Beyond helping residents get jobs, the Urban League also wants its headquarters to play a major role in convincing them to keep living in North City and attract others to move back or settle in the predominantly-Black area. It also wants more development, along Dr. Martin Luther King Drive, Kingshighway, Page Boulevard and throughout north St. Louis.
Jeffrey Bauza, who owned local truck driving schools, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for using employees' tax money for college tuition and mortgage payments on two houses.
A city of St. Louis bill filed Wednesday would ban the open carrying of firearms for people who do not have a state concealed carry permit — a high-profile attempt to take on criminal activity that has featured the open carrying of long rifles, including downtown.
A regional crime summit held at the Washington University School of Medicine came five days after two influential business groups called on St. Louis’ elected leaders to set homicide reduction targets, saying the region’s high murder rate is harming the economy not only from loss of life but also as a “leading barrier to growth.”
Lone Jack Police Chief Tim Cosner was confused.
His state senator, Mike Cierpiot, was on the line asking him about a request to fund radio equipment in the state budget. He needed details, Cierpiot told Cosner, in order to pass them along to Senate Appropriations Chairman Lincoln Hough.
Cosner had no clue what Cierpiot was talking about.
But after a few minutes it dawned on him: Cierpiot thought he was on the phone with the Lone Jack Fire District.
Both men had a laugh, and recovering from the…
In a memo dated one day before her abrupt resignation, former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner gave a handwritten order to the court asking to appoint St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell as the “interim to act as the transition manager.”
Gardner wrote, “Comes now Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner of the City of St. Louis ask the Court to appoint St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell in the interim to act as the Transition Manager for the Circuit Attorney’s Office exercising…
The indirect criminal contempt charges against former St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and her former assistant prosecutor have been dropped after the special prosecutor assigned to the case filed a motion to dismiss it.
“The State of Missouri, by and through Special Prosecuting Attorney Allison Schreiber Lee, hereby requests this Honorable Court to dismiss the pending indirect criminal contempt matter, for the reason that it no longer serves the interest of justice to continue with this…
The St. Louis metro area is one of the nation's hotbeds for women's entrepreneurial activity, according to research by small-business lending company OnDeck.
OnDeck analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data for more than 900,000 organizations in each state and major cities to find out which had the most women business owners. To be classified as an owner, a person needed to own at least 10% of a business.
OnDeck calculated the percentage of female business owners based on each geographical location’s…
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey terminated his emergency rule on gender-affirming care Tuesday — less than a week after the state legislature sent a ban on minors starting treatment to the governor’s desk.
The ACLU of Missouri filed a lawsuit in late April seeking to block Bailey’s emergency rule, alleging the attorney general didn’t have the authority to use the state’s consumer protection law to block access to puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery. A…
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has appointed his general counsel Evan Rodriguez as an acting interim St. Louis circuit attorney, and has tapped the Missouri Attorney General’s Office to assist him during the next few days as the governor finishes interviewing candidates to serve as his permanent appointee.
The complicated structure developed late Tuesday, just hours after Kim Gardner abruptly announced her immediate resignation as the city's top prosecutor.
Rodriguez, 28, was sworn in Tuesday night…
St. Louis Alderman Bret Narayan has listed no income from a marijuana business he has an interest in, despite a new lawsuit claiming he's collected money from the dispensaries.
A 4.5-acre property in the Central West End currently used by a nonprofit is being offered for sale, in what could be a prime redevelopment opportunity in a St. Louis neighborhood that has seen significant investment.
Its new locations include its first in Metro East, as well as the opening of a new production facility in north St. Louis that will be operational starting next week.
Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) on Monday agreed to pay shareholders $1 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the bank of overstating its progress in cleaning up after its 2016 fake-accounts scandal. The bank’s shareholders alleged Wells Fargo and its past leadership misled them about how swiftly they were fixing the governance issues and risk-management systems that failed to prevent the bank from opening up perhaps millions of fake accounts.
Reuters reports that the settlement figure…
The to-be shuttered restaurant is located within a three-mile radius of two other Lion's Choice locations, causing the area to be oversaturated and prohibiting all stores from reaching their full potential, Chief Executive Fred Burmer said.
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner will step down on Tuesday, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson's office confirmed.
The governor's office confirmed they received an email Tuesday morning that Gardner would be leaving office later in the day. She had previously announced she would be resigning on June 1. Gardner's office confirmed her Tuesday resignation in a statement, saying that it has worked with St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell and his office "to ensure a comprehensive transition…
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