May 21, 1966, the last day of streetcar service in St. Louis. It ended an unbroken run of 107 years of public transportation on rails, sundered by family sedans and cul-de-sacs.
Barak Mattingly was once the most influential Republican in St. Louis. That meant more in his time than it does today. Mattingly died in 1956, long before I got here, but a friend and I once interviewed his mistress. Sheβ¦
A nationwide class action lawsuit was settled this week by two car manufacturers blamed for an unprecedented surge of auto thefts that began last year in St. Louis and across the country.
The two best friends spent six years writing themselves more than 600 checks and using city money for gambling and personal expenses, costing the city of roughly 800, mostly Black residents β roughly half of whom are in poverty ββ¦
By Katie Kull and Nassim Benchaabane St. Louis Post-Dispatch
City spokesman Nick Dunne said in a press release that much of the metal, including plumbing, pool filtration, sinks and paper towel dispensers had been taken.