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The deal, approved by police union members this week, calls for pay bumps later this year worth thousands of dollars per officer, up and down the seniority chart.

Restaurants and bars prepared for the big crowds and apparel companies pushed out their gear.

Muslim men who were praying together in their housing unit at a Missouri prison were doused with pepper spray, physically assaulted by corrections officers and then retaliated against when they complained, according to a lawsuit.

When Anthony Taylor first heard of the Feb. 18 crash a few blocks away from the convention center that resulted in Janae Edmondson losing both her legs, he began thinking about a way to help.

As we’re right at the 1 year anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of its sovereign neighbor, Ukraine, regular readers here will have followed along with all kinds of posts we’ve done on the subject, be it on tech-related items or some of the ways the video game industry has organized to help the country get […]

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on Monday, March 13th, 2023 at 5:00 PM, the Soulard Community Improvement District (the “District”) will hold a public meeting to consider and act upon the matters on the following tentative agenda and such other matters as may be presented at the meeting and determined to be appropriate for discussion at […]

Today in St. Louis City court, a jury awarded Deputy Public Safety Director Heather Taylor a $300,000 judgement, more than five years after she brought a lawsuit against the city claiming she was retaliated against for speaking to the media. Taylor filed the suit in August 2017 when she was the President of the Ethical Society of Police, a union of Black police officers. Taylor's suit says that in 2016 she spoke to St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger in her capacity as ESOP president for an article Messenger wrote about how the department had turned off its Shot Spotter gunfire-detection technology because, as Taylor said, “the bill hadn’t been paid.”

Hi-Tech Charities founder said they served about 500 students a year but districts accounted for 12.

All eastbound lanes of the interstate were shut down at Old Halls Ferry early Friday afternoon because of flooding.

Celebrating Black businesses does not have to be reserved just for Black History Month. Ohun Ashe is behind the online directory For The Culture STL and her video series ‘28 Days of Black-owned St. Louis’ shows the diversity of location and industry of local Black-owned businesses.

Too many elements in too short of time. A mix of rain, heavy winds and light snowfall slammed the St. Louis area Friday morning into the early afternoon hours.

A father of seven was shot and killed while sitting on the porch of his home in the village of Washington Park. The victim's family wants justice for their loved one.

In the early days of the spring games, Walker has gone 5-of-14, the most at-bats on the team, for a .357 average, while Winn is 5-of-10 with two stolen bases.

Utilities knew about the dangers of indoor air pollution in 1972 and downplayed them, a DeSmog investigation found.

Musician and songwriter David Lindley, who worked with such artists as Jackson Browne and Bob Dylan, passed away Friday at the age of 78, California's Claremont Courier reports. A musician who played dozens of string instruments, Lindley…

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Tomorrow, Saturday March 4, 2023 is the first league match at CITYPARK, in the Downtown West neighborhood of St. Louis — home to the 29th team in Major League Soccer (MLS). On August 20, 2019 MLS announced a St. Louis-based ownership group selected to become the 29th team in their ...

A new contract could lead to one of the largest pay raises for St. Louis officers in decades.

Russean K. Hollis pleaded guilty to killing a man in a drive-by shooting at age 16.

Under threat of possible prosecution, Missouri school districts have pulled hundreds of books from their shelves since last summer. Now the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri is challenging a new state law that bans what some deem “explicit sexual material” in school libraries and classrooms. Clayton school librarian Tom Bober discusses the legal danger facing librarians and teachers and why his district removed books like “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Gillian Wilcox, deputy director for Litigation at the ACLU of Missouri, talks about the group’s lawsuit and why they argue this law is unconstitutional.