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Amazon says 'safety comes first' at local fulfillment center as OSHA investigates complaint

1 year ago
The St. Louis Business Journal recently spent part of a workday at a local warehouse subject to a recent safety complaint. Leaders there stressed the steps that Amazon takes to maintain a safe workplace. The tour and interview came at an intense time as Amazon hired about 2,800 full-time, seasonal, and part-time workers in the St. Louis metro area to handle the estimated 16 million orders for the holidays.
James Drew

Deadline approaching for Missouri to opt in to federal summer food program

1 year ago
Missouri education and social services officials have not yet made a decision on whether to participate in a federal food assistance program next summer, weighing their ability to execute it after years of administrative challenges and delays. Participating in the program, called Summer EBT (electronic benefit transfer), would provide approximately $51.5 million in food benefits to 429,000 Missouri children next summer. States have until Jan. 1 to notify the federal government of their intent to…
Clara Bates

In a statehouse short on space, Dean Plocher converted an office into a liquor ‘pantry’

1 year ago
For four years, state Rep. Mike Stephens occupied prime real estate on the third floor of the Missouri Capitol. His office in room 306B certainly wasn’t the biggest in the space-starved statehouse, where staff often work out of musty, windowless rooms, and many lawmakers are stacked on top of each other in non-ADA compliant mezzanines. But Stephens’ office was steps away from the House chamber. And it was the only one besides the speaker’s with direct access to the House Lounge — a room…
Jason Hancock

St. Louis City SC releases 2024 regular season schedule

1 year ago
Major League Soccer franchise St. Louis City SC is looking to build off its record-setting first season, and on Wednesday, the team released its regular-season schedule for 2024. The season kicks off with dual home openers, a CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football) Champions League match at home against Houston on Feb. 20 and a regular-season match against Real Salt Lake on Feb. 24. City will have just one matchup with Inter Miami CF and superstar Lionel…
Sam Clancy

St. Louis police answer some questions about police SUV that slammed into bar, arrest of bar owner

1 year ago
The officers who slammed into a locally-owned bar while driving a police SUV early Monday were not given toxicology tests. They were wearing body cameras, but the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department is not releasing the footage because it is part of a criminal investigation into whether one of the bar owners shoved an officer. Those are some of the answers Lt. Col. Renee Kriesmann gave during a weekly meeting with reporters Wednesday in which police leaders typically give updates on major…
Christine Byers

Former workers, lawmakers look for accountability after sudden closure of St. Louis nursing home

1 year ago
Political leaders and former employees of a St. Louis nursing home called for its operators to be held accountable after it abruptly shut down Friday, saying at a rally Tuesday that 170 residents were sent to other care centers with just the clothes on their backs, the Associated Press reported. After Northview Village Nursing Home closed down Friday, shuttle buses carried residents to some 14 other St. Louis-area care centers, and some relatives said that, days later, they hadn't yet found out…
Justina Coronel