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St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones signed a bill establishing a new civilian-led agency tasked with investigating police misconduct on August 3. But St. Louis police organizations weren’t having it.

ALTON - A spirited Bans Off Our Bodies Rally was held in Downtown Alton on Saturday. The event was organized by Virginia Woulfe-Beile and Missy Ruth Johnson and was held at the intersection of Landmarks Boulevard and Piasa Street in Alton. Planned Parenthood also assisted in the organization of the event. The rally was described as a pushback against the recent SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, which the organizers say put women’s lives at risk and restricted women’s access to healthcare. A large group attended the Saturday rally. In a historic and far-reaching decision, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade in June, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion, upheld for nearly half a century, no longer exists. Beile delivered opening remarks and said she and others in the group do not want to go back to the way things were before Roe vs. Wade. Several U.S. states immediately banned abortion after the Supreme Court Ruling. The high

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The injured include adults and children as young as 6 months old.

Jeff Burton, a longtime fixture on the St. Louis airwaves with 105.7 The Point, passed away Monday approximately 17 months after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Saint Louis Public Schools is temporarily suspending bus routes to eight of its schools as the district struggles to hire qualified drivers.

David Maas originally pleaded not guilty and had plans to go to trial this week.

The 30-year fixed mortgage rate averaged 5.22% for the week ended Aug. 11 — up from 4.99% the prior week.

St. Charles has plans for Frenchtown, just north of the Main Street entertainment strip. And one of them is to turn the beloved pocket park, at North Second and Randolph streets, into a parking lot.

A St. Louis-based nonprofit organization focused on strengthening the U.S. supply chain for pharmaceutical ingredients is embarking on its first project, seeking to boost production of a drug to treat brain cancer.

Scary times in Dana Point this weekend. As her father looked on frozen in terror, a little girl on a bodyboard was scrutinized by a hideous alien monster looking for a snack. In this high-resolution photo, you can even see the toxic venom dripping from its dreadful maw. You will not see this in the ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

Panera Bread Co., the bakery-cafe operator known locally as Saint Louis Bread Co., will have a new CFO next week, as will its parent company, Panera Brands Inc.

Over the weekend Vox published about the millionth article informing us that our response to monkeypox is a total clusterfuck and bears an uncanny resemblance to our infamous COVID-19 clusterfuck. Sure. Maybe. Generally speaking, though, I sometimes wonder how fast these newly-minted critics think a country should be able to roll out a massive testing ...continue reading "No, monkeypox is not a repeat of COVID-19"

EDWARDSVILLE - Metro Community Church in Edwardsville has released information about incidents shared with local police departments of several reported instances of persons associated with the church receiving texts from someone impersonating Lead Pastor Seth Conerly. "The texts ask that a gift card be purchased and sent to Seth for the purposes of giving to people in need — to be reimbursed at a later date — and then pictures of the gift card information be shared," the church said in a release. "The texts end with the signature “Seth Conerly.” Local police departments are investigating the scam. Metro Community Church Director of Operations John Helmcamp said the church has turned it over to the police and noted that this type of situation has occurred with another church in Granite City over the last week. “We are aware this has happened with two different churches, and there could be more,” he said. “We wanted to make sure people were

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Johnson & Johnson announced that it will eliminate talc-based baby powder from its product portfolio worldwide by 2023 and transition to producing and selling only cornstarch-based baby powder. “We continuously evaluate and optimize our portfolio to best position the business for long-term growth,” the company said in a statement announcing the discontinuation. “This transition will help simplify our product offerings, deliver sustainable innovation, and meet the needs of our consumers, customers…