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Hometown: St. Louis
Cell: 314-616-5665
Email: Maggie.Rotermund@patch.com
Biography
I am a trained print journalist with several years experience. I graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism in 2002, with a degree emphasis in news-editorial and a minor in political science.
I started my career working for Gannett at The Baxter Bulletin in Mountain Home, Ark. While there, I won several awards for my work including the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Newspapers in Education award for a story on an 84-year-old man learning to read. That story also won a second place in Best of Gannett.
I also won several APME awards for my beat and political writing.
After three years, I decided to move closer to my hometown of St. Louis. I accepted a job as the St. Clair Editor for the Washington Missourian newspaper in Franklin County.
While there, I covered the "Baby Abby/Shannon Torrez" kidnapping story from start to sentencing. In the course of reporting the story, I appeared on a KMOX news broadcast, On The Record with Greta Van Susteren and participated in an episode of the Oxygen Network's "Snapped."
After three-plus years at The Missourian, I made the decision to continue my education.
I took a year off work and completed my master's degree in international relations. The program, Webster University's Global MAIR, took me to London, UK; Leiden, The Netherlands; Vienna, Austria; Geneva, Switzerland; and Bangkok, Thailand.
Having completed my degree, I am happy to be back home and back in journalism.
I started as the Wentzville Patch editor in 2010 and moved to University City Patch in January 2012. I also cover Clayton-Richmond Heights Patch.
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The child identification program provides free information to parents.
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The board of education will hold a workshop meeting tonight.
A $2.7 million grant will help researchers detect differences in the brains of children with Wolfram syndrome.
A look at last year's Halloween walk
The event is open to the public.
Buy your annual holiday cards from a local charity this year.
Proceeds from the festive cards benefit those in need of food this holiday season in the St. Louis area.
Check out the round up of stories related to crime in University City during the month of October.
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Police have released composite sketches of the alleged shooter.
MoDOT is alerting drivers not to be alarmed if they see snow plows on the roads Wednesday. Severe weather is not on the way, MoDOT is performing a winter weather drill.
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University City Police still looking for suspect in Monday's double homicide.
U City hosted the Class 3, District 4 tournament Oct. 24.
The Richmond Heights Fire Department responded to 29 calls for help from Oct. 8, 2012 through Oct. 14, 2012.
University City police report two people were shot Monday afternoon at Sutter and Bartmer Industrial Drive.