Nearly five years ago, a freight train operated by Kansas City Southern smashed into a passenger bus at an intersection in Santa Catarina, a tiny, working-class town on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico. The collision killed the bus’s driver and 16 of its passengers and left dozens injured. In June 2003, attorneys for the injured victims and relatives of the…
Goddamned Pitch. The weekly rag the Strip works for gets printed on Tuesday nights, so by the time this issue hits the streets, the election will be over. We figure there’s a pretty good chance that by the time you see this, sometime after Wednesday morning, the presidential race will still be in question, and the country will be plunged…
As this issue of the Pitch went to press, it was midday on Tuesday, a day that was supposedly one of the most important of our lifetimes. We had no idea who would win or whether, as the dude in the headscarf had warned on TV, blood would be flowing in the streets as our dedicated circulation guys tried to…
At first, she was just a body in the River Market. A 22-year-old white female, four days dead, concealed in a Jeep Cherokee parked at Fifth Street and Delaware. Parts of her head and body were wrapped in duct tape, Jackson County Medical Examiner Thomas Young would write in his autopsy report. Also encircling the head, neck, trunk and knee…
