A Missouri man who marched up to the U.S. Capitol with a pitchfork, zip ties and duct tape, and twice grabbed a Capitol police officer while making his way into the building, has been charged with five felony counts in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. Christopher Brian Roe, 39, is from Raytown, Missouri, just outside Kansas City. The insurrectionist is apparently KU proud — in addition to his farmer-approved weapon, he wore a Kansas sweatshirt while allegedly committing his litany of felonies and a few misdemeanors, too.
One driver is dead after a speeding car hit an embankment and went airborne in south county, crashing into two homes along Kingston Drive near Telegraph Road. KMOV's Deion Broxton posted footage of the crash taken from a Ring camera on Twitter. It shows the vehicle fly through the air, clip one home and then destroy much of the front brick wall of another.
SC* was at work at a fast-food joint snorting crushed-up pills in the walk-in refrigerator when his sister, the manager, caught him. At 19, he'd dropped out of college and was smoking weed all day in addition to abusing opiates.
A 19-year-old who police are describing as a "person of interest" in the killing of Dogtown gas station employee early this morning escaped from custody. Police say that Jataveion Scott was last seen in the Peabody-Darst Webbe neighborhood just east of Lafayette Square, running through the Peabody Housing Complex with his hands cuffed behind his back. He was not wearing any shoes.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, along with 18 other Republican attorneys general, opposes a rule proposed by the Biden administration that would help protect abortion patients from prosecution. In April, the Biden administration proposed a change to medical privacy laws in the wake of the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision last June. The rule would bar health care providers and insurance companies from sharing records relating to reproductive health care in states where the care is legal.
A St. Louis County jury today agreed that a 30-year-old woman acted in self-defense when in January 2020 she shot the daughter of the woman in whose house she'd been living. Attorney Jerryl Christmas had previously said St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell’s case against Jonique Borroum was part of "a disturbing pattern of prosecution against Black women clearly in self-defense mode."
The group of St. Louisans tasked with investigating allegations of police misconduct has not met in almost a year. The St. Louis Civilian Oversight Board last met on August 15, 2022, according to a member of the board.
Red light cameras may be coming back to St. Louis city. The past year has seen outrage over the pedestrians and cyclists killed and injured by drivers in all parts of the city.
An independent game studio in St. Louis has created a new game for a very old console. Graphite Lab, an independent gaming studio headquartered at Maryville University, has a new game, Mr. Run and Jump, coming out at the end of this month. It will be released in all the places you expect — Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4 and 5 — but you can also pick up an old school cartridge and play it on your Atari 2600 Video Computer System.
Missouri environmental regulators warned the federal government in 2021 that radioactive contamination of groundwater from a uranium processing site near St. Louis wasn’t improving despite cleanup efforts, according to documents reviewed by the Missouri Independent and MuckRock. Officials with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Energy in May 2021, responding to the agency’s five-year review of its cleanup efforts at a Weldon Spring site where uranium was refined during the Cold War.
Here's official confirmation of something we've all long known to be true: St. Louis drivers are basically the worst. In fact, we're among the five worst in the entire U.S. That's according to a new study by ConsumerAffairs, which analyzed a host of statistics that demonstrate bad driving, including the number of fatal crashes per 100,000 people, the number of fatalities caused by bad driving, the number of fatalities linked to driving under the influence and the prevalence of speeding in fatal accidents.
As far as concentrates go, live rosin has quickly become the star of the show thanks to its solventless extraction method and purity. Intrigued by its growing popularity, I decided to dive into a live rosin product from the Missouri market, and what's a better candidate than Vibe's award-winning Gelato strain?
It was a massive run over the last four nights at the venue that many of you still call Riverport with a Tears For Fears comeback, a tempest-shortened Post Malone show, a Snoop Dogg/Wiz Khalifa double bill that came with a surprise Nelly cameo and Saturday night’s sold-out Eric Church concert. It was a different look for Church and not just in the fact that he swapped his trademark aviator shades for sunglasses that looked more like post-cataract wear.
In St. Louis, where classic rock is king, legacy acts regularly fill our amphitheaters, arenas and stadiums, although those shows tend to come from the kinds of devil-horned KSHE-approved guitar-slinging acts that dominated ’70s and ’80s arena rawk. Lately, though, the nostalgic stock has been rising for a different classic-rock phylum: the synthy new-wavey Second British Invasion bands of the MTV era.
The Muny continues its 105th season with a lively and emotionally charged production of West Side Story that captivates audiences as it spirals from hope to the sometimes-tragic consequences of following your heart. The production, which adheres to the original direction and choreography of Jerome Robbins (reproduced by director Rob Ruggiero and choreographer Parker Esse), takes audiences on an emotionally satisfying ride filled with moving songs, electrifying dances and the elation and pains of young love.
MONDAY, JULY 10. The St. Louis Public Schools unveils its strategic plan, which cost $625,000 and somehow still includes stock art of a random school in Maryland.
A former police officer for the city of Northwoods, Missouri, was arrested this morning in North Carolina after allegedly beating a handcuffed man in Kinloch on the Fourth of July. Samuel Davis, 26, allegedly took a man into custody at a Walgreens in Northwoods, a small north county municipality about a mile outside St. Louis city limits, and drove the man to a "remote location" in nearby Kinloch. The man was handcuffed and Davis allegedly deactivated his body cam, according to a probable cause statement.
If you have fond memories of trying to knock down a Bop Bag as a child — maybe a clown, maybe a dolphin? — you're going to love the interactive art piece just installed on the roof of City Museum. It's a 14-foot, 200-plus-pound Bop Bear.
St. Louis City SC rolled out the red carpet on Saturday for Sterling K. Brown, who delivered the match ball to the pitch prior to City SC taking on Inter Miami CF. Brown was introduced over the PA as a "Golden Globe and Emmy award-winner, St. Louisan and St. Louis City SC supporter from day one." Brown, accompanied by his family and sporting an City SC jersey as well as a Band-Aid above his right eye, walked down a red carpet that had been laid out at mid-field and put the match ball on a pedestal.
Nearly five years after Missouri legalized medical marijuana, the state has now cleared the way for marijuana companies to bank easier. Missouri Governor Mike Parson recently signed a bill that will change an at-times arduous and costly process that cannabis companies have to go through in order to access banking services.
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