Two sections of interstates will close this weekend for work. All lanes of Interstate 55 between Reavis Barracks and Bayless will be closed beginning Friday at 7:00 p.m. All lanes of northbound I-55 and two lanes of southbound I-55 will reopen by 5:00 a.m. Monday.

St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and a well-known newspaper columnist are refuting the city's ranking in a new study about stress levels.

With a Florida church planning to burn 200 Korans, Muslim holy books, on September 11th, a church here was answering what members considered "a higher calling": turning hundreds of ladders into a public art exhibit for September 11th.

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar , a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders.

Site of the proposed bike center at 10th and Locust. a Too bad Riverfront Times' offices aren't downtown.

So as you have heard by now - we have officially received the new NINJA stickers courtesy of Jilly's Cupcake Bar & Cafe.

A judge last week sentenced an Arnold woman to 20 years in federal prison for her role in the murder-for-hire of her husband 18 years ago.

The man arrested Monday in connection to the robbery of two Washington University students had been issued a Washington University identification card over the summer and was spotted on campus posing as a transfer student just days before the attacks.

Five years ago, Michael Lynch and his wife, Robin, hoped a revival of Washington Avenue and the surrounding areas would provide enough foot traffic to keep their newly opened Salt of the Earth art store downtown in business.

If you've read this magazine's fall fashion preview , perhaps you're ready to start shopping.

Crumbs from the Table of Joy Set in the early 1950s, a time in America when the rantings of Sen.

Brandon Anschultz : Stick Around for Joy Compulsive exercises in the deconstruction of painting yield new forms of painterly pleasure in this year's Kranzberg exhibition, which features St.

Hampton Bakery is now open at 5815 Hampton Avenue in St. Louis Hills. As Gut Check reported in July, the bakery assumes the former location of the Pitted Olive.

Business group to endorse Long on tour this week [The Fuse Joplin] CD8 Race Sowers calls for jobs plan from Emerson [PoliticMo] On Labor Day, candidate Tommy Sowers called for a not only rhetoric, but a jobs plan from incumbent Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson.

How you fund and maintain the assets in your retirement portfolio is the most important decision most investors in the stock market make.

If you are too conservative with your stock investing strategy, you may not have enough to retire when and in the manner you want. If you take too many risks investing in the stock market, you may see your retirement funds disappear in a gut-wrenching market slide at just the time you planned to retire.

The following articles will help you find the correct spot for your retirement investing. These articles offer some thoughts on possible strategies and considerations.

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Investing in and for Retirement originally appeared on About.com Stocks on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 11:10:01.

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