This weekend, ring in the Halloween season at St. Louis’ most iconic destination. On Saturday, October 15, the Gateway Arch will host a night of thrills and chills with its Frights and Heights event.
A Missouri business owner was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Thursday for his role in a health care scheme that submitted more than $7.5 million of fraudulent claims to Medicare. Jamie McCoy, 42, of Jackson, Missouri, pleaded guilty in November 2020 to three felonies before being sentenced last week. McCoy owned AE Wellness, a company that supplied durable medical equipment, including orthotic braces, to patients.
The Saint Louis Public Schools system chose an interim superintendent to take over the job after current Superintendent Kelvin Adams retires at the end of the year.
In a press release Monday, SLPS announced Nicole Williams will take over the position Jan. 1, 2023, following Adams' retirement. Adams announced in August that he would be retiring at the end of the year. He has been the district's superintendent for 14 years.
The release said Williams, who currently serves as Adams' chief of staff,…
St. Louis Lambert International Airport had its website targeted as part of a larger apparent cyberattack Monday, but officials said the airport was still functioning normally during the outage.
Roger Lotz, a spokesman for Lambert airport, said the website went down early Monday but was restored at around 3 p.m. He said the outage did not affect any of the operations at the airport.
While the website was down, the airport set up a hotline for people to get information and access services typically…
After the first monkeypox infection hit the City of St. Louis in July, the number of infections has increased in recent weeks. The St. Louis Department of Health reported 52 cases of monkeypox in St. Louis on Thursday –– up from 36 two weeks ago. Cases in Missouri have stayed lower than most states with 128 total cases, the 29th highest in the country.
The new laboratory in Kansas City is the second diagnostics facility EmpowerMe Wellness has opened this year. The senior health provider has rapidly grown its footprint across the U.S., most recently through an M&A deal that nearly doubled its headcount.
A push by the attorney general’s office for the emails of professors and staff at the University of Missouri has academic freedom advocates concerned the office is being weaponized to stifle free speech and deter researchers’ work. In June, Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office sent two records requests to the university. The first sought […]
This story was originally published by Stateline. The increasing popularity of hybrid and electric vehicles is shrinking revenue from gas taxes, prompting more states to consider charging fees based on miles driven to help pay for roads and bridges. This year at least eight states — Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Washington — considered […]
Their aim is to gain control of more school systems and push back against what they see as a liberal tide in public education classrooms, libraries, sports fields, even building plans.
By Collin Binkley and Julie Carr Smyth | Associated Press
This month marks the 45th anniversary of the 1977 plane crash that killed Lynyrd Skynyrd's Ronnie Van Zant and two other band members. The group's former drummer, Artimus Pyle, says he's…
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