Eighteen year-old Michael Henderson, better known as the rapper CTS Luh Wick, has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Joseph Raymond Shaw, 42. The Post-Dispatch has reported that Henderson was captured on surveillance footage around 2 p.m. August 26 riding a motorcycle on Broadway next to Shaw who was behind the wheel of a white Jeep.
Walking into a construction zone that is the future Puttshack at City Foundry STL is about what you’d expect. The space is extremely raw with exposed beams, unpainted cement and a steady stream of neon-shirted workers wearing hardhats bringing a minigolf course to life. But look to the right, and you’ll find something unexpected: a woman with spray cans set against an open wall.
An employee with the Missouri’s Department of Labor and Industrial Relations has been federally indicted for allegedly using her position in state government to send a little more than $140,000 in unearned unemployment benefits to friends and relatives. Federal prosecutors indicted Vicky Hefner, 63, of Jefferson County, on three charges of theft of public money. She pleaded not guilty last week.
After three years of dormancy, the Loop Trolley has once again erupted onto St. Louis streets in a blaze of middling glory. One enraptured rider raved to the Post-Dispatch “It’s nice that it’s free,” while Mayor Tishuara Jones proclaimed “Nobody hates this more than I do” as she advised the East-West Gateway Council to approve a $1.26 million grant for the streetcar last month. The mayor’s reluctant advocacy stems from the reasonable fear that the federal government will demand tens of millions in recompense if the trolley ceases operation, just the latest farcical turn in the tale of this $51 million fiasco.
This story originally appeared in the Missouri Independent. A Missouri judge dismissed a lawsuit Thursday that argued a new law requiring Missourians present a government-issued photo ID to vote is unconstitutional.
This story originally appeared in the Missouri Independent. Reparations is often something people hear about in an international setting — such as ongoing reparations that are paid to Holocaust survivors or reparations South Africa paid to apartheid victims.
Later this month Lion’s Choice is going full Willy Wonka. From Monday, October 24 to Friday, October 28 five lucky customers will find golden tickets included their orders. However, unlike in the Roald Dahl book, these golden tickets will not deliver you to some awful fate like swelling into the proportions of a giant blueberry or being dragged into a trash chute by a group of squirrels.
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To know the scrappy spirit of the St. Louis DIY scene is to know Trauma Harness. For the past 11 years, the band has pummeled low-ceiling basements and divey bars on either side of the Mississippi River with its passionate explosion of sound.
After spending his childhood in New York City, then Puerto Rico, Paul Bishop found himself in Oklahoma City dealing with a very difficult situation: There was no good pizza to speak of. It was something he'd taken for granted living in New York, a place synonymous with slices, and even in Puerto Rico, where he and his family would rotate their meals between outstanding Caribbean cuisine and the excellent pizza offerings they found all around the island.
Four people have been indicted in relation to a 19-year-old Jefferson County woman's fatal fentanyl overdose, including William Edward Martin, who allegedly supplied the drugs to the victim. The indictments stem from an incident on June 23 when Martin and the victim, Martin's ex-girlfriend identified in court documents as KH, met in the parking lot of a Walgreens in Arnold. Martin drove a BMW, and KH drove a Chevy Impala.
For The Fattened Caf owner Charlene Lopez Young, Filipino American Heritage Month is not simply about celebrating the contributions that Filipino Americans have made in the growth and development of the United States; it's about recognizing their role in the nation's present. "For people like me who were born in the United States but have Filipino parents, we always live in this tension that we are not Filipino enough but not American enough," Lopez Young says. "This month is so great because it helps people like me who identify as that feel a little more seen, whether that is in the food scene or just the acknowledgment that Filipino Americans live in the United States and are Americans."
Video of a fight that erupted at a West Florissant Walmart Tuesday night has gone viral. The Ferguson Police Department, which arrived at the scene around 9 p.m, says that they are working with the store to collect surveillance video and investigate the incident. KMOV has reported that the brawl captured in the two-minute video had its origins in a more minor conflict that happened in the store earlier in the night and was handled by store staff.
A few months ago, someone from Mobil 1 called Mindy Pastrovich with an idea. Mobil 1, the synthetic motor oil company, wanted to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the most dogs at a screening. And they wanted to do it at the Litchfield Skyview Drive-In Theatre in Illinois, where Pastrovich serves as the co-owner.
Thursday 10/13 Mixed-Up Lovers A bunch of lovers are criss-crossed at the opening of A Little Night Music, the musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler.
Tuesday 10/18 Not So Private If you liked Forgetting Sarah Marshall, then you should definitely check out Private Lives, the Noël Coward play that strikes many of the same comedic chords. Running through Sunday, October 23, at the Repertory Theater (130 Edgar Road, 314-968-4925, repstl.org), the show centers on characters Amanda and Elyot, who are divorced from one another.
Steven Pursley can't help but smile when he hears people freak out about ramen eggs. Soft-boiled with a silken exterior and cut in half to reveal a custard-like yolk, they are what many people assume is the show-stopping ingredient in a perfect bowl of ramen.
Remember when being able to get a craft beer and some classy gummy bears at the nice (you know which ones I'm talking about) movie theaters felt like the height of upscale cinema culinary decadence? Well, forget that experience. It was good for its time, but it doesn't seem any better than popcorn in the face of what's surely the next big thing in the movie theater food scene: the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater.
Today in federal court in St. Louis a Florissant woman was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to repay more than $780,000 in ill-gotten COVID-relief funds. Dionneshae Forland, 51, pleaded guilty in July to charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and theft of government property. As part of the scheme, Forland fraudulently obtained a $150,000 loan for a company that was linked to her 31-year-old son, Dwayne Times.
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