Critics who live nearby worry that adding 311 more homes will overburden the two-lane Highway N and result in more traffic on streets in an existing subdivision to the east.
On May 10, 1861, Southern sympathizers mocked German soldiers as "Hessians." A few threw rocks. Somebody fired shots. Union troops opened fire and 28 civilians and 7 soldiers were killed.
Top Washington University administrators were grilled by faculty Wednesday over what many described as the school allowing a "violent" police response to an anti-war protest last month.
The U.S. is one of nine countries that do not guarantee paid sick leave. In Missouri and other states, advocates are organizing to take the issue to voters this November.
The law, pushed by Democrats, eliminates the drafting of legislative candidates by local political parties without putting them through primary elections.