"Our goal is to really just to transform our region, one community at a time. Really by providing healthy nutritious options, we provide afterschool enrichment activities, and family support programs as well," Bailey Foundation Executive Director Diarra Warford said.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
For the first time in three years, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates a fourth of a point. That has prospective home buyers wondering if they've missed out on low-rate mortgages.
If you've visited your local BBQ joint recently, you may have noticed brisket prices are soaring. Inflation is having a big impact on a variety of small businesses.
Eric Eickmeyer, president of the Kirkwood Athletic Association, said the all-volunteer organization is unable to proceed with baseball and softball leagues to start the 2022 season.
Illinois' attorney general filed a lawsuit against Marathon Pipe Line LLC, alleging the company created a substantial danger to the environment and public health during a crude oil spill in Edwardsville last week.
More than 250 people packed Friendly Temple Church in north St. Louis to say their final goodbyes to community leader and former state Rep. Cora Faith Walker, who died suddenly a week 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 [...]
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 [...]
American Airlines confirmed on Friday that it is set to resume sales of alcoholic beverages on flights in its domestic coach cabins almost two years after it first halted the service.
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