Becky Rothman, the "Queen of Carpet" whose iconic commercials featuring her flying on a rug over the Gateway Arch entertained generations of St. Louisians for nearly 30 years, died Sunday. She was 67.
Rothman's nephew, Marc, confirmed her passing Monday afternoon. She had been undergoing dialysis for the past several years, he said, and died at Missouri Baptist Medical Center of complications from kidney disease.
Rothman was born into the flooring business on Feb. 3, 1956. Her father, Murray, opened…
The new St. Louis Circuit Attorney Gabe Gore was sworn into office Tuesday morning, just two weeks after his predecessor Kim Gardner stepped down.
Missouri Supreme Court Judge Robin Ransom gave Gore the oath of office as the city's next top prosecutor at 11 a.m. at the Carnahan Courthouse. St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones and other local leaders were in attendance.
"We have a violent crime crisis here in St. Louis," Gore said Tuesday. "We are losing far to many young promising lives to violence.…
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page announced in a press conference Tuesday that he will veto two bills passed by the County Council earlier this month.
Bill 73 would have loosened restrictions on tobacco sales within 1,000 feet of St. Louis County schools, and Bill 86 would have required pedestrians to stay off roads in areas where sidewalks are available. Both bills passed the County Council by 4-3 votes.
It requires five votes from the St. Louis County Council to override a veto from the St.…
Less than five years after Clayton-based health insurer Centene Corp. made a splash by confirming plans to bring thousands of new employees to a campus in Sacramento's Natomas area, the company now appears ready to let someone else have some or all of that space.
Most weekday guests at Le Méridien St. Louis Clayton are visiting the city for work, spending business hours in the office rather than on site and leaving the hotel’s pool deck mostly empty, General Manager Andrew Hargis said. Seeing an opportunity to change that, the downtown Clayton hotel this summer is offering a pool pass.
The opportunity created for Enterprise by the turmoil in the banking industry, combined with a possible recession, is that it can pick up clients as competitors make fewer commercial loans, said Jim Lally, president and CEO, Enterprise Financial Services
Hazelwood-based courier company Associated Couriers LLC said it will begin using drones to transport medications through a collaboration with San Francisco-based drone company Zipline.
The Archdiocese of St. Louis on Saturday announced its finalized model for changes coming to the church as part of its "All Things New" restructuring plan.
At the Cardinal Rigali Center in Shrewsbury, Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski announced his final decision on the plan, which includes sweeping parish consolidations and priest reassignments.
Under the restructuring, the archdiocese said its 178 parishes will consolidate into 134 parishes, overseen by close to 90 diocesan pastors and 17 religious…
Principia College, a private liberal arts college in Elsah, Illinois, has named a college administrator from Mississippi as its next president, following what officials said was a semester-long search.
The St. Louis Cardinals have the second-highest average attendance in the MLB as of May 25. Leaguewide, attendance is up amid rule changes aimed at speeding up games.
A St. Louis attorney was the sole former minor leaguer-turned attorney on the case, which he led and ended in a $185 million settlement that is estimated to pay from $5,000 to $5,500 each to about 24,000 former and current players.
A city board took the first step this week toward future redevelopment of an 850-acre area surrounding the site of the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's western campus in north St. Louis, although city officials gave no indication of any specific redevelopments.
St. Louis-based Buckingham Strategic Wealth agreed to acquire Madison Wealth Advisors, its third Kansas City-area acquisition since 2021. Combined, the three firms have about $725 million in assets.
Golf is one tough game. We can play it until we are old (best learned when young), and every wonderful once in a while we hit some really good shots, drop some long difficult putts and produce, after four hours or so, a score that temporarily deceives you into feeling that “you can do this.”
St. Louis startup Mighty Cricket, which has developed consumer food products using protein sourced from crickets, has been awarded federal funds it plans to use to establish a local cricket farm.
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