One week after city prosecutors dismissed triple murder charges against him, a St. Louis man is now being charged with drug trafficking after being caught in the county with 800 pills of fentanyl. For almost three years, Joshua Amerson, 20, had been facing three counts of murder stemming from an an alleged July 2020 drive-by shooting that took place in the Walnut Park West neighborhood. The victims in the incident were Malik Taylor, 22; Elijah McKinney, 18; and Daijon Nearing, 18.
GODFREY – Lewis and Clark Community College and its National Great Rivers Research and Education Center are looking for exhibitors to take part in this fall’s 21 st annual Water Festival, a day for students and educators to explore all things water. The event will take place at Lewis and Clark’s Godfrey Campus. This year is expected to draw the biggest turnout yet, with over 700 fifth grade students from Lewis and Clark’s district expected to participate. “Water Festival provides a rich learning opportunity, not only for our area students, but also for teachers to learn,” said Interim Education Director and Swarovski Waterschool Coordinator Jen Mandeville. The students, alongside their teachers, will participate in exciting activities aimed at becoming familiar with an assortment of water related topics such as river ecology, how the water cycle works, river activities like fishing and boating, and watershed protection. Students can look forward
SPRINGFIELD - Three bills sponsored by Illinois State Representative Amy Elik (111th-Alton) and State Senator Erica Harriss (56th-Glen Carbon) were signed into law by Governor Pritzker. The Metro East lawmakers’ legislation was included in ninety bills recently signed into law. Rep. Amy Elik and Sen. Erica Harriss’ legislation signed into law by Governor Pritzker includes honoring Constitution Day in the state, addressing the teacher shortage, and improving background checks on contractors providing transportation for foster children. Introduced at the request of the Madison County Regional Office of Education, State Senator Erica Harriss and Representative Amy Elik’s legislation signed into law (HB 1273) will commemorate September 17 each year as Constitution Day and shall also be a commemorative holiday within school calendars. Constitution Day is recognized federally but not by the State of Illinois, this will not require schools to close for the holiday. “Not
Join us for the 6th season of this playable, artist-designed, nine-hole mini golf installation, designed to be inclusive, family friendly and accessible. All proceeds from Golf the Galleries support The
Near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri River sits a historic city that some may consider "your next dreamy getaway." That, indeed, would be St. Louis, Missouri.
Homicide detectives with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department have identified a man found shot to death in a park across the street from City Hall.
Oops. As you likely know, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, desperate to show Wall St. that his company can make money, decided to lock away the information on Reddit behind a paywall by turning Reddit’s free API to paid, creating quite a mess. In response, thousands of subreddits went dark on Monday, with a plan for […]
Metallica has released a new EP titled The Amsterdam Sessions. The four-track collection features renditions of the classics "Master of Puppets" and "Nothing Else Matters," as well as the songs…
In one sense, the Supreme Court’s surprise ruling striking down Alabama’s 2022 congressional maps maintains the legal status quo. By 5-4, the justices rejected the state’s attempt to restrict the ability of the Voting Rights Act to block gerrymanders that suppress the power of minority voters. But that dramatically understates the impact of the case, titled Allen v. Milligan, […]
After Missouri voters passed Amendment 3 to legalize the sale of recreational marijuana in the state, locals are now wondering if they can legally grow marijuana plants.
Over at his substack, Matt Yglesias muses about television and suggests that maybe it's something we should panic about: As Tim Cook encourages us to spend more time sitting alone in dark rooms, enjoying immersive audiovisual experiences, I can’t help but think that the panickers, at least those of the last few decades, might have ...continue reading "TV may be better than ever, but TV watching is down"
Torkwase Dyson’s artwork engages urgent issues regarding architecture, infrastructure and the social and political impacts of the climate crisis, bringing them into conversation with historical and contemporary reflections on the
On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until July 24, “Killing The Buddha”: Reconstructing Zen is the 2023 Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship exhibition, located in the Teaching
On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until July 24, The Air That Inhabits features artworks by the current MFA in Visual Arts candidates of the Sam Fox
On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until Aug. 6, African Modernism in America is the first major traveling exhibition to examine the complex connection between modern African
This series of new work directs our gaze towards arduous and life-threatening journeys that millions of immigrants undertake in search of a better home, often holding an image of a
AJ Ainscough explores with this new exhibition, the complex and nuanced emotions of love and relationships through a diverse collection of paintings and works on paper. He focuses on exploring
Meditating on the passage of time, the show presents work that is a result of the inevitable interplay between an artist’s solitary workings in her studio and those of a
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