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30, unexpectedly at home on May 17, 2025. Visitation Tuesday May 27, 9am until time of Funeral Mass beginning at 10am at Mary Queen of Peace Catholic Church. see www.boppchapel.com for full obit.

Baptized into the Hope of Christ’s Resurrection on May 20, 2025 at age 91. Visitation at Holy Family Parish Center on Saturday, May 24 from 9 a.m. until Mass at 10 a.m. with a graveside service to follow at Immaculate…

Justin Gaither, 34, a former Venice police officer, admitted to striking a handcuffed man in the face after a police chase into St. Louis in 2022.

"To have that trust breached in such a horrific way — it's mortifying," attorney Grant Boyd said.

The part of the trolley route along DeBaliviere and near Forest Park is affected the most.

Jack Jeffrey Roper, 56, of Festus was charged with assault, aggravated fleeing a stop and kidnapping after the incident early Thursday morning.

Detectives interviewed Sarah Russell and by Thursday had determined there were no direct or credible threats against the commissioner.

St. Louis prosecutors on Wednesday charged Derrick Bostic, 18, with second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon and two counts of armed criminal action.

At no place in the description for the workshop are the words "emergency response" used.

Satellite imagery shows the May 16 tornado damage.

Killed in the May 16 storm were: Larry Patrick, 82; Rena Scott-Lyles, 60; Delois Holmes, 70; Patricia Penelton, 74; and Juan Baltazar, 48.

Howard Fields started his career as a student teacher in the district. He has also been a principal in Webster Groves and Riverview Gardens.

Mayor Cara Spencer said the city learned in a test of the system on Tuesday that the button, one of two that turns on the sirens, wasn't properly functioning.

“That is inappropriate and horrifying,” St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer said in a Wednesday morning press conference. “Our commissioner is a human being and I’m asking for some grace.

The Trump administration says it is dismantling the nation's emergency agency. States fear they are on their own.

Shedrick Kelley, who was nominated Saturday by the city Democratic Central Committee, will be one of at least three candidates for the seat in a July 1 special election. And the field could grow to five.

Keiner Asprilla was staying in a university-paid room in downtown Columbia, Missouri, last September. He is alleged to have held a woman against her will and repeatedly raped her.

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Authories said the crash took place at about 3:25 p.m. Monday.