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The 14-year-old football star was shot and killed by a stray bullet in 2019.

GRAFTON - Whalen-Hill American Legion Post #648 hosted Grafton’s Third Annual Memorial Day Commemoration Ceremony at noon on Monday, May 29, 2023, at the Post’s WWI Monument overlooking the cemetery and it was once again a captivating experience with Mike Morrow, a retired Army Colonel, as the keynote speaker. Post Commander John Hughes introduced CW4 (Ret.) Terry Day who emceed the ceremony. Father Marty Smith, a former member of the 82 nd Airborne Division and an Iraqi Freedom Veteran gave the invocation. This was Mayor Morrow's Memorial Day Speech: “On Memorial Day we remember those who lost their lives in the service of our nation. It is a day set aside to honor those military men and women who paid for our freedom with their lives. The Honor Guard of this post, the Whalen-Hill American Legion Post #648 assembled early this morning, put on their uniforms, gathered their gear, and traveled to each of the local cemeteries in our region. At each stop

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Police said the victim died at the hospital.

Jevon Westoland hosts Off the Wall: Open Mic!   MX Movies & Bar will be serving up a full bar, kitchen items, and of course fresh popcorn while you enjoy

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A new $12 million extended-stay hotel planned at the site of a former office building in Maryland Heights is moving ahead after years of delays.

Those next of kin to the crash victims were each notified.

The Wall Street Journal has an inexplicably fascinating story about gambling in Las Vegas today. I've long been accustomed to hearing about microscopic changes in gambling rules to favor either the house or (via negotiation) high rollers, but now casinos have thrown all their subtlety out the window. For example, if you hit 21 on ...continue reading "Life is very, very good in Las Vegas right now"

Most weekday guests at Le Méridien St. Louis Clayton are visiting the city for work, spending business hours in the office rather than on site and leaving the hotel’s pool deck mostly empty, General Manager Andrew Hargis said. Seeing an opportunity to change that, the downtown Clayton hotel this summer is offering a pool pass.

The opportunity created for Enterprise by the turmoil in the banking industry, combined with a possible recession, is that it can pick up clients as competitors make fewer commercial loans, said Jim Lally, president and CEO, Enterprise Financial Services

Hazelwood-based courier company Associated Couriers LLC said it will begin using drones to transport medications through a collaboration with San Francisco-based drone company Zipline.

For decades, tuition rises while state funding drops. The result? Missouri ranks 47th in the nation in per capita funding for higher education.

Today really is the start of the French Open, so here's a pair of pictures of Court Simonne Mathieu, the newest of the courts at Roland Garros. As you can see in the top picture, it's a sunken court. The entrance leads to the top level, not the bottom. The bottom picture shows the court ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

The 8-year-old was golfing with his family when his mom figured out what happened.