More than half the estimated $562 million bond issue proposed to build a new St. Louis County government center would go toward other building projects, including a $22 million renovation of the much-disputed leased county offices at the former Northwest Plaza.
An accused cop killer currently on trial in St. Louis endured years of childhood abuse at the hands of both parents, an upbringing that a forensic psychologist says ultimately led to the August 2020 psychotic episode in which Thomas Kinworthy killed St. Louis police officer Tamarris Bohannon. The prosecution and defense agree on the basic facts of the case. On August 29, 2020, Kinworthy was armed when he ran into a house on Hartford Street in Tower Grove South.
Looks like Mick Jagger is doing a little sightseeing ahead of The Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds tour kickoff in Houston. The rocker just shared photos on Instagram from his visit to…
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley’s new novel “Lucky” is set in St. Louis and reflects some of the author’s upbringing. The story follows Jodie Rattler, a folk musician who rises to fame through changing times. Smiley talks about why she set the book in her hometown and how the novel reflects her journey as a writer.
This is from a government record I randomly ran across today: “Document(s)” is used in the broadest sense of the word and shall mean all original written, printed, typed, recorded, or graphic matter whatsoever, however produced or reproduced, of every kind, nature, and description, and all non-identical copies of both sides thereof, including, but not ...continue reading "What is a document?"
Well, this ought to prompt another round of police-protecting legislation in Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed two bills into law — one that creates a 25-foot “no go” zone around police officers and one that strips police oversight boards of their independence. And that’s on top of the immediate effort made by the legislature […]
Ringo Starr’s new EP, Crooked Boy, has just been released to digital services. To mark the occasion he’s shared a video for one of the tracks, “Gonna Need Someone.”The video features Ringo…
Breckinridge Long wiggled his way into the upper strands of the State Department, and there he was able to carry out clearly what he was made for: to be responsible, through treachery and deception, for the deaths of tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of Jewish people who were trying to immigrate to the United States from countries under German and Italian control during World War II.
Prosecutors are walking back claims that a teenage driver had fentanyl and ketamine in her system when she crashed and killed three of her passengers last year in Lincoln County.
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