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5 On Your Side learned that juvenile courts released two young people police initially charged following the mass shooting.

The interim executive director of the East St Louis Housing Authority has been suspended following a You Paid For It expose on horrendous conditions in an apartment in the Gompers Housing Project.

The most recent drought monitor update has Missouri in exceptional drought. What does that mean, and when will it end?

The St. Clair County coroner identified the victim as John Finnegan, 60, of Belleville, Illinois.

Out of all the purveyors of facial recognition tech, Clearview is by far the sketchiest. It has compiled billions of photos and other personal info by doing little more than scraping the internet of anything that isn’t locked down. Web scraping isn’t inherently evil, but Clearview certainly makes scraping appear malicious. There are any number […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Developers are building a bigger hotel on a prominent corner in Clayton but have dropped plans to add condominiums. The updated plans for the corner of South Central Avenue and Forsyth Boulevard now include a 20-story, 245-room hotel, a jazz club and restaurant with outdoor space. Developers Midas and Green Street […]

Bond Architects has welcomed a new Project Architect, Lisa Griffin (AIA LEED Green Associate), and a new Junior Interior Designer, Nicole Grinberg (WELL AP) onto their design team.   Lisa Griffin, AIA, LEED Green Associate, has joined Bond’s team as Project Architect. She has two years of industry experience and a Masters’ in Architecture from […]

From Leader Publications:  The De Soto City Council has taken more steps to help mitigate problems that contribute to the town’s flooding. Council members voted 5-0 June 19 to award a $390,000 contract for Valley Place drainage improvements to the lowest of two bidders, PCX Construction in Arnold. Kimes Construction submitted the other bid for […]

From Construction Dive:  The Dodge Momentum Index, a benchmark that measures nonresidential building planning, dipped another 2.5% in June due to a deceleration in institutional planning, according to the Dodge Construction Network. While there were positives in the commercial sector, which rose 3.1% on the back of data center and hotel projects, the institutional segment […]

From KSDK:  The federal government and companies responsible for nuclear bomb production and atomic waste storage sites in the St. Louis area in the mid-20th century were aware of health risks, spills, improperly stored contaminants and other problems but often ignored them, according to documents reviewed by The Associated Press. Decades later, even with much […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  State highway officials expect to begin construction a year from now on the recently funded $2.8 billion widening of Interstate 70 — and a segment in St. Charles and Warren counties is in the running to be the first phase. Eric Kopinski, the Missouri Department of Transportation’s I-70 program coordinator, said […]

From Leader Publications:  Eureka will spend $3.1 million more than it brings in next fiscal year, largely due to some big-ticket improvements included in the 2023-2024 budget, according to the budget approved this month. That budget calls for the city to spend $18,521,637 and bring in $15,432,050 in revenue next fiscal year, which began July […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  A developer’s vision for a sport-centric development is generating buzz in Lake Saint Louis. The pitch from developer Jeffrey Parrish would transform a 3-acre lot next to an outdoor shopping mall into a site for pickleball courts, a seasonal ice skating rink, virtual sport simulators, a themed playground, a splash pad, […]

“It hasn’t worked since day one,” Dyment said. “I could be out and need a particular setting, not have it, and be stuck."