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St. Louis County Police Probe Fatal Motor Vehicle Crash With Motorcycle

2 years 3 months ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY - St. Louis County Police Department Crimes Against Persons detectives and the Accident Reconstruction Unit are investigating a fatal motor vehicle crash involving a motorcycle in the area of North Warson Road and Warshire Drive that resulted in the death of an adult male. At 9:00 PM on July 30, 2023, St. Louis County police officers from the Central County Precinct responded to a call for service for a motor vehicle crash involving a motorcycle at N. Warson Road and Warshire Drive. Arriving officers located a motorcycle involved in a crash with a GMC Acadia. Preliminary investigation has revealed that the motorcycle was traveling southbound on N. Warson Road. At the same time, a GMC Acadia was turning northbound onto N. Warson Road from Warshire Road, when the motorcycle struck the front driver’s side of the GMC Acadia. The driver of the motorcycle was transported to an area hospital for life saving treatment but succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced

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Durbin, Duckworth, Bush, Budzinski Applaud More Than $28 Million In Relief For Metrolink

2 years 3 months ago
EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), along with U.S. Representatives Cori Bush (D-MO-01) and Nikki Budzinski (D-IL-13), today joined U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg to announce $28 million in U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) federal funding for MetroLink, the transit system servicing St. Louis and the Metro-East. The federal funding, supplied through Federal Transit Administration (FTA) emergency relief funding, will go toward repairing the MetroLink public transit system following the severe flooding in July 2022 that caused two fatalities and damaged the transit system by destroying rail vehicles, two station elevators, and a signal house. The extreme flooding also damaged five miles of light rail track bed and communications, signal, and fiber optics systems housed in two communications rooms and four signal houses. “Last summer, the Metro-East tragically experienced severe

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Worker Wellness Blog: Recovery Friendly Workplaces

2 years 3 months ago
by Dr. John Gaal Editor’s Note: Each week, Dr. John Gaal, director of worker wellness for the Missouri Works Initiative, a non-profit workforce formed by the Missouri AFL-CIO, collects and comments on news and trends in workforce wellness and life balance. Construction Forum will be carrying the Worker Wellness & Well-Being Blog as a regular […]
Tom Finan

Privacy Lawsuit Against Post-Dispatch Owner Will Proceed

2 years 3 months ago
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging an Iowa newspaper publisher violated customers’ privacy rights through information sharing with Facebook. The Iowa-based newspaper chain Lee Enterprises, owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is facing a potential class-action lawsuit alleging it has shared readers’ personal information, including the videos they watch on Lee websites, with Facebook in violation of federal law.
Clark Kauffman

St. Charles County Council tables massive subdivision development off Highway DD

2 years 3 months ago
On Monday evening, the St. Charles County Council made the decision to table a massive project. It's a proposed subdivision off Highway DD that's caused some conflict. The developer KM Investment Group IV proposed a plan to build a subdivision, called Tall Tree, in unincorporated St. Charles County, initially proposing 556 houses on a 356-acre site. KM later reduced its proposal to 452 homes across 298 acres. The homes closest together will be near Frontier Middle School and get farther apart…
Justina Coronel