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In what is being billed as an unprecedented television event, all three broadcast networks, including NBC, will simulcast a telethon Friday night called "Stand Up to Cancer."

Some art enthusiasts say it's one of the most unique
"get out the vote" campaigns in the nation. Starting Friday, you'll see provocative billboards lining major highways and interstates throughout Missouri.

Derry Brownfield spends a lot of time on the phone, getting ready for his daily radio show, "The Common Sense Coalition."

Few things are more familiar than the sounds of baseball.

By the end of the month, any patient 15 and older seen in the Children's Hospital emergency room will be offered a free, confidential screening for HIV.

Plans to build a bridge linking north St. Louis to Illinois, to carry Interstate 70 across the Mississippi River, may further degrade the habitat of a flower that only grows in the Illinois wetlands.

A 53-year-old man feels like he's the luckiest man on the face of the earth even though he has Lou Gehrig's Disease.

He's just 6 years old but he's already been to several European countries and can name almost every state in the U.S.
He's also on a special journey that will hopefully lead to a cure for Muscular Dystrophy.

You don't need an x-ray to photograph the heart. It's in every picture at MDA Camp.

In the last few months, fresh food at the Veterans Administration Hospitals in St. Louis has been changed to frozen. The switch comes as an effort to improve quality and save money.

It's hard to imagine having a terrible disease without even knowing it. And then passing it on to your baby girl.
Baby Lilie is back home after spending the first two weeks of her life at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

This is the first in a a series of reports on neuromuscular diseases. We explore how they affect patients and families and the hope on the horizon.

The signs of a poor economy are seemingly everywhere. Single family building permits are down 90 percent for the first half of 2008, compared to the same period in 2007.

Adopted children are supposed to be given the same medical coverage as biological children, meaning no exclusions or denials for any reason, so long as the parents apply within a certain time frame.

While it may sound unhealthy or at the very least unusual, doctors say it's not harmful. In fact, science supports this new way of eating.

Everybody sets goals in life. And just about everybody sets goals in life. And just about everybody thought Dr. John Curtin's goal was a little bit insane.

An I-Team analysis of crime at local malls shows improvement in some areas since the last time we looked at these figures.

Jack Moelmann, a retired Air Force colonel spent $120,000 of his own money to make his dream come true. He played the famous Wurlitzer Organ at Radio City Music Hall.

Airbags are often viewed as the last line of defense when it comes to surviving a serious crash.

After September 11, only one professional athlete of note quit his team to serve in our nation's military. That was Pat Tillman. But 60 years ago, it was a different story.

On every baseball field, you can find an infield, an outfield and a pitcher's mound. But in the Hill neighborhood in St. Louis, there's a field where you can also find compassion, hope and joy.

You've heard of less-invasive, or even minimally- invasive surgery. Now, for the first time ever in this country, a weight loss operation has been performed without an incision.

Did you know St. Louis is home to a treasure of personal property belonging to one of America's greatest aviators?

He may be more recognized and highly regarded around the world than any other St. Louisan, but he's not a sports player, singer or actor.

How home drug testing kits give teens new excuse to fend off pushy peers.

For the last 10 years a not for profit group called 'Story Link' has helped keep incarcerated women connected with their children.

But in the last 20 years, at least six people have died at the Offsets Quarry, with countless others reporting serious injuries.

It's a silent danger found in parks, pre-schools, and homes throughout Missouri and Illinois.

A farmer from Ethiopia continues his recovery following a life-saving operation performed at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis.

She was a mother of seven and the wife of a prominent real estate developer. Seven years ago, Margaret "Peggy" Sansone committed suicide.