Small experiment is failing. I'll have the story coming up. And I'm Jean
Shepard in St. Charles. It's customary to stop for a funeral procession but most
people don't realize that it's just now become a law in Missouri. I'll explain
why coming up. And the Cardinals deal a pitcher. Details of a late afternoon
trade ahead on ABC 30 News at 5. From KDNL TV St. Louis, where you get more.
This is ABC 30 News at 5. It was a chance for public housing residents to
become entrepreneurs, to provide services and jobs for the benefit of
their neighborhood. But it hasn't turned out that way. Good evening to you. I'm
Patrick Emmerich. And I'm Jean Jackson. A strip mall in the Cochran Gardens
housing project is now closed but can it be revived? ABC 30's Paul Brown is here
with more, Paul. Well Jean, when the Ujamaa mini mall opened it was hailed as a model
for other public housing projects around the nation. The first strip mall run by
public housing residents. But today, just two years later, all the businesses are
locked shut. Ujamaa means cooperative economics in Swahili. But this
cooperative effort hasn't worked. Federal HUD funds paid nearly $400,000
for construction of the building. It's owned by the St. Louis Housing Authority.
There was a laundromat, clothes store and beauty shop here. One of the business
owners says he was forced out by vandals. The others didn't pay their rent. Now the
families who live in the Cochran Gardens have to find those services somewhere
else. We're sorry to see it fail to this point but we still think there's a
future for it. Officials are hoping to bring in new business owners and next
time HUD will have a few more suggestions. I would suspect that the
people who went in there went in there without a very good business plan. And I
think that probably in the future we'd be looking to SBA and perhaps the
service core of retired executives to provide some upfront assistance to help
them better plan their business operations. Critics including the former
tenant management group that lost control of Cochran Gardens last year
blamed the demise of Ujamaa on the St. Louis Housing Authority. But some
Cochran residents believe it was strictly bad business. The business has
failed generally because of bad management. That's the only reason that
I've gone to the barbershop a couple times and the lights were shut off. The
manager just didn't pay bills and the same thing with the laundromat. Well the
Housing Authority says it will soon start accepting bids from prospective
business owners who want to move into Ujamaa. They say Cochran residents will
be given priority status. Patrick? Paul Brown thank you. Also at Cochran Gardens
two security dispatchers will be back at work tonight after they were too afraid
to go there yesterday because of threats. Mary Smith and Dorothy Perrymen were
petrified that somebody might shoot them at work. They had received threats since
a security guard killed a 19 year old boy at Cochran Gardens last week. They
were especially worried about being on duty alone. Now since we reported this
story yesterday the director of public housing has reassured the dispatchers
that they will always have a partner. The Housing Authority security guard is
still on leave pending the outcome of a police investigation into that shooting.
The future home of St. Louis's newest basketball, hockey, and soccer teams needs
a sponsor. It was to be called the SSM Healthcare Arena but now negotiations
between SSM and the arena's operators are hung up over an exclusive exclusivity
clause. Less than a month before it was supposed to open SSM wants to bar rival
healthcare companies from booking any events. Don Kendrick has the latest on
this. 11th hour construction continues despite a marriage that seemed to be
headed towards divorce. The SSM Healthcare Arena scheduled to open October 1st now
is without a name and a sponsor. At $350,000 a year for the next 12 years
SSM wanted to make sure rival healthcare companies couldn't steal their
advertising thunder. The CEO of the company that runs the arena said not an
option. In a prepared statement he said we have concluded that the extent of the
exclusivity arrangement proposed by SSM Healthcare could prevent us from
bringing certain sporting and concert attractions to the arena. It could also
have a detrimental effect on our major tenants as they try to establish a
foothold in the St. Louis metro area market. It's kind of like a major airline
like Southwest advertising for an event at the TransWall Dome. You can imagine
the conflict of interest. That's why TWA is the exclusive naming rights sponsor.
