Soul food restaurant Sweetie Pie's Upper Crust will be closing its doors on September 25, owner Robbie Montgomery announced on Instagram on Tuesday. The Sweetie Pie's restaurant chain was at the center of the reality TV show Welcome to Sweetie Pie's.
New York state-based artist Jean Shin, Laumeier’s 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence, describes her work as “giving new form to life’s leftovers.” Her sculptures and
This story originally appeared in the Missouri Independent. The Missouri Senate gave first-round approval Tuesday to a $335 million income tax cut over objections from liberal members who saw fiscal problems ahead and conservative members who wanted deeper cuts.
The winner of the $1.34 billion Mega Millions jackpot has come forward nearly eight weeks after the drawing. The Illinois Lottery said Wednesday morning that the prize has been claimed by two people who agreed to split the prize if they won. The winners are remaining anonymous. “I’ve been working for the Illinois Lottery for [...]
This FCC this week formally announced it had finally started gathering more accurate broadband mapping data from U.S. ISPs after more than a decade of complaints about mapping accuracy. “On June 30, the Federal Communications Commission opened the first ever window to collect information from broadband providers in every state and territory about precisely where […]
Halloween events are ramping up and with them comes the announcement that a horror film festival is happening in St. Louis in October. The 2nd Annual Haunted Garage Horror Festival will be held at the Westport Playhouse (635 West Port Plaza Drive, WestportPlayhouse.com) from October 7 through October 9.
WASHINGTON — Conservative Republicans gathered outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday to commit to bringing legislation to the floor that would make it a felony to perform gender-affirming care on transgender youth, should the GOP take control of the U.S. House following the November midterm elections. “How on earth can this be happening in America? […]
This story originally appeared in the Missouri Independent. Eighty open cases of child abuse and neglect sat on Matt Cordova’s desk in 2017 during the height of the “hole I found myself buried in,” he remembers. Twenty open cases would have been a lot to handle; 80 was impossible.
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. - A man was shot while driving Wednesday morning on Olive Boulevard. The man told the Creve Coeur Police Department that he was driving near Dorsett and McKelvey Road in Maryland Heights when he saw two vehicles stopped in the middle of the road. He went around them and then entered [...]
Another game scheduled at the long-awaited Centene Stadium will be moved to Edwardsville this weekend as the new sports venue battles power issues.
Last week, St. Louis City SC stated the stadium's power system had been "adversely affected" by a construction project unrelated to the stadium.
The club's developmental team, STL City 2, which competes in the MLS Next Pro league, was supposed to play a match there this past Sunday and now their next match for this coming Sunday against Texas SC has…
Liberal, Missouri, was founded as an “atheist utopia” in 1880 by George Walser, a lawyer and Missouri state legislator. The town was named after the nearby Liberal League, to which Walser belonged, and advertised itself to atheists across the country as a community that “has neither God, Hell, Church, nor Saloon.” Walser created a school system that removed the influence of Christian theology and promoted instructional classes on Sundays to replace religious services.
WASHINGTON — As lawmakers begin envisioning the next farm bill, some U.S. House Republicans are wary of making climate change a priority for farmers and ranchers. The pushback from Republicans at a Tuesday hearing came as the Biden administration has tried to make significant new investments in climate change mitigation on farmland, last week […]
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