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Police in St. Louis' the Ville neighborhood this morning were following a vehicle that was driving erratically when someone in an alley opened fire on the officers' car. Sergeant Charles Wall with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department says that the shooting happened around 11:30 a.m.  as plain-clothes detectives in an unmarked car surveilled the other vehicle near Aldine and Billups avenues. The detectives' red sedan was then suddenly fired upon by an "unknown subject" shooting at them from an alley.

Things are getting heated in the city that never sleeps stops bitching. Private business owners don’t much care for the city telling them how to run their business, even when said business involves perhaps careless use of problematic tech. Grocery store owners in New York City oppose a bill that would limit use of facial recognition software, […]

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One officer suffered cuts to his arm from shards of glass, St. Louis police said.

Detectives on Friday morning were shot at, and one was injured by broken glass, in The Ville neighborhood.

GLEN CARBON - Father McGivney standout student-athlete Lilly Gilbertson recently completed an outstanding sophomore season for the Griffins' girls track and field team. Lilly is a Byron Carlson Petri & Kalb Father McGivney Catholic Female Athlete of the Month. Gilbertson placed fourth in the IHSA Class 1A 400 meters at state with a time of 58.61 and also was a member of the Griffins' 4 x 400-meter relay team that was third with a time of 4:02.53. She was joined on the 4 x 400 relay by Kaitlyn Hatley, Jane Cummins, and Elena Rybak. Hatley, Cummins, Gilbertson, and Rybak were second in the 4 x 800 relay with a time of 9:35.35. Gilbertson was ranked throughout the year in the top 5 in Illinois in 1A in the 200, 400, 4x400, & 4x800. She’s set new indoor & outdoor school records in all of those events this year and typically places first in those events at every meet the Father McGivney girls entered. She was also a conference champion, another of her strong accomplishments this

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When You’re Needing Some Comforting N’awlens Grub If you have a hankerin’ for some authentic gumbo, jambalaya, or étouffée, where do you go? NOLA is the mecca of Creole/Cajun cooking, but it’s 700 miles away. Fortunately, there’s a good alternative within blocks of the Arch. The food and atmosphere at Broadway Oyster Bar (aka BOB)... 

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Dream Builders 4 Equity received a $10,000 TEGNA Foundation grant to fund a playground and daycare in the Hyde Park neighborhood.

USA Mortgage has a new CEO, and she's the executive described by the mortgage lender as a “fixture” for 22 years.

A whole lot of folks who were close to retirement went ahead and pulled the lever early after the pandemic hit: By the end of 2022 retirements peaked at about 2.95 million extra retirees compared to standard projections. Then excess retirements declined in April to about 2.4 million above projections. The authors suggest this may ...continue reading "Raw data: Retirements during the pandemic"

Into the Spider-Verse was the radioactive spider that bit me and changed my DNA forever. What rocked my world was simple: Spider-Man is Afro-Latino.

ALTON - Foreigner might like it “Cold as Ice,” but the Marquette Catholic High School (MCHS) Choir is on a winning streak as hot as the sun. The choir will be opening for the band Foreigner when they take the stage at the Hollywood Casino on July 19. “What I’m thankful for with the school is that they get it,” Brett Klaus, MCHS music and theater director, said of the high school. “A lot of these small schools, we’ve been so athletically driven for almost 100 years. They are now seeing what happens when you invest in a music or arts program, which is opportunities they would have never thought possible.” For decades, Marquette’s choir program was just a student club. Choir became a class not long after Klaus joined the staff, which meant he had almost a full hour every day to work with his students. He says their talent has grown “exponentially.” Klaus enjoys exploring different styles of music with the singers.

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Foo Fighters are confirmed to play a surprise set at Glastonbury. Dave Grohl and company had been heavily rumored as the true identity of The Churnups, a mystery band scheduled…

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Here's a headline from the print edition of today's LA Times: Why Silicon Valley's elite adore RFK Jr. Palo Alto, though long a bastion of privilege, loves the illusion of a scrappy underdog Scrappy underdogs? Hmmm. When you get to the text of the story it turns out there's something else at play in their ...continue reading "Why do so many tech bros support RFK Jr.?"

ALTON - The Hayner Public Library District and Vintage Voices are sponsoring a gravestone dedication for Professor Charles Newton and his wife Sara Woodson Newton Cohron. Newton was the first Black graduate of Alton High School, and Cohron helped found the Colored Orphans Home in St. Louis. This week marks the 150th anniversary of Newton’s graduation in 1873. The couple and their accomplishments will be celebrated at 10 a.m. this Saturday, June 24, at Alton Cemetery. “My joy with Vintage Voices is seeing how the people — that maybe have been forgotten — dedicated themselves to Alton and this area while they were alive,” Lacy McDonald, Hayner Genealogy and Local History Library Manager, said. “They might have been well-known in their lifetime, but we don’t tend to remember just the regular people that have lived in the area that we live in.” McDonald began researching Newton and Cohron a few years ago in preparation for Vintage

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A St. Louis County man faces felony charges after he reportedly shot at his family members earlier this month.

Kansas City, unlike most major U.S. cities, does not control its own police department.

CARROLLTON - Several more individuals have been charged with drug-related offenses in Greene County over the past couple of weeks, according to recent court filings from the Greene County Sheriff’s Office. Benjamin A. Bricker, 38, of Beardstown, was issued seven total charges: fleeing/attempting to elude a peace officer, resisting a peace officer, obstructing justice, possession of more than five grams of methamphetamine, possession of a hypodermic needle, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving on a revoked license. He was arrested on June 20 by the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department and remains in custody. Charles D. Ball, 26, of Cottage Hills, was charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, as well as possession of more than five grams of methamphetamine, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was arrested by the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office on June 16 and remains in custody. Donald

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Members of the oversight board have long complained that they've faced "significant" obstruction. And now, city officials say, a lack of training may delay the jail oversight board investigating complaints for another four months.