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“Today’s ruling allows for determinations on pre-trial detention to be made on a person’s risk of harm versus their ability to access cash,” said Kimberly Foxx.

From St. Louis/Southern Illinois Labor Tribune:  Richard Boyd, Sr., a proud Laborers Local 110 member for two decades, has received an honorary membership card for his son Richard Boyd, Jr., who was planning to join the union, but was killed in a tragic accident Feb 26. Boyd, Jr., who was planning to follow in his […]

One of the greatest and most powerful musicals of our time, West Side Story is loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a love story that has endured the test

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From St. Louis Public Radio:  What do the new basketball courts coming to Forest Park and Tower Grove Park have in common with the St. Louis Zoo, Art Hill and Webster Groves Sculpture Garden? They are all designed by landscape architect Ted Spaid and his team at SWT Design. Though the new hoops are attracting […]

The suspect was airlifted to a hospital with a gunshot wound.

From St. Louis Public Radio:  For kids like Sandy Mitchell, Ted Theis and Janet Johnson, childhood in the north St. Louis County suburbs in the 1960s and ‘70s meant days playing along the banks or splashing in the knee-deep waters of Coldwater Creek. They caught turtles and tadpoles, jumped into deep stretches of the creek […]

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's last act was to petition the court to set aside the conviction of Christopher Dunn, citing evidence of innocence.

From Construction Dive:  Massive heat waves have hit large swaths of the U.S. this summer, breaking records for high temperatures across the country. And it’s about to get worse. About 21% of U.S. residents live in areas where heat levels could become dangerously high this week, according to the New York Times heat tracker. For […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  A special Illinois task force on warehouse safety met for the first time Tuesday, taking testimony from a local fire chief and the family of one of the six people killed when a tornado struck an Amazon facility here more than a year-and-a-half ago. The testimony could influence how safety standards […]

Stop in every Tuesday from 7:30 to 9:30 for Trivia Night with Mack and Mace at Steve’s Hot Dogs. Stop at the table to sign up. Come back every week,

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From St. Louis Public Radio:  Supporters of Sk8 Liborius, the north St. Louis skate park that transformed a former church into a gathering place for young people, are nearly finished cleaning up after a four-alarm fire tore through the building last week. As many as 200 people have turned up in recent days to help […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  A $41 billion infrastructure program, the largest in Illinois’ history, was unveiled Friday aimed at fixing bridges and roads, including many in the Metro East. In the Metro East, the projects include: Calhoun County: $245 million to replace the Joe Page Bridge and 1.6 miles of pavement replacement at Hardin. […]

The amendment is in response to the Republican-led state's near-total ban on abortion following the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade last summer.

The University City Summer Band is a concert band with the thrilling sound of scores of woodwinds, brass and percussion playing together under the leadership of our new music director,

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105.7 The Point Big Summer Show features Godsmack and Staind, who will perform live at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre on July 18.   The concert in St. Louis will open the

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The city land bank is considering dropping prices on real estate in north St. Louis as part of the city’s plan to revitalize and incentivize development in historically disinvested neighborhoods.

This week, Construction Forum drone videographer/ photographer Louis Kelly, owner of Drone Eagle, LLC, visited the site of the new SSM Outpatient Center in O’Fallon, MO. The project was recently topped out by contractor Tarlton Corporation. Tarlton broke ground on the two-story, 66,000-square-foot outpatient health center in December, with completion slated for mid-2024. SSM Health […]