A new study offers the first-ever "snapshot" of the plastic pollution in the Mississippi River — and it's pretty trashy. The Mississippi River Plastic Pollution Initiative tracked debris near St. Louis and nine other cities along the Mississippi, from St. Paul, Minnesota to Greenville, Mississippi. Across three different periods from March 2021 to July 2022, volunteers logged a total of 174,868 items on their Debris Tracker apps.
Certain holiday memories are so ingrained into our collective consciousness that it’s hard to imagine them any different than the original. Perhaps no film better exemplifies this than Frank Capra’s 1946 holiday tomb It’s A Wonderful Life.
If you caught season four of TLC’s Next Great Baker, you’re undoubtedly a fan of Lia Holter and her Made. By Lia Craft Bakery (610 Rue Street, Florissant).
How many different sports movies am I summing up in this one sentence? “Against all odds, an athlete claws their way to the top.” Based on a true story or not, this narrative trope has always been a key component of the subgenre and its seemingly limitless appeal.Â
James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster film Titanic has stolen the hearts of generations of movie lovers and never let go. The exhilarating love story is as engrossing and tragically heartbreaking as the ship that served as its setting.
Kanye West, formerly best-known as a musician and fashion designer, but nowadays most famous for his deranged outbursts and preference for dressing up in Klan robes, is making headlines once again today with an unhinged rant in which little ol' St. Louis features prominently, if also bafflingly. TMZ reports that the difficult-to-follow spiel, delivered at rapid-fire pace to a room full of people at an unknown location in Las Vegas, took place early this morning. West was captured on video addressing the room in animated fashion, a set of headphones sitting crooked across his head.
Three men accused of keeping a 20-year-old college student from India in slave-like conditions at a home in Defiance, Missouri, appeared in court today. Their attorneys had the difficult job of arguing that their clients facing a combined 17 felonies — human trafficking-related charges among them — ought to be allowed out of jail pending their day in court.
A man armed with a dozen knives made a desperate attack on a White Castle Tuesday — but wasn't able to breach its defenses. Christopher J. Manley, whose age is redacted from court records, allegedly went on a rampage inside the White Castle restaurant at 5615 South Lindbergh Boulevard in south county. The manager told St. Louis County Police that Manley "destroyed multiple items inside the business and spat on" the manager.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is advertising a low, low rate of just $26 a year for new online subscribers. But if you already rely on the daily for your local news, get ready to pay up: Digital access for existing subscribers is increasing 75 percent. The latest hike is part of a rapid series of price increase for online access.
St. Louis has no shortage of great holiday pop-ups, but come the new year, suddenly nothing is going on. Frankly, it's a bit of bummer, even if our livers appreciate the break. Finally, someone has stepped up to right this great wrong.
By day, Clements Lock & Security is Gravois Park’s locksmith stop, but on Thursday nights after 4 p.m. it transforms into Clements Bar (2626 Cherokee Street). The rustic key and lock shop makes for a quirky watering hole for those who want a unique night on the town. And the story of how it came to be is just as idiosyncratic — part necessity, part creativity and part history.
Sydney Maisie was on her way to a job interview in Webster Groves when her bus ride turned horribly wrong. On the afternoon of April 13, a man entered the MetroBus she was on.
In early 2020, Layton Greene was riding high. The East St. Louis native had just signed a record deal with Quality Control Music, had plans for a 10-date debut tour and was garnering a rapidly growing fan base for her heartfelt R&B.
Less than two weeks after boasting about sharing basil lemonade with a notorious alt-right troll, state Representative Sarah Unsicker (D-Shrewsbury) has dropped out of the race for Missouri attorney general. Once considered a fairly mainstream St. Louis County Democrat, Unsicker recently drew calls to drop out of the race — and even resign from her seat — after engaging in bizarre speculation online about her rival in the Democratic primary, Elad Gross, as well as Gross' wife and also Republican candidate Will Scharf, all of whom, perhaps not so coincidentally, are Jewish. (You can read all about the conspiracy theory behind her claims in a story the RFT published this morning.)
Another member of the civilian board tasked with overseeing jail operations has resigned, the second in two days. Board member Mike Milton released a resignation letter this afternoon in a letter addressed to Detention Facility Oversight Board Chair Darryl Gray and Ruby Bonner, the deputy commissioner of the Division of Civilian Oversight.
Mayor Tishaura O. Jones will present Leland “Metro Boomin” Wayne with a key to St. Louis at 1:30 p.m. today at the rotunda at City Hall (1200 Market Street). Metro Boomin, a Diamond-certified Grammy Award-nominated producer, entrepreneur, humanitarian and St. Louis native, is being honored with the Key to the City in recognition of his advocacy for supporting single mothers and survivors of domestic abuse.
St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts allegedly once bragged to a deputy that a judge on the 22nd Circuit Court was so scared of him that Betts could tell the judge "to shit in the middle of the court building" and he would. But a new letter drafted by the court's presiding judge suggests that whatever power the sheriff had over the judges has waned.
Three years after taking the dual role of University of Missouri–Columbia chancellor and University of Missouri System president, Mun Choi’s pay package has quietly approached $1 million through decisions made in a series of closed-door curators meetings. An attorney who works with Missouri open meetings law argued decisions on Choi’s salary should be made in public.
On the first night of Hanukkah, Tasha Kaminsky got a rude awakening to the state of Missouri politics. Kaminsky is married to Elad Gross, a Democratic candidate for attorney general.
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