement indicated that young females of an indeterminate age were available,” according to a release from the U.S.Attorney. After that, officials say there was a string of emails that went back and forth between Grady and the agents. Grady was told two females were available and was then sent a “morphed” photograph of a sixteen year old girl.
Officials say Grady then inquired about, “the price,” and was quoted a price for a half hour and one hour with the teen. Grady allegedly responded from his self insured home that he wanted a half hour with the girl, and emailed, “that’s fine” when told she was only sixteen years old.
Kyle Torretta, age 32, Webster Groves native and resident, was killed after he got off work from the day job as a computer technician in a crash along Interstate 44 that stopped traffic Wednesday evening for many miles. Police said that he had been driving west on Interstate 44 near Grand Avenue when he tried to move quickly into another lane. He then had realized that another car was using the lane and steered right. Torretta had then lost control of his vehicle and ended up landing upside down on Lafayette Avenue. He was then pronounced dead at the scene. This great man was married to Jennifer Weigner, an accountant. Torretta grew up in south St. Louis and graduated from DeSmet Jesuit High School. In the early 1990s, he had moved over to Chicago, IL, and then returned to the St. Louis area where he started creating music in nightclubs and warehouse parties in the St. Louis area. His fans and fellow musicians say he was a unique musician in that genre was that he did not use a PC laptop to create his music. Instead, he used drum machines and other gear to create a live production of music.