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Eight more businesses were broken into overnight in St. Louis, increasing the number of burglaries to 17 in two weeks.

A $93 million measure to be introduced at the Board of Aldermen includes $4 million to help cover down payments and closing costs for buying homes, with priority given to city employees.

As federal and local authorities continue to investigate just how Orlando Harris was able to obtain the AR-style rifle used in Monday's mass shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School, St. Louis police have revealed the shooter was thwarted from buying a weapon earlier this month.

The Who's Roger Daltrey and contemporary British rocker Yungblud interview each other for the latest installment of Rolling Stone's "Musicians on Musicians" series. During the conversation, Daltrey, 78, tells Yungblud…

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This haunted happy hour at The Magic House features fall-inspired drinks and appetizers, a haunted mansion tour and a scary movie screening. You must be 21 or older to attend.

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Join NBM’s Sittin’ on the Porch on Thursday Nights from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM! Players of all levels are encouraged to come jam with other musicians in the NBM

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Police said an FBI background check successfully blocked him from buying the gun from the dealer on Oct. 8. He then bought a gun in a private sale.

ALTON - The Alton City Council discussed a resolution for a permanent response to the issues of flooding - a five-foot tall, 1,000-foot wall from the Greater Rivers and Routes Tourism Bureau Office on Piasa Street to William Street. Alderman Nate Keener told the council members that originally the plan was to suspend the rules and approve the wall proposition with the State of Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) and the City of Alton in an immediate fashion, but now the thought was to receive some public input and have it go directly through Alton Committee of the Whole. He explained that time is of the essence to approve the measure to receive the IEMA funding to match with city funds. “We want to take advantage of federal funds to mitigate flood damage,” he said. “But we would like to see more public input and transparency around the project. I would like to just read it and refer it to the Committee of the Whole.” Keener said there is still time

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Toxic masculinity can be described easily: Destructive emotions, misogynistic comments and views, avoiding vulnerability. But what could healthy masculinity look like? ‘UnMasc: A Storytelling Event’ will feature experiences and reflections by 10 men as they take a step back to evaluate moments in their lives in front of an audience. Bryant Antione of The Village PATH and James Meinert of Undo Bias Consulting preview the event and discuss how they are learning to detoxify what it means to “be a man.”

The shooter suspected of murdering a teacher and a student at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School on Monday attempted to buy a gun from a licensed dealer earlier this month. St. Louis Police say on October 8 that 19-year-old Orlando Harris tried to purchase a firearm from a dealer in St. Charles, but an FBI background check blocked the sale. However, Harris was able to successfully purchase the AR-15 rifle he used Monday from a private seller, who purchased the weapon from a federally licensed dealer in December 2020.

At a rally this weekend, former President Donald Trump continued to attack the media, suggesting imprisonment for journalists who publish leaked materials.

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At a Texas rally this weekend, Donald Trump called for law enforcement to go after journalists and publishers to find who leaked the Supreme Court’s draft Dobbs opinion earlier this year. In a rambling and occasionally vulgar speech, the former president suggested investigators could claim the leak was a national security issue, and threaten the reporters and their outlets with prison violence. These comments echoed similar remarks he’d posted to Truth Social this summer.

Trump’s heinous positions are hardly new: As a public figure, then as a candidate, then as president, then as a defeated former executive, he has repeatedly voiced similarly objectionable views on the value of press freedom in this country.

It’s a stark reminder that future presidents may attempt to imprison journalists who report on the machinations of secret government.

It’s also why, ever since the Trump administration initiated the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, we’ve warned that the dangerous precedent set by the case could easily be used against national security reporters at The New York Times, The Washington Post and everywhere else.

Those charges received condemnation from top American news organizations and nearly every major international human rights group when they were filed in 2019, but the DOJ under Biden continues to pursue them. Freedom of the Press Foundation is among the more than two dozen groups that have repeatedly called for the Department of Justice to drop the charges. Those demands have only picked up this month as Assange tested positive for COVID while awaiting extradition in a U.K. prison.

Yesterday, the DOJ released important guidelines that would virtually bar the surveillance of journalists doing their jobs. But until the department breaks meaningfully with its predecessor’s disregard for the First Amendment and drops the charges against Assange, future administrations (Trump is likely to run again, after all) will have been handed all the tools they need to imprison journalists they do not like.

What we’re reading:

• Knight Institute sues CIA and other agencies to obtain intelligence report on Khashoggi murder: The Columbia University-based First Amendment organization filed a FOIA lawsuit seeking the still-withheld report on the slain journalist’s 2018 murder.
• LAPD launches criminal probe of racist leak at request of Martinez, De León, Cedillo: The Los Angeles police chief announced that his department has initiated a criminal investigation into the leaked recording that has shaken city politics for weeks. Experts note that the anonymous poster who published the recording to Reddit could invoke California’s shield law, which protects a reporter’s privilege not to disclose sources.
• Iran’s media blackout sets the stage for state violence: Brutal crackdowns to protests in Iran have intensified as the government blocks reporters from documenting the scene. “There are no journalists on the ground. No journalists are allowed to work in these situations. Unless you are working for the regime,” said the editor-in-chief of an Iranian fact-checking organization.
• Charges — and punishments — for J6 rioters who hurt journalists, damaged news equipment: Our U.S. Press Freedom Tracker documented 18 journalists assaulted during the riots and tens of thousands of dollars of news equipment damaged. Last week, a rioter was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for his actions that day, including the assault of an Associated Press photographer. It’s the first sentencing to include crimes on the media.

EDWARDSVILLE — Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine announced Thursday that a 25-year-old Madison man has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in connection with a fatal shooting in Venice. Gerrin L. Massie pleaded guilty to firing a shot that killed Kenneth Stanley Jr., 30, on May 12, 2020. Private surveillance video showed Massie exiting a vehicle on Market Street in Venice, then walking down the street to the rear of a vehicle occupied by Stanley and two others. Massie fired 15 rounds into the back of the car, but only one bullet struck a person - Stanley. Stanley died of a gunshot to the back of his head. The maximum sentence available under the plea agreement is 40 years in prison, while the minimum sentence for first-degree murder is 20 years. Massie’s sentencing hearing is set for Dec. 9. “We intend to ask for the maximum available sentence of 40 years,” Haine said. “Violent crime has to be met with an appropriate measure of justice,

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St. Louis Public Schools Foundation has established a fund to help families, and there are several GoFundMe pages collecting donations for victims as well.

A former St. Louis County nurse pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges and admitted to fraudulently obtaining fentanyl for her own personal use.

Boo at the Zoo is a not-so-scary Halloween celebration for the whole family. Come for the spellbinding decorations and stay for the fall-inspired food.   Returning decorations include Skeleton Soirée,

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Open records laws were passed because governments simply aren’t interested in voluntarily sharing their documents with the people that foot the bill for both the people and the paper. But governments have to pass these laws, in essence forcing transparency upon themselves. Since most governments seem to be more interested in opacity, massive holes in […]

The phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words" is apt when looking at this luxurious Ladue estate.