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USDA halts more than $1B in funding for local food banks, schools

1 month 1 week ago
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) says it has nixed more than $1 billion in funding for local food banks and schools by terminating two programs that aid state, tribal and territorial government food purchases. The buy-local programs support the purchase and distribution of goods produced within the state or within 400 miles of the [...]
Ashleigh Fields

Eye Thrive campaign funds free eyeglasses for children

1 month 1 week ago
Eye Thrive has launched a fundraising campaign to continue providing free eyeglasses to children in the St. Louis region through its Mobile Vision Clinic program, which provides eye exams and glasses to students in pre-K through eighth grade.
Shirley Washington

Warm temperatures roll on, Friday to bring wind and storms

1 month 1 week ago
ST. LOUIS - We hit 76 F for a high on Monday and we’ll be right back there again Tuesday afternoon. A weak cold front is dropping in from the north and may cool things back a touch for northern MO and western IL, but it never clears the St. Louis area. Sunny Tuesday with [...]
Angela Hutti

2 charged in STL County after toddler suffers gunshot wound

1 month 1 week ago
Taiesha Campbell, the mother, claimed her child was hurt in a drive-by shooting. Investigators, however, learned that she and another suspect, Rodrick Miller, had been cleaning a firearm inside Campbell’s home before leaving it on a couch.
Caroline Pettey