During the 1970s the Rev. Salvatore E. Polizzi had become a national figure for his work in The Hill neighborhood of St. Louis. Residents were shocked when news came that he was being reassigned.
In 1893, inventor Nikola Tesla first publicly demonstrated radio during a meeting of the National Electric Light Association in St. Louis by transmitting electromagnetic energy without wires.
Mayor Tishaura O. Jones believes a MetroLink expansion can help with job creation and neighborhood decline. That in turn can help with crime, she says.
About 30 people rallied outside the courthouse, likening the public outcry against Kimberly Gardner to a modern-day lynching and blaming Judge Bryan L. Hettenbach.
The 21-year-old man accused of hitting and critically injuring a 17-year-old girl visiting St. Louis appeared in court Monday afternoon. Family members of the girl gave emotional testimony.
Anthony Robinson, 19, of Jennings, Richard Boyd, 19, of Sullivan, Bryanna Dentman-Johnson, 18, of Vinita Park and Corntrail McKinley, 20, of St. Louis were killed when another vehicle ran a red light in the cityβs Midtown neighborhood, smashed into theβ¦
St. Louis officials said they did repair a traffic signal facing the wrong way at Bates Street and Morganford Road, but it was again facing the wrong way at the time of a fatal Saturday crash.
The gunman who killed himself after fatally shooting a co-worker and critically injuring a Dupo police officer on Sunday was also convicted of killing a customer outside a strip club in 2009, authorities said Monday.