An emergency amendment issued by the Missouri Department of Social Services last month allows Missouri Foster parents to possess and cultivate cannabis. The amendment, titled 13 CSR 35-60.040 Physical and Environmental Standards, lifts the ban because of Amendment 3, which legalized recreational use in Missouri and went into effect earlier this year. In the ruling, the department says that it cannot hold rules in conflict with the state's constitution.
A St. Louis sheriff's deputy says that he was fired yesterday by Sheriff Vernon Betts for no reason other than his sexual orientation. Jerrett Turner, 29, has been a deputy with the sheriff's department since April. He says that after his lunch break on Thursday he was called into Betts' office where he was told that someone had sent Betts photos that showed Turner bearing his behind.
It may feel like it's autumn out there — after a summer with truly intense heat and humidity, the mornings are now noticeably cool, and there's a certain softer quality to the light. But St. Louis still has a long way to go before it will see peak leaf color. That's according to the 2023 Fall Foliage map, a prediction tool produced by the Smoky Mountains that we've come to rely upon when planning camping trips and other activities enhanced by autumn colors.
An ugly scene played out in St. Louis' Carondelet neighborhood earlier this week that ended with a victim being taken to the hospital after an 80-year-old woman kicked him in the balls and called him racial slurs. According to a police probable cause statement, the incident occurred on the 5200 block of Vermont this Tuesday. Virginia Olsen, 80, of Galesburg, Illinois, is facing assault charges for striking the unidentified victim repeatedly with an object that the victim believed was an umbrella.
Video obtained today by the RFT shows the scene outside the City Justice Center last Thursday night when police carried away the vice chair of the jail civilian oversight board. Janis Mensah had gone to the jail that evening to investigate the death of an inmate in the early hours of the morning, but they were forcibly removed from the building by police and then given a citation.
One of the best spots for Middle Eastern food on the Delmar Loop is closing after 26 years. Al Tarboush (602 Westgate) has a sign in the window saying it intends to close soon. "Make time to buy hookah & supplies," it reads.
What fast-casual chain serves soup in bread bowls, plays sad acoustic music and has been lyricized by rappers again and again? None other than our very own Panera Bread.
Paige Alyssa is a pop-music maven through and through, both as a lifelong fan and as a creator and innovator of the form. Alyssa, who uses non-gendered pronouns, takes their pop music very seriously, and their latest material, including the new single "Beneficial," embraces that sound with gusto.
Here in St. Louis, we’re spoiled when it comes to Cheap Trick. The Rockford, Illinois, band seems to play in the area at least once or twice each summer and this year is no exception. Many locals know that they can catch Cheap Trick next month at the Gillioz Theatre in Springfield, Missouri, but the band is also playing a lesser-known event much closer to St. Louis next weekend in support of the Songs4Soldiers organization.
You might know him as Edgar in The Lost Boys or Teddy in Stand by Me, but Corey Feldman’s true love isn’t acting — it’s music. Inspired by Michael Jackson (his longtime friend), the former child star has put decades into making music and bringing it to audiences across the country. He didn’t seem to have much luck catching attention from the public until a performance on the Today show in 2017 went viral for all the wrong reasons.
Kim Gardner has been out of the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office for four months — but St. Louis may not have heard the last word about her tenure. In fact, several investigations into Gardner’s actions and operations remain open, both state and potentially also federal.
August was one of those months in the St. Louis restaurant scene where you look back and just feel pretty good about things. Just look at the ratio of openings and closings below, and you'll see what we mean. It was an all-around good and flavorful month.
The oxtails at My Marie (3147 Cherokee Street, 314-499-7059) are not merely a delicious dish; they are the sort of soul-stirring meal that comes from generational knowledge from grandmas and grandpas, mothers, fathers and aunties passed down in home kitchens, where the family gossip was at hot as the stew on the stove. You can taste this in owner Marie Louis-Jeune's slow-cooked oxtails, which are so tender they come off the bone with just the slightest fork prod and bob in a stew-like cooking liquid that is so rich, it's as if you distilled the entire idea of how beef should taste into it.
September is apparently National Chicken Month in the U.S. Though this dubious festivity is brought on by the powerful chicken lobby a.k.a. the National Chicken Council, that doesn't mean that nothing good can come of it. In fact, Chef Nate Hereford's celebrated Chicken Scratch Rotisserie has launched its own chicken month celebration that offers definitive proof of the aforementioned statement. Throughout September, Chicken Scratch will be inviting local chefs to the restaurant's Glendale location at 9900 Manchester Road for a series of culinary partnerships.
The man who died in St. Louis city jail custody last week had been the focus of an anonymous complaint into the conditions of his incarceration. But when a member of the city’s Division of Civilian Oversight sought to investigate the anonymous report at the City Justice Center, they were barred from the facility.
The pieces of the Rivoli Theatre's facade are incredibly ornate, to put it lightly. The medium orange-red terracotta has a white clay overlay that was carved away to create intricate scrolling designs in some panels and display the theater's name in another.
Get ready to ketchup (gag!) with one of America's great vehicles: The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile is coming to St. Louis this weekend. The 27-foot hot dog has stops planned in Marthasville, south St. Louis County and Ballwin this Saturday and Sunday.
The SWAT team’s arrival at the St. Louis city jail on the morning of Tuesday, August 22, put a quick end to the hostage situation that had broken out during breakfast service. Around 6 a.m. a 73-year-old guard let two detainees out of their fourth-floor cells to help him distribute food.
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