The Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that state marijuana regulators were within their authority to deny a cultivation business license to a company that failed to include proper paperwork with its application. Mo Cann Do Inc. applied for a cultivation license to grow marijuana in 2019. The company was denied when the state said it didn’t include a certification of good standing from the Missouri Secretary of State’s office in its application.
A basketball coach for MICDS was charged today with two counts of felony harassment for sending photos of men's genitals to minors. In addition to the two felonies, Lee Bogan Jr. was also hit with a misdemeanor charge of furnishing pornographic material to minors. Both of the minors are students at MICDS.
One of Chuck Basye’s favorite pastimes is fantasizing about whether or not his political opponents — and random people he interacts with on social media — are gay. "F*ggots," "fuckwad" and "fat bastards" are a few of Basye’s favorite phrases. Basye is a former Missouri state representative and failed Columbia School Board candidate who is running for the state Senate as a Republican.
The attorney for a paralyzed detainee in the troubled St. Louis City Justice Center found him lying in his own feces yesterday, denied access to a toilet and the use of both adult diapers and toilet paper, she says. The attorney, Susan McGraugh, snapped a photo of the troubling scene she encountered. The photo is of Lamarr Pearson, a 35-year-old who was arrested Friday on first-degree assault charges.
A St. Louis city sheriff's deputy was charged yesterday with one count of endangering the welfare of a child after his two-year-old nephew shot himself with the deputy’s gun last month in Ferguson. The charge filed against Deputy James Short, 24, in St. Louis County is a misdemeanor. Prosecutors say that Short has been a deputy in the city since November.Â
As March ends, we look back at the beloved restaurants we had to say goodbye to, but rejoice in the new spots we have to welcome. First and foremost, the St. Louis sushi-burrito legend BLK MKT Eats closed its location at 9 South Vandeventer in the Central West End — breaking the hearts of many. But hearts will mend at their new location at 7356 Manchester Road in Maplewood.
Mariano and Anthony Costello plan to bring a taste of the Hill to Old Town Florissant. The Florissant-based brothers have painted the interior of the historic Narrow Gauge Railroad station house in Tower Court Park in the colors of the Italian flag, prepping for the upcoming opening of Costello’s Pizza and Subs. Currently, Mariano Costello balances two demanding jobs.
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen remains divided on a plan that would change the way new shelters for the city’s unhoused residents are approved — but the bill seems headed for a final vote at the end of the 2023-2024 session next week. There is just one more public hearing scheduled for today, likely the last public comment for the bill before the session ends. The fast-tracked bill has led to some grumbling by opponents, as well as some aldermen.
Burger 809 gained popularity in the St. Louis food scene with two previous Cherokee Street locations — a standalone storefront at 2619½ Cherokee Street and later within Bluewood Brewing at 1821 Cherokee Street. Now, the restaurant has been announced as the new operator at the Terrace View space at the Gateway Foundation’s three-acre Citygarden at 801 Market Street in downtown St. Louis, with a targeted opening date in April. “We have been on a mission to find our dream venue and could not be more elated to have landed in the stunning Terrace View in Citygarden,” owner Tasha Smith said in a release.
Proposed legislation to regulate intoxicating hemp products could potentially ban the majority of the Delta-8 drinks and edibles on the market in Missouri today, the state’s top marijuana regulator told an industry meeting late last week in St. Louis. “This is really an unanswered question,” said Amy Moore, director of the Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation. Moore was among a panel of speakers at the National Cannabis Industry Association’s Missouri Stakeholder Summit who discussed legislation in the state House and Senate that would create the “Intoxicating Cannabinoid Control Act.”
A date has been set for the certification hearing for Maurnice DeClue, the 15-year-old who is facing assault charges after a video of her pounding the head of another teenager into the pavement near Hazelwood East went viral last month. The hearing is expected to last about half the day on May 10. St. Louis County Circuit Court Judge Jason Dodson will preside over it and then render a judgment one way or another within about seven days.
A 22-year-old from Illinois who last year was accused of murdering his infant son was found not guilty on Thursday in a Perry County court after a three-day trial. The murder charges against Logan Hutchings and Sophia Kelly made national news (and the RFT, too) when they were filed by prosecutors last April. The couple's three-month-old infant had died in a St. Louis hospital in June 2022, two days after being brought there with a skull fracture and multiple rib fractures.
On Monday, April 8, St. Louis will experience what some are calling to be the astronomical event of the decade — the Great American Eclipse. From 1:55 to 2:04 p.m., the moon will block out nearly 99 percent of the sun in St. Louis, giving the city a true eclipse experience. And if you’re looking for the ultimate viewing location, what better spot than the middle of the Mississippi River?
Early last month, a video of a teen brutally beating 16-year-old Kaylee Gain and pounding her head against the pavement went viral, prompting nationwide outrage fueled by conservative social media accounts. The video, shot near Hazelwood East High School, where Gain and her assailant are both students, appears to have been first widely circulated by the right-wing social media presence “Libs of TikTok” which is famous for its conspiracy theories and rage bait. Now Gain’s assailant faces a hearing in juvenile court, police have referred eight others for possible charges in connection with the fight and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched an investigation into the school district.
In news that all St. Louisans who care about the physical well-being of their vehicles and bodies desperately wish was just an April Fool's joke, the Loop Trolley has lurched to life again today to begin operator training for the 2024 season as a weary metro braces for impact. While we can all agree that training the poor fools doomed to pilot St. Louis' most whimsical parked-car-bashing machine is an excellent idea — something obviously needs to be done, after all — it's just a point of fact that this period of Trolley Driver's Ed will be among the most dangerous of them all for those unlucky enough to find themselves in the Loop in the coming weeks. "Training" does not equal "trained," it must be noted, and that's an important distinction when one is staring down an unstoppable force of destruction hurtling toward them at speeds approaching 18 miles per hour.
The weather forecast is in for St. Louis tonight — and it's looking a little scary. The National Weather Service says yesterday's idyllic (if a little warm!) Easter Sunday is likely to be followed by much different evening tonight, and it's no April Fool's joke.
"If you want to truly know a neighborhood, you have to walk down the alley. That's where you see the truth. That's where it really happens," says Gary Newcomer, St. Louis' foremost expert on the topic of its alleys.
Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse is a studio-blockbuster franchise that’s been going on for a decade — and yet I have to continually remind myself that it exists. Seriously, does anyone you know talk about the Godzilla reboot that kicked this thing off 10 years ago, or the King Kong revamp Kong: Skull Island that dropped a few years later? These films are supposed to be behemoth updates of the adventurous, old-school thrill rides of yore, but they have a tendency to evaporate from your memory once you’re done with the cinematic carnage.
The chess world is still feeling the vibrations of the buzziest chess story of 2022, which went down in St. Louis and featured one prodigy of the game being accused of cheating via vibrating anal beads in his rectum. The sex toy-centric chess controversy started here when grandmaster Magnus Carlsen withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup in a coy manner that many interpreted as an accusation of cheating against the person he lost to, then-19-year-old Hans Niemann. One thing led to another, Elon Musk escalated the matter via a tweet, and in a classic example of the arc of all things bending toward the weirdest and least plausible explanation, the anal beads rumors inserted themselves into the discourse.
stLouIST