Charl F. Howard's trial was set for this week. A city prosecutor Monday dropped charges against Howard after the judge denied a request to postpone the trial.
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).
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 […]
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 [...]
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 ...
Edgar Winter's latest album, Brother Johnny, which was released in April, is a star-studded tribute to his late sibling Johnny Winter. The 17-track collection includes a version of "Rock 'n'…
As a resident of St. Louis, imagine getting a ticket for driving at least 2.5 times the speed limit in Forest Park. You might think that successfully contesting that ticket would be a long shot. But Rose Pfeiffer of 4908 Berlin Avenue (now Pershing Avenue) found luck after she experienced that exact scenario in 1907. …
LGBTQIA+ communities have been contributing to St. Louis’s history for centuries. Now the Gateway to Pride virtual exhibit will begin to uncover the rarely-shared or
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