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Brick Theft
11:09 am
Wed December 22, 2010

Brick theft steals St. Louis history

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Andrew Weil is the Assistant Director of the Landmarks Association of St. Louis, where he works to preserve the area’s 19th-century buildings. Lately, theives have been knocking them down to sell their bricks. (Mandi Rice, St. Louis Public Radio).
Buildings that are vandalized by brick theives are often called "doll houses." (Mandi Rice, St. Louis Public Radio)
There is also a legal used brick industry in St. Louis, selling from businesses like this one, Century Used Brick. The legal market is being undersold by the illegal products gathered by thieves. (Mandi Rice, St. Louis Publicr Radio).
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Every day, train cars and semi trucks leave St. Louis stacked high with pallets of bricks.  They head south to cities like New Orleans, to be reused in new construction. 

But those bricks leave at a cost to the city—they’re often stolen from buildings the city owns, damaging both the government’s investment and city’s historic heritage.  Mandi Rice takes us to one of those neighborhoods, and asks what the city government is doing to curb the problem.

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Unclaimed Property Returns
11:29 am
Tue December 21, 2010

Two St. Louis residents get unclaimed property returns of over $100K

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Two individuals and one business in the St. Louis area are in the money today.

State Treasurer Clint Zweifel announced he has returned $139,000 and $122,000 in unclaimed property.

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from St. Louis on the Air
1:50 pm
Thu December 9, 2010

Is the City/County divide to blame for St. Louis "Most Dangerous" title?

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UMSL criminologists Janet Lauritsen and Richard Rosenfeld
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St. Louis is back on top, but it's not a list city residents are proud to headline.  For the first time since 2004, St. Louis again tops CQ Press' crime ranking list, earning our fair city the unwanted title of "Most Dangerous."  CQ Press uses publicly available FBI crime data to make its list, but how crime data gets reported and collected across the nation, is a complicated issue.  We tried to break it down a bit on today's St. Louis on the Air.

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