By Doug Moore, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mar. 4--KIRKWOOD -- Police Chief Jack Plummer had just gotten home after a 10-hour workday last month when the phone rang. Shots fired at City Hall, a dispatcher told him. "Was it Cookie?" the chief asked.

By Kim Bell, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Feb. 9--Years ago, when William Biggs was a cattle rancher in northern Colorado, a magazine featured the strapping outdoorsman on its cover as the face of the modern cowboy. Ever unassuming, Biggs took it in stride without boasting, friends say.