A man used construction equipment to drop a heavy boom lift onto a sculpture that has stood for 25 years outside St. Louis' Cathedral Basilica, badly damaging it, police said.

This is St. Louis water. "You might be surprised to know that the pH of St. Louis drinking water is 9 to 9.5," Giammar says, "much higher than the pH of distilled water, which is 7." In fact ...