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Diane Brame: Lunch Lady allegedly fired for free meals

Lunch lady allegedly fired for giving student free lunches gets job back

Alexis Garrett Stodghill
theGRIO REPORT - Allegedly fired recently for an act of generosity, Brames believes Chartwells, a company contracted to provide lunches at the Hudson Elementary School in St. Louis, disapproved of her kindness towards a needy child...
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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (7) gestures after his second start in an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints in New Orleans, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. The 49ers defeated the Saints 31-21. (AP Photo/Bill Feig)

Colin Kaepernick to start as 49ers QB on Sunday

Janie McCauley, Associated Press
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Colin Kaepernick will start at quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday at St. Louis....
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Halloween display resembles lynching

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - St. Louis Zoo officials have taken down their Halloween ghost display after receiving complaints that it resembled African Americans being lynched, KMOV reports.
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New research claims the army conducted experiments with radioactive material around St. Louis homes and schools in the 1950s and the 1960s (Source: University of Missouri-Columbia)

St. Louis reportedly affected by secret military experiments

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - Claims have surfaced that during the 1950s and the 1960s the United States military conducted secret experiments on St. Louis residents, which may have exposed them to radioactive compounds, KSDK reported...
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12-year-old tasered at Victoria's Secret

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VIDEO - A 12-year-old girl is recovering after she was tased by a police officer inside a St. Louis Victoria's Secret Wednesday afternoon...
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Pygmy men making poison for arrows near the Ituri Forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Getty)

Flashback: Pygmies were forced to participate in 1904 Olympics

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In what has been called The Savages’ Olympics, pygmies, cannibals and tribesmen were forced to compete in Olympics games in St. Louis, Missouri in 1904...
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Dred Scott statue to be unveiled in St. Louis

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The first statue of Dred Scott will be unveiled today in St. Louis, Missouri in front of the historic Old Courthouse...
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Normandy High School senior Eboni Boykin looks for one of her teachers after school is dismissed for the day on Thursday, May 3, 2012, in St. Louis. (Photo by Johnny Andrews, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)

St. Louis teen goes from homeless shelters to Ivy League

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Eboni Boykin is a senior at Nomandy High School and she cannot wait to leave her St. Louis environment of abandoned homes and broken-down business store fronts...
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10-year-old saves younger brother from shooting

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VIDEO - An award usually given to officers, 10 year old Jason is the youngest and only civilian recipient of the lifesaving award...
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Outrage grows over Mo. woman's jail death

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RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Mo. (AP) - Family members and activists are raising their voices to seek answers in a homeless woman's death in a jail cell after being arrested for refusing to leave a St. Louis hospital...
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