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Cortney Merritts, 46, of St. Louis, allegedly filed fraudulent applications that allowed him to collect more than $20,000 in funds through federal COVID relief programs.

Kendall Brown, 27, was charged with multiple felonies in connection with the incident Sunday on Highway 3 near Venice. Authorities said Brown struck Brooklyn Officer Josh Dallas' leg and hand, nearly severing his thumb, and ran over his foot.

ST. LOUIS — A 29-year-old man was given a seven-year prison sentence Thursday in the shooting death of another man in 2022 at a homeless encampment in the city's Old North St. Louis neighborhood.

Benson Hill, the local "food tech" company that boasted a billion-dollar valuation in 2021, now seeks bankruptcy relief and will look to sell its business and assets.

Last year, the state-level honor went to Sugarfire Smokehouse founder Charles “Charlie” Downs

Julian Feix, 30, of Fairview Heights, agreed to resign from his job, surrender his Illinois law-enforcement certification, serve two years’ probation and perform 100 hours of community service.

A letter sent to the universities alleged that the Chinese government was embedding researchers in top American institutions to gain direct access to sensitive technologies.

Nathan Spiess was identified Wednesday as the officer whose leg was amputated following a chase on Interstate 70. He was resting after a successful surgery the day before, police said.

The Missouri anti-SLAPP legislation has had success in both the House and Senate in previous years but has never made it to the governor’s desk.

St. Louis officials will spend up to $125,000 for security for downtown’s beleaguered Railway Exchange Building.

Police said the 15-year-old boy from Illinois remains hospitalized in critical condition.

Tenants are surrendering office space in downtown St. Louis, but developers say there’s still demand for something “new, dynamic and compelling.”

This April 1907 article from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat highlights a few of the “grand old residences” of early St. Louis notables.

St. Louis County prosecutors have charged Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein, 74, with first-degree trespass and fourth-degree assault for striking a police officer with a bicycle and kicking him.

Jennings officials did not respond to requests for comment.

Mike Dominguez will take over as superintendent of the Francis Howell School District on July 1 after Kenneth Roumpos assumes the top job in the Kirkwood School District.

Coleman headed the St. Louis County Economic Council for 23 years and then a combined St. Louis-St. Louis County economic agency for two years before retiring in 2015.

Gawedzinski, Stanley R. — St. Louis, MO

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SERVICES: Visitation at St. John Paul II (formerly St. George – 4960 Heege Rd., 63123) on Fri., March 21, 9 AM until funeral Mass at 10 AM. Interment at Park Lawn Cemetery. Services by KUTIS AFFTON CHAPEL.