Aldermen pass mandatory reporting of failed gun background checks
CITY HALL – Some St. Louis officials say a newly passed law could tip off police about potential perpetrators of…
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Forum addresses issues confronting black youth
ST. LOUIS – Metropolitan Congregations United, a diverse group of faith and community organizers, held a public meeting at Vashon…
Prosecutors, legal scholars back Gardner’s appeal in 1994 murder case
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dozens of legal ethics scholars and prosecutors have joined an effort get a new trial for…
Group promotes after-school programs to ease gun violence
COVENANT BLU-GRAND CENTER – The return of a robust number of after-school programs is the latest course of action being…
Builders of NGA seek minority-, women-owned businesses
DOWNTOWN – McCarthy Building Companies and HITT Contracting, a joint venture that will build the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s new headquarters…
The curious tale of the St. Louis street barriers
Story and photos by JACK GRONE When Henning Lohse-Busch and his wife, Emily, relocated a few years ago from Chicago…
State agency tracked Planned Parenthood patients’ periods
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri’s health department director said Tuesday that he had tracked the menstrual cycles of Planned Parenthood…
Sav A Lot grocery brings new life to food desert
HAMILTON HEIGHTS – When Pete’s Shur Save grocery store packed its bags and moved to University City in December 2016, it…
Ex-FBI agent hired by Gardner in Greitens case faces March trial
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former FBI agent hired by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner to help investigate…
Spencer, transportation committee clash on tabling airport privatization vote bill
CITY HALL – Depending on who is talking, action by an aldermanic committee last week could either advance proposals to…
Data breach at health center hits up to 152,000
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Officials at a St. Louis health center that serves needy, uninsured residents say a cyberattack has…
Bill would ban declawing of cats as cruel and inhumane
CITY HALL – A certified animal lover, Christine Ingrassia keeps her own cat, two foster cats, and a dog. In…
City awards $1 million contract to cut down 2,000 dead and diseased trees
CITY HALL – In St. Louis, it’s time to clear away a bunch of old trees – a couple of…
350-pound baby due next summer at the zoo
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The popular elephants exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo will grow by one next year. The…
North side aldermen stall freeholders nominations
CITY HALL – As the apparent deadline for approving the city’s nine members of a freeholders board passed, action stalled…
Sumner’s homecoming draws hundreds, including from Vashon
THE VILLE – Sumner High School. It’s the first black high school west of the Mississippi River. Situated at 4248…