Residents will have plenty of options when they head to the polls April 8 to choose a replacement for outgoing city councilwoman Celia Graham. ...more

February 19, 2008

City council members on Thursday pressed for the Super Bowl Host Committee to ensure minority-owned businesses have a fair shot of winning contracts for event-related work. ...more

February 15, 2008

Alonzo Browne was close enough to tap a burn victim's boot, but flames kept him from doing any more. Browne watched in horror as the man apparently burned to death about midnight after a series of explosions at a commercial garage near Chamberlain High School, West Busch Boulevard and North Boulevard. ...more

February 6, 2008

Inspirational Story Regarding "Can-Do Attitude Builds Houses," Jan. 20: The article on the high school freshman really was inspirational. ...more

February 3, 2008

With illegal immigration and undocumented workers being among the hot-button issues of the day, there's no telling when the government might decide it's time for a crackdown. Whether a business owner thinks "illegals" are that big of a problem, no business owner wants it to become their problem. "This is one of the issues they're talking about in Congress," a local business law attorney, Debora Ann Diaz, said. "Maybe we don't have an illegal alien problem, maybe we just need to enforce what we have in existence." ...more

February 2, 2008

No Official Religion Regarding "Local Officials Ask God For Help" (Metro, Jan. 16): ...more

January 23, 2008

John Susor was a certified colorful character. He looked like Ernest Hemingway; he married nine times; and he was known for carrying a gun in Mahuffer's, the ramshackle Gulf Boulevard bar that was his business and home for 35 years. ...more

January 16, 2008

All Terry Majewski wanted was to run a small business. When her business partner bailed out for financial reasons, all she wanted was to keep it going until she could sell it. ...more

January 9, 2008

Mike Miulli's fascination with cooking began while watching his grandmother. ...more

December 29, 2007

The owners of the Regency Square shopping center plan to begin this month renovating the plaza's parking lot, adding more trees and other landscaping to the aging plaza. ...more

December 5, 2007