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Missouri AG drops dozens of school mask lawsuits

2 years 8 months ago
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has dismissed most of the lawsuits he filed earlier this year against school districts over mask mandates. Schmitt's office announced Friday that he was dismissing all but seven of the more than 40 lawsuits he filed in January. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports suits against school [...]
Gregg Palermo

University of Missouri System settles discrimination lawsuit

2 years 8 months ago
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri System has settled a discrimination lawsuit filed by a white woman who alleged she was removed from her position in favor of a younger, Black woman. The Columbia Missourian reports the university will pay $1.57 million to Rachel Brown, who was 60 when she lost her job as [...]
Associated Press

Missouri's most infamous child kidnapping and murder

2 years 8 months ago
More than 50 years after the case was closed, a get-rich-quick plot to hold the son of a Kansas City-area multimillionaire for ransom is still widely regarded as Missouri's own crime of the century. Nationwide grief over a child lost compounded by an ongoing mystery surrounding the location of missing ransom.
Kevin S. Held

City of St. Louis launches a Parks, Recreation and Forestry job fair series

2 years 8 months ago
 ST. LOUIS - With warmer weather on the horizon, the City of St. Louis is launching a Parks, Recreation and Forestry job fair series. Jobs with the city start at $15/hour with competitive benefits. Open positions include lifeguards, full-time and seasonal utility workers, recreation assistants, and tree trimmers. The department announced that it will hold a series of job fairs across the [...]
Ala Errebhi

EPA: Bridgeton landfill has more nuclear waste

2 years 8 months ago
BRIDGETON, Mo. (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency says nuclear waste buried in a Missouri landfill that sits near an underground smolder is more extensive than first believed. And it is part of the reason the $205 million Superfund project announced in September 2018 has been delayed. The EPA had announced a plan to remove [...]
Associated Press

St. Louis home values appreciated over $25,000 in 2021

2 years 8 months ago
ST. LOUIS - Home values grew more than many's annual incomes in 2021. A study from Zillow found that homeowners earned more than the median worker in 25 of 38 major metropolitan areas across the country. Home appreciation was higher than $100,000 in 11 of them. San Jose has the highest median income at $93,000 and it [...]
Monica Ryan

St. Louis sees lowest COVID-positive hospitalizations since June 2021

2 years 8 months ago
ST. LOUIS - Sunday brings the spring equinox, and hope springs eternal in the St Louis Region Friday as the latest COVID hospitalization numbers confirm the collapse of the omicron-variant surge. The St Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force released the latest tallies on area hospitalizations Friday, and the region is in good shape as the [...]
Joe Lamie