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ST. LOUIS — Before he got kicked out of school twice, William had been addicted to cocaine, abused, neglected and abandoned — but this was no teenager.

School seclusion rooms for children with disabilities would be banned under a bill introduced Tuesday by state Sen. Scott Rupp. He said he wanted to eliminate the rooms "until the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education can prove they serve a worthwhile purpose."

Today, most of the top-ranked teams in the area feature rosters that are color-blind.

By Roseann Moring, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Legislature might deliver a present to Missouri children this year: fewer days of school

University of Missouri system President Gary Forsee laid out five strategic directions for the next year.

Grocery stores, vending companies and schools throughout the St. Louis area are scrambling to clear their shelves of products containing peanut butter or peanut paste that might be linked to a national outbreak of salmonella that has sickened 475 people, including five locally.

Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook may put youngsters' private lives in a fishbowl, but there's no concrete evidence that the increased visibility makes them more prone to sexual predators, according to a study released Wednesday.

St. Louis juvenile offenders train dogs and, in exchange, learn the power of patience, praise, respect and other tools that they will need to turn around their lives.

Boys are not alone in being the tormented.

Bogus transcripts and diplomas offer instant credentials to help in a tough job market.