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Vol. 138, No. 13 POST-DISPATCH WEATHERBIRD 1 PARTLY CLOUDY PARTLY CLOUDY WEATHER A14 TODAY TOMORROW Run play Food of the 1900s Eggs in a Nest and Divinity among turn-of-the-century treats Eat Iran will return 2 U.S. Navy boats A15 City schools work on goals in report A4 SERVING THE PUBLIC SINCE 1878 WINNER OF 18 PULITZER PRIZES WEDNESDAY 01.13.2016 $1.50 NFL COMMISSIONER ROGER GOODELL RAMS OWNER STAN KROENKE ST. LOUIS MAYOR FRANCIS SLAY BY JULIE PACE Associated Press WASHINGTON Eyeing the end of his presidency, Barack Obama urged Americans Tuesday night to rekindle their belief in the promise of change that rst carried him to the White House, declaring that the country must not allow election-year fear and division to put economic and se- BY JOEL CURRIER St.

Louis Post-Dispatch ALTON Sonya teenage son rushed into their apartment Monday evening to tell her his younger brother, Romell, fell and was knocked out while ducking re outside. son told her someone carried Romell L. Jones, 11, into the recreation center across the street but hit. When she found him lying on a table unconscious in his bright orange hooded sweatshirt, she imme- Alton boy, 11, killed in drive-by may not have been targeted A picture of fth- grader Romell Jones, 11, from his mother Sonya Facebook page. See SHOOTING Page A9 Obama looks ahead in nal State of Union He urges optimism, not fear, among Americans See OBAMA Page A9 NFL APPROVES MOVE TO LOS ANGELES Owners thrilled This is what need to do in Los B1 BY DAVID HUNN St.

Louis Post-Dispatch HOUSTON National Football League owners on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to strip the Rams from St. Louis and send the team to owner Stan proposed $2 billion stadium in Los Angeles County. The owners also agreed, after more than 10 hours of presentations and negotiations, to allow Dean Spanos to move his San Diego Chargers but not to the site he proposed. Instead, after multiple closed-door meetings, Spanos agreed to consider leasing or buying into stadium in Inglewood, southwest of downtown L.A. GOODBYE, RAMS See RAMS Page A8 Team owners vote 30-2 after hours of wrangling Chargers can join Kroenke; Raiders are left out ASSOCIATED PRESS St.

Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke talks to the media after team owners voted Tuesday in Houston to allow the Rams to move to a new stadium just outside Los Angeles. NFL ignored the facts, the loyalty of St. Louis fans, who supported the team through far more downs than worked hard, got a little bit lucky, and had a lot of people help us. We have to have a rst-class stadium is a painful process. is was an opportunity to return the Rams to their home forever remember that body-freezing feeling of bliss when St.

Louis won the Super Bowl, when Rams linebacker Mike Jones corralled the player on the 1-yard line, and it hit you, all at once: over, time has run out, irreversible. That feeling again paralyzed St. Louis on Tuesday night, but this time from the losing side, in a warped, diabolical, evil- twin sort of way: over, time has run out, irreversible. They took St. Rams.

gone. The feckless thugs in business suits decided St. Louis suited for the NFL, and just like that, in Los Angeles, Feckless thugs of NFL leave us with just memories Black-hearted Goodell fronts a cash-driven cartel BENJAMIN HOCHMAN St. Louis Post-Dispatch BENJAMIN HOCHMAN St. Louis Post-Dispatch See HOCHMAN Page A8 Traveladvisorson-site Sa 17,2014 CheSterfieldMall 10 -4 314-432-6020 Sa 16,2016.