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Win a Free Trip for 6 to Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Resort

2 years 10 months ago
ST. LOUIS - It's Free Trip Tuesday brought to you by Ryan Kelley, The Home Loan Expert. On Tuesday, May 17, you could win a trip for six to Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park Resort. The winner will get a four-night stay in a two-bedroom cottage, with full kitchen and bath. They will also get unlimited use of the pool and [...]
Margie Ellisor

First Look: The Wine Cafe Brightens Up Historic St. Charles

2 years 10 months ago
Tiara Curry always knew she was meant to be an entrepreneur. She has a degree in fashion merchandise and tried running an online boutique, but it didn’t click. One day, Curry was packing up her Florissant home to move to St. Charles when she found old papers for a then-abandoned idea, The Wine Cafe (703 S Main Street, St. Charles; 636-410-8002, thewinecafe.biz).
Jenna Jones

Police chase reaches 120 mph, ends in Pontoon Beach, Ill.

2 years 10 months ago
MADISON COUNTY, Ill. - A police chase ended in an arrest early Tuesday morning in Pontoon Beach, Illinois. The car was stolen from Chicago. Officers spotted it in Litchfield just before 2 a.m. The chase reached speeds of up to 120 miles an hour along I-55. The chase ended near Highway 111 in Pontoon Beach. One [...]
Jason Maxwell

Three people shot near St. Louis City Hall this week

2 years 10 months ago
ST. LOUIS - A man was shot in the leg near St. Louis City Hall early Tuesday morning. The shooting happened just after 12:30 a.m. on 13th Street at Chestnut Street in Poelker Park next to the Soldiers' Memorial. One man was shot near there on Sunday morning. Another man was shot and killed in [...]
Jason Maxwell

States have yet to spend hundreds of millions of federal dollars to tackle COVID health disparities

2 years 10 months ago

This story was originally published by Kaiser Health News.  The Biden administration in March 2021 announced it was investing $2.25 billion to address COVID health disparities, the largest federal funding initiative designed specifically to help underserved communities hardest hit by the virus. Two months later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded grants to […]

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Phil Galewitz

First Black woman set to serve on Missouri Supreme Court

2 years 10 months ago
ST. LOUIS - For the first time in Missouri, a Black woman will join the Missouri Supreme Court. Judge Robin Ransom will be sworn in on Tuesday. Governor Mike Parson appointed her last year. Ransom was a judge on the Missouri Court of Appeals in St. Louis. She previously worked for the St. Louis County Public [...]
Monica Ryan

Rethinking 811 North 9th Street (Holiday Inn Express)

2 years 10 months ago
I recently posted about a 1960s hotel in the Downtown West neighborhood that no longer worked (see Rethinking 2211 Market Street (Pear Tree Inn). Today is a similar look at an early 1980s hotel the no longer works: The Radisson/Ramada/Holiday Inn at 811 North 9th Street. It is across 9th ...
Steve Patterson