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St. Louis' Lion's Choice Is Desperate To Start Beefing with Arby's

2 years 6 months ago
Last week, Governor Mike Parson got on the "May is beef month" bandwagon, holding an actual event and putting out a press release announcing that Missouri, like the rest of the U.S., cares a whole lot about helping local farmers make ends meat. While we reluctantly got to say well done to our Republican governor, we're a little surprised to see beloved St. Louis roast beef chain Lion's Choice jumping in on the action with a Twitter campaign aimed at stirring up some trouble with Arby's. Lion's Choice announced its intentions on May 2 with a Tweet: "It's #NationalBeefMonth and we'll be beefing with @Arby's all month long.
Jessica Rogen

Kix calling it quits, announces final show

2 years 6 months ago
There’s some sad news for fans of the '80s band Kix. While performing this weekend, the band’s frontman, Steve Whiteman, announced that the group is calling it quits.  “I wanna make an announcement…

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Court Dumps Lawsuit Alleging The Government Forced Amazon To Stop Promoting An Anti-vaxxer’s Book

2 years 6 months ago
The internet has revolutionized communications, sales, and information distribution, and has enabled historic levels of porn consumption. These are all unequivocally good things. (Fight me.) What it has also done is revolutionize court precedent. Prior to internet ubiquity, courts were sometimes more receptive to plaintiffs attempting to hold third parties responsible for content generated by […]
Tim Cushing

Daily Deal: The Complete Project Management Bundle

2 years 6 months ago
Companies big and small count on project managers to ensure their initiatives arrive on time and on budget, which is why these professionals routinely earn six figures for their services. From setting up projects in JIRA to streamlining pipelines with Agile and Scrum, the Complete Project Management Bundle boasts 11 courses to get you up […]
Gretchen Heckmann

VIDEO: Cherokee Street Entrepreneur Says City Ignored Complaints About Shootings

2 years 6 months ago
After this weekend's deadly shooting outside the Exotic Bar and Grill on Cherokee Street, a nearby business owner tells the RFT that she's been trying for years to alert elected leaders and the police to the violence that seems to regularly occur outside the bar. Brittany Morris owns Love Goddess Healing Oasis, a spiritual healing center adjacent to Exotic, and she says that shootings outside the business next door are nothing new. In the three years she's been in business, Morris estimates there have been about five or six shootings outside Exotic.
Ryan Krull

Gender-Affirming Care Restrictions May Drive Families Out of Missouri

2 years 6 months ago
At the Missouri State Capitol in January, Keeley Kromat did one of the few things she thought she could do: She begged.  Kromat, a mother of two daughters, told a room full of strangers some of her family’s most personal stories in a plea for them to reconsider a bill that would restrict health care for transgender minors. 
Monica Obradovic

Can a fetus be an employee? States are testing the boundaries of personhood after ‘Dobbs’

2 years 6 months ago

CLAYTON, Mo. — Kaitlyn Anderson was six months pregnant when a driver killed her and a Missouri Department of Transportation colleague in 2021 while they were doing roadwork near St. Louis. Her fetus also died. Although Anderson’s family tried to sue the department on her behalf, workers’ compensation laws in Missouri and elsewhere shield employers […]

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Bram Sable-Smith

Health update

2 years 6 months ago
I'm fine! In fact, I'm about to be discharged from the hospital back to the hotel. More later.
Kevin Drum

Alton Man Charged After High-Speed Motorcycle Chase In Grafton

2 years 6 months ago
ALTON/GRAFTON - A man from Alton was charged with six counts, including one felony charge, relating to a high-speed motorcycle chase that occurred last Wednesday, May 3 in Grafton. He was charged with attempting to elude a police officer, driving over 100 miles per hour in a 50-mile-per-hour zone, and more, according to recent court filings. Ryan M. Lavite, 21, of Alton, was charged with the following in total: Count 1: Aggravated Fleeing or Attempting to Elude a Peace Officer (Class 4 felony) Count 2: Speeding 35+ mph Over Limit Count 3: Violation Of License Class 1st & 2nd Div. Count 4: No Valid Registration Count 5: Operating An Uninsured Motor Vehicle, Count 6: Motorcycle Glasses/Goggle/Shield Violation According to court documents, Lavite drove “a white Kawasaki motorcycle with no valid registration southbound on Main Street at Mulberry, Grafton, Jersey County, Illinois, and after having been given a visual or audible signal by a peace officer, failed to

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