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Borrowers weigh personal, professional options as student loan payments resume

2 years 5 months ago

Justin Brown, a father of a 2-year-old who lives with his wife in the St. Louis area, has $20,000 in student loan debt. Before the pause on loan payments at the start of the pandemic in 2020, he paid $300 a month. But now that Brown has a family, his financial responsibilities have grown — […]

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Casey Quinlan

St. Louisan's Kickstarter Launches Rampz, a Yard Game Console

2 years 5 months ago
Andrew Pizzullo never thought he’d create a yard game. And yet, today, Pizzullo is  launching a Kickstarter campaign for his new product, Rampz, which combines fan favorites cornhole, beer pong and Skee-Ball into an exciting addition to your lawn game repertoire. 
Peter Cohen

Deputy Shot Missouri Family’s Dog and Threw It in a Ditch

2 years 5 months ago
A Missouri family is suing the Stoddard County sheriff and two of his deputies, claiming they killed a family dog in a "wholly unjustified," "senseless" and illegal manner. "It's absolutely unconscionable," says attorney Russ Oliver, who represents the Penningtons, a family living outside Dexter, Missouri, that until this August included 9-year-old dog Parker.
Ryan Krull

How Bad St. Louis Cops Get Hired — Even After Screwing Up

2 years 5 months ago
In the summer of 2022, 33-year-old Marcellis Blackwell graduated from the police academy at Lincoln University to more public fanfare than the average police cadet. Blackwell was a part of the fourth class at the Missouri state university's police academy, the first of its kind at a historically Black university.
Ryan Krull

Missouri rolls back part of its cannabis product recall

2 years 5 months ago
The state rolled back its recall of nearly 15,000 cannabis products last week and allowed them to return to the dispensary shelves, after requiring Missouri companies to keep them in storage since early August. The Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation said in an Oct. 20 notice that after a review of product-tracking records, regulators can verify that “some of the marijuana products on recall contain THC solely sourced from marijuana grown in the Missouri regulated market.” The future of…
Rebecca Rivas