Score one for common sense: The St. Louis Board of Aldermen has finally taken action to stop members from driving during their meetings. Included in the new rules approved by the membership during a lengthy meeting last week is a provision that members of the board cannot be counted as present if they are joining virtually and operating a motor vehicle. They also may not vote at meetings while operating a motor vehicle.
A lawsuit filed today seeks to block Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s restrictions on transgender health care. The petition, filed in St. Louis County Court by Lambda Legal, the American Civil Liberties Union and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, seeks a temporary restraining order to halt the rules Bailey promulgated through an emergency order on April 13.
The theme for John Mellencamp’s current marathon theater tour, which included a two-night stint at the Stifel over the weekend, is the classic American cinema that had a formative influence on him. To set that stage, the audience was treated to a 30-minute pre-show sampling of film clips from the likes of Hud, The Grapes of Wrath and On the Waterfront.
The imbroglio at the Circuit Attorney’s Office that led to no one showing up to prosecute a high-profile murder case has victim Brandon Scott’s family caught up in the middle. Several of them expressed frustration with city prosecutors outside the courtroom this morning after the trial of one of Scott's alleged killers was pushed back until June. Scott, 29, was killed in September 2021 on the Arch grounds in what his family says was an act of random road rage.
We all have certain memories, often built around life-altering events, that stick with us more vividly, more viscerally, than others. Such a feeling may envelop you during the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis production of Rajiv Joseph’s haunting Gruesome Playground Injuries.
If you’re headed out of town this weekend, you might want to make sure you leave early to get a jump on whatever bad traffic situation could start happening on Interstate 270/Interstate 255 near Interstate 55. Starting at 8 p.m. this Friday, April 28, three lanes of I-255 approaching southbound I-55 will be closed so crews can get some painting work done on the bridge.
Over a year after reality TV star Andy Cohen received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, his hometown will give him the same honor. Cohen, a Clayton native and host of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, will be inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame along Delmar Boulevard next month. Cohen will receive his star and make remarks during a ceremony on May 5.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is blaming a staff attorney who is currently on leave for a courtroom no-show on the first day of a high-profile murder trial earlier this month — and has ordered him to appear in court later this morning. The judge in the murder case, Scott A. Millikan, threatened to hold Gardner in criminal contempt of court — a serious finding that can include possible fines or jail time — after no one from her office showed up for the April 17 trial.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's office removed an online tip line for reporting transgender health care concerns after detractors flooded the tip line with false reports. In a statement to the Riverfront Times, a spokesperson for Bailey's office said the online portal was "temporarily down" as the office investigates a potential "hack" into its system. "Far left activists are trying to impede parents' ability to shed light on what happened to their children," Madeline Sieren, the AG's spokesperson, wrote in an email.
Chinese Cultural Days at the Missouri Botanical Gardens (4344 Shaw Boulevard, 314-577-5100, missouribotanicalgarden.org) is back, and this year, the event is focusing on its roots with a new theme: Celebrating Communities. “We are a community which has had a presence in St. Louis for 150 years,” says Min Liu, this year's host committee chair.
A bill in the Missouri statehouse that many farmers feared would have led to Missouri-sourced plant and animal products being labeled as a "Potential Gene Therapy Product" died in committee last night, much to the relief of both agricultural and biotech interests in the state. The bill, HB 1169, was tied to the state’s burgeoning anti-vaccine movement, which lobbied heavily for it.
For a long time, the HillBenders was a band in search of an identity. A bluegrass act hailing from Springfield, Missouri, the group wanted to break out of the traditional bluegrass box.
Thursday 04/20 Memorable Moments
When Doug tries to ride his bike off a roof, he has no idea it will lead to a fateful meeting with Kayleen, a girl having stomach pains.
A recent study analyzing deadly intersections across the U.S. made a conclusion that should surprise precisely no one who's ever driven in St. Louis: Grand Boulevard is a killer. But while many residents of Tower Grove South and Tower Grove East have been focused on South Grand, it's actually an intersection with North Grand that's among the deadliest in the U.S. — the intersection of North Grand and Montgomery in the JeffVanderLou neighborhood. Cars speed well in excess of 40 mph in this part of North Grand, and pity any driver trying to turn left to join the vehicles heading downtown on a weekday morning.
An indictment unsealed Tuesday accuses leaders of a local Black liberation group of assisting a Russian nationalist in orchestrating a years-long campaign to sow discord in the United States and spread pro-Russian propaganda. The indictment alleges St. Louis residents Omali Yeshitela, Penny Hess and Jesse Nevel of the African People’s Socialist Party conspired with Aleksandr Ionov.
I was trying to take the pulse of the recreational market and see what the people of Missouri were enjoying. Through social media posts and Reddit, a name that kept coming up was Robust Cannabis.
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