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Mental health made worse during the pandemic

4 years ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – The challenge of mental health has taken a dramatic turn for the worse during the COVID pandemic. Affinia CEO Dr. Kendra Holmes says there has been sizeable increase in anxiety disorder and depressive disorder because of the pandemic. She says the problem is especially bad in the minority community, where [...]
Elliott Davis

Highest-rated steakhouses in St. Louis, according to Tripadvisor

4 years ago
Tenderloin, strip, rib eye, porterhouse—the words alone of the choicest cuts of cow, aged to tenderized perfection and served under bordelaise, béarnaise, or au poivre, are enough to get a meat lover salivating and making their next reservation for a night at a steakhouse. Dry aged for weeks or months and carefully prepared by chefs, [...]
Stacker

St. Louis non-profit takes fresh food market to schools

4 years ago
"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.  
Ty Hawkins

Missouri AG drops dozens of school mask lawsuits

4 years 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

4 years 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

4 years 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