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Twitter co-creator keeps to the quiet edges of life By Tim Barker ST. LOUIS - One night in mid-September, a man named Jack Dorsey stood on the pitcher's mound at Busch Stadium , clutching a baseball in his left hand, about to realize a childhood dream.

Nightclub owner Mark Erney knew what he was doing when he opened his dance club Erney's 32 Degrees on Nov.

St. Louis police are investigating another rash of vehicle break-ins. Around 1:30 a.m. Sunday police say 14 vehicles were broken into in the 2300 block of Clark Street.

Grades at Saint Louis University are improving, at least, they are on this year's release of the College Sustainability Report Card.

No matter how much you like history, it's hard to evaluate the past by the standards of the present.

St. Louis, MO, Nov 19, 2009 -- Responding to global interest in and concern for product safety, ADK Information Services and the Centers for Supply Chain Management and Entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University's John Cook School of Business have announced the release of the 2010 Product Safety & Recall Directory.

While emotions had tempered from the previous meeting, Faculty Senate's latest assembly still drew strong feelings from the assembled professors.

SLU senior Spencer Kellum leads the Environmental Task Force, bringing awareness about environmental issues to campus while bringing green practices to his personal life.

With the help of Saint Louis University, non-profit health clinic Casa de Salud is projected to open in December and serve the Hispanic immigrant population.

Do you tweet? Write on Facebook walls? Or send MySpace Messages? If so, you're not alone.

Emma Obata, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, asked: Why is SLU's journal database so skeletal for some majors and robust for others? After speaking with Georgia Baugh, Electronic Resources Reference Librarian, the process of how the databases are determined has had some light shed on it.

Looking toward the future means a lot to a newly chartered group at Saint Louis University.

While too much amyloid beta protein in the brain is linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease, not enough of the protein in healthy brains can cause learning problems and forgetfulness, Saint Louis University scientists have found.

St. Louis-based The Lowe Law Firm has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a man who experienced partial respiratory paralysis and other side effects after receiving an overdose of the Botox being used to treat his muscle spasticity.

Eating disorders often are a secret problem for the people who battle them, one local clinician said.

Efforts by Saint Louis University administrators to reorganize academic bureaucracy have stalled after being brought before the faculty Senate.

A St. Louis-based research organization is beginning an effort aimed at preventing the leading causes of death in Hispanics in both the U.S. and Latin America.

For children with obstructive sleep apnea, standard care often includes a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy.

Some St. Louis University students, as well as long-time business owners in St. Louis' "Midtown" neighborhood, say they are concerned about and surprised by what appears to be a rash of recent vehicle thefts and vehicle break-ins there.

Michael Byron, 'Cosmic Tears 12,' 2003, mixed media on paper. Newly Reviewed Mi-Kyoung Lee: Bound Lines Reviewed in this issue .