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Ladue Horton Watkins High School shut down due to bomb threat

1 year 3 months ago
LADUE, Mo. - The Ladue School District announced that Ladue Horton Watkins High School will be shut down Tuesday. The district announced the closure through an email sent Tuesday morning after a bomb threat was received against the high school. In the email, the district says police and the school's resource officers are currently investigating [...]
Nick Gladney

Voters’ ‘moral flexibility’ helps them defend politicians’ misinformation

1 year 3 months ago
Many voters are willing to accept misinformation from political leaders – even when they know it’s factually inaccurate. According to our research, voters often recognize when their parties’ claims are not based on objective evidence. Yet they still respond positively, if they believe these inaccurate statements evoke a deeper, more important “truth.” Our team conducted a […]
Minjae Kim

Lawmakers demand audit over Hazelwood center mail delays

1 year 3 months ago
HAZELWOOD, Mo. - Concerns over delayed mail deliveries in eastern Missouri have prompted several lawmakers to take action. Potential consequences include impacts on daily deliveries to election ballots. Four Republican members of Congress, all representing parts of Missouri, are demanding an audit of the Hazelwood Mail Sorting and Distribution Center. Representatives Ann Wagner, Jason Smith, [...]
Laura Simon

Tuesday, September 17 - MO's laws on IVF

1 year 3 months ago
IVF patients in Missouri fear a state law that says life begins at conception could put the procedure at risk. But a local attorney says laws protect the procedure, for now. St. Louis Public Radio’s Sarah Fentem speaks to fertility lawyer Tim Schlesinger.

Boeing West Coast strike may affect thousands in St. Louis

1 year 3 months ago
HAZELWOOD, Mo. - Although they are thousands of miles away from the Midwest, Boeing workers striking on the west coast could impact more than 15,000 St. Louis Boeing employees. Boeing workers are striking after a memo from Boeing's Chief Financial Officer, Brian West, lays out 10 immediate cutbacks, saying Boeing's business is in a difficult [...]
Chris Regnier

Dry and warm week ahead, Cooler early next week

1 year 3 months ago
ST. LOUIS - What’s left of Francine has fallen apart. Now, St. Louis sits in between a drifting area of low pressure over the Carolinas and some upper-level energy out across the Plains. Dry weather is expected Tuesday through Thursday with warm temperatures. Out the door, morning temperatures will be in the 60s and highs [...]
Angela Hutti

A Ponzi Scheme of Promises

1 year 3 months ago
Five years after the Business Roundtable ‘redefined’ the purpose of the corporation, has anything changed?
Adam M. Lowenstein