They have a contract that says no other airline can advertise for any event. I
can see both sides. St. Louis Rams marketing director Phil Thomas saw it
firsthand when he worked in Kansas City. The Michael Jackson World Tour sponsored
by Pepsi was to play in an arena where Coke was the naming rights sponsor. With
so many things being not only regionally and locally but nationally sponsored
conflicts are bound to come up. For now it'll be called the Family Arena and it
will be home to the St. Louis Swarm basketball, steamer soccer and Missouri
River Otters hockey and negotiations have resumed. In the meantime arena events
are going on as scheduled with or without the SSM name. In St. Charles I'm
Dawn Kendrick, ABC 30 News. Despite objections from prosecutors a Madison
County judge lowered the bond for an Edwardsville teacher accused of having
sex with a student. 32 year old Jonathan Becker is now out of jail. In court today
a judge set his bond at $200,000 then lowered it to $50,000. Police
charged Becker with criminal sexual assault after they said he had
consensual sex with a 17 year old girl. She was a junior at Edwardsville High
School where Becker taught. There's a new member on the St. Louis Board of
Education. Today Mayor Clarence Harmon appointed Paulette McKinney to the vacant
school board seat. McKinney is a graduate of the St. Louis Public Schools and
Washington University and she says she has personal reasons to improve the
school district. And I currently I have nieces and nephews in the St. Louis
Public School system and at this point in time I know that there's a lot of
work to be done there and I think that I can make a difference. So McKinney will
start on the board immediately. A new school in East St. Louis is giving some
students a second chance to get an education. The East St. Louis Charter
School opened its doors today to 100 students who dropped out of other
schools. Sponsored by Southern Illinois University doesn't cost a thing. Students
are chosen by lottery. Besides regular subjects it also offers fine arts and
computer sciences. We were very very happy to see the students that came
today. We're just really it's been very exciting for us as well as for the
students and I believe for the parents also. The school office was full of
parents putting their child on the waiting list for openings at that
charter school. In South St. Louis police and the FBI are on the scene of a bank
robbery. It happened late this afternoon. We are told that a woman walked in to
the Bank of America here at South Jefferson and Gravoy told the teller she
had a gun. The teller handed over an unknown amount of cash. Witnesses said
that the suspect then took off in a dark colored vehicle. Police are looking for
four suspects who forced their way into a North St. Louis home and got away with
cash. It happened overnight at this home in the 2,000 block of Malancrot. Police
say the suspects knocked in the door, shot actually, shot the couple's dog and
then fled with $600. Also in North St. Louis police are investigating a murder.
A 26 year old man was found shot to death early this morning at this house along
Church Road. The victim's name has not been released and no arrests have been
made. Call it a sign of the times or a sign of society's disrespect for the
dead but soon Missouri drivers will have to yield the right of way for a funeral
procession. ABC 30's Gene Shepard has that story tonight.
Here's a quiz. What do you do if you're driving along and there's a funeral
procession in the right lane? Like in a case like this. We can pass the procession
correct on the outside lane. But if you're at an intersection even if the
light is green you're supposed to yield until all the cars go by. State Senator
Steve Ellman sponsored the new law which goes into effect Saturday. It gives police
the authority to ticket anyone who tries to cut into, cut off, outrun or fails to
yield to cars in a funeral procession. When I was first approached about this
my response was well isn't that the law already? But it wasn't until funeral
directors told lawmakers some of their horror stories. And we were taking a
procession to the cemetery and a large semi pulled in front of our family car
behind our hearse. Bowie was outraged. I think it does make you wonder what is
happening today and why people don't respect funeral processions the way they
used to. But maybe the possibility of a $100 fine will prompt some newfound
civility. The main goal is to allow people to have a peaceful ride to the
cemetery rather than having it be a harrowing experience. Funeral directors
say police escorts aren't always available and private escort services
are expensive. Now funeral cars can install yellow flashing lights of their
own. Another reminder to drivers to show some respect. In St. Charles, Jean
Sheppard, ABC 30 News. An expected move by the Federal Reserve today. So how did
the market react? The numbers for Wall Street coming up in the break. Then
passengers are injured after a Taiwanese airline makes a fiery landing. Also a
roller coaster ride turns deadly prompting a serious investigation of
paramount amusement park. And later tuning up for the opening night of
Titanic at the Fox.
