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A St. Louis woman has been charged in connection with the March 2022 murder of her landlord in Hyde Park.

Try not to choke on a throatful of awws as you look at the latest St. Louis CITY SC fan to dress like a toasted ravioli. Introducing: T-Rav Baby. Spotted at the most recent CITY home game, T-Rav Baby was ready for the noise and the weather, wearing pink headphones and bundled up in a onesie.

EDWARDSVILLE - Edwardsville junior girls track sprinter Paige Sanders has enjoyed success with the rest of her 4x200 meter relay team in the early days of the season, placing second in their heat in the Illinois Top Times indoor meet in Bloomington on Mar. 25. then winning the 4x100 meters and the sprint medley relay at the Southwest Illinois Relays at the Winston Brown Track and Field Center on Mar. 28. Sanders is an iCAN Clinic Female Athlete of the Month for Edwardsville High School. The team, which also consists of Blakely Hockett, Karli Barton and Gabby Thompson, was second in their heat at the Top Times meet, breaking the school record with a time of 1:48.24, then won the 4x100 meters with a time of 50.75 seconds and then won the 800-meter sprint medley relay at 2:00.42 second with a team of Sanders, Hockett, Brooklyn Carr and Kaitlyn Morningstar. During an interview that followed her races, Sanders felt that the entire team, who eventually finished second to O'Fallon, all performed

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Look, we all knew that there was going to be a lot of fuss about the upcoming public domaining (finally!) of Mickey Mouse nine months from now on January 1, 2024. I mean, we’ve already been talking about what next year’s public domain game jam is going to look like with Mickey as one of […]

Today on TAP: If everything breaks just right, democracy will still take a long time to heal.

ALTON - Midwest Members Credit Union and the Crisis Food Center are each described as "phenomenal partners" in giving back to those in need in the region. Midwest Members Credit Union has boundless amounts of community service projects each year. Crisis Food Center has helped many in need make it through difficult times for people when otherwise they might not have food supplies. On Saturday, April 1, 2023, the two teamed together again for a giveaway of free hams and side items to provide residents with an Easter meal. There was a large attendance in the drive-thru for those who received a ham and the sides. CFC and MMCU volunteers were touched by the success and all provided bright smiles as they assisted their neighbors in the community. "Both organizations are committed to giving back to the community," Derrick D. Richardson, a volunteer, said. "We wanted everyone to have an opportunity to have a good Easter meal. It was another successful and fun Easter giveaway." Richardson

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A good contemporary drama, like Dominique Morisseau’s gritty and affirming Skeleton Crew, holds a mirror to society, then shifts our perspective so we can see a more complete view of the world the story reflects. The Black Rep’s production — directed by Geovonday Jones and featuring fully connected, layered stories and complex characters — is a completely engrossing interpretation.

Over at Vox, Miles Bryan writes about a new study of crime in the downtown areas of New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Chicago. The study's conclusion? Actual crime has been pretty stable, but fear of crime has shot up. This, not a desire for remote work, is the biggest reason people give for not wanting ...continue reading "Crime and the (Republican) fear of crime"

The young boy was supposed to be napping at his family’s home. Instead, he made his way out of the house despite safety devices on the doors.

The Mehlville School District is increasingly losing teachers to neighboring districts that pay more, administrators said.

Senate candidate Lucas Kunce announced today he raised $1.1 million in the first three months of the year, a haul his campaign says is a record for a candidate challenging an incumbent senator in Missouri. According to a statement put out by the Kunce campaign, the money raised is approximately four times the amount raised by Josh Hawley in the last quarter of 2022, the most recent quarter for which Hawley fundraising data is available. Kunce's campaign said that 97 percent of its donors in the last three months gave less than $200 and the average was $34.

The new building comes as the St. Louis region's office market is still navigating through the upheaval from the coronavirus pandemic.

Ever since word came that the Bognar family would be closing their west county Japanese restaurant Nippon Tei, St. Louis diners have been anticipating its successor, Sado. In January, the number of people holding their breath on this account grew significantly when Bloomberg named it one of the 14 Most Anticipated Restaurants in America. But thankfully, that wait is finally over: Chef and owner Nick Bognar opened Sado's doors at 5201 Shaw Avenue on March 28 with a menu featuring a medley of sashimi, omakase service and Americanized sushi dishes.

A De Soto man is facing a total of 40 felonies stemming from burglaries he allegedly committed at three separate self-storage facilities in St. Louis city over the last two years. As of Friday, Matthew Wayne Pelich, 45, is facing a mix of property damage, stealing and burglary charges. Among the items Pelich allegedly stole from the storage units were designer clothes, jewelry, a microwave oven, 36 bottles of Old Fitzgerald Bonded Bourbon and a pair of weed eaters, according to the police probable cause statement.

"At Festival of Nations, we bring cultures together, shine a light on our unique differences and embrace one another. This is our vision for St. Louis every day."

Def Leppard’s Vivian Campbell is sharing his admiration for the late Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott. While appearing on BBC’s The Rock Show with Johnnie Walker, Campbell was asked to pick his “Rock God,” and made…

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