A 19-year-old Fontbonne student faces felony charges after Clayton Police found a loaded handgun in his dorm room. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office charged Jordan Smith, a resident of Lake St. Louis, with Unlawful Use of a Weapon - Carries Loaded Weapon into School Premises, a Class E felony.
The St. Louis-based website being sued by former Georgia election workers for defamation is being accused of purposely delaying discovery in the case to forestall a jury trial. In a motion filed in St. Louis Circuit Court last week, attorneys for Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss asked a judge to set an August 2024 trial date, as well as allow for depositions of at least 20 people involved in a series of stories published by The Gateway Pundit accusing plaintiffs of election fraud.Â
Alfred Montgomery is running for St. Louis sheriff again — and he formally kicked off his campaign last night at the Vine restaurant on South Grand. After a lively jazz group warmed up the crowd, Montgomery, 28, made brief remarks in which he didn’t name incumbent Vernon Betts but alluded heavily to recent controversies during Betts’ tenure as sheriff.Â
Hundreds of people at SZA’s sold-out Enterprise Center concert on Wednesday night were wearing Blues hockey jerseys. The SZA-uninitiated might assume that St. Louisans were flying the colors because it was the night before the Blues’ season opener.
Whether wandering through the St. Louis Art Museum, Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Springfield Art Museum or any of the other amazing museums in between, stepping into an art museum is like embarking on a silent journey through the halls of human expression. Admiring the art and artist who created such masterpieces can help us unwind and slow down in a world that often races ahead. Each step is a new discovery of stories that can evoke emotions and can sometimes speak to us on a soul level.
Earlier today, a groundbreaking development for St. Louis had its, well, groundbreaking: Construction began on a state-of-the-art kennel that will allow women fleeing domestic violence to keep their pets with them at the shelter. The Pet Safe House is a series of eight kennels being constructed on the site of the Women's Safe House, a women's shelter in St. Louis. The standalone, climate-controlled kennels are believed to be a first for a women's shelter in this area.
A St. Louis County man who turned himself into police after shooting a volunteer football coach on Tuesday has been charged with first-degree felony assault and armed criminal action. According to police, 43-year-old Daryl Clemmons of Pagedale got into an argument with the coach, Shaquille O'Shea, at Sherman Park in St. Louis’ Kingsway West neighborhood.
On Sunday, October 29, all of your dreams as an American can come true. Head to Earthbound Beer (2724 Cherokee Street, earthboundbeer.com) for the chance to drink some beer next to a real-ass bald eagle. Earthbound is known for its involvement with a variety of charities, but we're pretty sure that none of its events have included a 12-pound bird of prey previously.
Hollywood superstar (and mountain that some of us would love to climb) Jason Momoa might soon be at your area grocery store, St. Louis. See, the Aquaman actor is more than just a pretty face and a body that's muscular, hulking, burly, strong, powerful, trapping, rugged, meaty ... wait ... what were we talking about? Oh yeah, Momoa is also an entrepreneur and is the co-founder of Meili Vodka, a liquor brand with an eye on the environment.
Well well well ... after a multi-month hiatus, I'm back in the saddle reviewing Missouri dispensary marijuana products. It's exciting to be here again, and to dive back in, I decided to venture to the Swade dispensary in the Grove to procure materials for review.
The restaurants he owns allow diners to pick two — but Mike Hamra seems to be hoping that voters will pick him as the one. The scion of a family-owned Springfield, Missouri, company that owns chain eateries across the South, including Wendy's and Panera Bread, Hamra recently formed an exploratory committee to run for Missouri governor in 2024, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Unlike the frontrunners for the job, Hamra is a Democrat.
There's something special about seeing the moon blot out the sun — for a few minutes, at least. Which explains why, year after year, crowds gather around the world to do just that, with some even traveling for the pleasure. This weekend, the U.S. will experience a solar eclipse, and Missourians can check out the phenomenon for themselves — and won't even have to travel to do so.
When you walk through the front doors of Anita Cafe & Bar (2700 Locust Street, 314-669-7700), you're greeted with a stunning interior design aesthetic. Several multi-tiered crystal chandeliers hang from the soaring ceilings, their light sparkling off two walls of windows that make up the front and one side of the corner storefront.
A weed dispensary in Florissant filed a lawsuit earlier this week that could bring down the price of marijuana at some dispensaries in St. Louis County. Robust Dispensary is suing St. Louis County as well as Missouri's director of the Department of Revenue, arguing that its weed business can't legally be taxed by both the county and the city in which it operates.
The St. Louis Board of Education was set Tuesday night to discuss the future of its partnerships with the city treasurer’s office in connection with both the College Kids Savings Account and the Guaranteed Basic Income programs. But a boisterous and unruly audience of dozens of St. Louis Public Schools parents led the school board to cut the meeting short amid a cacophony of people shouting at board members about a variety of issues and concerns.
For Azra Selimovic, the opening of Azra Tattoos last month feels like nothing short of a miracle. She knows the shop wouldn’t exist, much less in a strip mall in Affton, without escapes from concentration camps, close calls with hostile officers in the war-torn Balkans, and stops in multiple foreign countries.
About a week after the city of St. Louis cleared a makeshift homeless encampment from the area around City Hall, a new cluster of tents has popped up less than a block away. About nine tents now spot the lawn outside the old Municipal Courts building at 14th and Market Streets downtown.
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