22- year- old Danill Maksimenko lived in Ballwin. The first suspect, from Hillsdale, is now charged with  2nd degree murder and  1st degree robbery with a $250,000 cash only bond police say they are withholding his name in an attempt to get the other suspects.

The parade is the Nation’s oldest African- American parade. The parade benefits Annie Malone, a non-profit organization that has been serving St. Louis children and families in crisis for 124 years.

Website: Annie Malone Parade and May Day Blues Festival

But tax payers could supply about $500 dollars in federal and state disaster aid.President Obama will be in Joplin Monday to give the commencement speech at the high school graduation and KPLR 11 will have coverage beginning at noon.  Joplin  is still recovering from last year’s tornado that killed more than 160 people.

Vandals spray painted the Air Force F-101F ‘Voodoo’ with graffiti and set it on fire. The fire damage was not extensive. 

Park Director, Ron Veach, said he was extremely disappointed; the vandals disrespected the military, their community, and the retired McDonnell Aircraft workers who restored the plane as a labor of love. 

The plane was originally commissioned in 1960.  It was dedicated in Florissant in 2004.  He said he’d be trying to line up volunteers to repaint the plane.  He also said police were checking video from nearby surveillance cameras to try to track any suspects.

FOX2/News 11`s Randi Naughton, Melanie Moon, and Angie Mock led the walk. 

Saturday was a warm and muggy May day. It gave Humane Society President Kathy Warnick a chance to give an important hot weather reminder.

“Never, ever leave their animal in the car when the temperature is 70 degrees or higher,” she warned.  “It is illegal and it can be lethal for the animal.”

Warnick spent the day pointing out that the spring is now bringing summer-like sun.  She urged owners to make sure shade is always available to pets.

“Just because it’s in the shade when you leave in the morning,” she explained, “doesn’t mean it’s going to be in the shade when you come home in the afternoon.”

Warnick said humans don’t understand that pets are more like babies.  They need humans to make good decisions all the time to keep them safe.

“I think that people think that they are going to be gone for just a moment or two  and then they are gone for much longer.”

Terry Noffsinger owns Serin.

“I already have the air conditioner on at the house,”’ he said.

Serin is a huge, 5-year-old, Irish Wolfhound.  Her owner is constantly watching her for heat exhaustion when they spend time outside.

“Main thing is just watching if they’re panting a lot,” he said.  “And always have water.  We walk in parks where they have spigots.  If she sees a lake, she will climb it.”

Noffsinger’s kids are grown.  He thought.  He laughed when told he might look after Serin as if she is his baby.

“She is part of my family,” he admitted.  “Very much so.  I think anybody who has an animal should treat them just like one of their kids.  They don’t deserve nothin’ less.”

Website: HSMO: Bark In The Park

For Hot weather tips from the Humane Society of Missouri, click here.

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“His show has a tremendous reputation its one of the best in the country”

Belleville’s Art On The Square is not your average fair.

“I think what separates us is that we are a very small fair we have a 100 to 105 artist every year.”

“This one has a special quality about it the enthusiasm of the community they all come out and what to support the artist that’s really honorable.”

This show attracts artist from every state and many nations.

“Yeah this year we have a much nicer situation with the weather and I hope to se record crowds and I’m sure the show organizers do to.”

Eleven years ago Patty Gregory and 25 of her best friends started this fair.  They started out with 275 entries, since then they have averaged over a 1,000 in what is now known as the #1 art show in America.

This all volunteer show averages over a million dollars in sales. This year they sold $117,000 dollars in gift certificates prior to opening.

Jonathon Davis FOX2 news.

To read more on Art On The Square, click here.

The Annie Malone foundation has been embracing children and families with their services and programs for 124 years, providing social services, educational programs, advocacy and entrepreneurship.

Sunday, members of the NEWS11 and FOX2 news team will be on hand for the annual Annie Malone parade along east Market Street at 1:00 pm.

To read more on the Annie Malone Foundation, click here.

MoDOT says the repairs on the Blanchette Bridge will not begin any earlier than November first, but some local business owners here in historic downtown St. Charles are still worried.  Many restaurants and local shops along Main Street in St. Louis rely heavily on their tourist foot traffic that comes from across the Missouri river.

The MoDOT will repair work will detour traffic coming from the St. Louis county side of the river.  Business owners are nervous that this will discourage visitors from making the drive.  They want to inform everyone about alternative routes to get to St. Charles to shop and eat.

