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$18M initiative elevates transportation in STL

9 months 2 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS - Construction has begun on the Tower Grove Connector project in St. Louis, aiming to link Tower Grove Park to the Cortex Innovation Community with nearly two miles of protected bike and pedestrian lanes. "This project not only connects the city from north to south and east to west, but it also makes [...]
Daesha Gear

Missouri school funding task force turns its attention to property tax inequities

9 months 2 weeks ago
A group tasked by the governor with reworking Missouri’s formula for funding public schools narrowed in on property tax revenue Monday, discussing how the 20-year-old formula creates inequities with an outdated assumption of local aid. In the second meeting of the Missouri School Funding Modernization Task Force, education officials led a conversation on property taxes. […]
Annelise Hanshaw

Trump says ‘complete and total’ ceasefire agreed to by Iran and Israel

9 months 2 weeks ago
Israel and Iran reached a truce in their 12-day-old war Monday, President Donald Trump said on social media. The ceasefire will go into effect at midnight Eastern, he said. “It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE … for 12 hours, at which […]
Jacob Fischler

Multiple Charges Filed Following Violent Home Invasion, Shooting and Pursuit

9 months 2 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO. — Charges have been filed in St. Louis County against Ivyon Houston, 22, of St. Louis, in connection with a shooting, home invasion, and police pursuit that ended in a crash and the death of Brian Sonnier, 27, who lived in the 4800 block of Northland Avenue, St. Louis, MO., 63113. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Houston with Assault 1st Degree or Attempt – Serious Physical Injury or Special Victim, two counts of Armed Criminal Action, Burglary 1st Degree, Unlawful Use of a Weapon, two counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child Creating Substantial Risk - 1st Degree, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm, Unlawful Possession, Transport, Manufacture, Repair or Sale of Illegal Weapon, and Aggravated Fleeing a Stop or Detention. According to the probable cause statement, Houston shot a victim in the foot inside the victim’s residence on the 6100 block of Alaska Avenue. Houston left the scene but later returned, forcibly

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