Somalia

There was a point late into the filming of “Men in the Arena” that director and St. Louis native J.R. Biersmith realized his relationship with the…

A refugee from Somalia who worked as an airport cab driver in St. Louis has been sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for providing money to a…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 15, 2011 - WASHINGTON - The famine in Somalia caused by the region's worst drought in decades…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 10, 2011 - WASHINGTON - Rejecting a mundane fact-finding jaunt, U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill.,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 4, 2011 - In 1801, President Thomas Jefferson decided that payments of tribute to the Barbary…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 8, 2010 - It's not every day that you get a satellite phone call from a U.S. Naval officer who's…