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Lice Clinic of Metro East Provides Lice Treatment Without The Stress

2 years 8 months ago
MARYVILLE - When Amy Fisher’s daughter came home with lice twice in eight months, she knew there had to be a better solution than the treatment options she found. The experience inspired Fisher to open Lice Clinic of Metro East so other parents don’t have to panic. Located at 7710 Stonebridge Golf Drive in Maryville, the clinic offers several lice treatments that can remove all lice and nits within hours, without the stress. “Each time, it was found late at night, and she just has super long hair. I stressed the whole time,” Fisher said of her family’s experience. “And when I went to the store to get the over-the-counter stuff, I read the ingredients, and a lot of what’s in there is also in pesticides. And I was not okay with that.” The situation felt overwhelming, and the treatments were time-consuming and chemical-heavy, with no guarantee that they would work. Fisher wanted a solution that could help their family move on as quickly

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Murder Suspect Hid Out in Condemned Ridgeview Apartments

2 years 8 months ago
Ridgeview Apartments’ already notorious reputation grew even worse Tuesday night, when SWAT officers from the North County Police Cooperative stormed the site in Riverview Village to arrest a homicide suspect hiding out there. News of the suspect’s arrest was announced via the public release of an interdepartmental memo from Tom Tumbrink, the village’s interim police chief, to Mayor Mike Cornell, the recently elected leader of the North County hamlet just north of St. Louis and west of the Mississippi River.
Mike Fitzgerald

Alton High School Has "Soft Lockdown" After Incidents

2 years 8 months ago
ALTON - Alton High School went on what Principal Mike Bellm described as "a soft lockdown" on Wednesday with limited passes within the school. "We just decided to go on soft lockdown following a couple of incidents we had to address," the principal said. A Riverbender.com reporter on the scene after school Wednesday observed the school buses loaded and departing with some Madison County Sheriff's Office deputies present. Administrators and teachers were outside the building observing the students as they loaded the buses. The Madison County Sheriff's Office also had deputies at the scene in the morning after the incidents occurred. Bellm did not want to elaborate any more about the incidents at this time but said the soft lockdown would continue until the end of the day. However, he explained everything was under control quickly this morning after the incidents.

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4 Hands Brewing Company Opens Chesterfield Location

2 years 8 months ago
Local microbrewer 4 Hands Brewing Company is expanding. Today, the brewery announced that it would open 4 Hands at The District (17081 North Outer 40 Road, Suite 17073, Chesterfield) tomorrow. The new location will feature a 10,000-square-foot tasting room with 25 drafts on tap, 1220 Spirits and Withered Oak whiskeys.
Jessica Rogen

4 Hands Brewing Co. to open 2nd location

2 years 8 months ago
Over the last 11 years, 4 Hands Brewing Co. has become one of St. Louis’ largest and most recognizable craft beer brands while operating out of one physical location. But that’s about to change, as the company on Thursday will open its second location at The District of St. Louis in Chesterfield.
Connor Hart

State Governments Can’t Resist The Siren Song Of Censorship

2 years 8 months ago
The states have gone rogue. In the last year alone, at least nine states enacted internet censorship laws. And more legislators are promising to take up the cause. But these laws are directly at odds with the First Amendment’s command that the government shall not abridge the freedom of speech.  Undeterred, states passed laws restricting […]
Mike Masnick

New initiative petitions seek to add rape, incest exceptions to Missouri abortion law

2 years 8 months ago
Six new initiative petitions were filed Wednesday with the Missouri Secretary of State’s Office seeking to add exceptions to the state’s abortion ban for rape, incest, fatal fetal abnormalities and the health and safety of the mother. Three of the six initiative petitions would also legalize abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Each was filed by Jamie Corley, a veteran GOP political operative from St. Louis who has worked for three members of Congress, including as national press secretary…
Jason Hancock

Lunchtime Photo

2 years 8 months ago
This is the Southern California shoreline around Santa Monica near sunset. I took it out of the airplane window on our flight out of LAX to France last year.
Kevin Drum

The Case for Radical Public Options

2 years 8 months ago
Today on TAP: There are too many realms with public consequences where the private sector is inefficient and rapacious. Some might call the remedy socialism.
Robert Kuttner