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Bystanders hit in two groups' crossfire in north St. Louis

3 years 3 months ago
ST. LOUIS - Two people were injured in a shooting early Monday morning. The shooting happened around 1 a.m. on Cass Avenue at North 13th Street. Police said two groups of people were shooting at each other. The two men injured were described as innocent bystanders. FOX 2 will continue to update this story with more information [...]
Monica Ryan

Woman shot and killed in north St. Louis Monday morning

3 years 3 months ago
ST. LOUIS - A woman was shot and killed early Monday morning in north St. Louis. It happened just before 1:30 a.m. on North Broadway at Benton Street. The woman's age and identity are unknown at this time. Police do not yet have a suspect in custody. FOX 2 will continue to update this story [...]
Monica Ryan

Renegade Pol from Illinois Qualifies as Candidate by State of Louisiana    

3 years 3 months ago
NEW ORLEANS, LA. — Formerly of Illinois and a 2020 candidate for the state’s 8th congressional district, W. Thomas La Fontaine Olson has qualified for placement on the ballot by the Office of the Secretary of State of Louisiana. The candidate was detained for an extraordinarily lengthy amount of time at the Archives building in Baton Rouge, during which bureaucrats scrambled to apologize for stately incompetence. Yet the form of payment impressed upon the candidate to the point of distraction. “Cash is king in this lousy state,” La Fontaine insists. “I would have preferred to pay in twenty dollar bills, so that I might have further mocked the cultural fawning upon Andrew Jackson, but my speed these days requires a certain plasticity, and wads of cash tend to adhere a filthiness better suited to craven politicians, such as several of my opponents.” When asked to be specific, La Fontaine only signals b

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Missouri fuel prices peak in June, demand falls a little, more wealth leaves the state

3 years 3 months ago

I’ve been tracking fuel consumption the last few months in light of rising fuel prices that has begat an endless parade of “pain at the pump” and “record high gas price” stories in the news. What we’ve been seeing really is the pain of captivity and record high auto dependency. With few options for most […]

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Richard Bose

Grieving St. Louis families respond to police-involved shooting scenes, push for change

3 years 3 months ago

On the night of April 24, 2013, six residents living in a neighborhood just north of downtown St. Louis say they saw the same thing.  A young Black man – 25-year-old Cary Ball Jr. — crashed his car, got out, stumbled onto another car and limped away. And then each said they saw Ball drop […]

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Rebecca Rivas

Red Cross announces 3 additional multi-agency resource center dates for flooding victims

3 years 3 months ago
The American Red Cross announced three additional dates for the Multi-Agency Resource Centers in the St. Louis area after overwhelming demand last week. The Multi-Agency Resource Centers, or MARCs, will be held at Friendly Temple on Martin Luther King Drive on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The MARCs will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, and masks are required by the church where the event is being held. The events will be one-stop shops for flooding victims to apply for assistance after…
Sam Clancy, KSDK