The city's new top cop will be paid $275,000 annually to head the department, an amount significantly higher than his predecessor and other police chiefs in similar-sized cities.
Influence Church in St. Louis County, where the pastor arrives in a helicopter, billed USDA food programs the second-biggest amounts in Missouri during the pandemic.
Months after a St. Louis official said the city planned to review how off-duty police officers are used by private companies, officials said they were still looking for a way to pay for a study.
Worrisome concentrations of forever chemicals have been found in drinking water in the Quad Cities and two dozen other river communities in Illinois and Iowa.
Columnist Bill McClellan writes: As Missouri prepares to ring in the new year with another execution, it is worth considering that we seldom kill the people we convicted.
The region will see high temperatures in the 30s this week until a cold front moves in Thursday, bringing not only below freezing temperatures but a chance of snow.