The man accused of causing a crash that killed two tourists after a downtown St. Louis concert early Wednesday had no criminal record, St. Louis' police chief said Thursday.
He hand-carved the name and lettering for the Ted Simmons statue outside Busch Stadium, was part of a team that re-did the gates to the Ottoman Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis and sculpted the faces for the Korean War Memorial in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Terry Briggs, who had served as Bridgeton's mayor since 2015, has died, the city said Wednesday.
City Administrator Kevin Bookout said Briggs died unexpectedly earlier Wednesday. A cause of death was not announced.
Briggs, 68, was first elected mayor in 2015 and reelected in 2019 and 2023.
"Mayor Briggs will be remembered not only for his accomplishments in office but also for his kindness and genuine concern for the well-being of others. His passing is a profound loss for our community, and his…
The Kansas City Chiefs celebrated back-to-back Super Bowl victories on an unseasonably warm day that was marred by a shooting as the otherwise peaceful event ended.
The first contract for reconstruction of Interstate 70, for a 20-mile stretch from Columbia to Kingdom City, was awarded Wednesday by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission.
The $405 million contract is part of a planned $2.8 billion project that will add a lane of traffic in both directions from Wentzville in St. Charles County to Blue Springs in Jackson County. The work awarded Wednesday to Millstone Weber of St. Charles for construction and Jacobs of Dallas for engineering is…
Missouri’s highest court for the second time in four years rebuked lawmakers’s efforts to ban abortion providers and their affiliates from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
The legislature included a line in the 2022 state budget to spend $0 for any Medicaid-covered services if the provider also offers abortions or is affiliated with an abortion provider.
Nearly all abortions are illegal in Missouri. The two Planned Parenthood affiliates operating in the state – Planned Parenthood Great…
Next Missouri, a statewide coalition that advocates for legislation that benefits entrepreneurship, is lobbying for legislation that would offer tax credits for angel investments.
The intent of the state earnings tax statute and the city ordinance is to apply the 1% tax to work done in the city, said an attorney representing six plaintiffs who are non-city residents and worked remotely for St. Louis-based businesses.
A multicar crash left at least two people dead and several others injured early Wednesday in St. Louis' Downtown West neighborhood.
A car struck multiple vehicles and pedestrians at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday in the middle of the intersection at North 18th and Olive streets, according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. It happened just blocks away from the Enterprise Center, where thousands of people were leaving the Drake and J. Cole concert minutes before.
A law enforcement source…
Health care mega-mergers, like one recently completed by BJC HealthCare, lead to higher hospital prices for consumers, experts said. A Business Journal analysis shows the local health system’s prices were already high.
Have you struggled to find the right mentor or are you just looking for a guiding hand to get you through the next phase of your career? The St. Louis Business Journal is again putting together its annual Mentoring Monday event with some of the region's highest-achieving women leaders.
You'll get the chance to meet the perfect mentor during our in-person event with nearly 50 mentors in attendance at Third Degree Glass Factory on Monday, Feb. 26, at 8 a.m.
Click through the gallery below to…
Creve Coeur-based food technology firm Benson Hill has divested its soy processing business in Creston, Iowa, while also paying off some debt and naming a new chief financial officer.
Ownership is transitioning back to the president of the firm, which will now operate under a new name and is searching for a new headquarters somewhere with the city of St. Louis or St. Louis County.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is a key player in the governmental review of the $14.9 billion purchase of Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel.