St. Louis falls in rankings

"We're No. 1!" we (meaning a few of us) chanted (or said jokingly) in the newsroom (or during our lunch breaks) in St. Louis. But it was not meant to be.

I visited the Post-Dispatch website, STLtoday.com, this afternoon and was greeted by this:

(The right side, for those who are confused.)

Yes, it's true. As reporter Blythe Bernhard writes:

St. Louis has finally relinquished its title as the sexually transmitted disease capital, dropping to number two in the country for rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia. For several years the city’s disease rates topped the country.

 And with the city falling out of the No. 1 crime spot as well (and remaining home to the Rams football team), there's not much left to cheer about.