As a new legislator in 2023, Missouri state Rep. Justin Sparks became the leading advocate for a proposal to create a child care facility serving employees of the St. Louis County Police Department.
A few months after lawmakers approved spending $6 million from federal Covid relief funds to create the center, Sparks took a job with the organization in charge of the project, the National Law Enforcement Foundation.
So far, the foundation, created in 2022, has used $3.7 million of the funding.
Sparks,…
An education advocate filed a federal lawsuit Monday against St. Louis Public School Board alleging it illegally banned him from meetings and district property.
Chester Asher, founder of Coalition for STL Kids, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Missouri with the help of the First Amendment Clinic at Washington University in St. Louis. He alleges the ban violated his constitutional rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
Named as defendants…
The St. Louis Business Journal has opened up the nomination process for every 2025 awards program — from the Corporate Philanthropy Awards, celebrated in May, to the 40 Under 40 Awards, recognized in November.
The 2025 awards lineup includes the return of some signature programs, like the Most Influential Business Women Awards and our Champions for Diversity & Inclusion program. It also includes the Business of Pride Awards, the Family Business Awards, the Corporate Counsel Awards and our Best…
The St. Louis Blues will air three games later this season on KMOV-TV (Channel 4) and sister station Matrix Midwest in a “test” of broadcasting games on over-the-air television.
Inside St. Stanislaus Seminary are 13 stained-glass windows, by a renowned St. Louis artisan. The windows are rusting, bulging — and the center of a legal battle.
St. Louis was only about halfway to breaking the record for inches of snow Sunday, but it did break a record for the amount of water that fell. The latest on how the region is dealing with continued frigid temperatures. Plus: Female athletes are getting more concussions, and St. Louis doctor wants to know why. Dr. Jamil Neme, director of the Concussion Clinic at SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital, speaks with STLPR's Marissanne Lewis-Thompson.
Anjuan Mosby, 43, is due in court for a preliminary hearing on Tuesday, accused of kidnapping and killing Clayton mother Michelle Hampton in November, and faces life in prison or the death penalty if convicted.
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones was out of town on work trips at least 64 times during her first 42 months in high office, a major departure from the practices of her predecessors but a strategy she says is paying dividends for the city.
As a new legislator in 2023, state Rep. Justin Sparks became the leading advocate for a proposal to create a child care facility serving employees of the St. Louis County Police Department. A few months after lawmakers approved spending $6 million from federal COVID relief funds to create the center, Sparks took a job with […]
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - The St. Louis County Council is set to consider a controversial proposal Tuesday night that could allow the council to remove County Executive Sam Page from his post. According to our partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the County Council is set to meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday night. The [...]
ST. LOUIS - A cold start this Tuesday, but clouds have lingered overnight so temperatures have not dropped as much as they might have. Still, the region will be down into the mid-teens by sunrise. Some clearing Tuesday, with highs in the low to mid 20s. Partly cloudy and colder overnight, wake-up temps Wednesday will [...]
The firm’s recent work on LaGuardia Airport and Salt Lake City International Airport will inform how St. Louis-based HOK will approach its designs at Lambert.
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