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ST. LOUIS COUNTY - On Tuesday, November 29, 2022, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office issued warrants on suspect Christopher Gonzalez, 43 years of age, of the 10000 block of Concord School Court in St. Louis, Missouri 63128, for one count of Interference With Custody – Removed from State or Concealed. A booking photo for Gonzalez is not available. Gonzalez is being held on $20,000.00 cash only, no 10% bond. Please note, charges are merely an accusation and Defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law. The probable cause statement reads: On November 28, 2022, the Defendant contacted his daughter on her cellular phone around 3:15 p.m. in violation of a court order prohibiting him from contacting his children. By 5:20 p.m., the children were reported missing from their home by their mother. Police in the city of Alberta Lea, Minnesota located both children with the Defendant on November 29, 2022. St. Louis County detectives

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A Christmas Carol, like the Nutcracker, is a Christmas standard, and The Rep has brought back its production from last year, with all of the concomitant thrills and delights. The show is just as sure to get you into the Christmas spirit as wearing an ugly sweater while drinking eggnog under mistletoe: that’s how Christmas-y it is.

The City of St. Louis and St. Louis County will each launch winter operations beginning Thursday, Dec. 1, to support the unhoused by giving them a warm place to stay over the next few months.

An argument at a Taco Bell in Arnold in the early hours of Sunday morning escalated into a gun fight between a customer and an employee of the fast food restaurant. Both men are still currently at an area hospital recovering from injuries that police described as not life-threatening, Leader Publications reports. The incident happened about 2:30 a.m.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity has not been released.

Founded by Holocaust survivor Simon Kohn in 1963, deli went up for sale in March. Outgoing owner Lenny Kohn said new owners to keep existing name, offerings.

Wassan Al-Khudhairi has decided to leave the full-time position she's held since 2017.

Much of the opposition focused on the end of cash bail on Jan. 1.

As Emerson focuses on becoming what executives have called "a pure-play global automation company," it has named a companywide chief technology officer.

A mediation firm tied to former Kansas City Mayor Sly James has billed three St. Louis area governments more than $21,000, records show, with more to come.

A plan to divide more than a half-billion dollars in settlement money for the departure of the NFL's Rams from St. Louis received final approval Wednesday.

A man was sentenced by a federal judge Wednesday to 25 years in prison for what prosecutors called a "retaliatory drug murder" in St. Louis' Dogtown area.

As the St. Louis region at large fans itself with $100 bills from the enormous stack of settlement cash we recently took out of Stan Kroenke's pocket, the toupee-wearing Rams owner's bucket of woes continues to fill up in exactly the same manner as seats at his team's game do not. The latest delicious bit of schadenfreude in the ongoing saga of St. Louis hating on Kroenke's goofy ass while blissfully rolling around in his money comes via NBC Sports, which reported this week that the Rams are struggling so badly to get people out to games this season that they've begun concocting a cockamamie charity scheme just to fill seats.

The firm is moving from the 24-story building, known as the Pierre Laclede Center II, at 7733 Forsyth Blvd. to Centene Plaza C at 7676 Forsyth Blvd. Employees will be in their new workplace on Dec. 11.

The U.S. House moved Wednesday to avoid an economically disastrous nationwide rail strike, voting to codify an agreement that members of some unions had already rejected and separately add paid sick leave that workers had demanded. The two-track approach allows Democrats to avert a strike that could cost the U.S. economy up to $2 billion […]

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Here's an interesting comparison of an artwork with itself in the Orange County Museum of Art. This is a normal exposure that shows what the piece looks like to the naked eye, and I initially took it only to make fun of it. A blank white canvas? Please. It's been done. But then I noticed ...continue reading "Lunchtime Photo"

ALTON - The Mira Piano Quartet, a group of talented area musicians, had their minds on the people of Ukraine this holiday season. After some deep reflection, the four decided to have a benefit concert during the holidays with proceeds to benefit a relief effort in Ukraine. The concert is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022, in Jacoby Arts Center’s East Gallery/Event Space. There is also a Brown Bag event that will feature the quartet presented by the Lewis and Clark Community College Music Department at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, in the Ringhausen Music Building. The quartet consists of four renowned area musicians - Vera Parkin, on piano, Sister Marie-Therese Swiezynski on violin, Christine Banks on viola, and Justine Liu Aldridge on cello and piano. Specifically, the proceeds from the Sunday concert will go toward the purchase of a new ambulance to be used in Ukraine. Hospitals, ambulances, and other healthcare facilities in Ukraine have been attacked during

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