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Missouri's attorney general is trying to push Kim Gardner out of office. Meanwhile, she needs lawyers who will show up for trials.

The St. Louis Blues put together this amazing video collection of some of JT's most memorable interviews.

It was already an eyesore, but Thursday morning the defunct and abandoned old Jamestown Mall in north county is in even worse shape after a fire does significant damage to part of it.

New Growth Horizon, also known as Proper Cannabis, seeks to open a dispensary serving both recreational and medicinal marijuana users at the site of a former tire and auto shop at 10855 Manchester Road.

Congresswoman Cori Bush was among the first to call for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ resignation and she was joined by other House Democrats on Wednesday.

Town and County-based Elessent Clean Technologies, which provides process technologies for manufacturers, has been tapped to develop a sulfuric acid regeneration plant in China.

The city of St. Louis anticipates spending 7.1% more in fiscal 2024, to $1.32 billion, driven by employee pay increases. City Budget Director Paul Payne made an initial presentation to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment, the three-member top fiscal body, on Wednesday, the first in a series of steps toward finalizing the budget, which takes effect July 1. Estimate and Apportionment, made up of Mayor Tishaura Jones, Aldermanic President Megan Green and Comptroller Darlene Green, is to meet April…

Courtesy of Veronica Coit/Asheville Blade.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Freedom of the Press Foundation director of advocacy Seth Stern issued the following statement on today’s trespassing conviction of Asheville Blade journalists Veronica Coit and Matilda Bliss for documenting a homeless encampment sweep at a public park after closing time on Christmas night of 2021:

It’s extremely disappointing that Judge James Calvin Hill overlooked the obvious First Amendment problems with convicting journalists for recording police conducting a homeless encampment sweep at a public park.

It’s particularly disturbing that the judge reportedly questioned whether Veronica Coit and Matilda Bliss are journalists. They literally report for a news outlet, the Asheville Blade. Whether it’s a mainstream outlet or one that public officials like is entirely irrelevant. They’re journalists under any definition of the word and entitled to the full protection of the First Amendment.

The judge also apparently ignored bodycam footage showing police arrested Bliss and Coit before clearing the camp’s residents “because they’re videotaping.” That confirms that police unconstitutionally targeted the press.

Even putting that aside, does the judge really want to set a precedent that journalists need to ignore news happening in plain sight on public land because it’s nighttime? Asheville residents deserve to know what their police department is up to at any hour.

Bliss and Coit were never accused of harming or obstructing police or anyone and it’s ridiculous the case even got to this point. Prosecuting victimless “crimes” by journalists does not serve the interests of justice and does not benefit the taxpayers funding the prosecution. And Asheville’s crackdown on free speech doesn’t end with journalists – the same prosecutors are trying mutual aid workers for “felony littering.” Seriously.

We’re glad to hear that Bliss and Coit are appealing to a jury trial under North Carolina procedures. We hope this awful ruling is reversed by citizen jurors who hopefully value the First Amendment more than Asheville police, prosecutors and judges.

Police said they had caught a man who seriously injured a woman at a gas station.

After Thursday’s day off, the Cardinals will begin a 10-game, 10-day West Coast trip on Friday night with the first of three games in Seattle.

Less than three weeks after Tim Lohmar's abrupt resignation as St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney, County Executive Steve Ehlmann has appointed a successor.

St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann on Wednesday appointed Joseph McCulloch to be the county's prosecuting attorney, following the resignation last month of Tim Lohmar.

The man testified at trial that he acted in self-defense.

A federal indictment claims three activists behind a St. Louis Black empowerment group took part in a yearslong Russian "agitation and propaganda" campaign to sow dissent in the United States.

The nonsense never ends. As you’ll recall, there was a big kerfuffle (that still hasn’t fully ended) over a decision by Twitter in October of 2020 to block the sharing of a NY Post article about the contents of what was then alleged to be (and since mostly confirmed) Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop hard drive. […]