Yesterday a Maryland Heights detective shot and killed a man who police say was charging him with an "edged weapon" in hand. The shooting occurred at 4:19 p.m. at the Dave & Buster's on Riverport Drive in Maryland Heights. According to a statement issued by police, the deceased individual was a 48-year-old man "wanted in relation to several criminal incidents in various area jurisdictions."
Each week, we bring you our picks for the best concerts of the next seven days! To submit your show for consideration, click here. All events are subject to change, especially in the age of COVID-19, so do check with the venue for the most up-to-date information before you head out for the night.
Press (2509 South Jefferson Avenue, 314-328-1094) does not serve pizza. This is the one thing Logan Ely wants you to know before venturing into his Fox Park restaurant for one of his stuffed, panini-pressed concoctions.
Last-minute shoppers hunting for a good bargain, rejoice: The Illinois State Treasurer's Office is auctioning off hundreds of pieces of unclaimed property this week, just in time for the holidays. The online auction is slated to run through December 8, with more than 450 pieces of unclaimed property ranging from jewelry to collectible coins to cars all priced to move. Christmas is rapidly approaching, and you just know the Simpsons fan in your life would love to live out all their Mr. Plow snow-scooping fantasies with a 2006 IH 7400 dump-body plow truck, currently going for only $3,750.  And what better gift could there be for your favorite safety-minded possessor of clogged arteries than this pile of expired defibrillators, currently set at just $21.15?
The St. Louis Battlehawks are inching toward their return to football in the Gateway City. The program took its next step on Wednesday — releasing new jerseys for the 2023 season. The announcement revealed two different sets of uniforms for the 2023 Battlehawks: a blue home version and a gray away version.
Fans of Burger 809 (1821 Cherokee Street, 314-899-5959), the delightful slider-focused restaurant owned by Tasha Smith, only have a few more weeks to get their fix. The restaurant located inside Bluewood Brewing will close on December 23. Smith shared the news in a post dated December 6Â on Burger 809's Facebook page, detailing the restaurant's rise from a tiny storefront on the west side of the Cherokee Street business district into a wildly successful food counter inside the Benton Park Brewery.
You know there's a disturbance in the Force when someone steals your Yoda statue. That's exactly what happened yesterday to St. Louis dining destination Steve's Hot Dogs on South Grand Boulevard. The concrete Yoda statue, about the size of a lawn gnome but weighing 100 pounds, sat outside Steve's facing the sidewalk by the outdoor eating area.
Giovanni Bacilieri remembers the first hot dog that got him hooked. It was from a casual restaurant in his hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia, a place known as much for its native daughter, Shakira, as its robust hot-dog culture. At this restaurant, as was typical of other sausage-centric eateries in Barranquilla, the menu was filled with a seemingly endless number of choices, but five-year-old Bacilieri settled on one covered in a sweet and sticky pineapple concoction.
You may not instantly recognize the name Jerry Herman, however it is quite likely that you are familiar with his work. As a composer and lyricist, he’s responsible for some of Broadway’s most memorable shows from the 1960s into the 80s. His biggest hits, Hello, Dolly!
Editor’s Note: When he was 19, Kevin Johnson committed a heinous crime killing police office Sgt. William McEntee. After he was incarcerated, Pam Stanfield, Kevin Johnson’s former elementary school principal, maintained a relationship with him in prison. For his crime, Johnson was executed, and he asked Stanfield to bear witness.
This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund as part of its series Shadow of Death, which considers St. Louis County’s use of the death penalty. On November 20, 2003, 45-year-old Beverly Guenther was abducted outside the office where she worked in Earth City, Missouri.
Our November 16 feature, "The Bricks that Bind," opens in 2002 with Geoff Story buying the LaSalle Park home that rehabber and former magazine publisher Barbara Clark had left a decade earlier, and the neighbors sharing the folklore of her legendary parties all those years later. Barbara had been the vacated district's solitary resident in 1976, and the tale of her and Story's eventual and unlikely friendship was originally pitched as the first of my new column, but was fleshed out as a cover story instead.
This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund as part of its series Shadow of Death, which considers St. Louis County’s use of the death penalty. When Missouri executioners injected Kevin Johnson with a lethal dose of pentobarbital on November 29, few people were there to see it.
Over the course of four hours Tuesday afternoon, three former city political leaders were sentenced to more than a combined decade in prison. Former President of the Board of Aldermen Lewis Reed and former Alderman John Collins-Muhammad must each serve 45 months in prison. Former Alderman Jeffrey Boyd received a 36-month sentence.
Former Alderman John Collins-Muhammad was sentenced today in federal court to 45 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for securing a local businessman tax abatements on his properties. Collins-Muhammad’s sentence marked the first of three former St. Louis city politicians to be sentenced today for their role in a bribery scheme which shook the city’s political landscape when it came to light in June. The others are Jeffrey Boyd, former alderman for the 22nd ward, and former Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed. [content-3] Judge Stephen Clark said in court that sentencing guidelines suggested Collins-Muhammad receive between 37 and 47 months, and ultimately Clark chose a punishment on the harsher side of that range.
At the end of the year, Ray Hartmann will end his radio show on KTRS 550 AM. He did "St. Louis in the Know with Ray Hartmann" for just over three years and is stepping down because he says that between Donnybrook, writing for the RFT and KTRS he only sleeps four hours a night and needs to cut back. "I'm in denial about my old age, but this nighttime radio schedule has convinced my body it's a real thing," says Hartmann, who is 70.
Who says St. Louis isn’t a soccer city? Not many can — especially after St. Louis tuned in in droves to watch Saturday’s World Cup contest between the United States Men's National Team and the Netherlands. Although the United States fell 3-1 to the Netherlands, nearly 13 million people tuned in to watch the contest on FOX.
An engineering firm is asking the Hazelwood School District for the green light to perform soil sampling and analytical testing on Hazelwood Central High School’s football field in Florissant, to determine the presence of radioactive waste. SCI, the engineering firm, is making the request out of “an abundance of caution” after learning that soil from nearby Jana Elementary School had been taken to Hazelwood Central as “fill material to raise and level the football site,” according to a November 11 letter that SCI sent to the district.
The West End Players Guild’s production of Lucas Hnath’s The Christians is a riveting, twisting tale of faith, belief and trust. While those three terms may often feel synonymous, the script artfully reminds us they are quite distinct in meaning and practice. Excellent performances and staging in the Union Avenue Christian Church’s sanctuary elevate a well-crafted script that avoids moralizing dialogue and easy answers.
The time is almost upon us. On Thursday, the legal weed amendment Missourians passed last month will take effect, and stoners can light their first legal blunts in Missouri.
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