Dented and Painted

AP - Georgia Frontiere, the St. Louis native who became a hometown hero when she brought the NFL’s Rams from Los Angeles in 1995, died Friday. She was 80.

AP - Police arrested a man carrying a shotgun outside the Capitol Friday, authorities said.

Reuters - Republicans John
McCain and Mike Huckabee touted their economic credentials in
South Carolina on Friday on the eve of the South’s first vote
for U.S. presidential nominees, while rival Mitt Romney pressed
his advantage out West in Nevada.

AP - A woman with a history of mental illness purposely walked her young niece and nephew into oncoming interstate traffic to commit a double-murder suicide, a prosecutor said Friday.

AP - Twenty-eight people are accused of attending a birthday party and New Year’s celebration that left a farm house where poet Robert Frost once spent his summers in tatters.

AP - Robert Gamez, in the tournament on an exemption, missed some short putts but still shot a 5-under 67 on Friday to take the lead after three rounds of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.

AP - Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby injured an ankle while crashing into the rear boards leg-first midway through the first period of Friday night’s game against Tampa Bay, and will be sidelined for an indefinite period of time.

Reuters - Weighing in on a debate about
stimulating the slowing U.S. economy, Republican presidential
contender Mitt Romney is calling for a package of tax breaks
expected to cost $250 billion, an aide said on Friday.