The budget for an infrastructure improvement fund critical for the city’s street department and forestry division has not been updated in two years — a delay blocking millions in funding for employee pay, sidewalks, road repairs and more. The fund in question, St. Louis Works, uses a percentage of utility and motor vehicle taxes to fix sidewalks, repair roads, provide equipment upgrades and cover a select few city employees’ pay.
Starting a small business and finding financial support and mentorship to get dreams up and running is … difficult. The University of Missouri-St. Louis’ DEI Accelerator aims to make “making it” less difficult. Their third cohort of startup founders are each receiving $50,000 grants, including Cami Thomas of My Friends and I and Kay Wells of Posie Pots. They share their stories along with UMSL Acclerate’s Director of Operations, Michael Butler.
The issue of how far legislators can go when they change a bill with amendments will be debated again Tuesday afternoon in a Cole County courtroom. Overland, a city in St. Louis County, is asking Circuit Judge Daniel Green to throw out a 2021 law used as a hammer by Attorney General Eric Schmitt in [...]
EAST ST. LOUIS - The Illinois State Police and East St. Louis Police Department are requesting assistance in identifying the vehicle involved in a fatal hit-and-run incident in late November. At 3:48 a.m. on November 27, 2022, a 42-year-old male from Arnold, Mo., was the victim of a fatal hit-and-run crash that occurred on Illinois Route 157 at Church Lane in East St. Louis, Illinois. The vehicle is described as a silver sedan, possibly a 2011–2016 Chevrolet Cruze. ISP said the vehicle would have front end and driver’s side damage including damage to the driver’s side mirror. Anyone with knowledge of the incident is asked to contact Crimestoppers by phone at 1-866- 371- 8477 (TIPS) or visit https://www.stlrcs.org/ . Witnesses can remain anonymous.
A southeast Missouri man who was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies is believed to have killed his father and brother before officers confronted him, law enforcement authorities said.
CARLINVILLE – The legacy of a late Carlinville man is now felt all the way to eastern Africa. The Jacob Library in Katovu, Uganda honors the memory of Jacob Glenn, a Carlinville resident who died at age 22 in October 2013. Construction of the library was spearheaded by Jacob’s mother, Becky Miller Root. Root provided a program at the Jacob Library at the Carlinville Public Library on Thursday, Dec. 8. The free, half-hour program was open to the public and featured a brief slide/Power Point presentation on both the Jacob Library and the culture of Uganda. Root’s visit to the site in October was emphasized. Cultural items and refreshments were featured during the program. The idea for the Jacob Library originated during the 2012-13 school year, when Root served in Uganda as an English Language Teaching Fellow, coordinated by the U.S. State Department’s exchange program. She saw that the area needed a library, and provided the seed money for the building in
This is a very cool development in the world of government transparency. It’s not often a government entity forces another entity to expose information it would desperately like to keep secret. But it happened in Switzerland, following an open records court battle by Tagblatt, which sought information on export licenses granted to local surveillance tech […]
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Food Network star Alton Brown visited Springfield as a part of his Alton Brown: LIVE! BEYOND THE EATS tour. Brown has been on the road with his new culinary variety show filled with cooking, comedy, music, and fun science. On Wednesday, December 7, the Good Eats star came to Juanita K Hammons [...]
A few Bitcoin fans have dredged up a post I wrote four years ago today that celebrated its plummet over the preceding year. Sure enough, it turned out to be at its lowest point in a while and promptly took an upward turn. Notch a victory for the crypto groupies. Since then I've written multiple ...continue reading "Bitcoin goes up. Bitcoin goes down. Right now it’s down."
The December 15 event is part of the Thursday Nights at the Museum Series and will include a retrospective on the city's iconic storefront holiday displays.
AC/DC will celebrate their 50th anniversary in 2023, and in honor of the occasion, an officially licensed book on the band is on its way. AC/DC: 50 Years Of High…
As construction continues on the $130 million project to convert the historic Butler Brothers building into more than 300 apartments, the massive project in Downtown West has a name and a target opening date.
One day after Missouri's attorney general asked for a sanction against Kim Gardner, the St. Louis Circuit Attorney reacted by calling his efforts "outlandish" and "politically motivated."
WOOD RIVER - The Wood River Walmart Supercenter Store at 610 Wesley Drive in Wood River celebrated its 35th anniversary in style this year with a process to remodel the store. On Friday morning, the City of Wood River and Walmart celebrated their grand reopening. On Friday, Walmart also donated several thousand dollars to a local charity, Wood River Mayor Tom Stalcup said. Store Manager Glenn Masterson and Mayor Stalcup delivered remarks during the event. Masterson spoke of a meeting with Walmart founder Sam Walton and how Walton inspired him to want to be a manager for the company. Apparently, Sam Walton picked Masterson up one time for about an hour’s long airport ride and he said after he left the car with the Walmart legend, he was sold on a future with the company. Masterson has been the general manager of the Wood River Walmart Super-Center for 25 years. Mayor Stalcup said Walmart has been their largest retail partner for 35 years and thanked them for their contributions
Updated with information from Friday's hearing.
St. Louis Circuit Judge David Mason will not sanction St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s Office for failing to disclose evidence in the Lamar Johnson case to the Missouri attorney general.
But that evidence can be allowed into a hearing to decide whether to overturn Johnson’s murder conviction as long as the attorney general lays a solid enough foundation to do so.
Mason issued the order Friday after a flurry of court filings landed on…
CEO Sharon Price John says 40% of the company's revenue now comes from adults and teens, a statistic that drew the attention of Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night.
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