Guns laws were the latest focus of the US presidential campaign, with Republican front-runner Mitt Romney telling the largest US gun rights lobbying group that President Barack Obama is not protecting gun owners.
Without offering details, Romney (...)
Brian Elliott was signed as a free agent this summer to be the backup goalie for the St. Louis Blues. He has turned out to be much more.
Elliot made 25 saves to lead the Blues to a 4-1 victory over the visiting Rangers Thursday night. The win was (...)
Tony La Russa retired as manager of the St. Louis Cardinals Monday, three days after winning a dramatic, seven-game World Series against the Texas Rangers.
The 67-year-old La Russa announced his retirement at a news conference at Busch (...)
The Texas Rangers used some aggressive baserunning to score two runs in the ninth inning, rallying for a 2-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals Thursday and squaring the World Series at 1-1.
Josh Hamilton and Michael Young hit sacrifice flies in the (...)
St. Louis manager Tony La Russa pulled off a masterstroke by bringing in Allen Craig as a pinch-hitter and watching the replacement deliver the go-ahead run that gave the Cardinals a 3-2 win over the Texas Rangers in Wednesday's World Series (...)
A doctor once told Albert Brown he shouldn't expect to make it to 50, given the toll taken by his years in a Japanese labor camp during World War II and the infamous, often-deadly march that got him there. But the former dentist made it to 105, (...)
Randy Wolf pitched eight sharp innings and the Milwaukee Brewers jumped on Jake Westbrook early to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-1 Wednesday night, giving the NL Central leaders their 13th win in 14 games.
Prince Fielder had a sacrifice fly in the (...)
Wandy Rodriguez pitched seven innings and retired the last 13 batters he faced and Jason Bourgeois hit a tiebreaking double in the fifth inning to lead the Houston Astros to a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals Thursday night.
Rodriguez (7-7) (...)
Albert Pujols looked right at home at PNC Park, while Paul Maholm looked anything but comfortable in his home stadium.
Pujols went 4 for 5 and homered for the second straight game – his 27th at the stadium, the most he has hit in a road park – to (...)
The St. Louis Cardinals ended a five-match losing skid with a 3-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds Friday, maintaining a pulse in the National League wild-card race.
Rookie pitcher Jaime Garcia (13-6) beat NL Central leader Cincinnati for the fourth (...)
Chris Carpenter outperformed Tim Lincecum in a clash of ace pitchers, helping the St. Louis Cardinals snap a five-game losing streak and beat the San Francisco Giants 5-1 in the National League Saturday.
Carpenter (14-4) allowed one run in 7 1-3 (...)
Rookie Madison Bumgarner pitched into the eighth inning to guide the San Francisco Giants to a 5-2 win in the National League Friday that condemned the St. Louis Cardinals to a season-worst fifth straight loss.
The Giants got home runs from Pablo (...)
The Philadelphia Phillies survived another poor offensive showing with a 2-0 victory that ended the St. Louis Cardinals' eight-game winning streak and averted a four-game sweep on Thursday.
Placido Polanco homered leading off the 11th inning. Cole (...)
run homer in the fifth inning began a barrage of four long balls in a span of six at-bats as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-4 in the National League Monday.
Pujols hit his 22nd homer and first since the All-Star break for (...)
Adam Wainwright pitched six sharp innings to remain unbeaten at home and Skip Schumaker and Brendan Ryan each drove in a run as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0 in the National League Saturday.
Wainwright (14-5) has allowed (...)
Albert Pujols singled three times and walked twice, and Ryan Ludas homered as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Seattle Mariners 9-3 Monday.
Pujols stayed in the game after a throw to the plate glanced off his helmet ear flap in the fifth, Ludwick (...)
Yadier Molina's RBI double snapped an eighth-inning deadlock and Colby Rasmus homered in St. Louis' 4-3 victory over Atlanta on Monday night, the Braves' sixth straight loss.
Troy Glaus had two hits and an RBI for the Braves, who have been (...)
Albert Pujols homered and drove in four runs to lead Adam Wainwright and the St. Louis Cardinals over winless Houston 5-0 Monday in their home opener.
New batting coach Mark McGwire drew one of the biggest cheers during the pregame introductions (...)
A consumer group contends one of the holiday season's must-have toys is unsafe.
But the maker of the robotic Zhu Zhu Pets hamsters defended its product Saturday against a study by San Francisco-based GoodGuide that said higher-than-allowed levels (...)
The Los Angeles Dodgers won 5-1 Saturday to complete a three-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals and progress to the National League Championship series.
Unemployed in August, L.A. pitcher Vicente Padilla shut down St. Louis slugger Albert Pujols (...)
Javier Vazquez took a shutout into the ninth inning as the Atlanta Braves roughed up Chris Carpenter in a 9-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
Vazquez allowed a leadoff single to Skip Schumaker and then (...)
Carl Crawford pulled back a home run with a leaping grab an inning before Curtis Granderson tripled and scored the tiebreaking run in the eighth to give the American League a 4-3 victory over the National League on Tuesday.
“It was definitely (...)
It's an international mystery: How did a US family's Christmas card photo end up in the Czech Republic, splashed across a huge storefront advertisement? Danielle Smith said Wednesday that the photo taken of her family last year got sent to family (...)
A beauty salon owner accidentally happened upon one of the hottest Hollywood scripts, the pages from an upcoming “Twilight” sequel, in a trash bin.
Casey Ray found two scripts, one for the vampire sequel “New Moon” and one for a different movie (...)
Rookie Bobby Ryan scored two goals and Jonas Hiller made 31 saves in his second playoff shutout as the Anaheim Ducks rocked the top-seeded San Jose Sharks again, winning 4-0 Thursday to take a 3-1 series lead.
Corey Perry had a late goal and an (...)