ST. LOUIS - A 47-year-old man was shot and killed while driving Wednesday night in south St. Louis. The man was shot at approximately 8:53 p.m. and then he crashed on westbound 64 at Hampton Avenue. Officers found him inside an SUV stopped in the emergency lane on the north side of the highway. He [...]
"This is an ill-founded and disingenuous attempt by a vocal minority to control access to diverse perspectives and experiences obfuscated by concerns about 'protecting children.'"
John Covelli and the Hard Bop Messenger’s album Live at the Last Hotel, stretches and reshapes hard bop, a jazz subgenre that is more intense and rhythmically propulsive than the bebop that it grew from. There are elements of funk, blues and swing in the album as well as John-Coltrane-influenced chord change schemes. “It’s just fun to listen to, makes you want to dance; it makes you want to move, snap your fingers, tap your toes,” Covelli says.
A St. Louis County jail administrator and previous administrative assistant to a former St. Louis County Council member is facing federal wire fraud charges in what an indictment describes as a pandemic relief kickback scheme.
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Realtor Shari Asher’s clients were in the process of listing their home in Monett in 2019 when they saw something in the deed that rattled them. “When I sat down at their dinner table, I could tell they were both very embarrassed,” Asher said. “The wife slid a stack of papers across the table to […]
Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Wednesday that he’s issued subpoenas to seven school districts across the state as part of his ongoing investigation into school districts’ curriculum and practices. Schmitt, …
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ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- Emergency crews responded to a tank explosion Thursday afternoon in Hazelwood, forcing some businesses to evacuate. A 2,200-gallon liquid asphalt tank caught fire at about 11:30 a.m. near James S. McDonnell Boulevard and Byassee Drive, about 4 miles away from St. Louis Lambert International Airport. Authorities said the tank exploded while [...]
With the whole Congressional January 6th Committee effort moving into prime time this week, this is probably pretty far down on the list of issues around it, but apparently Twitter is quietly fighting demands from the Committee to reveal internal communications. The social media giant is asserting a First Amendment privilege to push back on […]
The Riverfront Times has been awarded a $4,500 grant from the International Women's Media Foundation's Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund to investigate reproductive rights in Missouri. The International Women's Media Foundation is an NGO that helps female journalists working in global news media. The organization offers safety training, byline opportunities and emergency support for women journalists and photographers around the world.
ATLANTA, IL. - When someone mentions how much they love to visit tiny Atlanta, don't look at them like they're crazy – they're talking about Atlanta, Illinois. This little village in Central Illinois has the most picturesque small streetscape anywhere on Route 66, but still, too many I-55 travelers zoom right by its yellow smiley-face water tower and its Exit #140 off-ramp. Atlanta's charming village history had long been recognized – mainly by Atlanta and by Logan County residents and by Abe Lincoln, who walked its streets more than once. But its fame as a revitalized stop along the original Mother Road mushroomed in the 2010s after Library Board member Bill Thomas realized they had a Route 66 gem of an attraction that just needed a little polishing. Thomas and his colleagues realized the key to Atlanta's tourism success was right outside their door – Arch Street – which was once the original U.S. Highway 66. The Library Board took on the restoration of the
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