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  • Tom Schweich, Missouri auditor and candidate for governor, dies in apparent suicide

    02/26/2015 1:27:39 PM PST · by Nachum · 41 replies
    stltoday.com ^ | 2/26/15 | By Staff Reports
    ST. LOUIS • Tom Schweich, Missouri's Republican state auditor and a leading contender for the governor's office in next year's election, has died, according to his office. Earlier in the day, a police source said Schweich had sustained a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The police source said Schweich's wife was in another room of their house when she heard her husband making phone calls, followed by a single gunshot. He was 54. His death was confirmed by his office early Thursday afternoon, just hours after Schweich had requested an interview with reporters for the Post-Dispatch and the Associated Press at his...
  • Train kills a couple locked in embrace

    05/14/2002 9:20:21 AM PDT · by Incorrigible · 10 replies · 4+ views
    Newark Star Ledger ^ | May 14, 2002 | WAYNE WOOLLEY AND MARY JO PATTERSON
    <p>The couple, whose names were not immediately released, were killed instantly, authorities said. But Karen Dunn, a spokesman for Amtrak, described the couple as a 22-year-old white woman and a 27-year-old white man.</p> <p>"They were holding hands and they walked into the path of the train," she said. "(The engineer) didn't have much time to react."</p>