In Missouri, nearly 20% of children ages 10 to 17 were obese, according to the 2019-20 National Survey of Childrenβs Health, the 11th highest rate in the country.
Librarians have scoured books for any applicable content at the direction of lawyers. Ten districts in St. Louis and inner suburbs are ignoring the law.
Jodi Weber took the Post-Dispatch inside the investigation that led to charges filed against Gary Muehlberg in the 1990 serial murders of four St. Louis women.
Tayvion Whitby, 16, of the 4500 block of Morganford Avenue in St. Louis was pronounced dead after police found him with a gunshot wound in a car that had crashed.
The city is writing a letter on Friday asking for state and federal funding to buy out about 300 homes condemned because of flood damage, demolish the structures and turn the land into parks, forests and fields.
To try to attract and keep employees, the board overseeing Metro Transit on Friday OK'd spending $2.6 million on a new parental leave program, subsidies for child and elder care, college tuition aid and other benefits.