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A sense of desperation to stop extreme youth violence in St. Louis is felt after a 14-year-old boy is dead and a 15-year-old girl is in critical condition within the span of a week.

Neicey Smith sat on her front porch Wednesday night, wondering what her community could do to prevent another tragedy.

The massive lawsuit is part of an effort to change the way preemies are fed in NICUs nationwide.

“The Dallas Morning News dispenser” by Bonita la Banane is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

We’ve explained before that the PRESS Act — the federal shield bill that passed the House this year — is the most important First Amendment legislation in modern history. 

It’s currently pending in the Senate Judiciary Committee, which includes both senators representing Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Advocacy Director Seth Stern joined First Amendment lawyer Gene Schaerr of Protect The 1st to write an op-ed for The Dallas Morning News about why Cornyn and Cruz should help get the PRESS Act across the finish line. The PRESS Act, Stern and Schaerr explain: 

should appeal to Cruz, who spoke out against CBS retaining [journalist Catherine] Herridge’s files, including her confidential source communications. Given that Cruz objects to a private employer like CBS potentially snooping on journalists, it seems like a no-brainer that he should object even more vehemently to federal agencies and judges doing so.

It should also be a no-brainer for Cornyn, who harshly (and rightly) criticized President Barack Obama’s Justice Department for obtaining reporters’ phone records. Now, he can help outlaw those same anti-press antics for good.

Read the full op-ed here.

Ahead of the restaurant’s opening, owner Josh Smith is already thinking about the concept’s scalability and said he has “planted the seeds” for a second location.

The festival will be open Wednesdays and Sundays from March 13-May 5 between 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Thompson worked four innings without allowing a hit on Wednesday in what turned out to be a 1-1 tie against the Twins in Fort Myers.

The Townsendx3 Agency presents Thomas Paden live in concert at City Winery on Wednesday, March 13th at 7:30 PM

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The first-ever Animals Aglow lantern festival will bring a dazzling spectacle of lights to the Saint Louis Zoo. More than 60 larger-than-life Chinese lanterns, along with interactive light displays in […]

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Fontbonne University leaders announced earlier this week that the school would close in 2025. Fontbonne President Nancy Blattner talks about why, and we talk with other guests who discuss the state of colleges and universities throughout St. Louis — and across the country.

Roeslein & Associates Inc., one of St. Louis' largest engineering firms and one of the region's largest privately held companies, has made two changes in its C-suite.

"We will not know the extent of the brain damage that has occurred until she wakes up," one of the GoFundMe pages set up to help the family said.

A new St. Louis Art Museum exhibit (opening March 15) is highlighting the museum’s world-class collection of German Expressionism paintings. It's not just the paintings in focus, but the process of conservation, and the scientific analyses that have uncovered hidden layers, doodles, and even full paintings unknown until now. The exhibit’s two curators Courtney Books, associate paintings conservator, and Melissa Venator, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator of Modern Art, discuss the exhibit, and how German Expressionism found a home in St. Louis after World War II.

Adult women who left marriages they entered as minors are calling on Missouri lawmakers to outlaw child marriage.

Oregon has officially become the seventh state (behind New York, California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Maine, and Minnesota) to pass “right to repair” legislation, making it easier and more affordable for consumers to independently repair their own electronics. The bill, which passed the Oregon Senate last month 25-5 and the House on Monday 42-13, is a bit […]