Endrina Bracho, who court records list as living in St. Charles, was driving in the wrong lane on Dunn Road at 75 miles per hour when her vehicle collided with a Jeep carrying another family.
Fontbonne becomes the latest in a string of small, liberal arts colleges to close their doors, as the pool of college students shrinks and public opinion regarding higher education shifts.
Law enforcement investigators and prosecutors have overwhelmingly embraced plenty of pseudoscience over the years, treating everything from bite marks to hair samples as conclusive evidence capable of singling out guilty parties. Most claims were specious, backed only by “expert” statements from law enforcement crime lab employees solely interested in confirming prevailing law enforcement theories. And […]
It's not a sign of a lavish lifestyle to have diapers and period products, but Missouri taxes those necessities at the same rate as jewelry and sports cars. The impact of that tax falls on the poorest families. St. Louis Diaper Bank executive director Muriel Smith discusses legislative efforts to lower the tax rate and how the Diaper Bank works with a coalition of partners across the state to help families and parents in need. We also get an update on efforts to combat period poverty.
Results from recent polling suggest that there’s enough political will to end the practice of switching between daylight saving time and standard time every spring and fall. But Americans remain divided on which schedule to stick with. Washington University biologist Erik Herzog believes that permanent standard time is more beneficial to human health. Alongside St. Louis University political scientist Steven Rogers, Herzog discusses the effects of the current system, the history of daylight saving time, and how the daylight saving time/standard time debate has the golf lobby and scientists at odds.
Students were dismissed early at Hazelwood East High School on Monday as police investigated multiple threats amid fallout from a viral video that showed a 15-year-old girl severely beating another girl near the school last week.
Monica Obradovic and Katie Kull St. Louis Post-Dispatch
It was recently announced that Sam Mendes would be directing four different Beatles biopics, one for each member of the group. Sean Ono Lennon has an interesting idea about who he’d…