Brushing scams have been on Contact 2’s radar since 2018. That’s when we met a Chesterfield man who said he’d received more than two dozen items randomly shipped to his family’s home. We found it was happening to folks across the country.
From Multifamily Dive: Lakewood, New Jersey-based real estate syndicator Silverstone Management is suing the companies responsible for building and developing Bold on Blvd, a 272-unit apartment property in St. Peters, Missouri, for allegedly misrepresenting the condition of the property in a $70 million sale to Silverstone in 2022, according to court documents. The suit, filed […]
The Danforth Center has launched a joint program with an ag-biotech manufacturer to develop ways to accelerate and improve production of a beneficial fungi to drive more sustainable agricultural production.
The perennial attempts to widen the reach of copyright in the pursuit of yet more revenue is something that is to be expected from companies. After all, maximizing profits is basically what companies do. But as previous Walled Culture posts have lamented, there is also a widespread tendency among non-profit cultural institutions – museums, art […]
Donovan M. Baucom, 28, appeared in handcuffs and entered pleas of not guilty to charges of first-degree murder, armed criminal action, assault and unlawful use of a weapon.
Christopher Scott Pritchard, 48, pleaded guilty in federal court to two charges for setting ablaze The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Cape Girardeau on April 28, 2021.
Elijah Graham, 21, was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, two counts of armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. He was in custody Thursday without bond.
The Jackson County Circuit Court judge awarded Benton’s heirs $35,000 on Dec. 13, just a fraction of the $85 million that the family sought in a 2019 lawsuit.
ALTON - An Alton resident facing his fifth case of domestic battery has also been charged with reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident. Larry D. Greer Jr., 29, of Alton, was charged with his fifth offense of domestic battery and aggravated domestic battery (both Class 2 felonies). He was also charged with reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident, both Class A misdemeanors. On Sept. 14, 2024, Greer allegedly struck a household or family member with a closed fist, bit them, grabbed them by the neck, and restricted their breathing. Greer had been convicted of domestic battery on four or more prior occasions, each in Madison County. The first such case was filed on April 12, 2017, with two cases filed in March of 2020 and another filed in February of 2022. In this latest case, Greer was also accused of driving in a reckless manner by “weaving and swerving on the road and repeatedly slamming on the brakes” near the intersection of Belle and
From St. Louis Business Journal: by Les Sterman, former director of the East-West Gateway Council of Governments The proposed extension of the MetroLink light rail system known as the Green Line has been described as affordable for the city of St. Louis, transformational for the surrounding neighborhoods and providing economic benefits vastly outweighing its costs. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) led colleagues in urging Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to provide guidance to states on expanding coverage for fertility services, including in vitro fertilization (IVF), through their benchmark plans before the end of 2024. In the Senators’ letter, Duckworth and Booker also emphasized the importance of making fertility treatments more accessible and affordable in response to the challenges posed by legal restrictions following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, particularly in states like Alabama, where legal challenges to IVF access have emerged. “Despite significant advances in the medical treatment of infertility, such as IVF, access to and affordability of this care is severely lacking in the U.S. Costs for a single cycle of IVF have recently been estimated to range from $15,000 to $20,000 on average and can exceed $30,000. Unfortunately,
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