But most shops along Main Street are preparing for a dip in business once the lane closures begin.  The city of St. Charles is holding informational meetings next week about alternative routes, like the page extension and highway 370.

To read more on the MoDOT Blanchette Bridge project, click here.

As the police car pulls up, a woman is seen being assaulted and screaming for help. Now as she is waving her hands, the suspect makes a run for it, a spotlight focusing on his escape.

Police say the woman screamed loudly and her calls for help were heard by a St. Louis County Police dispatcher who lives nearby. He quickly called 9-1-1.  A patrol car was in the area and the officer was on the scene in 53 seconds. This young mother lives in the complex and asked not to be identified.

The suspect is in jail on several charges and could be facing even more. The victim was not injured. She`s in the process of moving out of state where she got a new job. But she promises to return to St. Louis to testify in the case if needed.

A typical rail crossing has lights and an arm that lowers to block traffic. But most fatalities occur at crossings like this as people simply drive around trying to save a few seconds.

The school handed over 5,000 undergrad and graduate degrees.

Richard Mahoney will get an honorary degree. He is the former CEO of Monsanto. But not everyone was happy to see him receive this degree. Several students and alumni turned their backs on Mahoney when he received his degree.  Washington University has several buildings named after Monsanto and the corporation funds several fellowships.

Kuhs Estate looks like someplace in the country, but its actually just in St. Louis County at the north edge of suburbia and the margin of local history.

Elizabeth Parker says, “It was built as a weekend home by my great-grandfather who purchased the land in 1925.”

Elizabeth Parker’s great-grandfather was Edward L. Kuhs, an enterprising German immigrant who took an 1800′s dairy farm and turned it into a rural paradise at the end of Spanish Pond drive in Spanish Lake on the most northeastern high point overlooking the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.

“To see this much of the river expanse is wonderful and I love when people come out and say wow!,” says Parker.

It is Gatsby meets Green Acres, 150 of them in fact. They have a little bit and do a little bit of everything, including rescuing thoroughbreds.   The estate has been fixed up and is being opened to the public this weekend as part of the Spanish Lake Garden Tour.

“ We are just more than delighted not just because it has been closed to the public for so many years but because it is a wonderful spot.”

The truth is Kuhs farm has not been completely closed. For the past few years, they have been renting the upstairs of the old dairy barn for parties and weddings.  Parties here often made the paper. Its barbeque overlook was even featured in Life magazine. Now, Elizabeth Parker is trying to bring it all back to life.  A lot of the help is coming from volunteers.

“I cared for her mother til the day she died and I promised her on her death bed that I would be her that I would help her get this all cleaned up and fixed up and kept in the family,” says Julie Kochmann.

But what Elizabeth Parker wants to do is not just for her family but for the entire community.

The Spanish Lake Garden Tour and Plant Sale is being held on Sunday.

Website: Community Of Spanish Lake

Website: Kuhs Farm (Under Construction)

Chadd Salter, Manager of Investigations with Schnucks says “it seems like they’re coming out daily, its non stop.”

Stores are seeing more fake coupons show up at their registers more than ever before.  And the counterfeiters are not necessarily the ones trying to use them at the store or supermarket.  Salter says “unfortunately the consumer may not even know they have a counterfeit coupon”.  Many look and feel like the real thing.

“It’s something we’re on the lookout for, we’re always trying to educate our checkers in the stores we try and tell them to look at the feel of the coupon, the look of the coupon the dollar amount of the coupon.” says Salter.

It’s not just 50 cents here, a dollar there; sometimes it makes the items free.   “A lot of the ones you see are for free items, expensive, one we’ve seen recently is a tide coupon for a tide product that’s over twenty dollars and the coupon is for fifteen dollars off, its not something we can redeem and it ends up hurting us.”

So how can you be sure your coupon is real, Salter says “stick with the basics, your Sunday papers, your manufactures website, the weekly mailers and again if looks too good to be true, it probably is.”

Schnucks officials say if you’re unsure if a coupon is real, stop by customer service and they’ll take a look at it for you. 

Links:
Print Your Own Coupons
Fraudulent Coupons
Coupon Information Corporation 

They include Zimmerman’s medical records that prove he took a beating, with bloody lacerations on his head, grass stains on his back, a broken nose and more than one witness claims to have seen martin on top of Zimmerman throwing punches.

But what isn’t clear is who initiated the altercation.

A witness statement from martin’s girlfriend said she was talking to martin on his cell phone moments before he died.

She told investigators the teen sounded scared.