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Well we picked up some much needed rain late last night into the early morning
hours in parts of the viewing area and that rain helped keep temperatures on
the cool side. In fact St. Louis was one of the warmer readings this morning at
62 but look at this 57 degrees in Peoria 63 in Belleville it was a cool one in
this this morning up in Kansas City at 59 57 was the temperature this morning at
Lake of the Ozarks and in Springfield but then we saw lots of cloud cover
today and that actually kept us on the mild side as far as highs go we only got
up to 82 same scenario at Lake of the Ozarks and in Springfield one of the
warmer spots down in Cape Girardeau they were at 88 overnight and our high and low
for this time of year off just a bit nowhere near the records though the
record high on this date 103 back in 1947 and on this date last year we had a
high temperature in St. Louis of 98 degrees nothing like that outside at
this hour we have partly cloudy skies at Lambert Field the temperature is at 80
degrees relative humidity is at 48 percent surface winds are picking up a
bit moving out of the north at 14 miles per hour no real heat across the region
in fact some nice cool air to the north of us we have a Canadian air mass that's
starting to funnel down into our region so we will see some nice pleasant
temperatures over the next couple of days the setup though for the tropics
not the same scenario you know it's been a very quiet hurricane season aside from
Hurricane Brett and now we have three named storms tropical storms to tell you
about the main threat is this one right here this is tropical storm Dennis it's
about 125 miles north of the Turks Island and it is basically moving to the
west northwest at about 10 miles per hour now it's packing winds of 50 miles
per hour and they're telling us that from the Hurricane Center that this will
probably be a hurricane by Thursday the next storm system down here a little bit
further to the south it's just beginning to develop that is Emily and then of
course we have Cindy a little bit further out as well here at home we're
getting wraparound moisture and boy you really can see it here's the center of
the low and that moisture is riding up and around so that's why we have the
cloud cover over the area but that's gonna quickly dissipate pleasant weather
for you tomorrow high pressure and control that cool Canadian air mass will
be in place and really no big changes as we get into Thursday but we'll start to
see the heat begin to return to the area as you'll see in the five-day forecast
just in time for the weekend so 74 degrees under mostly cloudy skies
tonight 64 in the morning 82 will be our high tomorrow and it will be a green air
quality day and for the next several days no rain in fact dry times ahead for
us and as you'll see by the end of the week we'll see temperatures back up to
near 90 degrees and actually that's not 470 on Sunday
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all right thank you well it is called the Norwegian dream but for folks on
board turned into a bit of a nightmare 1700 passengers have returned safely to
ports after their ship collided with a cargo vessel this happened off the
southeast coast of Britain 20 people did suffer some bumps and bruises the
Panamanian cargo ship though still afloat and burning if you just can't get
enough stories about the Titanic then you need to head to the Fox Theatre
today rehearsal and setup began for opening night of the Titanic musical the
Tony award-winning show set sail tonight full of drama suspense and a st. Louis
native Jody jakes the Kirkwood High School grad is featured in the show
along with her husband Philip Lay Titanic sails at the Fox through
September the 5th so who stands on the bow and yells I'm king of the world I
think that was a different version probably and we all know how it ends
who'd they get rid of well they got rid of a left-handed pitcher that's all I
will say at this point the Cardinals do make a trade today I think they just have
to get rid of some of these guys and a longtime high school coach ready to take
on a new challenge at CBC that story as well coming up
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while the Cardinals are starting to clean out the dead weight and as we know
they have their share and why the Red Sox would one pitcher Kent Merker is
beyond me but he goes to Boston for two minor leaguers pitcher Mike Matthews
who's a journeyman and catcher David Benham a 12th round pick in 98 you know
it's good the cards got anything for mr. batting practice not only the Merker
have an ERA over 5 he also had a clause in his contract giving him the option
whether or not to return to the Cardinals next year that's a two million
dollar option the cards wanted no part of now there's that other lefty who
might be able to fill Merker's shoes that Rick Ankeel guy so the bullpen blew
the wind for Ankeel in his debut the victory wasn't important what the 20
year old kid showed is and it was impressive now rookies usually wear high
numbers number 66 that is out of sight how about 92 as in a 92 mile an hour
fastball for the strikeout Ankeel also has a big curveball which he showed and
very nicely right here several times and he's got a 79 mile an hour change up for
the strikeout to have those three pitches at age 20 is something they
limit him to 80 last night which is okay the cards lost 11 to 7 but Ankeel left
with the lead and confidence he pitches next Saturday in Atlanta well it's just
about time for the high school football season to start it starts in Illinois on
Friday and Lou Tevlin reports on a former Eastside coach who has crossed the
river in order to make his mark in Missouri that guy got the quarterback
in two I want to make the connection with them to be good you have to work
at it why are you going way out there success is just us doing the best job
that we can the strong hand sharp mind and unmistakable voice of Bob Shannon
can now be found at Christian Brothers College High School what we got to do is
we got to get better we got to play harder we got to get smarter and we got
to become a closer-knit team CBC now has a nationally acclaimed legendary coach
who's won championships and saved young men he is perhaps the best man to teach
football and life so there are some positive things here and then we got
some some pretty tough guys well basically what we got to do is just
coach them up and teach them and just hope they improve as we go along in the
wake of nationally publicized violence in our high school serious questions are
being raised about the future of our youth here at CBC student-athletes now
have an abundant resource of character integrity and honesty and coach Bob
Shannon the people who work with young people can't mind being role models for
young people because if you don't want to be a role model you shouldn't be in
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well now while cemeteries are filled with stories the casual visitor never
really knows what actually took place between the date of birth and the date
of death that's not the case at one local cemetery tonight at 10 I'll show
you how more and more families are choosing to immortalize the lives of
their loved ones we serve so that a granddaughter that didn't know a great
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