St. Louis city has a chance to receive $5.5 million dedicated to public safety, but Mayor Tishaura Jones and Attorney General Eric Schmitt have to agree on how it will be spent.
In 2018, the city of St. Louis reached a settlement agreement with George Allen, a Black man who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned in the 1980s. St. Louis was due to pay the state back for that settlement on September 1, but Jones says Schmitt told the mayor’s administration in September they could keep the funds if they used them on police personnel.
“I assumed it was a political stunt, like most things coming out of the attorney general’s office these days,” Jones said in a press conference on Monday morning.…
Dustin Boone will be sentenced Monday after a jury found him guilty of assaulting fellow officer Luther Hall, who was working undercover during a 2017 protest
Earlier this month, U2 returned with a new tune called "Your Song Saved My Life." As guitarist The Edge tells Rolling Stone, there's more where that came from. "We are…
The West End is a north St. Louis neighborhood bound by Page to the north, Delmar to the south, city limits to the west and Union and Belt to the east via Maple. The 2000 census data counted 6,438 residents (down 27% from 1990’s count) of whom 95% were black, 2% white and 1% Hispanic/Latino. […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, most …
A hedge fund known for acquiring daily newspapers has offered to acquire Lee Enterprises, the parent company of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it said Monday.
Community and care. Those two words encapsulate what the Contemporary Art Museum (3750 Washington Boulevard) will focus on for its upcoming event Day With(out) Art: Enduring Care on December 1.…
The next production to take the stage at COCA’s new Catherine B. Berges Theatre, wUNDERland, puts a modern, hip-hop twist on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The production features creative direction and choreography by COCA Hip-Hop Crew Artistic Director Anthony “Redd” Williams.
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