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Last night in three court filings that came in about two and a half hours before their deadline, embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner called the state attorney general's efforts to remove her a "gross power grab, an affront to the liberties of all Missourians." [content-2] Gardner's court filings were in response to Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's quo warranto petition filed on February 23 seeking to remove her from office. She had until midnight last night to respond.

This story was originally published by the Kansas City Beacon.  Bill Thompson cooks at a fast-food restaurant, shares a car with his wife and helps care for an older family member. He’s got a lot to manage, but Thompson has found time to attend “listening sessions” that the Kansas City Royals have organized to discuss […]

The post Kansas City service workers push for protections as Royals look to build downtown stadium appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Husband and wife illustrator/author/business team duo Matthew Swanson and Robbi Behr, are currently on their yearlong Busload of Books tours, visiting Title 1 schools in all 50 states giving away 25,000 books.

It is the Ides of March. If you happen to have any friends named Brutus—or anything else vaguely Latinesque—you might want to stay home today.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Benjamin Hochman is writing a soccer-inspired play as part of this year’s Shakespeare in the Streets, and he needs your help.

Greater Than the Sum of its Parts, Amazing Art from Pieces and Pixels, features Pysanky by Katherine Alexander, Digital Art by Matt Bryan, Mosaics by Brenda Fra-ser, Assemblage by Nell

The post Greater Than the Sum of its Parts Art Exhibit appeared first on Explore St. Louis.

Longstanding development nonprofit runs building for low-income seniors but won't provide answers about what comes next.

The Cardinals aren't the only ones in spring training these days.

St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner responded to the attorney general’s removal petition, arguing it should be dismissed.

Transportation fatalities in St. Louis city have risen steadily in recent years. In 2011, 46 people (whether they were vehicle occupants or pedestrians) died as a result of traffic violence.

Last week, Congress failed to shake off corruption and buckled to a telecom industry’ smear campaign to scuttle the nomination of Gigi Sohn to the FCC. This week, the government body shifted from corruption to ordinary incompetence, after it failed to renew the FCC’s Spectrum Auction authority for no coherent reason. The FCC is in […]

Troy Doyle, a former lieutenant colonel with the St. Louis County Police Department, was named the new police chief of Ferguson Tuesday night. Only KSDK was there as Doyle was approved by a unanimous vote by the city council at a public meeting Tuesday night. He begins his new role as chief on April 1. Former Ferguson Police Chief Frank McCall resigned last month. Captain Harry Dilworth has been filling in as interim chief since Feb. 24. McCall was Ferguson's seventh police chief in as many years…

An overnight crash in north St. Louis left one person injured.

Teams already have made contributions toward the project.

The Missouri State University product has played all but four minutes for the organization dating to last season's MLS Next Pro campaign.

llinois U.S. Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski is visiting Belleville Wednesday morning.

Three works debut this week in an initiative to bring new voices to American opera. The effort focuses on artists excluded from predominantly white opera institutions in the past.