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An engineering student at Saint Louis University did too well on a class assignment to build a toy gun, creating a model so realistic that it prompted a campus-wide lockdown and hunt for a possible shooting suspect. The private, Catholic university in Missouri warned all students to shelter in place for hours Wednesday afternoon and evacuated a residence hall after reports of a man with a gun on campus and shots fired. Police and university officials eventually tracked the source of the scare to a toy gun. Students in the Aerospace and Mechanical “Engineering Manufacturing Procedures” class had been assigned...

<p>The Communist Party USA handed out leaflets at Saint Louis University on Wednesday.</p> <p>The Communists urged students to “take AmeriKKKa if the murdering pig walks.”</p> <p>Communist groups have been protesting in Ferguson since August.</p> <p>Hardcore leftists and Communists confronted police in August.</p>

Today at the gun control rally in St. Louis - final speaker urges supporters to call congress and turn rights over to United Nations. Dr. Robert Flood , director of pediatric emergency at SLU.

Does a double-standard exist at Saint Louis University? Recent events at the Jesuit university might cause you to believe one does.

St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke said this morning that St. Louis University basketball coach Rick Majerus should be disciplined over his public comments supporting abortion rights and stem cell research. Majerus made his comments at a campaign appearance for Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday night during an interview with KMOV (Channel 4). During an interview with the Post-Dispatch today in Washington, where Burke is attending the March for Life, he said the coach should be disciplined. "It's not possible to be a Catholic and hold those positions," Burke said. "When you take a position in a Catholic university, you don't...

Two St. Louis religious leaders who are stuck in Lebanon say they feel fairly secure and are going ahead with some of their plans despite what they see from the balcony of their five-star hotel. Several miles from Beirut, they can see planes passing overhead on bombing runs, anti-aircraft guns countering from the ground, a naval blockage that has formed in the sea and a nearly constant cloud of smoke over the airport. Beirut "looks gorgeous from the distance - like New York City," said the Rev. Andre Mhanna from his cell phone Friday night. "But then there is gas...