Newly released emails show that when the Missouri State Treasurer’s Office learned in April that spreadsheets on its website unintentionally exposed the names of students receiving private school vouchers, it downplayed the leak to families and drafted a statement blaming its software contractor. That provider says that is not where the problem started. And the […]
WASHINGTON — Former Justice Department lawyer Elizabeth Oyer has posted a video to YouTube blaming Missouri Republican Sens. Eric Schmitt and Josh Hawley for an onslaught of hate messages and death threats she has received. “Hey everybody,” Oyer said in the video. “I started getting death threats after I testified against Todd Blanche last week.” […]
It’s one of my favorite times of the election year: B-roll season. Across Missouri, candidates are posting B-roll — the wordless, context-free footage ad-makers layer under narration — so the political action committees they’re legally barred from coordinating with can stumble upon it and cut it into ads. All of it perfectly legal, thanks to […]
ST. LOUIS - A wrong-way car crash late Sunday night in St. Louis left two people dead and another in critical condition. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, an individual in a Mazda CX entered the westbound lanes of Interstate 64 just before 11:45 p.m., traveling eastbound. The wrong-way driver collided with a [...]
A WashU professor says a bipartisan federal bill aiming to make it easier to build housing while targeting corporate landlords who buy up thousands of homes doesn't go far enough.
ST. LOUIS - No injuries were reported following a residential fire overnight in north St. Louis. The fire occurred on Wren Avenue around 3 a.m. Monday in the Walnut Park East neighborhood. According to officials, multiple children and an adult made it out of the home safely. The Red Cross has been requested to assist [...]
SEATTLE (AP) — Police arrested one suspect and were looking for another after gunfire erupted at a crowded food festival beneath Seattle's Space Needle, leaving three people dead and four others injured, including a toddler. Investigators believe the two suspects were shooting at each other and, although one remained on the loose, Assistant Seattle Police [...]
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