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A businessman charged with hiring a hitman to kill his estranged wife's girlfriend had threatened the girlfriend, warning her God didn't want women dating women, authorities said in court Wednesday.

A separate measure creating a bounty system for hunting migrants did not advance to the full Missouri Senate.

Bills filed by Republican lawmakers would exempt small employers and young workers from the higher minimum wage and sick leave requirements.

On Tuesday, after several hours of debate and parliamentary maneuvering, the Board of Aldermen sent the $290 million Rams relocation money bill back to the drawing board.

Ballinger, Gregory Joseph - St. Louis, MO

September 14, 1939 - February 2, 2025

(nee Dunsworth) of St. Louis, MO fortified with the sacraments of the Holy Mother Church on February 1, 2025, at the age of 93. Loving wife of Paul for 70 years, mother of 10, grandmother of 36 and great-grandmother of…

Tues., Jan 28, 2025. Visitation at St. Monica Church, 12136 Olive Blvd., Creve Coeur, Fri., Feb. 7, from 9-10 a.m. Mass at 10 a.m. Ortmann Stipanovich Funeral Home www.osfuneralhomes.com

February 1, 2025, age, of 77 years. Visitation: Saturday, February 15, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Chapel Hill Mortuary, 10301 Big Bend Road, Kirkwood, Missouri 63122.

February 3, 2025, 70, of House Springs, MO. Memorial Visitation: Friday, February 7, 2025, 11am-12pm. Memorial Service: Friday, February 7, 2025, 12pm, Chapel Hill Mortuary. www.stlfuneral.com

Please go to www.michelfh.com for funeral arrangements.

Sandweg, Loretta A. “Lore” Wed. Jan. 29, 2025. Memorial Visitation at Kutis South County Chapel, Tue. Feb. 11, 4-8 pm. Memorial Mass at Assumption Church (Mattese) Wed. Feb. 12 at 9:30 am. Interment Resurrection Cem. See kutisfuneralhomes.com for more information.

Wilma Jean Schmidt passed away peacefully on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at her daughter’s home in O’Fallon, MO. She was 95 years old.

72, passed away on February 2nd, 2025. SERVICES: Hutchens Mortuary in Florissant, Vis. Feb. 8th from 9a-11a. Funeral 11a. Interment St. Ferdinand Cemetery.

Services will be held on Feb 12, 2025 at Michel Funeral Home 5930 Southwest Ave., St. Louis, MO. 63139. Visitation 9-11, service at 11 followed by interment and graveside prayer at Pleasant Site Cemetery in Fremont, Mo. Condolences can be…

February 5, 2025

Missouri’s current law, which prevents minors from accessing cross-sex hormones or puberty blockers for gender transition, is set to expire in 2027. The Senate voted to remove the expiration date.

Police said Joseph P. Flagg, 17, of East St. Louis, was charged as an adult with murder and other felonies in the fatal shooting of Dirico Washington outside his Belleville home on Monday.

Anthony Conner, 44, of St. Louis, was wanted in connection with a domestic shooting in Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 2023 and a recent Cleveland murder.

“People are very frightened. They don’t know what to do or where to turn,” Fairmont City attorney Marleen Suarez said of President Donald Trump's planned deportations.