Jim Salter

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Anheuser-Busch debuts beer with Super Bowl ad

Anheuser-Busch debuts beer with Super Bowl ad

Jim Salter · January 8, 2013 5:35 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 16, 2012 file photo, a barge powers its way up the Mississippi River in St. Louis. According to Coast Guard officials Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, the Mississippi River level is dropping again and could get so low as early as next week that some barge operators will stop operating. But a Guard official remains confident that the nation's largest waterway will remain open to traffic despite the worst drought in decades. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Mississippi River drops, threatening barge traffic

Jim Salter · December 28, 2012 12:04 am

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 201 file photo taken in New York City Fontella Bass performs during the Pioneer Awards at New York's Apollo Theatre. The St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with âRescue Meâ in 1965, died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. The singer's daughter, Neuka Mitchell, says Bass died at a St. Louis hospice Wednesday night of complications from a heart attack suffered three weeks ago. She was 72. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, File)

‘Rescue Me’ singer Fontella Bass dies

Jim Salter · December 27, 2012 7:15 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2010 file photo, Franklin County Detective Jason Grellner, center, sorts through evidence with Detective Darryl Balleydier, left, and reserve Officer Mark Holguin during a raid of a suspected meth house in Gerald, Mo. Methamphetamine lab seizures are on the rise in the nation's cities and suburbs, raising new concerns about a lethal drug that has long been the scourge of rural America. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

More meth labs showing up in cities, suburbs

Jim Salter · December 26, 2012 11:14 pm

This Nov. 28, 2012 photo provided by The United States Coast Guard shows a WWII minesweeper on the Mississippi River near St. Louis, Mo. The lack of rain has left many rivers at low levels unseen for decades offering a glimpse at things not normally seen. The minesweeper, once moored along the Mississippi River as a museum at St. Louis before it was torn away by floodwaters two decades ago, has become visible _ rusted but intact. (AP Photo/United States Coast Guard, Colby Buchanan)

Low-water rivers offering up glimpse of history

Jim Salter · December 22, 2012 6:21 pm

Storms improve outlook for Mississippi River

Storms improve outlook for Mississippi River

Jim Salter · December 20, 2012 7:41 pm

Barges with excavating machinery remove rocks on the Mississippi River Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012, in Thebes Ill. The Army Corps of Engineers is delaying the use of explosives to blast away treacherous rock pinnacles on the Mississippi River because crews are having so much success removing the rocks with excavating machinery. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

For now, excavating trumps blasting on Miss. River

Jim Salter · December 18, 2012 8:39 pm

Senator: Rock removal on Mississippi to start soon

Senator: Rock removal on Mississippi to start soon

Jim Salter · December 12, 2012 1:25 am

APNewsBreak: Senators ask Obama to protect river

APNewsBreak: Senators ask Obama to protect river

Jim Salter · November 27, 2012 8:45 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2012 file photo, two barges head north on the Mississippi River past St. Louis, as seen from East St. Louis, Ill. The Army Corps of Engineers has begun reducing the flow from a Missouri River reservoir, a move expected to worsen low water conditions on the Mississippi River and potentially halt barge traffic at St. Louis within weeks. (AP Photo/Jim Suhr, File)

APNewsBreak: Corps cuts flow on Missouri River

Jim Salter · November 23, 2012 5:00 am

A barge powers its way up the Mississippi River Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, in St. Louis. A top Corps of Engineers official has ordered the release of water from an upper Mississippi River reservoir in an effort to avoid closure of the river at St. Louis to barge traffic due to low water levels caused by drought. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Low Mississippi River water levels may halt barges

Jim Suhr, Jim Salter · November 17, 2012 5:00 am

Merck settles multimillion dollar Mo. Vioxx claim

Merck settles multimillion dollar Mo. Vioxx claim

Jim Salter · November 2, 2012 8:12 pm