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One week through MLB spring training games, there's only one team that has yet to hit a home run. That team? The St. Louis Cardinals.

The appliance retailer, formerly St. Louis-based Goedeker’s, said that despite working aggressively to raise capital and improve its liquidity position, the company could not obtain additional financing.

A south St. Louis church has been condemned, just days after police found a woman who claims she’d been kidnapped and later assaulted inside the building.

Matthew Mancini was sentenced Thursday to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to killing a man and then wrapping his body in plastic and hiding it inside the trunk of a vehicle.

Court documents allege James Lambert, 41, molested one of his victims at Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights.

Other Worlds - a juried art exhibit. See how local artists envision inhabitants, places and things from other worlds. The exhibit is free and will run from February 23 thru […]

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To You, I Go (2023) is Jessica Page’s visual love letter to St. Louis. Although St. Louis is rarely romanticized, Page aims to showcase the softest purest side of her […]

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A new U.K. poll finds that the majority of folks wish they could tickle the ivories just like Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.The U.K. Express reports that a poll of 2,000…

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From St. Louis Public Radio:  New recommendations for the empty north St. Louis jail known as the Workhouse include a memorial and using it as an industrial site. The report released Wednesday by the city-funded Re-envisioning the Workhouse Committee includes new uses for the building and surrounding 30 acres. Advocates took suggestions from nearly 2,500 residents of nearby […]

From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  The second amended final plan for the Prairie Encore project was approved at the Feb. 21 Dardenne Prairie Board of Aldermen meeting. This project has drawn varied interest, with residents expressing opposition at multiple board meetings and some city officials supporting the development, saying that it will generate revenue to benefit […]

Journalist Reed Dunlea was arrested while recording for his podcast, Scene Report, at a pro-Palestinian protest in New York City on Feb. 10, 2024. We sent a letter with the Committee to Protect Journalists urging authorities to drop the baseless charges against him. Stephanie Keith

Earlier this month, New York Police Department officers arrested journalist Reed Dunlea while he attempted to cover a pro-Palestenian protest for his podcast, “Scene Report.” Ultimately, Dunlea was only charged with resisting arrest, seemingly confirming that authorities could find nothing criminal about the newsgathering that led to his arrest in the first place.

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) and the Committee to Protect Journalists sent a letter to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez raising alarm about the arrest — during which officers violently tackled Dunlea, breaking his equipment.

“Detaining and charging a reporter in this manner is a direct assault on journalists’ First Amendment rights to gather the news,” the letter explains, adding that “arresting reporters is a crude form of censorship: it stops journalists from documenting current events, and protracted legal proceedings to dismiss baseless charges create financial and time pressures for reporters.”

As the letter notes, the NYPD recently agreed as part of a settlement of a lawsuit brought by five photojournalists that it would reform its treatment of journalists covering protests and ensure they’re not unnecessarily arrested or harassed for doing their jobs.

Although the settlement had not yet taken legal effect when Dunlea was arrested due to obstruction by a police union, Dunlea’s arrest certainly violates the spirit of the NYPD’s commitments.

We’ve previously written about the NYPD’s history of abysmal treatment of journalists covering protests. The number of incidents may have peaked during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, but that’s only because of the increase in civil unrest then, not because the department has changed its practices since.

Just over a month before Dunlea’s arrest, for instance, NYPD officers baselessly arrested another journalist attempting to cover a pro-Palestine protest – Roni Jacobson of the New York Daily News. Last year, they arrested prominent photojournalist Stephanie Keith while covering a vigil for Jordan Neely, who was killed on a New York subway.

Keith did nothing wrong, yet prosecutors only “deferred” the changes against her, rather than dismissing them outright — reserving the right to proceed with the case if Keith were arrested again during the six months that followed. As Keith told the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker, “I shouldn’t have to worry for the next six months if I’m going to be arrested again when I shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place.”

The letter to Gonzalez demands an outright dismissal of the charges against Dunlea because deferred prosecutions are themselves a threat to press freedom.

You can read the full letter objecting to Dunlea’s arrest below.

Editor’s note: The original version of the letter discussed in this article was erroneously addressed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg rather than Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. The letter and the references to Bragg in the original article have been corrected.

Arizona restaurateur Sam Fox's Flower Child, a healthy salad and wrap concept, is slated to open in Frontenac this summer.

One man's reign of voyeurism at the Moorlands apartments in Clayton is likely over. The Clayton Police Department confirms to the RFT that they arrested a person of interest relative to the numerous prowler incidents that have occurred over the last several years in the Clayton neighborhood.

Much like the phrase “smart technology,” the word “security” just doesn’t mean what it used to. Case in point: last September, owners of Wyze “smart home security cameras” were informed at the company’s forums that the company had “crossed some wires in the backend,” resulting in a glitch that allowed 2,300 users to see the […]

Thousands of students within the St. Louis Public School District were left without a way to and from school Wednesday after many bus drivers didn’t show up to work, following allegations of racism against their employer, Missouri Central Bus.

The first day of Elton John's much-hyped Goodbye Peachtree Road Christie's auction, which featured items from his home in Atlanta, Georgia, brought in $8 million. But that was only the first…

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