I share a food favorite with 11-year-old Harriet the Spy—a love for a good tomato sandwich. The story-book sleuth preferred her tomatoes on squishy, white bread with mayonnaise. Much to her mother’s dismay, she ate a tomato sandwich for lunch every day for five years and always cake and milk at 3:45 each day. Now...
ST. LOUIS - A woman was shot and killed early Monday morning in north St. Louis. It happened just before 1:30 a.m. on North Broadway at Benton Street. The woman's age and identity are unknown at this time. Police do not yet have a suspect in custody. FOX 2 will continue to update this story [...]
NEW ORLEANS, LA. — Formerly of Illinois and a 2020 candidate for the state’s 8th congressional district, W. Thomas La Fontaine Olson has qualified for placement on the ballot by the Office of the Secretary of State of Louisiana. The candidate was detained for an extraordinarily lengthy amount of time at the Archives building in Baton Rouge, during which bureaucrats scrambled to apologize for stately incompetence. Yet the form of payment impressed upon the candidate to the point of distraction. “Cash is king in this lousy state,” La Fontaine insists. “I would have preferred to pay in twenty dollar bills, so that I might have further mocked the cultural fawning upon Andrew Jackson, but my speed these days requires a certain plasticity, and wads of cash tend to adhere a filthiness better suited to craven politicians, such as several of my opponents.” When asked to be specific, La Fontaine only signals b
I’ve been tracking fuel consumption the last few months in light of rising fuel prices that has begat an endless parade of “pain at the pump” and “record high gas price” stories in the news. What we’ve been seeing really is the pain of captivity and record high auto dependency. With few options for most […]
On the night of April 24, 2013, six residents living in a neighborhood just north of downtown St. Louis say they saw the same thing. A young Black man – 25-year-old Cary Ball Jr. — crashed his car, got out, stumbled onto another car and limped away. And then each said they saw Ball drop […]
The American Red Cross announced three additional dates for the Multi-Agency Resource Centers in the St. Louis area after overwhelming demand last week.
The Multi-Agency Resource Centers, or MARCs, will be held at Friendly Temple on Martin Luther King Drive on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The MARCs will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, and masks are required by the church where the event is being held.
The events will be one-stop shops for flooding victims to apply for assistance after…
The upper River Des Peres' flood problems are well known and studied. But a new list of cost-effective solutions is short and insufficient, critics say.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Missouri Highway Patrol says a man who drove toward KCPD officers at a gas station on Sunday night was shot and killed. Investigators say officers were called to a Phillips 66 gas station at 55th and Prospect on reports of a stolen vehicle just before 10 p.m. Officers initially found [...]
A Centralia, Missouri, man has been accused of bringing a loaded gun to the U.S. Capitol and misplacing it in the chaos of the insurrection riot on January 6, 2021. Federal authorities arrested Jerod Bargar, 36, on Wednesday for felony and misdemeanor charges after he allegedly left his loaded 9mm semiautomatic pistol on restricted grounds at the Capitol. According to a federal affidavit, Capitol police found Bargar's gun on the ground during the insurrection.
Roughly 83 million Americans currently live under a broadband monopoly. In most instances, their only choice is Comcast or Charter Communications, which sells service under the “Spectrum” brand. And in both cases, users pay significantly higher prices for spotty, slow, service with statistically terrible customer service, because that’s how monopolization works. But the nation’s two […]
A developer is preparing for construction of a mixed-use development on 50 acres in the Metro East that would combine a new subdivision of 174 townhouses with a memory-care facility and speculative retail.
The Ferguson-based technology and engineering company said the deal represents a "meaningful step" in its "continued commitment to creating a higher growth, more diversified and cohesive portfolio."
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