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City officials said Friday that they have cleared out and boarded up the former Lutheran School of Nursing, which has sat vacant since the school shuttered almost two years ago.

Two children where shot while inside a home Thursday evening in East St. Louis.

Agencies under the Department of Public Safety came together for a joint enforcement operation to secure the privately owned facility

CHESTERFIELD, Mo--The Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House in Faust Park hosted a cicada cooking class today with the "Bug Chef," who cooked up two popular shrimp-based dishes, but instead with cicadas.

This week on our live show, Ryan Cooper and Jamelle Bouie discuss what’s wrong with the Supreme Court.

The St. Charles County Police Department said Highway 94 is shut down about a mile north and half a mile south of the plant, which is located at 1635 S Missouri 94.

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The National Weather Service announced the outage on Thursday due to a "telecommunication issue."

HAZMAT crews are responding to the release of dangerous gas at a water treatment plant Friday afternoon in St. Charles County.

ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) tends to treat the Constitution as some ticky-tack policy its officers can safely ignore. That’s not to say ICE believes the Constitution does not exist. It probably at least realizes it exists. After all, it’s a US federal agency. What it firmly believes is that the Constitution provides no protection […]

A baseless lawsuit by Elon Musk's X and other frivolous legal actions that followed led to a round of recent layoffs at Media Matters. "Elon Musk" by dmoberhaus is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

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Media Matters for America announced yesterday that it’s laying off at least a dozen staffers. Its president blamed a “legal assault on multiple fronts,” including a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X and the legal actions by Republican state attorneys general that followed.

“This is the latest example of billionaires and pandering politicians abusing the legal system to retaliate against their critics and harm the public’s right to know. The result is that the American public loses access to information in a critical election year,” said Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Director of Advocacy Seth Stern.

This isn’t a partisan issue. While this time it’s a right-leaning billionaire going after a left-leaning organization, the shoe could easily be on the other foot next time

“States that don’t have laws in place to combat strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPPs, should pass them. Those that do should strengthen them. And Congress needs to pass a strong anti-SLAPP bill at the federal level right away,” Stern added. “This isn’t a partisan issue. While this time it’s a right-leaning billionaire going after a left-leaning organization, the shoe could easily be on the other foot next time.”

Anti-SLAPP laws — which allow for lawsuits that retaliate against speech to be disposed of in their early stages and for defendants to recover attorney’s fees — have been useful in defending against other frivolous lawsuits driven by Musk. But filing the Media Matters lawsuit in a federal court in Texas allowed Musk to avoid an anti-SLAPP motion.

X’s lawsuit alleges Media Matters disparaged it by reporting that it placed advertisements next to antisemitic and white nationalist content. The social media platform claims that Media Matters manipulated its algorithm — for example, by following accounts likely to generate problematic ad placements. But there’s no dispute that X did display the ads as reported, leading commentators to call the lawsuit “gloriously stupid.”

The same goes for the probes and lawsuits by the attorneys general, which hinge on convoluted theories that Media Matters violated consumer protection laws. One of them — brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — has been preliminarily enjoined from proceeding due to its chilling effect on Media Matters’ constitutionally protected activities.

He was found safe, police said Friday.

The Memorial Day weekend starts with some severe weather threats in the St. Louis region.

The city of St. Louis said Friday that it's cleared and secured the former hospital once known as St. Alexius.

Former Missouri U.S. Senator John Danforth and two other prominent Republicans recently wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post announcing a new group that seeks to move the Republican Party away from Donald Trump: Our Republican Legacy. Danforth represented Missouri in the Senate from 1976-1995. STLPR politics correspondent Jason Rosenbaum spoke with Danforth.

Israel seized equipment from the Associated Press this week, shutting down its Gaza video feed, based on claims that it provided images to Al Jazeera. The equipment was later returned. "Press gather outside SDNY on the eve of Trump's indictment" by SWinxy is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Director of Advocacy Seth Stern wrote for The Hill about why Israel’s recent seizure of equipment from the Associated Press previews what might soon be coming to the U.S.

"Fortunately, Israel quickly reversed course after pressure from the U.S. and press organizations. But the ordeal should serve as a cautionary tale for President Biden and U.S. lawmakers and prosecutors. They keep empowering future administrations to harass the media — apparently trusting them, against all historical evidence, to use restraint."

You can read the op-ed here.