Building a Mountain of Radioactive Waste
In the summer of 1966, Leo Vasquez, 13, and his friends run out and pick up the yellow dirt that falls from trucks lumbering past his family’s farmhouse north of Lambert Field. The youngsters take the dirt and swirl it in water. They are panning for gold. Every six minutes or so, a truck rumbles east on Frost Avenue headed for Latty Avenue from…
A Miracle With A Price
Part 1 in a 7 part series published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from February 12-19, 1989. The special series unlocked the secrets behind radioactive waste in St. Louis and took months of effort by three Post Dispatch reporters – Carolyn Bower, Louis J. Rose and Theresa Tighe. The series was called "Legacy Of The Bomb – St. Louis Nuclear Waste" and what came out of their investigation was a graphic picture of how waste was generated, how it was spread haphazardly throught the area, the difficulty in cleaning it up and the lingering confusion over how hazardous it really is.
$25 Million Jury Verdict Awarded in Accutane Case
In an order entered on September 12, 2011, Judge Higbee upheld the $25 million jury verdict for Andrew McCarrell who was diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) as a result of his use of Accutane, the blockbuster acne drug made by Hoffman LaRoche (“Roche”)…