Category: Miscellaneous

Another reason I’m glad I didn’t check any bags for my Thanksgiving visit to Mom and Dad:

An aerosol can inside a piece of luggage exploded in flames Saturday night on a luggage carousel at Lambert Airport.

An airport police officer grabbed a fire extinguisher and put out the small fire on Carousel M1 about 8:15 p.m. No one was injured.

Airport spokeswoman Sandy Singer said the bag was “coming onto the carousel and seemed to be smoking and caught fire.”

Here’s hoping my flight today is much less eventful.

A nearly two-month long nightmare has come to a close:

Two St. Charles County chemists who have been living in fear for seven weeks after a former co-worker shot one of them, got word Thursday that their nightmare had ended.

Police told them that a badly decomposed body found in a remote area of Crawford County is believed to be that of Michael William Schreiner, the man who was wanted for a shooting ambush in St. Charles last month. The two chemists had filed complaints against Schreiner, which may have led to his being fired as a chemist from KV Pharmaceuticals.

Yeah, that’s the same KV Pharmaceutical Company…

Right now I’m watching coverage of an explosion at Praxair Distribution in south St. Louis (Jefferson and Chouteau).

Early coverage from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

The blaze began around 3 p.m. at Praxair, a gas and tank company at 2210 Chouteau. As of 4 p.m. a policeman at the scene said no injuries had been reported. Explosions had slowed to perhaps one per minute from the frenetic pace of earlier in the afternoon. More than a dozen emergency vehicles were at the scene.

As I write this, Highway 40 is being shut down between the Poplar Street Bridge and Kingshighway – though tonight’s Cards game is not expected to be interrupted.

Additional coverage: KSDK News Channel 5 (including photo gallery), KMOV News Channel 4

Chesterfield’s Rajiv Tarigopula finished fourth place in the National Spelling Bee, having been done in by the word “odylic”:

Rajiv Tarigopula was eliminated from the spelling bee today, misspelling the word “odylic.” He had advanced several more rounds earlier, to the final four, by spelling the words “infundibular”, “gomphosis”, “inion”, “arytenoid”, “rejoneador”, “zouave” and “plumassier”, “mucedinaceous” and “tontiner.”

Congrats!