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City officials have tabled a decision on whether to move forward with eminent domain on downtown's long-vacant Millennium Hotel.

The CDA will host two upcoming community engagement events focused on long-term flood recovery efforts.

A Jefferson County man is behind bars over a crime spree during which he allegedly beat up a woman, stole her car, broke into a home and threatened to harm three kids.

Republican Sudhir Rathod and Democrat Lequeshiah Young, both of Maryland Heights, are running for District 2, according to county candidate filings

Last year in September, we released a cross-post episode of Mike’s appearance on the DWeb Decoded podcast with Danny O’Brien. If you listened to that episode, you know that Mike and Danny go way back, and Danny played an important role in the founding of Techdirt. This week, we’ve got the inverse counterpart to that […]

Police on Tuesday identified the man who died Jan. 31 in a double shooting in the city's Near North Riverfront neighborhood.

Tarlton, St. Louis’ largest women-owned general contracting and construction management firm, welcomes Michael Ashwell as director of the company’s Special Projects Group – a specialized team that partners with clients in master service agreements to provide a host of solutions and delivery systems across diverse market sectors. Ashwell, who directs all aspects of the group’s […]

CREVE COEUR — Residents here are asking the Creve Coeur City Council to reject tax breaks for developers who say they need the incentives to build a mixed-use "Main Street" development on half of Bayer's former campus.

Emily A. Williams, retired president of Williams Tile & Marble, passed away on Saturday March 16, 2024 at the age of 81. Her husband, Bill Williams, started Williams Tile in 1976 with an office in the den and tile stocked in the garage. Not long after that Emily started assisting with accounting and various other […]

Turtles are becoming more active as winter is behind us now, which also leads to the animal crossing roads more frequently in the coming weeks.

"I'm Still Standing," a song Elton John first released back in 1983, has truly lived up to its title, as it joins Spotify's Billions club."Wonderful to see ‘I’m Still Standing’…

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The company said it's going to permanently close the Spring and Hall Street locations leaving 332 people without jobs.

Two men are in custody in connection with a homicide investigation in Velda City.

Breaking major news — as Tim Burke did when he uncovered an antisemitic rant by Ye, formerly Kanye West, on Tucker Carlson’s TV show — sure sounds a whole lot like journalism.

Photo courtesy of Tim Burke.

Tim Burke will be arraigned soon on troubling charges under federal computer hacking and wiretapping laws, based on his online newsgathering.

Burke is being prosecuted for finding and publicizing unaired footage of an antisemitic rant by Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, on Tucker Carlson’s TV show. That tirade, and Ye’s continuing antisemitism, have been national news ever since.

Breaking major news sure sounds a whole lot like journalism. That’s why more than 50 rights organizations and broadcasters sounded the alarm over Burke’s Computer Fraud and Abuse Act case in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland last year.

But not everyone agrees. Certainly not at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Writing in Slate, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Advocacy Director Seth Stern raises concerns that DOJ prosecutors may have labeled Burke as a “former” journalist in court filings to avoid judicial scrutiny of whether their investigation complied with the First Amendment, federal law, and their own policies.

Stern writes:

Reporters are sure to self-censor if they can’t be sure what kinds of journalists and what kinds of journalism the DOJ believes the First Amendment protects. The same way the Espionage Act charges against Julian Assange chill national security reporting, the CFAA charges against Burke chill digital journalism.

Read the entire Slate column here.

Unfortunately, the Tampa Bay Times also refers to Burke as a “former journalist” in its reporting. Last week, its editor Mark Katches attempted to explain the Times’ thinking. In a guest column in the Times, Stern and Florida First Amendment Foundation Executive Director Bobby Block respond.

Stern and Block write that Burke easily satisfies a “functional definition of who is a journalist” — based on whether the person was performing an act of journalism — when he broke the story of Ye’s edited interview on Carlson’s show.

Further, Stern and Block explain:

Press freedom is under attack, especially in Florida, and ambiguous computer crime laws like those Burke is charged under are a dangerous weapon in prosecutors’ arsenals. Katches may think he’s helping preserve the integrity of his profession but, instead, his column handed a gift to those seeking to criminalize newsgathering while the media is most vulnerable.

Read the full Tampa Bay Times guest column here.

The Rwanda government official met Monday with St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones and on a conference call, she and Mayor Samuel Dusengiyumva of Kigali, Rwanda, expressed their “mutual interest” to establish a sister-city relationship.

A St. Louis firm says that a software provider for waste management operations owes it more than $14 million.