Prosecutors in St. Louis County have charged a second person in connection to the killing of 19-year-old last week in Pagedale. Police say that Jaylin Johnson was killed shortly after returning from downtown and getting off the Metrolink at the Rock Road station a little after 1 a.m. on Friday. Prior to Johnson getting off the train, police say that security footage captured 18-year-old Darnesha Thomas-Perry speaking to him as others in a group with her made a plan and pointed at Johnson.
When it comes to big-budget American action films, the Mission: Impossible franchise has been the gold standard for almost a decade and a half. Earlier entries have their admirable qualities — iconic set pieces, stunning camera work, Philip Seymour Hoffman — but Ghost Protocol (2009) ignited a new era of formal virtuosity and “how-did-they-do-that” audacity for the franchise.
The anticipation for writer and director Greta Gerwig's Barbie has reached a fever pitch after the premiere over the weekend. Film critics at the opening rushed to Twitter to breathlessly praise the film, and some even suggested Ryan Gosling deserves an Oscar for his turn as Ken. The film, about Barbie going into the real world, seems campy and is already iconic (the foot coming out of the shoe!).
Left Bank Books in the Central West End turned 54 years-old yesterday. And to celebrate, they want to give you a gift. For the rest of the day, you can download Danny Caine's How to Resist Amazon and Why audiobook for free from the bookstore's website.
The Missouri Independent and MuckRock spent months scouring thousands of pages of government records about St. Louis’ involvement in the race to build an atomic bomb during World War II and the decades of environmental contamination that followed. Journalists sought to lay bare the degree to which government officials knew of the spreading contamination and the danger it posed to St. Louis County residents.
For kids like Sandy Mitchell, Ted Theis and Janet Johnson, childhood in the north St. Louis County suburbs in the 1960s and '70s meant days playing along the banks or splashing in the knee-deep waters of Coldwater Creek. They caught turtles and tadpoles, jumped into deep stretches of the creek from rope swings and ate mulberries that grew on the banks. Their families — along with tens of thousands of others — flocked to the burgeoning suburbs and new ranch-style homes built in Florissant, Hazelwood and other communities shortly after World War II.
After announcing her candidacy for the U.S. Senate over the weekend, State Senator Karla May (D-St. Louis) held her first campaign event downtown this afternoon. She used the opportunity to explain exactly why she felt called to run and take a few shots at incumbent Republican Senator Josh Hawley.
Last December, a true crime saga was born from the Kansas City Chiefs' postseason when it came to light that one of the team's most recognizable superfans allegedly committed a bank robbery in Oklahoma while en route to the watch Patrick Mahomes and company play the Houston Texans. The story began in December when a man named Xavier Babudar was arrested in Bixby, Oklahoma, after robbing the Tulsa Teachers Federal Credit Union. Social media lit up with assertions that Babudar was better known as Kansas City football superfan ChiefsAholic.
A defense attorney is accusing the St. Louis County prosecutor's office of letting a personal dislike for him unduly influence the prosecution of the woman he is representing in a trial set to start next week. "If you don't like me, don't take it out on my clients," lawyer Jerryl Christmas tells the Riverfront Times, referring to the case of Jonique Borroum, 27, whose trial for assault and armed criminal action is set to begin Monday.
Come late August, you could actually get in trouble for using your phone while driving. Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed a bill into law last week that bans most phone use from behind the wheel, making Missouri one of the last states to outright ban texting while driving.
You've been hearing about Threads, the new Twitter alternative from Meta, the parent company of old-school social media mavens Facebook and Instagram. Launched last week, many people flocked to Threads mostly to leave the dumpster fire that is Twitter.
Gone are the days when pineapple seemed like the most divisive pizza topping out there (next to sardines). The unlikely topping of choice these days is pickles. At least one St. Louis restaurant is firmly on top of this trend.
If you're interested in meeting the mind behind the most controversial song about punctuation since Vampire Weekend's "Oxford Comma," you are in luck. We're talking, of course, about St. Charles' own Britt Barbie, who announced she'll be holding an in-person event as well as a TikTok concert next month. Barbie shot to social media stardom earlier last year with "Period Ahh, Period Uhh," a song that earned as many accolades as it did criticisms for what many saw as her imitating Black women.
A Florissant man has been charged with murder based in part up Metrolink security footage that police say shows the lead-up to and the aftermath of the killing. St. Louis County prosecutors charged Kenneth Hall, 29, today with one count of murder and another count of robbery stemming from an incident that occurred on Friday. A probable cause statement from the Manchester Police Department says that on that day, Hall was on the Metrolink in the same car as his eventual victim, a 19-year-old whose name has not been made public.
Soccer is an unpredictable game of adjustments. On paper, St. Louis City SC should have easily defeated a depleted Toronto FC team. City listed three players as questionable or unavailable for the match due to injuries.
A St. Louis Circuit Court judge temporarily blocked St. Louis city from granting four organizations federal pandemic relief dollars to support abortion access late last month. On June 30, Judge Jason Sengheiser issued a preliminary injunction that prevents Midwest Doula Fund, Midwest Access Coalition, Mo Ho Justice Coalition and the St. Louis Doula Project from receiving American Rescue Plan funds through the city’s Reproductive Equity Fund for activities related to supportive services for abortion and abortion doulas.
A lawsuit to overturn Missouri’s abortion ban will go forward. That’s according to the ruling of a St. Louis city judge, who has refused the Missouri Attorney General Office’s request to dismiss the lawsuit brought by religious leaders to overturn the ban.
When Izzy Gorton first heard that her friend and fellow Washington University student Chiara Munzi was whipping up a brand new type of chickpea oatmeal in her dorm room, she thought Munzi was a bit crazy. "I was a little skeptical at first," Gorton says.
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