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About 10 years ago, Stevie LaChance took over her father’s Original Crusoe’s restaurant and bar in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood in south St. Louis City.

In the effort to reduce overdose deaths, St. Louis County Executive Sam Page says access to Narcan is a “game-changer.”

FOX 2 has confirmed the city used cardboard-like stop signs as replacements for damaged or stolen signs made of sturdier metal or fiberglass for a short period last year. Hundreds of the flimsy cardboard-like signs remain in use and are failing.

Posters with hundreds of faces lost to overdoses lined the fence of Concordia Lutheran Church. Along the bottom were shoes to represent each victim taken too soon.

Given enough time and attention, informal parlance just becomes… parlance. And so it is for the Kansas State Police. For years, troopers have evaded the Constitution and applicable Supreme Court decisions to make the Fourth Amendment irrelevant. There’s a term for this: “Kansas two step.” Enough drivers have encountered it that it is no longer […]

Tishawn Washington was arrested in 2021 by U.S. Marshals in Harris County, Texas. The victim was shot and killed in St. Louis' first homicide of that year.

"These teachers will be highly beneficial to our district in many ways. We're excited to welcome them," said Ishmael Sistrunk, the school district's spokesman.

From Politico: A looming child care funding crisis threatens Biden’s economic recovery Nearly $24 billion in federal aid for daycare centers and preschools is slated to run out Sept. 30, roiling a child care system that has underpinned the White House’s efforts to stabilize the broader economy and get people back to work. ....Daycare and ...continue reading "Child care is no longer an emergency"

Public Safety Department spokesman Monte Chambers said the inmate died at a hospital after a medical emergency.

The state began the process of doling out small-scale cannabis business licenses on Monday, announcing the winners of a lottery determining who gets to participate in Missouri’s microbusiness program. Six winners were selected in each of Missouri’s eight congressional districts. Of the six in each district, two will be microbusiness dispensaries, and four will be microbusiness wholesale facilities – where the owners can grow up to 250 plants. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior…

The employee says between 40 to 50 inmates were let out of their cells and heavily damaged newly renovated spaces.

The National Blues Museum’s Thursday Night Blues Jam is every Thursday from 7-9 PM (doors open at 6:30), performers and non-performers alike are welcome to join in our celebration of […]

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Robert Merkle received a new sentence to be served concurrently.

The Synapsory is an area nonprofit that serves children who are struggling with autism-related behavioral issues. They are donating 100 "calming kits" to St. Charles County Police.

Group called Sensible Missouri wants to put ballot measure to voters asking to give local governments power to write gun laws that don't violate second amendment

"It's back to the drawing board, blank slate, which is exciting in a way," Co-founder Dave Blum said.

“We need a retention or detention pond put in,” said Bob Piachetti. “It’s the right thing to do.”

St. Louis County and St. Louis County Libraries are teaming up to have the life-saving drug available at all 20 library branches.

Two months after the former church that held SK8 Liborius went up in flames, the building assessment started Thursday morning in north St. Louis. At the end of June, a massive fire destroyed the historic landmark. The church, at 1850 Hogan St., was built in the 1800s. A decade ago, the vacant church, known as St. Liborius Church, was transformed into a skate park and art studio known as SK8 Liborius. At the time of the fire, St. Louis Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson told KSDK the flames spread quickly…