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Buc-ee’s will open its first Missouri location next month.

The copyright industry’s war on the Internet and its users has gone through various stages (full details and links to numerous references in Walled Culture the book, free digital versions available). The first was to sue Internet users directly for sharing files. By 2007, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had sued at least 30,000 […]

A St. Louis chain of thrift stores on Friday sued a City Foundry shop, alleging trademark infringement.

I still don't understand this: Business formation dropped a bit at the beginning of the pandemic, but by July 2020 it rebounded and hit a peak nearly twice its pre-pandemic rate. That subsided, but only slightly: from 2021 onward business formation has been running at a steady 50% above its pre-pandemic rate with no sign ...continue reading "Why are people starting so many new businesses?"

“I remember every day how thankful I am that I’m alive,” said St. Louis Police Officer, Lucas Roethlisberger, 39.

"You see one of the two perpetrators crawl through the office doors and kind of crawl on the floor. He actually knocks something down on the floor, picks it up, and replaces it," said Madi Orlando, Owner. 

Raymond Signorino, 55, is charged with four counts, including possession of police equipment and for having an unauthorized license plate. Those are both class-A misdemeanors.

The "You Paid For It" team has learned that the St. Louis County Council may be on the brink of approving the long-awaited $128 million for Bi-State, which has been held up for weeks.

Police say an attempted carjacking was stopped with a prayer.

Police are investigating a car crash that resulted in the victim having their vehicle stolen. The theft occurred Sunday at approximately 5:35 pm., just after nightfall.

They say that the city isn't ready for such an influx and that it could end up hurting the entire area.

Two teen suspects speed down South Rock Hill Road in a stolen vehicle after rear-ending the victim.

MDC reported that Franklin County was the top harvest county with 2,114 deer.

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. -- In Creve Coeur Lake Park on a Sunday morning, a hiker stumbled upon an abandoned bicycle, leading authorities to a grim find – skeletal remains located near the bike. The remains may be connected to a person who disappeared several months ago. Park patron Cindy Wunderlich expresses her sadness, calling it [...]

by Bianca Fortis

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In a stunning shift, Columbia University announced on Monday a sweeping series of changes to address the school’s failures to protect patients who were sexually assaulted by a Columbia doctor.

A ProPublica investigation, published in collaboration with New York Magazine, found that Columbia had failed to act on years of warnings as Robert Hadden, an OB-GYN, abused at least hundreds of patients during his 25-year career at the university. In 2012, administrators allowed Hadden to continue seeing patients even after he was arrested for assaulting a patient.

The story prompted waves of criticism toward Columbia. State Assembly members held a press conference on campus. A unanimous resolution by the university senate said that the Hadden revelations have “shaken our community to the core.”

In Monday’s announcement, the university said it would commit to an external investigation to examine systemic failures that allowed Hadden’s abuse to continue. It also said it would notify nearly 6,500 former Hadden patients about his crimes. Columbia will also open a $100 million survivors’ settlement fund for those who don’t want to go through the court system.

The university had long sought to distance itself from the scandal, placing blame solely on Hadden. Columbia had refused demands from survivors that the school notify all of Hadden’s patients. It hadn’t commissioned an external investigation and had aggressively fought lawsuits filed by survivors.

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Hadden was convicted in federal court of sex crimes in January, and he is now serving a 20-year prison sentence. More than 600 patients have so far come forward to allege abuse.

“Columbia failed these survivors, and for that we are deeply sorry,” President Minouche Shafik and Columbia University Irving Medical Center CEO Katrina Armstrong said in a statement on Monday.

Columbia’s announcement comes just ahead of a looming deadline for survivors to file suit against the university. The Adult Survivors Act, put into law in New York last year, opened a one-year lookback window, during which survivors can file civil suits against perpetrators of sexual abuse, or institutions that protected them, even if they are past the statute of limitations. The deadline closes on Nov. 23.

The university has previously settled civil suits with 226 patients for $236.5 million.

Marissa Hoechstetter, a former Hadden patient who pushed for the Adult Survivors Act, said she was glad Columbia finally acted.

“This is what we’ve been asking them to do,” Hoechstetter said. “This is good. But we need to continue to hold them accountable and see what comes of this and continue to support survivors.”

Still, Hoechstetter said, the $100 million figure will likely be too low. “We don’t yet know the full extent of his crimes,” she said.

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