Nine months before the City of St. Louis took legal action against Dara Daugherty and her associates' wide-ranging "illegal rooming house" scheme, attorney Ryan Gavin took Daugherty to court with similar allegations — and won a $1.8 million judgment against her. Gavin filed the lawsuit against Daugherty and one of her LLCs in April of 2023 on behalf of James Cole, who had rented a room from Daugherty in the Benton Park West neighborhood.
The detective met the two men in a parking lot and used an odometer reader, which returned a reading of "N/A", which means it has been tampered with, investigators said.
A Missouri man investigating his son’s death filed a lawsuit this week against a Louisiana district attorney who’s demanding more than $18,000 for copies of investigation records related to the case. Since his son’s death nearly seven years ago, Bob Arthur has pursued justice with little to no help from police or prosecutors. He has […]
Local artist Gavin Kroeber has won a 2024 Creative Capital Award in Film and Visual Arts and Moving Image. Kroeber, a lecturer in architecture and in art history and archeology at Washington University, will receive up to $50,000 in unrestricted funds to create new works of art.
It was a random Saturday in mid-December 2023 when Jason and Nicole Thompson casually decided to embark on their lifelong dream. They had welcomed a small group of friends to their brand-new Midtown brewery the night before to celebrate obtaining their liquor license, the last legal formality on their checklist, and the private party had gone well.
WASHINGTON — Top U.S. Senate negotiators said Thursday that final details on an immigration policy deal remain under debate in the U.S. Senate, despite outside pressure from GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump to sink any agreement as he makes immigration his central campaign message. The No. 2 Senate Republican and GOP whip, Sen. John Thune, […]
Girls Inc. of St. Louis, under the leadership of President and CEO Cheryl Jones, was named the national organizations’ Outstanding Affiliate of the Year in the large budget category in 2020.
When I heard about the new movie Miller’s Girl, my initial reaction was, We’re still making these? The story of a clever, cunning, desirable teenage girl wrapping a middle-aged man around her little finger and sending him down a life-destroying path was a major plot in the 1990s: Poison Ivy, The Crush, Wild Things.
It's the coldest day of the winter, with temperatures plunging well below zero, as I talk on the phone with violinist Molly Healey, who is feeling under all that weather. "I got the flu or crud or something," Healey tells me from her home base of Springfield, Missouri, on a good day to hunker down.
Do you have a fear of being one of those people who wanders off trail for about five feet, gets totally discombobulated and can't find their way back? A tense scene unfolds as various rescue agencies get called and begin combing the woods, maybe eventually finding you — or maybe not.
Saturday, January 27, will mark 10 years since Billy Joel launched his unprecedented residency at New York’s Madison Square Garden. The residency had Joel packing the house for one show a month,…
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