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The thief's home was packed with so much stuff, St. Louis police officers couldn’t get through the front door.

Officers went to Tower Grove Park just before 7 p.m. for reports of multiple fights breaking out at a "permitted event," St. Louis police spokesman Mitch McCoy said.

A local Woolworth store used to have two actual restaurants and a takeout counter.

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Hazelwood police were called to a domestic disturbance at about 11:30 a.m. in the 1300 block of Eagles Way Court, St. Louis County police said.

“It is abundantly clear that Missouri families need rapid federal assistance to rebuild homes and lives, and to continue moving forward,” Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe said in statement.

“What did we do?" one of the men reportedly asked St. Louis police officers. "We aren’t allowed to take anything off the ground?”

Monday's annual wreath-laying ceremony outside the museum was attended by several regional leaders including St. Louis police Chief Robert Tracy, St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer and U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell.

St. Louis police said they were called to the shooting in the 1000 block of Lasalle Park Court at about 7:30 p.m.

Roughly one-tenth of Missouri’s population, or over 650,000 people, receive SNAP benefits.

Missouri’s state-run veterans homes, while buoyed by marijuana tax revenue, have seen a sharp drop in casino-generated revenue, state officials say.

The sheer number of uninsured properties will complicate recovery in neighborhoods that were already among the poorest in the St. Louis region.

A judge is holding a man in jail until he can pay $10,000 in fines related to a business dispute. The man says he has no money.

A St. Louis jury acquitted the man's girlfriend in the shooting death of a Hyde Park landlord.

Police are pleading with the public to provide surveillance footage from homes and businesses near Bircher Boulevard and Ruskin Avenue near Interstate 70 and Union Boulevard.

The Urban League of St. Louis will hold distribution events May 31, June 7 and June 14.

"This is purely humanitarian," Mayor Cara Spencer said.

They fielded questions about insurance claims, damage to rental units and how to deal with FEMA.

"I know I don’t have a home anymore, but it’s still mind-boggling. I feel like I’m in a movie, like I’m living somebody else’s life."