The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education believes that lowering a GPA requirement for teachers will improve teacher recruitment and retention without reducing educator quality.
The budget request includes $40,000 to purchase the horses, plus $3,000 for the farrier, $3,000 for hay and grain and an estimated $2,000 per year for veterinarian expenses.
Two councilmen said employees told them they were denied merit-based pay raises because they had spoken directly to members of the county council, bypassing their respective department heads.
The company employs 850 people at its 129-year-old mill in Granite City. But with the site’s last remaining blast furnace idled, hundreds remain on layoff in the Metro East.
St. Louis Fire Capt. Joseph Neidel calls for water as firefighters work a vacant house fire in the 1400 block of Hamilton Boulevard near Wells Avenue in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024.
Peabody Plaza, at 701 Market Street, is nearly fully occupied with over 30 tenants. HOK will be one of roughly a dozen new tenants when it moves in in September.
Darius E. Carter was charged last week with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Sarah Mason and the baby she'd been carrying for seven months, Melanie.
A climatologist predicted that our earthquake alley had a 50-50 chance for a big one on Dec. 3, 1990, a megaquake maybe on the order of the horrific seismic jolts that dismantled the area in 1811-12.
Prosecutors will ask the Illinois Supreme Court to review an appellate court ruling that found former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson should be released from jail pending trial.