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After a weekend car crash, Benton Park residents living on South Jefferson Avenue say their busy stretch of the road needs at least one more stop sign. On Sunday afternoon, a group of neighbors living near the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Lynch Street were outside surveying damage and doing what they could to help individuals who had just been involved in a car wreck. A Nissan sedan heading north on Jefferson had to swerve out of the way to avoid an SUV heading south that cut across lanes making a left turn onto Lynch.

Kristen Taylor, 37, is still in disbelief that recreational marijuana is legal in Missouri and Illinois. "I can't believe it happened in my lifetime," she says.

Leah Sage came across an interesting new app on Facebook three years ago. The app, SudShare, boasted that "sudsters" could make up to $20 per hour by washing strangers' laundry.

Date of sighting: April 27 Location: Locust Street and North 10th Street

Here's What You Missed Last Week in St. Louis MONDAY, MAY 1 A dust storm in Illinois causes a huge pileup on I-55 heading north from Springfield that leaves 30 injured and seven dead.

“I ain’t gonna talk too much,” jazz superstar Kamasi Washington told the audience before leading his eight-piece ensemble into “Can You Hear Him” from Washington’s 2018 album Heaven and Earth. It was the first of his two sold-out Saturday night shows at City Winery, a terrific listening room for the powerhouse sound of his band.

Last week, Governor Mike Parson got on the "May is beef month" bandwagon, holding an actual event and putting out a press release announcing that Missouri, like the rest of the U.S., cares a whole lot about helping local farmers make ends meat. While we reluctantly got to say well done to our Republican governor, we're a little surprised to see beloved St. Louis roast beef chain Lion's Choice jumping in on the action with a Twitter campaign aimed at stirring up some trouble with Arby's. Lion's Choice announced its intentions on May 2 with a Tweet: "It's #NationalBeefMonth and we'll be beefing with @Arby's all month long.

The volunteers at St. Animal Pet Adoptions can’t believe that one of their favorite dogs, Zayne, still hasn’t found a forever home.

After this weekend's deadly shooting outside the Exotic Bar and Grill on Cherokee Street, a nearby business owner tells the RFT that she's been trying for years to alert elected leaders and the police to the violence that seems to regularly occur outside the bar. Brittany Morris owns Love Goddess Healing Oasis, a spiritual healing center adjacent to Exotic, and she says that shootings outside the business next door are nothing new. In the three years she's been in business, Morris estimates there have been about five or six shootings outside Exotic.

At the Missouri State Capitol in January, Keeley Kromat did one of the few things she thought she could do: She begged.  Kromat, a mother of two daughters, told a room full of strangers some of her family’s most personal stories in a plea for them to reconsider a bill that would restrict health care for transgender minors. 

St. Louis Police are asking for your help to identify these two suspects in a May 6 shooting on Cherokee Street. The shooting came at the end of Cherokee’s famed Cinco de Mayo party.

Do you ever forget the smell? That slightly musty aroma that wafts towards your nose with each turn of the page. Or the feel?

It seems like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was made to be the final installment of this cosmic-superhero trilogy — even if Marvel Studios doesn’t want to wrap up this section of the Marvel Cinematic Universe just yet. Several of the key players have already moved the hell on.

So, you waited till the last minute to make a plan to celebrate mom. That’s OK. You can still pull off something nice with the following events and ideas.

You'd think it'd be impossible to improve something that's already perfect. But Imo's found a way. That praise may be controversial to some.

Missouri state Senator Mike Moon, who definitely does not support adults marrying children despite gaining nationwide notoriety for implying just that, would like women who get abortions to be charged with murder. Last month, the Ash Grove Republican got in an argument with state Representative Peter Merideth (D-St. Louis), who was taking him to task for introducing legislation that would prevent trans youth from getting gender-affirming care. Moon's argument was that we need to protect the kids.

People love a pop-up. People love burgers. And people love LEGO.

Seeing a full-blown rock star — the shoulder-length black hair, the skin-tight black jeans, the Chuck Taylors, the tattoos — walk into a generic Creve Coeur coffee shop between a Hair Saloon and a Jimmy John's is a bit of a shock. After all, Guns N' Roses guitarist Richard Fortus regularly travels all over the planet playing stadiums filled with 80,000 or more screaming fans and counts some of the biggest rock legends in the world as his best friends. Yet here he is on a sleepy afternoon in the suburbs asking the kid at the counter if he has any almond milk.

For too long, St. Louis city has been without a real Jewish deli, arguably since Kopperman’s closed in the Central West End in 2016, since Protzel's and Kohn's are in the county. Don’t even mention Blues City Deli (New Orleans style), Nomad’s (arancini is Italian) or Pickles (no).

Missouri Governor Mike Parson's office will "immediately" begin a process to replace St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, Parsons office said in a statement. Gardner resigned Thursday amid widespread calls for her to do so. The twice-elected Democratic prosecutor had a tumultuous tenure  — with the last few weeks full of staff resignations, contempt of court hearings and multiple state pushes to oust her from office.  [content-1] Gardner's resignation is effective June 1, giving Parson's appointee over a year to serve out the rest of Gardner's term that will end in November 2024.