Wash U Dean, St. Louis Police Chief Named Eisenhower Fellows

Jennifer Smith will head to India and Dan Isom will visit Germany.

Jennifer R. Smith, PhD, dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of eight U.S. citizens selected to go abroad in 2013 as an Eisenhower USA Fellow. Retired Gen. Colin L. Powell, chairman of Eisenhower Fellowships, announced the eight winners, who were selected from a highly competitive pool of applicants. “This is a unique opportunity for a group of outstanding leaders to broaden themselves personally and professionally,” Powell said. As part of her fellowship, Smith will spend a month in India next summer on an intensive individualized professional program. “I will be looking at how higher education can be used to foster innovation, with an eye also toward how multicultural abroad/exchange …

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Should St. Louis' Police Department Be Run Locally?

All Missouri voters will consider the question when they see Proposition A on the Nov. 6 ballot. Approval removes state control of the city's police department.

This is one of those bizarre, "only in Missouri" situations. On Nov. 6, every voter in Missouri has the chance to decide whether the City of St. Louis can control its own police department. A "yes" vote would reverse more than 150 years of control by a five-member board. Four members are appointed by the Missouri governor; the St. Louis mayor is the fifth member. You'd be hard pressed to find another large city in America that doesn't run its own police department. That is, unless you drove four hours west on I-70. Kansas City has the same issue. But in the weirdly worded Proposition A before voters in November, residents of Springfield, Joplin, Independence and Goodnight, MO, will decide whether to end that practice—only in St. Louis. The…

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Police: Man Robbed at Gunpoint Near Wydown and Skinker Intersection

The incident happened this week and apparently is tied to a similar crime in Dogtown, KMOV and KSDK reported.

UPDATE: Armed Robbery Suspects Described After Wydown Incident

The incident happened early Tuesday morning and apparently is tied to a similar crime in Dogtown, KMOV and KSDK reported.

A 42-year-old man sustained minor injuries early Tuesday morning after being robbed at gunpoint by two people near the intersection of Wydown and Skinker boulevards, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department reported. That location is close to Washington University. The incident began at 1:10 a.m. when two black men in their late teens or early 20s approached the 42-year-old in the 6200 block of Wydown, an incident report shared by public information director David Marzullo states. The two wore dark hooded sweatshirts and jeans. "The victim was walking to his vehicle when he was ordered to 'get on the ground' by the suspects, who were carrying handguns," the report states. "The victim complied, and the suspects took his wallet from his …

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Nate Birt

9:28 am on Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Great point, Tom. I got a copy of the incident report this morning and have updated the article to reflect what is known about the two suspects.   more ›

Police: Clayton Car Break-Ins May Connect to Stolen Vehicle

The vehicle break-ins on Kingsbury Boulevard appear to have happened at about 2 a.m. Tuesday, resident Pam Schneider said.

UPDATED AT 10:16 A.M.: A neighbor rang the doorbell of Pam Schneider's townhouse at 2:10 a.m. Tuesday to tell her about a series of vehicle break-ins that had happened on their Clayton street. Schneider, who lives on Kingsbury Boulevard, found that side windows on her vehicle had been smashed and that her wallet had been stolen. Six other vehicles parked on or near the road between North Bemiston and Linden avenues also got hit. The neighbor had a window open and heard the break-ins happening at roughly 2 a.m. "That will be the last time I park on the street," said Schneider, who had her air-conditioner running at the time and didn't hear the break-ins underway. She normally keeps her vehicle in the garage. There's something of an upside: …

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