A push to widen the east-west artery has been discussed for years as heavy truck and car traffic have frustrated motorists and affected the transport of goods.
Three Kansas City police officers were shot and wounded while executing a search warrant, prompting a standoff at a home early Wednesday, authorities said.
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.