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The deadly shooting happened at about 9:30 p.m. Sunday on Bond Avenue.

Now that subscriber growth has slowed, streaming TV giants have taken the predictable turn of making their services shittier and more expensive to deliver Wall Street (impossibly) unlimited quarterly revenue growth. That means higher prices, annoying new surcharges, greater restrictions, more layoffs, more cut corners, worse customer service, more limited catalogs, lower quality engagement-bait content, and […]

Sarah Hannah, the former managing partner of a national consultancy premised on people-focused management, has joined Guarantee Electrical Company (GECO), a 100% employee-owned organization, as its first-ever Chief People Officer. Hannah will spearhead GECO’s comprehensive people strategy and talent development initiatives while strengthening the company’s distinctive employee-ownership culture. Hannah brings more than two decades of […]

A longtime state employee is accusing Missouri officials in a new lawsuit of subverting competitive bidding laws in order to steer lucrative technology contracts to a well-connected company, then demoting him when he raised red flags. In a lawsuit filed earlier this month in Cole County against the Missouri Office of Administration, Rodney Rice alleges “deliberate bias” toward St. Louis-based World Wide Technology in awarding state IT contracts. World Wide Technology, which is not named as…

The California company shirked its duties to have adequate cash and left customers without millions of dollars they were due, regulators say.

Century Coffee Co., the coffee shop located inside City Foundry in Midtown, will close later this month.

After a celebrated career as a St. Louis sportscaster, Brian McKenna has died at the age of 61. St. Louis police said McKenna was found Saturday morning at about 1 a.m., after officers responded to a call for a person struck by a car at Hampton Avenue and Nottingham Avenue. Police said paramedics pronounced McKenna dead at the scene. Officers said the driver remained on scene and is cooperating with the investigation. The driver was not injured. "Nobody wants it to be real," long-time friend Jeff…

From St. Louis Review:  St. Alphonsus Liguori “Rock” Church Parish has received a $500,000 grant to go toward preserving the church’s 120-plus-year-old stained-glass windows. The parish was one of 30 Black churches across the country — and the only Catholic church — to receive a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation through its […]

Police are searching for a man who fled from police in a pickup truck in Granite City and then fired shots in North St. Louis before bailing out and running away.

A longtime state employee is accusing Missouri officials in a new lawsuit of subverting competitive bidding laws in order to steer lucrative technology contracts to a well-connected company, then demoting him when he raised red flags.  In a lawsuit filed earlier this month in Cole County against the Missouri Office of Administration, Rodney Rice alleges […]

The city can only afford repairs to a few streets a year, officials said.

The Missouri House Budget Committee on Monday will debate a spending plan that eliminates one of Gov. Mike Kehoe’s major initiatives, adds dozens of new earmarked projects and dips into state general revenue reserves for about $1 billion. The annual markup session, where committee members seek changes in the revised budget unveiled March 12 by […]

The second half of the 2025 Missouri Legislative session begins today: STLPR's Sarah Kellogg has a preview of what lawmakers in Jefferson City hope to accomplish in the upcoming weeks.

From Edwardsville Intelligencer:  Construction on the state-of-the-art health science complex on the campus of SIUE has continued since the groundbreaking on Sept. 7, 2023. The health science complex will be the future home of SIUE’s School of Pharmacy and School of Nursing. In total, the complex will be 215,000 square feet. The School of Pharmacy […]

Historically, there has been the proverbial argument about whether the United States is a democracy or republic. The answer is the United States is both. But that question pales in comparison to the one looming over Americans today. Will America remain a democracy, a democratic republic? You might become indignant at the very question. Given […]

ST. LOUIS - We saw some much-needed rainfall late Saturday and early Sunday that will help with the area fire danger. We’ll also get a little break from the wind on Monday. Sunshine to start Monday with increasing clouds through the day with highs in the low 60s. Some spots of light rain will be [...]

The Mozilla Foundation says 30 companies should block web scrapers from ShadowDragon, an ICE contractor.