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Lippmann returned to her native St. Louis after spending two years covering state government in Lansing, Michigan. She earned her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and followed (though not directly) in Maria Altman's footsteps in Springfield, also earning her graduate degree in public affairs reporting. She's also done reporting stints in Detroit, Michigan and Austin, Texas. Rachel likes to fill her free time with good books, good friends, good food, and good baseball.

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East St. Louis police
4:25 pm
Thu January 6, 2011

East St. Louis cops reject offer to avoid layoffs

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The Belleville News-Democrat is reporting that the union representing East St. Louis police has rejected a deal that would have trimmed salaries to save 16 jobs.

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Business
10:49 am
Thu January 6, 2011

Monsanto posts gains in first quarter

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St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. says higher sales of corn, soybean, vegetable and cotton seeds helped the company earn a profit in the first quarter of the fiscal year.

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ABB memorial
9:47 am
Wed January 5, 2011

ABB management - "We will get over this"

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Roses surround the base of the fountain, part of a memorial to the three killed and five wounded during a shooting rampage last year at ABB.
ABB employees gather to remember the three people killed and five who were wounded last year when a disgruntled employee opened fire in the building in the background.
Some of the 100 employees who attended the dedication listen as an ABB co-worker remembers their colleagues.
The memorial to the eight victims (three killed, five wounded) of last year's workplace shooting at transformer manufacturer ABB. ABB spokesman Bob Fesmire says the fountain represents renewal.
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The last time they congregated outside like this, the temperatures were in the teens, the wind was howling, and there were four inches of snow on the ground. And they were scared for their lives.

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John Cochran VA
5:17 pm
Tue January 4, 2011

New problems at John Cochran revealed

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Cong. Russ Carnahan (D-MO) and nurses at John Cochran VAMC take questions about equipment problems at the veteran's hospital
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Updated at 8:36pm with response from John Cochran officials.

The troubled John Cochran veteran's hospital is under fire again, this time for allegedly failing to keep critical supplies stocked on a timely basis.

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Max J. Starkloff
4:52 pm
Tue January 4, 2011

"We admired him, we all loved him."

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Max J. Starkloff in 2008 when he received his star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame
Marca Bristo, president of Access Living in Chicago, pauses in thought in front of the casket of Max Starkloff, an activist for disability rights, during his funeral in St. Louis on January 4, 2011. (Bill Greenblatt / UPI)
Colleen Starkloff greets mourners in front of the casket of her husband Max Starkloff, an activist for disability rights, during his funeral in St. Louis on January 4, 2011. (Bill Greenblatt / UPI)
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The sanctuary at St. Francis Xavier Church on the Saint Louis University campus was filled today with people who had gathered for one purpose - to remember the life of Max Starkloff.

Such a crowd, said former Washington University chancellor William Danforth, would have been unheard of in 1959, when an automobile accident left Starkloff a paraplegic and living in a nursing home at the age of 21.

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