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“We all have bad days,” Faulkerson said. “That doesn’t mean you run somebody over.”

A 5-year-old girl was shot and killed Monday evening in Belleville, the second child killed in a span of less than nine hours in the St. Louis region.

From RiverBender:  30 years ago, the Great Flood of 1993 impacted several towns in the Riverbend area – including Grafton, where flooding was recorded for 195 days. Former Grafton Alderwoman and Mayor Bobbie Amburg recalled her experience with the flood, including commuting to and from work by boat, meeting a presidential candidate, and more. The […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  When the 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis opens next week following years of construction on the historic YMCA building in Downtown West, the new hotel will open alongside two new restaurants and a swim club with membership open to the public. The hotel at 1528 Locust St. is taking bookings […]

There’s nothing particularly novel when it comes to showrunners of media properties blaming all these damned kids and their internet for why their productions aren’t as successful as they wanted. Everything from broadway productions to viewership of the damned Olympics have had young people and social media blamed for declining or terrible viewership/attendance numbers. In […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  School districts and other taxing entities in St. Louis County would miss out on nearly $11 million a year in revenue if the County Council approves a proposed tax break for the Boeing Co., but economic development boosters say the region needs the deal to compete. If the council approves tax incentives for […]

Bands and music fans showed up to Ballpark Village Monday evening to celebrate the man lovingly known as Beatle Bob.

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Green Street Real Estate Ventures by a former executive. Paul Giacoletto had alleged in a St. Louis County Circuit lawsuit filed in January that the St. Louis-based development company locked him out of lucrative contracts worth $2.3 million, while also directing his construction division […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Andy Kohl says he and his wife, Amy, for years had casually discussed the idea of trying to add more soccer fields in St. Charles County. The conversations got more serious as their three young children got more involved in the sport. “As they continued to get older, we realized […]

From WASHU’s The Source:  Architecture shelters and protects. Yet too often, the built environment also perpetuates entrenched biases as well as a domineering and extractive view of the natural world. But what if architecture were rooted in a more holistic ethos? What if architecture tended not only to the needs of the body, but to […]

Baumgartner Road in south St. Louis County is badly in need of repair, and residents have long complained of the poor pavement and potholes.

An internal memo distributed to St. Louis police officers—and obtained by the FOX Files—reveals there were not enough dispatchers in the city this past Saturday evening.

The Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS) St. Louis has announced officers and directors for 2023-2024. SMPS is a community of marketing and business development professionals working to secure profitable business relationships for their A/E/C companies. Through networking, business intelligence, and research, SMPS members gain a competitive advantage in positioning their firms successfully in the […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  The St. Louis Preservation Board will allow the owner of the historic Lemp Brewery building that partially collapsed three years ago to move forward with demolition to help stabilize the rest of the property. Shashi Palamand of Historic Lemp Brewery LLC told St. Louis officials on Monday that efforts were made […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  A developer is seeking tax incentives for an $82 million plan to convert the historic Chemical Building in downtown St. Louis into a pair of dual-branded hotels. A joint development group of Beechwood Pinnacle Hotels of Little Rock, Arkansas; InterMountain Management of Monroe, Louisiana; and New Orleans-based architecture firm John […]

St. Louis Post- Dispatch:  The owner of the local grocery store chain Fields Foods said he is in talks to sell all five locations to an employee ownership group. Owner Chris Goodson said the stores may not continue to be branded as Fields Foods. The news comes in the wake of Fields Foods’ Pagedale location […]

The move follows A-B's announcement last week of diminished U.S. sales and could be seen as a sign that the world's biggest brewer has joined consumers in cooling on the once-hot craft beer market.