While St. Louis springs tend to coyly lift their petaled heads before swiftly flitting away, our autumns are a slow, satisfying burn, lingering at the door of Thanksgiving. Marking fall's final flourish, as ever, is the Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival that in this year's 31st season bodes to be as vibrant as ever.
A $300 million amusement park could be coming to Missouri. Plans for the park, known as Oasis at Lakeport, were submitted to the City of Osage Beach last week. It would include amusement rides, hotels, restaurants, a Ferris wheel, an amphitheater, a marina and a boardwalk — all on lakefront property.
An 18-year-old from Jefferson County was indicted earlier this month in federal court for allegedly selling cocaine and firearms via Instagram. Donye "El Baggo" Peace faces four charges, including distribution of cocaine and unlicensed firearms trafficking. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office, three other men are charged in connection to the operation.
Ann Wagner has served Missouri’s Second Congressional District in the House of Representatives for nearly a decade. But holding the seat hasn’t been easy.
After a federal bribery scandal rocked St. Louis politics, a few cash bribes and a resignation left a Lewis Reed–sized hole in the St. Louis Board of Aldermen. Reed, the former president of the BOA, resigned from the position he held for 15 years.
When Roy Blunt announced that he would not be seeking re-election after his second term in the U.S. Senate, it set off a mad dash of Republicans and Democrats to replace him. The early days of the race had a number of interesting quirks, including a short-lived third party spoiler-in-the-making (to try and stop Eric Greitens if he won the primary) and a split endorsement from Trump. But now we're left in the general with a mainstream moderate D facing a Trump-loving, MAGA R. That sort of match up should sound familiar because that's basically what happened in 2018 when Claire McCaskill took on Josh Hawley and lost by nine points.
St. Louis's favorite football team is still the Battlehawks. This morning the XFL officially released the names of its eight teams, as well as new promotional materials for each one of them. Battlehawks fans will no doubt breath a sigh of relief that they can still yell "Ka Kaw!" and go to games wearing feathery wings.
On February 4, 2021, Representative Ann Wagner, R-Ballwin, was just beside herself with indignation over the prior conduct of a fellow Republican congresswoman, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Transylvania. “The statements and conspiracy theories promoted by Representative Greene, including QAnon, calling into question school shootings, anti-Semitic and other offensive slurs and threats, have no place in the Republican party,” Wagner stated in a press release related to Greene getting stripped of all committee assignments.
A video is going viral on Facebook in which a truck slams into a car on St. Louis’ I-270 near the Ladue Road exit in Creve Coeur. The video shows a dark truck appearing to ram purposefully into a small car when the car tries to overtake the truck on the highway.
Squee alert! Check out this newborn monkey at the Saint Louis Zoo (1 Government Drive, 314-781-0900). Her name is Rhubarb and she’s a ginger-hued dream.
Even though police were called to his house multiple times in the months leading up to Monday’s shooting — suspect Orlando Harris was still lawfully allowed to own a gun. Missouri has some of the weakest gun laws in the country, according to gun-control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.
The time has come, St. Louis. Shania Twain is coming to Riverport Hollywood Casino Ampitheatre (14141 Riverport Drive, thehollywoodcasinoamphitheatre.com) next summer and you’d better start getting ready now. Break out your sequined cowgirl boots and your shiny tops and get ready to step on some hearts because Twain's tour is scheduled to stop in St. Louis on June 4, 2023.
The second of two individuals facing charges related to the robbery of a St. Louis Blues prospect on the Arch grounds in September of last year pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court. As part of her plea agreement, Kaniya Sloan, 18 at the time of the incident, pleaded guilty to a charge of being an accessory after the fact of a robbery on federal territorial jurisdiction. Prosecutors dropped a charge of aiding and abetting a robbery.
Anyone who's been a caretaker of children at any point since 2013 needs no introduction to the Disney movie Frozen. But for the rest of us: The story follows two sisters who are princesses in the fictional kingdom of Arendelle. The elder sister, Elsa, has magical ice powers that are a tiny bit out of control as well as a sibling, Anna, who doesn't understand why her big sis won't relax and play with her.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department reported a carjacking and kidnapping incident that occurred Wednesday night on the 2600 block of Delmar. A 51-year-old man told police that around 8 p.m. he was pumping gas near the intersection of Delmar and Jefferson when a man he didn't know got into the front passenger seat of his car and pointed a gun at him, telling him to pull the car onto the curb.
Jason Abrams’ dream was about to come true: He had a script, a crew and funding, and he was poised to return to his hometown, St. Louis, to direct his movie. It was January 2020, and the project was set to begin in March. But, like so many best laid pre-pandemic plans, this one never materialized.
I'm a longtime flower smoker, pretty much exclusively. But those damn terp slurper videos on Instagram really have been getting to me. I wanted in on the fun and coughs.
The shooter suspected of murdering a teacher and a student at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School on Monday attempted to buy a gun from a licensed dealer earlier this month. St. Louis Police say on October 8 that 19-year-old Orlando Harris tried to purchase a firearm from a dealer in St. Charles, but an FBI background check blocked the sale. However, Harris was able to successfully purchase the AR-15 rifle he used Monday from a private seller, who purchased the weapon from a federally licensed dealer in December 2020.
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