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Six Missouri residents on Tuesday found the shooting death of a 28-year-old Black man by his white neighbor in November justified, disappointing civil rights activists working with his family.

Officials from the City of St. Louis and four surrounding Missouri counties will join leaders from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Metropolitan Sewer District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, East-West Gateway Council, Meramec Regional Planning Commission, Boonslick Regional Planning Commission,…

A holiday reprieve in residential evictions in the St. Louis area has ended, as law enforcement officials showed up at multiple homes in the new year, according to city and county officials.

St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden will postpone his February retirement date as the search for his replacement continues.

As the omicron variant takes hold of the St. Louis region, Rep. Cori Bush is asking the governor to formally request federal assistance.

Regardless of who drew the city’s new 14-ward map, one St. Louis group contends ward reduction of any kind decreases Black voting power while creating white minority rule.

The Saint Louis Art Museum announced it will close to the public at 5 pm today and reopen on Feb. 1. The closure is the result of the rapid spread of COVID-19 among the museum staff.MetroTix automatically will refund tickets…

Since 1995, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM)’s flagship teen education program, New Art in the Neighborhood (NAN), has exposed St. Louis and Illinois-area high school students to training, teaching, and development opportunities from veteran artists around the world.

With one of the highest homicide rates nationally for years now, St. Louis has held the reputation of the country’s most dangerous city. Despite this, its homicide rate in 2021 decreased by a jaw-dropping 25% as compared to its record-setting…

St. Louis County councilors voted 4-3 Tuesday along party lines to enact a mask requirement that went into effect Wednesday morning.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra President and CEO Marie- Hélène Bernard recently announced the appointment of Yolanda “Yoli” Alovor, Ph.D., as the institution’s first vice president of external affairs and equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri (GSEM) announced Amber Overton as its new chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer. Overton will lead the diversity, equity and inclusion strategy for the GSEM organization, fostering an atmosphere and culture that is welcoming to…

Production is set to begin this month in a new manufacturing plant opening in Hazelwood as a private-label subsidiary of Post Holdings moves processing of its fruit and nut snacks from Canada.

McDonald’s and McDonald’s Owner/Operator Jimmy Williams awarded Asia Bradley, a freshman nursing student at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and a St. Louis native, a $15,000 Black & Positively Golden Scholarship.

Americans buy – and then must dispose of – about 30 million Christmas trees each year.

January

Wentzville School District Superintendent Dr. Curtis Cain is one of four finalists for the 2022 American School Superintendents Association (AASA) National Superintendent of the Year award.

Highland (Illinois) High School boys’ basketball coach Deryl Cunningham received the best gift of all this Christmas: a kidney from his cousin, Tanya Woods, of Chicago.