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A south St. Louis city service station was robbed Wednesday morning. KSDK-TV reports the two men, one armed with a gun, got away with cash.
St. Louis Police report they were notified of the crime at the BP convenience store at Grand and Connecticut around 1:40 a.m. Wednesday morning.
The clerk told police two men with dark clothes ordered the employee to hand over the cash before they fled the scene.
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Investigators hope to get some answers from a St. Peters man as to why a young woman jumped out of the car he was driving.
KSDK-TV reports the Missouri Highway Patrol wants to know what motivated 23-year-old Julia Armstrong jumped from the car as it traveled eastbound on Interstate 70 just west of Zumbehl Road just before 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Armstrong is recovering in the hospital.
The driver, 53-year-old James Anthony of St. Peters, was expected to be questioned.
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Newsweek Magazine and the Daily Beast.com have come out with their yearly list of the best two-thousand public high schools in America.
In Missouri, the top seven are all in St. Louis.
Ladue High School leads the list of Missouri public high schools as the most effective in turning out college ready grads. Nationwide--it came in at number 166 in the list of 2000.
The results are based on several components including graduation rate, college acceptance, standardized testing , ACT and SAT scores and percentage of students enrolled in at least one advanced course.
Clayton follows at second highest in Missouri and number 170 nationwide--followed by Metro Academic and Classical High in the city, Lindbergh, LaFayette, Kirwood and Francis Howell.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/features/2013/americas-best-high-schools.html
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