A campaign to ask voters in Missouri to approve sports wagering says it has collected more than 300,000 signatures from residents, well above the threshold needed to place its initiative petition on the November ballot.
Two companies have agreed to pay $5 million to the parents of a woman killed outside a Ballwin urgent care by a driver who huffed inhalants before the crash.
Key members of Congress announced an agreement Monday on a $105 billion bill to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration for five years ahead of a May 10 deadline.
The 1,000-page bill would raise hiring targets for air traffic control and would codify in law a rule the Biden administration introduced this month requiring airlines to offer refunds for canceled or significantly delayed flights, among other consumer-focused provisions.
The legislation also would add flights to Ronald Reagan…
A federal jury has convicted two St. Louis attorneys and a North Carolina insurance agent of conspiring to defraud the U.S. government of about $4 million total by operating a fraudulent tax shelter.
Epic tales span generations, connecting historic events to contemporary perspectives and building a bridge of understanding. Such is the case with The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez. The play in two parts features gay men reconciling their lives and history — what was lost and gained — in the post AIDS-crisis era.
It’s been a long two years since the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Between May 2022 when the Supreme Court accidentally leaked the draft memo and the following June when the case was decided, there was a mad scramble to figure out what the impacts would be. Besides the obvious perils of stripping away half the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump was held in contempt of court Tuesday and fined $9,000 for repeatedly violating a gag order that barred him from making public statements about witnesses, jurors and some others connected to his New York hush money case. And if he does it again, the judge warned, he could be [...]
MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, JAKE OFFENHARTZ and COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press
Shocking news in the LA Times today: A monthly payment of $750 to $1,000 would allow thousands of the city’s homeless people to find informal housing, living in boarding homes, in shared apartments and with family and friends, according to a policy brief by four prominent Los Angeles academics. No kidding. In the policy brief ...continue reading "Giving poor people money helps them find homes"
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Crews have begun to install drywall. Tile in some of the apartment bathrooms has been laid. And the historic plaster adorning hallways is under restoration. Jefferson Arms, the 14-story, 120-year-old historic hotel near Tucker Boulevard and Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis, is slated to open next April with over 400 […]
By lowering logistical and financial barriers, St. Louis is poised to become a melting pot for innovation in a key growth category in which the region is quickly becoming a leader, writes Keith Masback.
The plaintiffs, whose lawsuits reference one another, each said in interviews that the city administration is mostly white and discriminatory against Black women employees.
From ENR: At the site of a former coal mine in Jefferson County, Ohio, the Friendship Highwall Reclamation Project eliminated more than 9,000 linear ft of dangerous exposed cliffs and transformed the area into parkland, native wetlands, forest and prairie, with a a funding award from a U.S. Dept. of the Interior program several years […]
Manner Polymers is expanding its PVC production capabilities with a new solar powered manufacturing plant in Mount Vernon, Ill. Edwardsville, Ill.-based Contegra Construction is constructing the new 100,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility and is targeting completion in November of 2024. The plant is scheduled to be fully operational by fall of 2025 and will manufacture flexible […]
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