As someone who has evangelized for the video game industry and how games, long villainized by parents, politicians, and police, are actually either a neutral or positive force for the public and culture, I never shy away from sharing studies that demonstrate this. While a great deal of time has been spent on discussions of […]
Recovery efforts from the aftermath of Hurricane Helene continue in the southeast and mid-Atlantic. Ameren Missouri has released over 300 contractors and internal line resources that are working around Glade Spring, Virginia.
Garth Brooks, the country music superstar who gained fame in the 1990s with several hit songs, has been named in a lawsuit accusing him of raping a hair and makeup artist in 2019.
A former Pattonville middle school teacher appeared for a bond reduction hearing in St. Louis County Circuit Court on Thursday, just days after his arrest for child pornography charges.
Another artist has been added to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame celebration of Foreigner.Vocal powerhouse Kelly Clarkson is set to perform during the upcoming induction ceremony, joining Sammy…
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Five years ago, Sen. Josh Hawley’s Missouri residency appeared murky. The state’s junior Republican senator had purchased a house in Virginia and sold his central Missouri house where he lived as state attorney general. He listed…
A tanker truck was carrying caustic anhydrous ammonia when it jack-knifed and hit a utility trailer near Teutopolis, about 110 miles northeast of St. Louis.
Editor’s Note: Apologies for the sound quality on the panel discussion video. Besides experiencing some technical issues, it was taped in an open tent located adjacent to the eastbound I-44 on-ramp of the Poplar Street Bridge. Having said that, the conversation is clearly audible and is most engaging. by Tom Finan, Executive Director, Construction Forum […]
Our neighbor to the north faces overwhelming challenges that could prompt its residents to look for respite in the U.S. That presents an opportunity for St. Louis, writes Raj Tut.
Chicago is releasing their 2023 Atlantic City, New Jersey, concerts on DVD, Blu-Ray and more in November.Chicago & Friends Live At 55, dropping Nov. 22, features footage from the band’s concerts at…
We live in the United States, so it's only natural that we're mostly concerned about American public opinion. But in the case of the Gaza War, Israeli public opinion is obviously more important. And among Israeli Jews, it's hawkish: 90% of Israeli Jews approved of last week's assault against Hezbollah in Lebanon. And what's the ...continue reading "The Israeli public wants war"
ALTON - On October 2, 1924, Missouri Gov. Arthur M. Hyde received a letter. The letter’s author, Noble Shepard, had killed a man and woman thirty years before, was sentenced to hang, and then escaped from the Four Courts jail building in St. Louis two days before his death sentence could be carried out. He cut a plate at the back of a cell with a saw, crawled through the hole, and then wiggled through an old sewer and out to freedom. The letter stated: “St. Louis, Oct. 1. I escaped from the St. Louis Jail in 1896 while under sentence of death for murder. I am now old and feeble and will give myself up if you promise not to hang me. I’m willing to go to the penitentiary. Put a notice in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, giving your promise, and I’ll give myself up to anybody you mention in the notice. Yours truly, NOBLE SHEPARD.” Shepard murdered Thomas George Gilroy Morton and Thomas’s fiancé Lizzie Pack Leahy on Christmas Eve, 1894,
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