Aggregator

Budget includes pay raises for low-paid teachers and rebate checks up to $500 for taxpayers thanks to an influx of tax revenue and federal pandemic aid.

The largest budget in Missouri history passed with relative ease Friday, in part because the final version was larger than the spending plans passed earlier in either the House or …

The organization's Midland Division will laud volunteers, contributors at its "Doing the Most Good" brunch on May 14 at the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac.

CRG wants to redevelop Caleres' Clayton headquarters into a mixed-use development, with the footwear company anchoring the new office building.

Tarlton Corporation confirmed a worker fell from a scissor lift.

Friday in federal court, a 63-month prison sentence was handed down to one of the men involved in a romance scam that bilked dozens of senior citizens out of nearly $1 million. The length of the sentence was the maximum of the 51- to 63-month range Judge Sarah Pitlyk could impose. Pitlyk said that the stiff punishment was due in part to both the "very serious harm to many people" that the defendant, 43-year-old Bonmene Sibe, was responsible for as well as his disruptive and contemptuous conduct during court.

Putting cops in schools is a terrible idea. It tends to encourage school administrators to abdicate their disciplinary duties and allow cops to decide which school policy violations should be treated as criminal acts. Turns out it’s also a bad idea to have compliant cops adjacent to schools. A new report from ProPublica, sourced from […]

BENTON – Dr. Mingqing Xiao, 60, of Makanda, Illinois, was convicted by a federal jury on Wednesday, May 4, 2022, in connection with lying to federal authorities about a foreign bank account in China in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Dr. Xiao, a mathematics professor and researcher at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, was convicted of three counts of Making a False or Fraudulent Statement to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on his tax returns and one count of Failure to File a report of a Foreign Bank Account (FBAR). Evidence presented at the trial established that Xiao opened a foreign bank account at Ping An Bank in China in 2016 and received monthly deposits into the account from Shenzhenalo University in Shenzhen, China, from 2016 to 2020. Some of the funds were linked to additional sources in China. By 2020, Xiao had accumulated more than $100,000 in the Chinese account. U.S. taxpayers are required to report the existence of any foreign bank account on their federal income

Continue Reading

The new space is named after a former "late-night haunt" that existed above Brennan's old Central West End location.

Missouri lawmakers are poised to require schools test and, potentially, filter drinking water to prevent lead poisoning, making the state one of just a handful that require administrators to meet standards stricter than federal regulations. The state offers grants for schools to pay for water testing, but there is no requirement to test, and only […]

The post Legislature on the verge of requiring Missouri schools test, filter water for lead appeared first on Missouri Independent.

ST. LOUIS COUNTY - On Friday, May 6, 2022, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office issued warrants on suspect David A. Taylor, 28 years of age, of the 9900 block of Linn Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri 63125, for one count of Unlawful Possession of Explosive Weapon. A mugshot for Taylor is attached. Taylor is being held on a $50,000 cash only, no 10% bond. Please note, charges are merely an accusation and Defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law. The probable cause statement reads: On or about May 5, 2022, officers conducted a traffic stop on the Defendant’s vehicle for following a school bus too closely. The Defendant was arrested for an outstanding warrant. An inventory search of the vehicle revealed two pipe bombs in the center console. Post Miranda, the Defendant admitted to knowing the pipe bombs were in the car and he also knew what was inside the pipes. Defendant said he had purchased them. These devices are capable

Continue Reading

The aerospace giant has been working with the St. Louis college for 15 years on a program that has evolved into a fruitful talent pipeline for the company. Now the school wants to get other industries involved.

This month, a simple school assignment at Wild Horse Elementary is funding more than 550 free, hot meals for people without housing and health care workers.

One of the St. Louis region's largest privately held companies is building an Element Hotel at uptown Charlotte's Stonewall Station mixed-use development. The original project — an Even Hotel — was abandoned in mid-2019.

For the St. Louis firm, its acquisition comes after its management team in recent years has turned around the company, paying off $40 million in debt and retooling its portfolio to place a focus on a 50-plus audience. It believes its new ownership will position it for expansion.

Two St. Louis-based architecture firms have merged through an acquisition.

This one is just absolutely bizarre. The Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana are now suing President Joe Biden and a whole bunch of his administration, including press secretary Jen Psaki, Dr. Anthony Fauci, DHS boss Alejandro Mayorkas, and newly appointed Disinfo czar Nina Jankowicz, in a nearly incomprehensible complaint that the Biden administration forced […]