A 41-year-old Manchester man who has a previous conviction for child pornography possession pleaded guilty today in federal court for again possessing child sex abuse material. In 2020, Eric D. Goodwin was sentenced to two years in prison and a lifelong term of supervised release for possession of child pornography. In June of this year he was on house arrest following his release from prison.
A Tower Grove South man told police that early this morning he woke up to his girlfriend holding a knife to his back. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the 43-year-old at the 3500 block of Morgan Ford "was awakened by a sharp pain coming from his back" around 1 a.m. When the man got up, he saw his 31-year-old girlfriend wielding a knife and "confronting him over a personal matter," according to police.
Couple Morgan Casey and Donnah Thomas spent their pandemic going on outdoor dates together. Lots of dates. Dates in every corner of the St. Louis area.
In a world of screens and distractions, it's important to take some time to celebrate one of humanity's most eternal and beloved pastimes. One great way to do that is at the St. Louis Storytelling Festival, which returns this October for a nine-day celebration of storytelling with presenters from near and far. Events for attendees young and old will kick off throughout the St. Louis area from October 13 to October 22.
There's no such thing as a Jewish holiday without good food. Passover comes with matzo ball soup (rich chicken broth studded with dumplings) and brisket (the most amazing pot roast ever). Sukkot, the harvest holiday, has kreplach, amazing meat-stuffed dumplings.
There's no love lost between Cardinals fans and Major League Baseball today as fans try to figure out how to stream tonight's Cardinals game on Apple TV. Tonight, the Cardinals will play the Dodgers in Los Angeles, and the game will not be on local carrier Bally Sports Midwest. Instead, those who want to watch will have to create (or find) their Apple IDs to watch the game on Apple TV+.
A new St. Louis ravioli brand is preparing to take over the space once occupied by a storied t-rav legend: STL Toasted (3739 Foundry Way), the one-year-old toasted ravioli concept founded by Brittany Abernathy and Matthew Fuller, has signed a lease on the building at 2201 Macklind Avenue that formerly housed Mama Toscano's. The husband and wife team plan on initially using the building as a production space for their City Foundry food stall, with an eye to eventually including a retail market. "When we walked into the building, we both thought the same thing, that there is so much history in this building surrounding ravioli," Abernathy says.
A Metro East community college board president is under fire after allegedly being caught on a hot mic calling a professor an "ugly son of a bitch" during a meeting. The remark happened at the September 13 meeting of the Lewis and Clark Community College Board of Trustees, prior to Professor Gerald Mozur delivering comments against tearing down a historic building on campus. Technical difficulties connecting the in-person meeting to those joining remotely delayed comments from Mozur, who teaches philosophy.
Two Post-Dispatch reporters have said they will be leaving the city's paper of record. Longtime courts and policing reporter Joel Currier is leaving the Post to take a media liaison role for the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court in the city. Reporter and data specialist Janelle O'Dea will be joining the staff of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit newsroom.
When it comes to fall in St. Louis, we're all pretty basic — and that's OK. Autumn here is spectacular. The temperatures fall in the previously smoking hot city to a just-crisp-enough mid-60s, the fall color bursts into brilliant existence and we pick up coffee drinks infused by warming spices (that are surely from local cafes, not that unfortunate Seattle behemoth).
Maureen "Mo" Costello vividly remembers a particular weekend afternoon when she realized her vision for MoKaBe's (3606 Arsenal Street, 314-865-2009), the coffeehouse she cofounded 30 years ago, had come to be. It was a Saturday a few years back.
A Ballwin man pleaded guilty in federal court today to distribution of fentanyl after providing the drug to an acquaintance who then died of an overdose. After the acquaintance fatally overdosed, Quinton O'Bryan Adaway, 26, admitted he hid the body in his backyard. Adaway says he and the victim, identified as M.C., were at Adaway's house on July 11, 2020, or early the next day, when Adaway gave him several fentanyl capsules.
St. Louis is quickly becoming the home of female-led startups. According to data from PitchBook, female-founded startups in St. Louis have raised more capital than any other American city over the past decade. In the three years since 2020, St. Louis’ female-led startups saw their capital increase by 187 percent — the most in the country, and more than tech hubs like San Francisco, Phoenix and Austin.
Most St. Louisans know our metro area has 12 seasons instead of four: winter, fool's spring, second winter, spring of deception, third winter, the pollening, actual spring, summer, hell's front porch, false fall, second summer and actual fall. It's tough.
A 63-year-old woman was injured last night when someone shot more than a dozen times into the Courtesy Diner on Hampton Avenue. According to KMOV, the incident occurred at the eatery in the city's Clayton Tamm neighborhood around 12:15 a.m. A diner employee chased after a group of dine-and-dashers who had run out of the restaurant.
This might be the most hopping weekend of the year to date in the greater St. Louis region. If leather contests aren't your thing, hop onto Shakespeare, Tower Grove Pride, walking tours of the city's hot spots or the Greater St. Louis Hispanic Festival. Don't forget to plan your week while you're at it!
It was the beginning of 2020, and Matthew Fuller was looking forward to an exciting year. For the first time ever, he was booked solid with music gigs for the entire calendar, a lineup of shows that would take him all over the country doing what he loved. He was on top of the world, but in a few short months, he watched each of those shows get canceled as the pandemic ravaged life as we knew it.
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