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What We Know About the Hazelwood Fight That Hospitalized Kaylee Gain

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2 years 5 months ago
Early last month, a video of a teen brutally beating 16-year-old Kaylee Gain and pounding her head against the pavement went viral, prompting nationwide outrage fueled by conservative social media accounts.  The video, shot near Hazelwood East High School, where Gain and her assailant are both students, appears to have been first widely circulated by the right-wing social media presence “Libs of TikTok” which is famous for its conspiracy theories and rage bait.  Now Gain’s assailant faces a hearing in juvenile court, police have referred eight others for possible charges in connection with the fight and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has launched an investigation into the school district.
Kallie Cox

Loop Trolley Driver's Ed Resumes Today as St. Louis Braces For Impact

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2 years 5 months ago
In news that all St. Louisans who care about the physical well-being of their vehicles and bodies desperately wish was just an April Fool's joke, the Loop Trolley has lurched to life again today to begin operator training for the 2024 season as a weary metro braces for impact. While we can all agree that training the poor fools doomed to pilot St. Louis' most whimsical parked-car-bashing machine is an excellent idea — something obviously needs to be done, after all — it's just a point of fact that this period of Trolley Driver's Ed will be among the most dangerous of them all for those unlucky enough to find themselves in the Loop in the coming weeks. "Training" does not equal "trained," it must be noted, and that's an important distinction when one is staring down an unstoppable force of destruction hurtling toward them at speeds approaching 18 miles per hour.
Daniel Hill