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Maj. Janice Bockstruck suggested that smartphone cameras had just made it seem like there have been more crashes.

Axon, most famous for producing Tasers, is again making the sort of headlines it really shouldn’t make. Everyone knows Taser. The company produces the most-used “less lethal” weapons cops deploy. “Less” is the key word here. It’s basically a cattle prod for humans but one that’s routinely deployed with less care than a cattle prod, […]

Parson has openly entertained the possibility of clemency for Eric DeValkenaere whose supporters have mounted a public campaign for a pardon.

From REjournals:  To mark Women in Construction Week 2024 – which enters its final day today – Clayco, which has Midwest offices in Overland and Clayton, Missouri; Lenexa, Kansas; and Chicago, polled its female leaders about the many myths surrounding women in the construction industry and the actual truths that shatter those falsehoods. Here is […]

In a hushed courtroom, Janae Edmondson and her mother recounted every horrific moment from the February 2023 night that cost Janae her legs.

An SUV struck and fatally injured an Ironton man who was walking along Highway 72 on Tuesday.

For many years, Washington University has portrayed one of its founders, William Greenleaf Eliot, as an abolitionist. But, in 2021, a group of students and faculty released findings that disproved that notion and even showed Eliot was vehemently opposed to abolitionism. Three years later, the university has now established a Naming Review Board that gives people the opportunity to challenge the names of buildings, professorships, and scholarships that are named after people with problematic legacies.

John E. Pound, 80, was first elected to the Des Peres Board of Aldermen in 2002.

Hosted by Public School House in Cottleville, Missouri, Shamrocked, a St. Patrick’s Day-themed pop-up bar, will run from March 6 to 15. Enjoy eats from Sugarfire Smoke House and drinks […]

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It’s almost time for the spotlight to shine once again in the St. Louis region! 314 Day is a day of celebrating all things St. Louis.

The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted again in favor of legislation that would compensate those who developed cancer following exposure to World War II-era radioactive waste in St. Louis. The legislation, sponsored by Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, extends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, which is set to expire, and expands it to cover individuals who were exposed to the radioactive waste that remains scattered across the St. Louis region. It would also expand coverage to those who…

"It's an amusement park on steroids," Richard Bianco, vice president of TransWorld's Trade Show, said.

It happens Tues., March 12, at the company’s plant on New Town Boulevard.

Today is the day for columnists everywhere to tell us what Joe Biden should really say in tonight's State of the Union address. Don't bother with them. Without exception, they're all stupid ideas. What Biden is going to do is present a laundry list of stuff he's done and stuff he wants to do, interrupted ...continue reading "My preview of tonight’s SOTU"

Wolfgang Van Halen has teamed up with the Mr. Holland's Opus Foundation music education charity to announce a new campaign called Adopt a School.The initiative aims to connect donors with…

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This is from a Twitter post about a middle school in New York City that's adopted a phone-free policy: Yondr? What's that? That's clever. In comments to the Twitter post, a lot of people said they disliked phone-free policies because they wanted their kids to be able to contact them in case of a school ...continue reading "How to create a phone-free school"