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  • Walmart Evacuated After Meth Lab Found On Shoplifter

    06/08/2012 6:47:02 PM PDT · by doug from upland · 16 replies
    FOX2NOW ^ | 6-8-12
    SOUTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO (KTVI)– The Walmart on Telegraph Road at I-255 was evacuated for close to three hours Thursday night after a shoplifter was caught with a portable meth lab that was actually cooking the volatile drug in her purse. Quick thinking cops may have prevented a bad situation from being much worse. Police say it was about 6:30pm when they received the call about the couple shoplifting. Beat cops arrived to make the arrests with little thought of drugs. Police say A 32-year-old woman had stolen a purse and was filling it with cosmetics. But when they...
  • 'Living wage' threatens child care

    07/22/2002 3:02:03 PM PDT · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 57 replies · 466+ views
    Boston Globe ^ | 7/22/02 | Sarah Schweitzer
    <p>As many as 360 families, all low-income and many headed by former welfare recipients, could lose government- subsidized child care in coming weeks because providers say they won't be able to staff their centers if forced to pay the city's so-called living wage.</p>