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The Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend, June 22 to 25

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Thursday 06/22 Ain't No Dancer If you haven't had a chance to check out Gay Asia, the film festival at Webster University's Winifred Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood, Webster Groves; 314-968-7485) that's been running all June, don't fret: They saved one of the best films for last.
Riverfront Times Staff

 Traffic on Highway 367 Causes Turtle "Bloodbath" 

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ALTON - “It’s causing a bloodbath.” Those are the words of Susan Elmendorf, a woman who found herself on the side of the road Tuesday morning carrying turtles across Highway 367. She stopped because a large turtle had been hit earlier that morning, almost causing a car accident. For the next several minutes, she and another motorist shepherded more turtles from one side of highway to the other, dodging speeding cars and construction signs. “The turtles will keep going on that path because that’s their migratory path. They cross the road that they’ve taken for decades,” Elmendorf said. “And now all of a sudden, these turtles can’t get across, but they keep trying and they get halfway across the route and they’re just getting killed.” The highway cuts through the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers; it’s the road that many people take to cross the Illinois and Missouri border. Elmendorf said that most of the turtle

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Missouri to be testing ground on plain packaging for cannabis products

2 years 5 months ago

For decades, there’s been a global movement urging “plain packaging” on tobacco products — or packaging with limited colors and frills — after numerous studies found it makes cigarettes less appealing to young people.  Missouri will soon be a testing ground to see if plain packaging has the same impact for recreational marijuana. When voters […]

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