ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police internal affairs investigators are looking into a traffic stop involving the city’s elected prosecutor, the latest episode of a strained relationship between Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and police. Gardner was pulled over at 5:51 p.m. on Dec. 23, more than an hour after sunset, because she was driving …

ST. LOUIS – At about eight feet tall, the new interactive digital kiosks downtown look like Paul Bunyan’s cellphone. In fact, some city officials hope they’ll make a giant improvement in how area residents, tourists and even homeless people get what they need to know about St. Louis. Like a cellphone, you can use it …

BEVO MILL – Dave Mungenast started selling a gentleman’s motorcycle at a time when people thought of it as a machine for outlaws. He received awards in international motorcycling competitions and risked his life as a movie stuntman for actors including Paul Newman and Burt Reynolds. When Mungenast died in 2006, he left to his …

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JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Lawmakers are considering whether to allow police in all Missouri municipalities to reside outside the cities where they live. A House bill initially introduced to lift the residency requirements for officers in St. Louis was expanded Tuesday to include all Missouri cities, despite opposition from Kansas City leaders, The Kansas City …

ST. LOUIS – Black city residents are not the only ones with gripes about race relations with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. Even black police officers continue mounting charges of racism and discrimination, issues that have been festering for some time now.  Last week on Twitter, the Ethical Society of Police (ESOP) called out …

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — A Missouri lawmaker pitching a tough-on-crime bill Tuesday directed blame for a surge in violence in the state’s biggest cities at factors including the sometimes violent protests in Ferguson and St. Louis’ prosecutor. Sen. Bob Onder, R-St. Charles, told a panel of state senators that a law-and-order approach had worked in the …

ST. LOUIS — Cinema St. Louis has won a $15,000 Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the 29th annual St. Louis International Film Festival, one of the largest and highest-profile international film festivals in the Midwest. CSL also annually produces the locally focused St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, the LGBTQ-centric …

ST. LOUIS (AP) — When a black student from St. Louis created a book club because didn’t find books at his majority-white school’s library that told stories of people who look like him, he had no idea his initiative would land him on Disney’s screen as a hero. Sidney Keys III founded Books n Bros, …

ST. LOUIS – Blacks and whites together braved frigid temperatures Monday to celebrate the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, starting with a program downtown at the Old Courthouse, where it heated up with boos and other outbursts directed at Mayor Lyda Krewson. One, woman, Ziah Reddick, yelled out, calling the mayor’s remarks …

CITY HALL – Starting in the middle of February, all civil service employees working for the city of St. Louis will make at least $15 an hour.  The change will happen after Mayor Lyda Krewson signed on Friday an executive order making $15 an hour the new minimum wage for civil service employees. According to …

CITY HALL – Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed plans to spend the week turning up the heat to get a resolution to the stalled effort to name nine city representatives to the Board of Freeholders. “I am going to be doing everything in my power to get this thing closed by next Friday,” Reed …

ST. LOUIS – A new report about mass incarceration of blacks in the U.S., and Missouri in particular, supports the need for the kind of criminal justice reform St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner is instituting.  “You can’t arrest your way out of crime,” Gardner has said continually since she was elected as the city’s …

ST. LOUIS – Millions in medical bill debt for 11,108 Missouri families have been cured by The Deaconess Foundation, area church groups and RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit that locates, purchases and abolishes unpaid or “unpayable” medical debt.  Church bodies, including Christ the King United Church of Christ, raised more than $60,000 in donations. Those …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has taken another step toward dismantling Michelle Obama’s school nutrition guidelines, proposing a new rule that could lead to more pizza and fries and less fruit and a smaller variety of vegetables on school menus. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the rule changes on Friday Jan. 17, which …

CITY HALL – The Board of Estimate and Apportionment met for less than three minutes on Wednesday, long enough to say a final “good riddance” to a much-criticized study on privatizing St. Louis Lambert International Airport. By all intents, the effort ended in late December, when Mayor Lyda Krewson announced that she was pulling her …

CITY HALL – A resolution now before the Board of Aldermen outlines a plan to use pressure to force the city to close its much-criticized Medium Security Institution. The resolution would commit the Board of Aldermen to reject any budget for fiscal year 2020-2021 that fully funds the Medium Security Institution as before. It asks …

CITY HALL – Questions about reorganizing the city police department brought sharp clashes Wednesday between police Chief John Hayden and members of a Board of Aldermen committee. Twenty-First Ward Alderman John Collins-Muhammad and other members of the Public Safety Committee argued with Hayden over policy including what aldermen said was his failure to provide information …

ST. LOUIS – One day after six fellow reform-minded black female lead prosecuting attorneys converged on St. Louis to rally for Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner and her federal lawsuit alleging racism and conspiracy, the Ethical Society of Police announced via Twitter their support for some of her complaints. Even as the ESOP made their announcement, …

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Gov. Mike Parson used his State of the State speech on Wednesday to reaffirm his support for gun rights and pitch other ideas to address an uptick in violence in the state’s biggest cities. Parson and the Republican-led Legislature face heightened pressure to act after a particularly violent 2019. St. Louis, …