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CBS Ratings Continue Nosedive Under Bari Weiss

1 month 4 weeks ago
When right wing billionaire Larry Ellison hired trolling blogger Bari Weiss to run CBS News, Weiss arrived with the promise of “balanced, fact-based news,” “independent, principled journalism,” and a unique “entrepreneurial drive and editorial vision” that would completely modernize the network and reach the “everyday Americans” she claimed were being “ignored by mainstream media.” In […]
Karl Bode

Six juveniles detained during Pride weekend in St. Louis

1 month 4 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS - Six juveniles were taken into custody for curfew violations during Pride weekend in the Grove. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD), two juveniles were initially detained in the Grove, including a 16-year-old who had a gun. Four other juveniles were later taken into custody and found with tools intended [...]
Nick Gladney

Wak’a Garden

1 month 4 weeks ago

Begin Again: Wak'a Garden is the second installment in Laumeier’s Begin Again series, honoring the Park’s 50-year history of collaborating with artists and supporting new commissions and exhibitions. The organic, amphitheater-shaped sculpture, built […]

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Myranda Levins

Sen. Schmitt to discuss F-47s, military aviation future at Boeing

1 month 4 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS - Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt is set to discuss the future of military aviation during a news conference Monday at Boeing. Schmitt is scheduled to speak after Boeing was selected earlier this year to build the F-47. The plane is part of the Next Generation Air Dominance program and is expected to replace [...]
Nick Gladney

Man struck, killed in hit-and-run crash on I-270 Sunday night

1 month 4 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - Police are investigating after a man was struck and killed in a hit-and-run crash Sunday night on Interstate 270. According to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP), the crash occurred at 11 p.m. on northbound I-270 at Highway 370. It involved an unknown silver Volvo vehicle. [...]
Nick Gladney

Missouri budget earmarks face scrutiny as Gov. Mike Kehoe’s deadline nears

1 month 4 weeks ago
Gov. Mike Kehoe’s decisions on the $50.7 billion Missouri budget for the coming year are due by Tuesday. The budget for the fiscal year that begins Wednesday arrived on Kehoe’s desk in May with a deficit of more than $2 billion between general revenue and appropriations, covered by the last big draw on the general […]
Rudi Keller

What Amendment 5 ad gets wrong about Missouri data centers

1 month 4 weeks ago
There’s a television ad making the rounds for Amendment 5, and it would like you to be angry at a hum. “That hum is the sound of big tech making money from online gambling, from porn,” a narrator says over footage of server racks. Data centers, the ad goes on, are “money machines making millions […]
Jason Hancock

Older Missourians who are homeless for the first time point to weaknesses in support systems

1 month 4 weeks ago
When outreach workers with CoMo Mobile Aid surveyed people experiencing homelessness in Columbia, Missouri, earlier this year, one finding stood out — many were older Missourians experiencing homelessness for the first time. The survey, conducted by CoMo Mobile Aid and a research team at the University of Missouri, found that 59% of those surveyed were […]
Meg Cunningham

Big heat, humidity dominates as we roll towards the holiday weekend

1 month 4 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS - Mother Nature has cranked up the heat after cutting down on the rain and storms. It will be a very hot and humid week. While high temperatures won’t reach records, they will be in the upper 90s through at least Thursday. Dew points in the mid-70s range mean high humidity, and that [...]
Angela Hutti

1 dead, 1 injured in overnight shooting in north St. Louis

1 month 4 weeks ago
ST. LOUIS - One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting early Monday in north St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the shooting occurred shortly before 2 a.m. in the 4700 block of Wren Avenue in the city's Walnut Park East neighborhood. This is a developing story; FOX [...]
Nick Gladney